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How Gab, the social network where the Pittsburgh shooting suspect aired his hatred in full, became a platform of choice for neo-Nazis and other extremists — Early Saturday, moments before the police say he barged into a Pittsburgh synagogue and opened fire, Robert D. Bowers's anti-Semitic …
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Gab.com takes its service offline after GoDaddy informed the company they had violated terms of service and had 24 hours to move the domain to another provider — Gab, the controversial social network with a far-right following, has pulled its website offline after domain provider GoDaddy gave it 24 hours to move to another service.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
After shutting down HipChat, Atlassian says it's selling Jitsi, its chat and videoconferencing tool, to 8X8, a cloud-based conferencing solutions provider — After announcing earlier this year that it planned to shut down HipChat and Stride and sell the IP of both to Slack …
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| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
With its acquisition of Red Hat, IBM refocuses on its core strengths, rather than Watson, an AI push that was always more hype than reality — With its latest $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat, IBM may have found something more elementary than “Watson” to save its flagging business.| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
OnePlus 6T debuted with in-screen fingerprint scanner, 6.41" screen, dual rear cameras, smaller notch, starting at $549, unlocked or via T-Mobile in US — After month of leaks and teases, OnePlus has finally launched its ninth smartphone. — The OnePlus 6T was officially unveiled at an event …
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
OnePlus 6T review: buttery-smooth performance, pretty display, solid battery life, but camera remains mediocre and in-display fingerprint reader is inconsistent — What was good is still good; what was missing is still missing — OnePlus is like one giant, never-ending Kickstarter campaign.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
StarkWare, which develops privacy-focused blockchain tech, closes $30M Series A led by Paradigm with Intel Capital, Sequoia, Coinbase Ventures among investors — Cryptography startup StarkWare just closed a $30 million equity funding round led by Paradigm and featuring a number of other major investors …
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| Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss / Reuters: |
South Korea-based NXC, which owns local cryptocurrency exchange Korbit, has acquired Bitstamp, EU's largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume — NEW YORK (Reuters) - NXMH, a Belgium-based investment company, has acquired digital currency exchange Bitstamp in an all cash deal …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
RED Hydrogen One review: unique design and long-lasting battery, but holographic display is poor and blurry, and it falls far short of other $1,000+ phones — It's obvious this is RED's first phone — RED's debut smartphone is such a mess that it made me question what fundamental parts of a phone we truly need.
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| Davey Alba / BuzzFeed News: |
After Orlando let its pilot with Amazon's facial “Rekognition” tech expire amid public outcry in June, FOIA docs show a new pilot has begun under a mutual NDA — Walking around downtown Orlando, you might not notice the lightbulb-sized camera affixed to one of the traffic signal poles along …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UK Chancellor announces a new 2% digital services tax that will come into effect in April 2020 for profitable tech companies that generate £500M a year globally — The UK government has announced a new “digital services” tax of two percent that it plans to start levying on the UK revenues … | Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Sources: Google, Tencent, and JD.com to invest $1.2B in Go-Jek, which would value the Indonesian ride-hailing company at $9B+ — Google and Chinese giants Tencent and JD.com are doubling down on Indonesia's Go-Jek in an investment round that could nearly double the ride-hailing startup's valuation …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google updates Firebase with premium enterprise-grade support, better ML Kit facial recognition, Management API, a Test Lab for iOS, and more — Google today updated Firebase, its service for helping developers build apps for Android, iOS, and the web. Firebase has gained paid enterprise-grade support …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Sam's Club, the Walmart-owned members-only retail store says it will soon open an Amazon Go- like cashier-less store called “Sam's Club Now” in Texas — Just like Amazon's automated Amazon Go stores — Sam's Club — the members-only, Walmart-owned retail store …
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