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How much should AT&T and Verizon pay to put up 5G cell sites? A proposed FCC rule could set new limits.

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Elon Musk is stepping down as chairman.

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DuckDuckGo Traffic is Exploding

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DefCon: A voting machine that is currently used in 26 states is vulnerable to be remotely hacked via a network attack. Hacking just one of these machines could enable an attacker to flip the Electoral College and determine the outcome of a presidential election.

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Apple went rotten after Steve Jobs’ death, former engineer claims

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Web inventor Berners-Lee creates a new privacy first way of dealing with the internet

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SEC settles charges with Tesla's Elon Musk, will remain as CEO

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Poor Mr Anus, the council candidate given a bum deal by Facebook - A local election candidate in Belgium has been forced to change his name by the social network on the grounds that it is ‘offensive and inappropriate’.

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FBI: We can’t listen to Facebook Messenger voice calls. Judge: Tough luck - Fresno-based federal judge won't force Facebook to help MS-13 investigation.

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Facebook is weaponizing security to erode privacy

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Best Buy accidentally sells customer the new, unannounced Chromecast

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Dead and Buried shows the arena potential for Oculus Quest

Dead and Buries
One of the most impressive VR technology demos we’ve ever seen is on display at Oculus Connect 5 in San Jose. In a corner of the convention center The VOID brought Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire, demonstrating publicly for the first time that the startup is using Oculus Rift inside its VR helmet to provide the visuals you see when visiting one of…Read More

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Elon Musk to resign as Tesla chairman, remain CEO in $40 million SEC settlement

Tesla chief executive Elon Musk enters the lobby of Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York, U.S., January 6, 2017.
(Reuters) — Tesla and Elon Musk have agreed to pay $20 million each to financial regulators and the billionaire will step down as the company’s chairman but remain as chief executive, under a settlement that caps a tumultuous two months for the car-maker. The securities fraud agreement, announced by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC…Read More

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China is dominating tech IPOs on U.S. markets in 2018

Chinese electric vehicle start-up Nio Inc. vehicle is parked in front of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to celebrate the company’s initial public offering (IPO) in New York, U.S., September 12, 2018.
China’s growing prowess across a wide range of tech sectors has triggered a love affair between the country’s startups and Wall Street. Through the first three quarters of 2018, Chinese companies have far outpaced U.S. companies when it comes to IPOs on U.S. stock exchanges. That continued in the third quarter, when 10 Chinese companies…Read More

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Sorry, not sorry: The problem with Facebook’s sorry campaign


GUEST: “I’m sorry, so sorry.” In the 1960s, it was a hit song by the 15-year old American singer Brenda Lee, crooning about unrequited love. In the 21st century, “sorry, so sorry” has become the tragic modus operandi for banks, businesses and social media behemoths. Time and time again, mega companies exploit customer data for nefarious reasons, wa…Read More

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Investing in AI: When natural language processing pays off


GUEST: For the past 18 months, my teams at Acxiom Research have worked extensively with a specific form of artificial intelligence called natural language processing (NLP). Our most exciting NLP development is called ABBY — our first artificially intelligent employee. But I’m not just here to talk about ABBY. I’m here to talk about the…Read More

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Overwatch League commissioner Nate Nanzer: Esports profits are light at the end of the tunnel

The Overwatch League Grand Finals
Nate Nanzer, commissioner of the Overwatch League, hopes his particular esport will become the mainstream competitive league of choice for a global audience of esports fans. The Overwatch League kicked off in January with a dozen teams that were organized into franchises from local cities. In the first week, the league generated more than 10 millio…Read More

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How .tech domains are helping tech startups differentiate their brands


SPONSORED: Presented by Radix A few years ago, the coveted Consumer Electronics Show (CES) moved their website from www.cesweb.org to www.ces.tech. Why? It helped make their online presence more relevant and brandable. Speaking about this move, then CES Senior Vice President, Communications and Strategic Relationships, Jeff Joseph explained, “We st…Read More

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Newzoo’s Peter Warman: Why big brands are diving into esports sponsorships

Peter Warman speaks at the Esports BAR Miami event.
Peter Warman, game industry analyst and CEO of Dutch market researcher Newzoo, started following esports closely in 2013. He started looking into the numbers and comparisons to real world traditional sports, and began making projections about where it was going. Now esports has begun to explode, and Newzoo estimates it will generate $1.7 billion in…Read More

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How game companies can boost cybersecurity and avoid Fortnite’s fiasco

Fortnite isn't in the Google Play store.
The mobile gaming market is one of the fastest growing industries, and for the first time, market watchers forecast it to generate more than half of the global gaming market revenue in 2018. In the first half of 2018 alone, a total of 19.5 billion mobile games were downloaded across both Google Play and the Apple App Stores. As the industry expands…Read More

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LinkNYC’s 5 million users make 500,000 phone calls each month

LinkNYC
In 2014, in a bid to replace the more than 11,000 aging payphones scattered across New York City’s pedestrian walkways with more functional fixtures, Mayor Bill de Blasio launched a competition — the Reinvent Payphones initiative — calling on private enterprises, residents, and nonprofits to submit designs for replacements. In the…Read More

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Why one of Sony’s biggest PSVR advocates went indie


Dave Ranyard used to head up one of Sony’s longest-running PlayStation developers, working on its most experimental tech, located in the heart of London. Over the course of the past decade, he’s worked on games that spearheaded PlayStation peripherals from the popular SingStar karaoke series to early augmented reality efforts with Wonderbook. Most…Read More

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August 2018’s top 10 Minecraft Marketplace creations: Graduation day

When you graduate from Mineville Highschool.
The Minecraft Marketplace kept some of its momentum from launching on Switch and its first Summer Sale. The unified version of Minecraft served up 373,361 downloads across Windows 10, mobile, Xbox, and Switch. While that’s nowhere near the 669,795 downloads from July, it’s still a big number for a month without a massive sale. August wa…Read More

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Oculus Quest could be the new VR class leader, but may not be a mass market catalyst

OculusQuest.
GUEST: Oculus Quest is the new class leader for premium/standalone VR, and looks like the ultimate expression of the early-stage VR 1.0 market. Combining Oculus Go quality graphics with inside-out tracking and Touch controllers, it gives Facebook the most compelling version of the current state of the art. But this is Oculus Quest’s challenge…Read More

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GamesBeat Decides 97: Ugly, but in a good way

GamesBeat Decides likes ugly things.
It’s time to podcast, y’all. The GamesBeat Decides crew is back for another week of news and games. On this episode, we have only the latest in entertainment. That includes … Super Mario Bros. 3 and The Legend of Zelda? Well, co-host Jeffrey Grubb has at least spent some time with Forza Horizon 4 and Assassin’s Creed: Odysse…Read More

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Mario Kart VR is coming to the U.S. thanks to HTC and Bandai Namco

Luigi Death Stare
Mario Kart VR is coming to the United States. The virtual reality attraction is already running in Japan and the U.K., and now HTC and Bandai Namco are preparing its American debut. This immersive VR Mario Kart experience is launching alongside the new VR Zone Portal Washington, D.C. location in Union Station. VR Zone Portal will feature a number o…Read More

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Facebook reveals data breach affecting nearly 50 million accounts


(Reuters) — Facebook said on Friday that hackers had discovered a security flaw that allowed them to take over up to 50 million user accounts, a major breach that adds to a bruising year for the company’s reputation. Facebook, which has more than 2 billion monthly active users, said it has been unable to determine yet whether the attack…Read More

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Microsoft brings Robot Operating System to Windows 10

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In recent years, the robotics industry has experienced outsized growth. It’s expected to be worth almost $500 billion by 2025, and judging by recent funding rounds, investors are optimistic about the future. Warehouse robotics company GreyOrange raised $140 million for its platform in early September; in June, Bossa Nova scooped up $29 millio…Read More

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As White House holds 5G summit, FCC debuts industry-guiding 5G FAST Plan

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai speaks at the White House's 5G Summit on September 28, 2018.
On relatively short notice, the White House today convened a 5G Summit consisting of morning and afternoon sessions for regulators, legislators, and telecom representatives. While its specific purpose wasn’t clear ahead of time, the Summit turned out to be an opportunity for administration officials who openly said that they “don’…Read More

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AI Weekly: AI is getting political in Washington, and it’s about time

United States Capital Building
Amid rage brewing on both sides of the political spectrum over testimony by Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Brett Kavanaugh, it would be understandable if you missed some significant artificial intelligence news in Washington D.C. in recent weeks. This week, a group of four senators — two Democrats, two Republicans — put forward the AI…Read More

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ProBeat: Oculus Connect 5 taught me Facebook Live still sucks


OPINION: As part of our Oculus Connect 5 coverage this week, we sent Dean Takahashi to the event in San Jose, California while the broader VentureBeat team supported him remotely by watching the livestream. Unfortunately, just like last year, Oculus chose Facebook Live. And just like last year, it was a poor experience. The day one livestream only…Read More

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Intel has chip supplies to hit revenue targets, but supplies for unexpected demand will be tight

Intel's chip architects design the chips that are made in giant multibillion-dollar factories.
Intel has been struggling with its transition from 14-nanometer manufacturing to 10-nanometer manufacturing, and it has been talking about that for the past year. But interim CEO Bob Swan reassured customers and partners today that the world’s biggest maker of PC chips has the capacity and supply in place to meet its revenue targets for the y…Read More

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FIFA 19 on Switch is a graphics upgrade over FIFA 18

FIFA 19's animations look smoother than its predecessor on Switch.
FIFA 19 is out today on Nintendo Switch. This is the second entry in the series to hit the hybrid home/handheld console. Considering FIFA 18 was an early Switch game, I would expect to see some visual improvements. And FIFA 19 Switch graphics deliver on that. The overall quality between FIFA 19 and FIFA 18 on Switch is pretty even. EA puts most of…Read More

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How to leap barriers and implement a winning AI strategy (VB Live)


VB LIVE: Without data there’s no AI — but without getting people, process, and principles aligned, there’s no AI strategy for your business. Learn how to ensure your AI deployment is successful, and how to avoid loss of money, trust, and your brand’s reputation along the way, when you join this VB Live event! Register here f…Read More

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Gremlin raises $18 million to expand ‘failure-as-a-service’ testing platform

Gremlin cofounders Kolton (left) and Matthew
Gremlin said today it has raised $18 million as the company expanded its product lineup to offer additional ways for companies to stress-test their applications. The round was led by Redpoint Ventures. Founded in 2016 by a pair of former engineers from Amazon and Netflix, the company has been designing ways for companies to test their systems by si…Read More

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Why is Verizon chasing 4G speed records with 5G only days away?


ANALYSIS: After nearly a year of hype, actual 5G service is now only days away. Verizon is launching commercial offerings in four cities next week — but the same carrier is touting an eleventh-hour breakthrough in 4G. Working with Qualcomm and Nokia in a live New York commercial environment, Verizon achieved a peak data speed of 1.45Gbps usin…Read More

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Sensor Tower: Mobile game publishers continue to reach $1M at high rates

Sensor Tower reports that many mobile game publishers are hitting the $1M earnings milestone in 2021 -- though not as many as in 2016. Rea...