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VR: VR’s Grand Challenge: Michael Abrash on the Future of Human Interaction,
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UK-based food delivery startup Deliveroo raises $385M led by Fidelity and T Rowe Price, now valued at $2B+ (Sam Shead/Business Insider)
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iPhone 8 Is World's Fastest Phone (It's Not Even Close)
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Reacting to dissatisfaction in the open source community, Facebook moves React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js from BSD + Patents license to the MIT license (Thomas Claburn/The Register)
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Aeva exits stealth, is developing a sensor for self-driving cars that is a cross between lidar, good for measuring distance, and radar, good for measuring speed (Cade Metz/New York Times)
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In an interview, Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew and Blockchain's Peter Smith claim a big driver of ICOs are early bitcoin millionaires who want to diversify (Jim Edwards/Business Insider)
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UberEats has become a surprise standout for Uber; the company says the food delivery service is profitable in 27 of the 108 cities where it's offered (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
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Walmart partners with smart lock maker August to test in-home delivery of packages and groceries in Silicon Valley (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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Inside Mark Zuckerberg's political awakening, which led to his current US tour and significant changes in Facebook features, especially Groups (Bloomberg)
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Backlash against the push for gender equality in tech grows among some men who see it as "a witch hunt" (Nellie Bowles/New York Times)
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Twitter is testing a Twitter Lite Android app, first in the Philippines (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
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RIAA: 30M+ pay for streaming, which now accounts for 62% of US music biz; streaming revenue up 48% in first half of 2017 to $2.5B, digital downloads down 24% (Peter Kafka/Recode)
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EU Commission draft report urges EU to proceed with tax overhaul to prevent digital firms from paying less tax in Europe by routing profits to low-tax countries (Francesco Guarascio/Reuters)
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Chinese bike-sharing giant Mobike enters US with Washington DC launch, a month after rival Ofo launched in Seattle (Zen Soo/South China Morning Post)
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W3C's approval of DRM for video gives the impression that the standards consortium has been captured by corporations, a view the group's CEO rejects (Adrianne Jeffries/The Outline)
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Amazon partners with Olo, ordering platform for 200 restaurant brands with about 40K US locations, in an effort to boost Amazon Restaurants delivery service (Bloomberg)
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Department of Homeland Security notified 21 states that their election systems were targeted by Russian government hackers during 2016 election (Washington Post)
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Samsung Q9 QLED TV: The Gizmodo Review
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Google wants headphone makers to add a dedicated Assistant button
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Face ID can protect iPhone X from thieves, but not the law
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I made this traffic light project with simple paper molds at hand and some electronic components like Arduino/SunFounder Nano board to illustrate. Have fun with the simple project!
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Moona - Smart pillow temperature regulation to improve sleep
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Bose gets into the truly wireless game with SoundSport Free earbuds
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Android One comes to the US at last with the Moto X4
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Nest comes knocking again with smart doorbell, security system
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HTC will have another flagship phone, even after billion-dollar deal with Google
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U.S. Navy swapping $38,000 periscope joysticks for $30 Xbox controllers on high-tech submarines
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The Nest Cam IQ Outdoor is the latest security camera to use facial recognition
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Apple admits to Apple Watch LTE problems just before it ships
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Hisense sets its sights on cord cutters with the affordable R6 4K Roku TV
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Apple Watch Series 3 with LTE review: missed connections (5 out of 10)
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Amazon working on Alexa-powered smart glasses, says report
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YotaPhone is trying to make dual screens a thing for the third time
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Amazon reportedly working on Alexa-powered smart glasses
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Google Pixelbook leak reveals a high-end Chromebook with stylus support. Will reportedly start at $1,199.
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Google Pixel 2 XL will reportedly cost $849 for 64GB, $949 for 128GB
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WT2 real-time earphone translator for face-to-face bilingual conversations. Translate languages in near real-time.
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iPhone 8 review: the default option
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Jaybird adds two new pairs of wireless earbuds to its lineup - Including its first shot at truly wireless earbuds
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August announces new smart locks and a smart doorbell
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Samsung finally lets you disable the annoying Bixby button
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Weekly /r/Gadgets Advice Superthread!
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Apple Event Megathread
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The same old historicism, now on AI
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Introduction to Word Embeddings
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Nanopipe: connecting the modern babel
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JIT native code generation for TensorFlow computation graphs using Python and LLVM
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Convolutional Neural Networks – Architectural Zoo
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Voynich Manuscript: word vectors and t-SNE visualization of some patterns
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Convolutional hypercolumns in Python
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Convolutional Neural Networks Presentation
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