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VR: VR’s Grand Challenge: Michael Abrash on the Future of Human Interaction,
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Bitcoin Core client, patched earlier this week, contained a second vulnerability which let attackers create new bitcoins above the 21M hard cap (Alyssa Hertig/CoinDesk)
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White House says draft EO ordering probes into practices of Facebook and Google is not an official document; sources: Yelp contacted WH aides with the draft EO (Washington Post)
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As it gets ready to launch its first commercial robot, Boston Dynamics is still struggling to articulate what the big application for its robots is (New York Times)
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Latvian hacker sentenced to 14 years in prison for creating and running Scan4You service that allowed malware authors to check the detection rates of their code (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)
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NextVR now supports Oculus Rift and Oculus Go for its live sports and entertainment broadcasts (Mariella Moon/Engadget)
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Lately, the @Twitter account has interacted more playfully with users; Twitter says it's part of an effort to promote healthy conversations on the platform (Casey Newton/The Interface)
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Sources: Apple delayed launch of a streaming video service twice, most recently until March, and spiked a Dr. Dre series as it seeks less edgy content (Wall Street Journal)
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Q&A: Amazon Prime Video India head Vijay Subramaniam on Indian content for worldwide audiences, sparking conversation, and passing on film production for now (Nyay Bhushan/Hollywood Reporter)
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Profile of Marc Randazza, a free speech advocate and lawyer who tries to limit social media platforms' ability to act against hateful and abusive content (Joseph Bernstein/BuzzFeed News)
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How counterfeit Apple products, such as adapters and chargers, take circuitous shipment routes via multiple companies to reach the US consumer market (Kevin McCoy/USA Today)
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IPO prospectus of Meituan-Dianping, which owns Mobike, said that the Chinese bike-sharing service had 48.1M active bike users, 7.1M active bikes as of April 30 (Tim Culpan/Bloomberg)
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UK-based Cleo, an AI chatbot that gives users insights into spending across multiple accounts and credit cards, raises $10M Series A led by Balderton Capital (Steve O'Hear/TechCrunch)
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In internal email after WSJ report, Google CEO Pichai denied efforts to politically bias search results, reaffirmed Google should remain politically neutral (Ina Fried/Axios)
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Australian Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton accused of rushing legislation through parliament that tech companies say would weaken encryption (Josh Taylor/BuzzFeed)
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A look at how tech products aimed at civic engagement made by technologists from Silicon Valley have mostly failed to have any long term impact (Joshua Brustein/Bloomberg)
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Apple Watch fire face was made with actual fire. Wait..What!?
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The long list of new Alexa devices Amazon announced at it's hardware event
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Video of the next Samsung Galaxy user interface in action
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This Could Be Google's First Homegrown Chrome OS Tablet
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Amazon Unveils New Echo Dot with Better Sound
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Cooking with the 'Not-a-Flamethrower'
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OnePlus 6T may launch soon with in-display fingerprint sensor, dual cameras
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iOS 12.1 beta suggests a new iPad is coming this fall
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 review: 4K gaming is here, at a price
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Dumb titanium iPhone Xs case costs almost twice the price of the iPhone Xs Max
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The Apple Watch Series 4 Sweats the Details
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The new Google Home Hub smart display assistant
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Apple Watch 4 review: the best smartwatch gets better
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Sony announces PlayStation Classic, available for $99.00 with 20 games pre-loaded.
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Millions think the new iPhones are worth going into debt for | ZDNet
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The only really good reason to upgrade to the iPhone Xs is its blazing LTE speeds
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These 25-day battery life smartwatches look pretty elegant to me
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[Wearables] Suunto 9 review
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Apple's iPhone XS and XR could leave out mainstream consumers
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Amazon reportedly planning Alexa microwave, subwoofer, and more this year
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Reports: Apple AirPower still overheating, may be “doomed to failure”
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Apple's AirPower wireless charging mat still plagued by overheating issues.
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What would you like to see in the fully re-designed Samsung Galaxy S10?
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OnePlus is going to start making TVs - The Verge
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Weekly /r/Gadgets Advice Superthread!
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Apple says small percentage of iPhone 8 models are defective
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Concentration inequalities – Part I
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NLP word representations and the Wittgenstein philosophy of language
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PyTorch – Internal Architecture Tour
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Privacy-preserving sentence semantic similarity using InferSent embeddings and secure two-party computation
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New prime on the block
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The effective receptive field on CNNs
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Benford’s law – Index
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The same old historicism, now on AI
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Introduction to Word Embeddings
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