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• How Amazon scrapped its plans for a New York headquarters

  15-02-2019 22:58
  More than a year of work to bring Amazon.com Inc's headquarters and tens of thousands of jobs to New York City ended on Thursday with a couple of phone calls.
  
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• China is building the future of technology. Its science fiction shows us what that could be like - ABC News

  15-02-2019 22:46 via abc.net.au
  China is building the future of technology. Its science fiction shows us what that could be like  ABC NewsAliens, robo-nannies and folding cities: A new wave of Chinese science fiction authors offer a unique perspective on the country, and the future of technology.
  
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• Amazon places big bet on aspiring Tesla rival Rivian

  15-02-2019 22:42
  Amazon.com Inc said on Friday it would lead a $700 million investment in U.S. electric pickup truck startup Rivian Automotive LLC, in the e-commerce giant's biggest bet on technologies with potential to reshape the automotive sector.
  
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• Silver unveils 'smart jersey' at All-Star Technology Summit - NBA.com

  15-02-2019 22:34 via nba.com
  Silver unveils 'smart jersey' at All-Star Technology Summit  NBA.comCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- NBA commissioner Adam Silver has opened the annual All-Star Technology Summit by touting the "smart jersey of the future.".
  
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• Exclusive: China ride-hailing giant Didi plans Chile, Peru launches to take on Uber

  15-02-2019 21:23
  Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing is planning to take on U.S. rival Uber in some of Latin America's fastest-growing markets, recruiting managers in Chile, Peru and Colombia, according to job postings and a company official.
  
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• Life-saving brake technology to be mandatory in new cars - NEWS.com.au

  15-02-2019 21:01 via news.com.au
  Life-saving brake technology to be mandatory in new cars  NEWS.com.auLife-saving pedestrian detection and automatic braking technology could become mandatory in all new cars and utes sold in Australia. Australia agreed to a ...
  
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• Microsoft shoves some Windows 10 testers into next year with early look at 2020 feature upgrade

  15-02-2019 20:16
  The company pointed to a 'longer lead time' for some of the features in the far-off upgrade, which isn't expected to arrive until the spring of 2020.
  
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• At studio, Harvard College senior celebrates potential of AR/VR technology - Harvard Gazette

  15-02-2019 20:07 via news.harvard.edu
  At studio, Harvard College senior celebrates potential of AR/VR technology  Harvard GazetteHarvard College senior Connor Doyle manages the coolest and least-known high-tech playground on campus: the Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality studio at ...
  
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• Revealed: Facebook enables ads to target users interested in 'vaccine controversies' - The Guardian

  15-02-2019 19:59 via theguardian.com
  Revealed: Facebook enables ads to target users interested in 'vaccine controversies'  The GuardianSocial media platforms under pressure by US congressman to crack down on anti-vaccine propaganda, citing Guardian investigations.
  
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• Alphabet unit seeks share of property taxes for Toronto smart city

  15-02-2019 19:51
  Alphabet Inc'sSidewalk Labs unit is proposing it get a share of property taxes, development fees, and the rising value of Toronto city land as part of a deal to build a smart city, according to the company's slide presentation made public on Friday.
  
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• Private equity firms win over Scout24 with improved $6.4 billion bid

  15-02-2019 19:27
  Hellman & Friedman and Blackstone have won over Scout24 after raising their offer for the online classifieds group to 5.7 billion euros ($6.4 billion) including debt, setting up the biggest takeover of a listed German company by private equity.
  
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• Visa, Mastercard mull increasing fees for processing transactions: WSJ

  15-02-2019 19:11
  Visa Inc and Mastercard Inc, the two biggest U.S. card networks, are preparing to raise certain fees levied on U.S. merchants for processing transactions from this April, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.
  
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• Uber posts $50 billion in annual bookings as profit remains elusive ahead of IPO

  15-02-2019 19:03
  Uber Technologies Inc had $50 billion in total bookings for its ride-service and food-delivery businesses last year, a testament to the size and global reach of the company as it prepares to woo investors in one of the biggest public stock listings to date.
  
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• U.S. fines Cognizant, charges 2 former top execs in India bribery case

  15-02-2019 18:10
  U.S. authorities on Friday announced criminal charges against two former top Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp executives for their roles in a bribery scheme in India, and said the company will pay $25 million to settle a related civil case.
  
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• Self-driving cars take the wheel - MIT Technology Review

  15-02-2019 18:04 via technologyreview.com
  Self-driving cars take the wheel  MIT Technology ReviewAdvanced technologies come together to get autonomous vehicles driving safely and efficiently.
  
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• U.S.-China Tech War, China's Technology Challenge, And The Huawei And 5G Threat (Video) - Seeking Alpha

  15-02-2019 17:16 via seekingalpha.com
  U.S.-China Tech War, China's Technology Challenge, And The Huawei And 5G Threat (Video)  Seeking AlphaChina technology sector faces significant challenges in expansion, and the spread of 5G in particular has faced global concerns over network security. The case.
  
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• Nvidia forecasts demand rebound, Wall Street not so sure

  15-02-2019 16:10
  Nvidia Corp's forecast of a demand rebound by the end of the year calmed investor nerves and pushed its shares up 5 percent on Friday, but several Wall Street analysts said the outlook was "aggressive" given weak demand and the ongoing U.S.-China trade war.
  
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• Watch a harpoon successfully spear a piece of space junk - MIT Technology Review

  15-02-2019 16:03 via technologyreview.com
  Watch a harpoon successfully spear a piece of space junk  MIT Technology ReviewThis is the third in a series of successful space-trash cleanup tests by the RemoveDEBRIS spacecraft.
  
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• We’re going to see the emergence of RegTech as an industry: Sri Shivananda

  15-02-2019 15:45
  Raking in over US$15.4 billion in revenue in the last financial year, PayPal exceeded the US$100 bn mark in total payment volumes in 2017. A tête-à-tête with the man spearheading technology at PayPal, Sri Shivananda, SVP and CTO, throws light on the tech innovations that take center stage in the digital payments space, the impact of IoT, and the evolution of RegTech as an industry.
  
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• Is Alphabet (GOOGL) Stock Outpacing Its Computer and Technology Peers This Year? - Yahoo Finance

  15-02-2019 15:30 via finance.yahoo.com
  Is Alphabet (GOOGL) Stock Outpacing Its Computer and Technology Peers This Year?  Yahoo FinanceInvestors interested in Computer and Technology stocks should always be looking to find the best-performing companies in the group. Is Alphabet (GOOGL) one ...
  
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• Telecoms industry calls for Europe-wide network testing regime

  15-02-2019 15:18
  The telecoms industry has called on European governments to join mobile operators in establishing a testing regime to protect network security without having to resort to the disruptive step of excluding vendors from the market.
  
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• Data breaches exposed 5 billion records in 2018.

  15-02-2019 15:17
  New report from Risk Based Security shows a downward trend in number breaches and exposed records, Unclear if privacy regulations like GDPR are having an effect.
  
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• Billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller placed bet against Tesla during Q4

  15-02-2019 15:17
  Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller bet against electric carmaker Tesla Inc during the fourth quarter, wagering that its share price will fall, according to quarterly filings released on Thursday.
  
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• It's complicated, says Britain's MI6 spymaster on Huawei 5G issue

  15-02-2019 14:12
  Britain should avoid relying on a monopoly provider of equipment in new 5G mobile networks, but there are no easy answers to concerns about using Chinese supplier Huawei, the chief of Britain's foreign intelligence service said on Friday.
  
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• Seizing on Huawei's troubles, Samsung bets big on network gear

  15-02-2019 13:42
  Samsung Electronics is pouring resources into its telecom network equipment business, aiming to capitalize on the security fears hobbling China's Huawei, according to company officials and other industry executives.
  
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• Java thread sanitizer project proposed once again

  15-02-2019 12:00
  If approved, the OpenJDK effort would help developers spot data race conditions in the HotSpot JVM and the JVM tool interface
  
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• West ups defence spending to keep ahead of Chinese technology - Economic Times

  15-02-2019 11:41 via economictimes.indiatimes.com
  West ups defence spending to keep ahead of Chinese technology  Economic TimesMUNICH: The United States led a rise in Western defence spending in 2018 as it moved to keep ahead of Chinese and Russian pushes into advanced military ...
  
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• Distributed ledger technology can bring rate parity to hotel distribution - PhocusWire

  15-02-2019 11:30 via phocuswire.com
  Distributed ledger technology can bring rate parity to hotel distribution  PhocusWireThe last few years have seen a steady rise in the impact of rate parity and onward distribution issues on hotelier's bottom line. General managers and revenue ...
  
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• Australian miner Fortescue says two driverless trucks involved in low-speed incident

  15-02-2019 10:31
  Australian iron ore miner Fortescue said on Friday that one of its driverless trucks, traveling at low speed, ran into another that was parked at its remote Western Australian operations in an incident earlier this week.
  
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• Zonta International offers women in technology scholarship - Port Macquarie News

  15-02-2019 09:00 via portnews.com.au
  Zonta International offers women in technology scholarship  Port Macquarie NewsZonta International is continuing to break down barriers, now offering a scholarship for women in the under-represented information technology and other STEM ...
  
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• Technology must be a tool, not tutor - The Australian

  15-02-2019 09:00 via theaustralian.com.au
  Technology must be a tool, not tutor  The AustralianAdopting technology has become a key focus for lawyers and the law since the rise of machine learning or artificial intelligence.
  
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• AI is reinventing the way we invent - MIT Technology Review

  15-02-2019 09:00 via technologyreview.com
  AI is reinventing the way we invent  MIT Technology ReviewThe biggest impact of artificial intelligence will be to help humans make discoveries we couldn't make on our own.
  
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• Germany looks into tax move on foreign internet firms: report

  15-02-2019 08:25
  Germany's finance ministry is looking into the possibility of a 15 percent special tax on online advertising revenue collected by foreign internet companies such as Google or Facebook from German operators, Wirtschaftswoche magazine reported on Friday.
  
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• Exclusive: Alibaba in talks on stake in China operations of Germany's Metro - sources

  15-02-2019 07:15
  Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is in talks with Germany's Metro about taking a stake in the German wholesaler's China operations, three sources told Reuters on Thursday.
  
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• China ride-hailing giant Didi to lay off 15 percent staff this year: source

  15-02-2019 06:45
  Didi Chuxing will lay off 15 percent of its staff or about 2,000 people this year, a source said, marking the ride-hailing firm's first major cut back as it grapples with regulatory scrutiny and public backlash over the murder of two of its users.
  
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• As Amazon drops New York City project, progressives claim a major coup

  15-02-2019 06:05
  U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wasted no time on Thursday in calling Amazon's decision to scrap plans to build a major New York outpost with nearly $3 billion in city and state incentives a big victory for progressive politicians.
  
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• AI fake text generator hobbled over fear of ‘malicious applications’

  15-02-2019 06:05
  OpenAI, a non-profit artificial intelligence research company, has hobbled the publicly available version of a new AI-based text generator due to “concerns about malicious applications of the technology”.
  
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• LandMark White data posted on darkweb forum

  15-02-2019 03:51
  Property valuation firm LandMark White says its decision to yesterday request the ASX pause trading of its shares came as it sought “clarity” around the impact of a data breach on its services.
  
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• Mega Microsoft migration: 161,000 employees prepare for Office 365 and Windows 10

  15-02-2019 03:00
  NHS Scotland is bringing together more than 100 different computer systems and 161,000 employees onto Microsoft's Office 365 and Windows 10.
  
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• Cyber espionage research group Citizen Lab emboldened by ‘entrapment attempt’

  15-02-2019 02:10
  ​For the first time, the University of Sydney hired a security guard to man the door at a public lecture this week, given by the director of digital espionage research centre Citizen Lab, Ron Deibert.
  
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• Operator of Greek movie website opposes attempt to have it blocked in Australia

  15-02-2019 01:22
  The operator of an online service dedicated to Greek-language movies and TV series has opposed an attempt by a group of entertainment companies to compel Australian ISPs block access to his site.
  
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