Apex.AI raises $15.5M Series A from Canaan, Lightspeed, others for the enterprise version of the Robot Operating System, an open-source middleware for robotics
YouTube has started adding free, ad-supported movies
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Sources: this June, Zuckerberg told ~50 execs that Facebook was at war and he would act more decisively, which has led to frequent reorgs and key departures
Swedish scooter-sharing startup VOI Technology raises $50M Series A led by Balderton Capital with Spencer Rascoff, Justin Mateen, Jeff Wilkes among investors
How AI is transforming wildlife research by automating some tasks typically done manually by researchers, like identifying individual animals from photos
China Steps Up Trade Secret Theft from US Companies
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Bitcoin Cash has forked, with Bitcoin Cash ABC as an apparent early winner, but Bitcoin Cash SV camp is still threatening 51%, spam, and other possible attacks
Google’s “Smart City of Surveillance” Faces New Resistance in Toronto
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Michael Bloomberg: Why I’m Giving $1.8B for College Financial Aid
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Tumblr says it is working to resolve an issue with iOS app after it disappeared from the App Store amid speculation it was removed due to inappropriate content
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Introducing Amazon Corretto, a No-Cost Distribution of OpenJDK with LTS
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To save itself, Facebook must start charging users (xpost r/socialmediaskepticism)
Why the world needs deep generalists, not specialists
Profile of Mike Dickison, New Zealand's first Wikipedian-at-Large, who wants to boost the country's representation on the site by pushing New Zealanders to edit
Hitachi and others in talks about buying ABB’s power grid business
GTA COO: Guam is one of the most connected places in the world
Statement on UK by UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
China ‘has taken the gloves off’ in its thefts of U.S. technology secrets
Nebula Genomics aims to speed research and lower cost of genome sequencing
Google News may shut over EU plans to charge tax for links
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Instagram accidentally exposed some user passwords
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