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    • Apple joins Google, Facebook, and Twitter in the open-source Data Transfer Project, will develop interoperable systems to bring data in and out of iCloud (Russell Brandom/The Verge)

    Russell Brandom / The Verge: Apple joins Google, Facebook, and Twitter in the open-source Data Transfer Project, will develop interoperable systems to bring data in and out of iCloud  —  Just over a year after its official launch, the Data Transfer Project is announcing a new set of partners and features. Apple joins Google, Facebook,

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    • Russia seizes 2,500 Bitmain cryptocurrency miners for dodging $1.2M in import fees

    Authorities seized a trove of over 2,000 illegally imported Bitmain ASIC cryptocurrency miners from a Russian mining operation earlier this month. The founder of mining firm Intelion Mining, Alexander Shashkov, said that armed customs agents raided his company’s offices in two Russian cities, CoinDesk reports. Shashkov, made the news public when speaking at the TerraCrypto

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    • Facebook is getting closer to letting you type with just your thoughts

    During its developer conference in 2017, Facebook announced its plans to develop a brain-computer interface (BCI) that would let you type just by thinking. Now, researchers from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) working under this program have posted a study today noting their algorithm was able to detect spoken words from brain activity in real-time. The

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    • Apple, Google, and Microsoft partner to provide digital access to patients’ health records

    Representatives from major tech companies like Apple, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have joined with some of the biggest health insurers and hospitals in an initiative to provide consumers with easier access to their medical information. Called the CARIN Blue Button API, the data model is a standard for sharing health claims data, which includes tests,

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    • Amazon announces general availability of Neural Text-to-Speech and "newscaster style" in Amazon Polly, its cloud service that converts text to speech (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

    Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Amazon announces general availability of Neural Text-to-Speech and “newscaster style” in Amazon Polly, its cloud service that converts text to speech  —  Not to be outdone by Google’s WaveNet, which mimics things like stress and intonation in speech by identifying tonal patterns … Amazon announces general availability of Neural Text-to-Speech and

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    • US files ~$100M lawsuit against BTC-e crypto exchange and a co-owner for alleged crimes including conspiracy, money laundering, and unlawful money transactions (Daniel Kuhn/CoinDesk)

    Daniel Kuhn / CoinDesk: US files ~$100M lawsuit against BTC-e crypto exchange and a co-owner for alleged crimes including conspiracy, money laundering, and unlawful money transactions  —  According to a court document filed on July 25 in the Northern District of California, BTC-e and its executive Alexander Vinnik … US files ~0M lawsuit against BTC-e

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    • Samsung posts Q2 operating profit of ~$5.6B, down 56% YoY, on revenue of ~$47.4B, down 4% YoY, after profits from its chip and mobile businesses declined YoY (Cho Mu-Hyun/ZDNet)

    Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: Samsung posts Q2 operating profit of ~$5.6B, down 56% YoY, on revenue of ~$47.4B, down 4% YoY, after profits from its chip and mobile businesses declined YoY  —  Samsung expects “persistent uncertainties” in the memory business for the remainder of the year but will pursue an aggressive investment plan in the

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    • Waze now lets Carpool drivers invite up to four other riders to join a carpool; previously, riders beyond the first had to initiate requests to join a carpool (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)

    Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Waze now lets Carpool drivers invite up to four other riders to join a carpool; previously, riders beyond the first had to initiate requests to join a carpool  —  Waze, the community navigation app owned by Google, now allows Carpool users to invite multiple people to join a ride. Waze now

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