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Executives at seven of Facebook's Libra partners say the companies have only signed nonbinding agreements and have not yet paid to join the Libra Association (Nathaniel Popper/New York Times)

Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: Executives at seven of Facebook’s Libra partners say the companies have only signed nonbinding agreements and have not yet paid to join the Libra Association  —  SAN FRANCISCO — One of the biggest selling points of Facebook’s ambitious plans for its new cryptocurrency, Libra … Executives at seven of

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FCC broadband committee ex-chair sentenced to five years in prison for fraud; as a telecom CEO, she forged contracts to raise $270M+ for a fiber network (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: FCC broadband committee ex-chair sentenced to five years in prison for fraud; as a telecom CEO, she forged contracts to raise $270M+ for a fiber network  —  Telecom CEO forged contracts in order to raise $270 million from investors.  —  The former head of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s Broadband …

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Apple says it has acquired autonomous driving startup Drive.ai, hiring dozens of Drive.ai engineers and, per sources, taking over its autonomous cars (Axios)

Axios: Apple says it has acquired autonomous driving startup Drive.ai, hiring dozens of Drive.ai engineers and, per sources, taking over its autonomous cars  —  Apple bought Drive.ai, an autonomous driving startup once valued at $200 million, Apple confirmed to Axios on Tuesday, and has hired dozens of Drive.ai engineers. Apple says it has acquired autonomous

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Sources: US tech companies, including Intel and Micron, have found ways to sell millions of dollars of products to Huawei despite the Trump administration's ban (New York Times)

New York Times: Sources: US tech companies, including Intel and Micron, have found ways to sell millions of dollars of products to Huawei despite the Trump administration’s ban  —  SHANGHAI — A number of the United States’ biggest chip makers have sold millions of dollars of products to Huawei despite … Sources: US tech companies,

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Uber to buy Seattle-based Mighty AI, which helps train computer vision models, to strengthen its self-driving car unit; Crunchbase: Mighty AI had raised $27.3M (Amir Efrati/The Information)

Amir Efrati / The Information: Uber to buy Seattle-based Mighty AI, which helps train computer vision models, to strengthen its self-driving car unit; Crunchbase: Mighty AI had raised $27.3M  —  Uber as soon as today expects to close its acquisition of Seattle-based “data annotation” firm Mighty AI in a bid to strengthen … Uber to

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Deadspin Andre Iguodala Says Mark Jackson Is Being Blackballed From The NBA | The Slot Jared and Iva

Deadspin Andre Iguodala Says Mark Jackson Is Being Blackballed From The NBA | The Slot Jared and Ivanka Did Not Attend Karlie Kloss and Joshua Kushner’s Wedding, But They Made It Seem Like It On Instagram | Splinter Don’t Look Away | The Root No White Saviors: Woman Accused of Letting African Babies Die at Fake… Read more… Deadspin Andre

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Cobalt Robotics, which makes indoor security robots designed to work alongside human guards, raises $35M Series B; it raised a $13M Series A in March 2018 (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Cobalt Robotics, which makes indoor security robots designed to work alongside human guards, raises $35M Series B; it raised a $13M Series A in March 2018  —  Cobalt Robotics, a three-year-old startup building indoor security robots designed to work alongside human guards … Cobalt Robotics, which makes indoor security robots designed

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The Office will leave Netflix in 2021

The Office, one of the most popular shows on Netflix, will stream exclusively on NBCUniversal’s upcoming streaming service beginning in 2021. Netflix’s deal with NBCUniversal ends in 2020, giving NBCUniversal back the rights to stream its own show. The new arrangement makes The Office one of the biggest shows that NBCUniversal will have exclusively on

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Life can theoretically exist in a 2D universe

{$inline_image}The wild and wacky world of physics just keeps getting stranger. A UC Davis physicist recently published research demonstrating the possibility for complex lifeforms to exist in a two-dimensional universe. Philosophers and scientists have long dealt with a lack of information about our universe by viewing it through the prism of us, the observers. This

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