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Talk of wearables and fashion has gone quiet since the lead up to Apple Watch's 2014 debut, as many fashion brands now market tech wearables as niche products (Vanessa Friedman/New York Times)

Vanessa Friedman / New York Times: Talk of wearables and fashion has gone quiet since the lead up to Apple Watch’s 2014 debut, as many fashion brands now market tech wearables as niche products  —  When Apple introduced the Apple Watch five years ago, the whole tech industry began to flirt with style.  But interest

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Reverse Engineering Shimano Bike Electronics

ANT+ is a wireless protocol specifically designed for use with sensors, and has similar functionality in some respects to Bluetooth Low Energy. It’s found a place among various bicycle equipment manufacturers, to connect smartwatches, cycle computers and electronic gear shifters. Of course, as soon as something becomes a defacto standard someone has to start coloring

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US Army documents show Palantir, which has struggled to win a major defense contract, has won the bid to build a battlefield intelligence system for soldiers (Shane Harris/Washington Post)

Shane Harris / Washington Post: US Army documents show Palantir, which has struggled to win a major defense contract, has won the bid to build a battlefield intelligence system for soldiers  —  The Army has chosen Palantir Technologies to deploy a complex battlefield intelligence system for soldiers, according to Army documents … US Army documents

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Google Podcasts is auto-transcribing podcast episodes and using those transcripts as metadata to help listeners search for shows (Jules Wang/Android Police)

Jules Wang / Android Police: Google Podcasts is auto-transcribing podcast episodes and using those transcripts as metadata to help listeners search for shows  —  Google Podcasts is now automatically generating transcripts of episodes and is using them as metadata to help listeners search for shows, even if they don’t know the title or when it

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Apple Arcade has game developers excited, but questions remain, including fears less-heralded developers won't get noticed, and the terms of exclusivity deals (Andrew Webster/The Verge)

Andrew Webster / The Verge: Apple Arcade has game developers excited, but questions remain, including fears less-heralded developers won’t get noticed, and the terms of exclusivity deals  —  Yesterday, at its “show time” event in Cupertino, Apple unveiled perhaps its biggest gaming venture ever: Apple Arcade. Apple Arcade has game developers excited, but questions remain,

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Source: Google CEO Sundar Pichai to meet with General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, after Dunford criticized Google's AI work in China (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: Source: Google CEO Sundar Pichai to meet with General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, after Dunford criticized Google’s AI work in China  —  – CEO Pichai set to meet General Dunford on Wednesday in DC  — Military chief has criticized big tech for helping China Source: Google

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