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Arlan Hamilton's diversity-minded investment fund Backstage Capital falls through, after two "anchor investors" pulled out and other deals failed to materialize (Axios)

Axios: Arlan Hamilton’s diversity-minded investment fund Backstage Capital falls through, after two “anchor investors” pulled out and other deals failed to materialize  —  Arlan Hamilton seems to be everywhere.  Keynote interviews at conferences like SXSW and the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit … Arlan Hamilton's diversity-minded investment fund Backstage Capital falls through, after two "anchor

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HP Reverb, a lightweight $600 VR headset that's slated to arrive late April, has ~24 pixels per degree vs. ~14 on the Vive Pro, but pixels are still discernable (Scott Stein/CNET)

Scott Stein / CNET: HP Reverb, a lightweight $600 VR headset that’s slated to arrive late April, has ~24 pixels per degree vs. ~14 on the Vive Pro, but pixels are still discernable  —  Virtual reality headsets are going through a hardware evolution, slowly, with eye tracking, wireless connections, wider fields of view and higher

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In iMac Pro's build-to-order options Apple now includes a $5,200 option for 256GB RAM and Radeon Pro Vega 64X graphics with 16GB dedicated video memory for $700 (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)

{$inline_image} Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: In iMac Pro’s build-to-order options Apple now includes a $5,200 option for 256GB RAM and Radeon Pro Vega 64X graphics with 16GB dedicated video memory for $700  —  Apple has quietly updated the iMac Pro build-to-order options to include new Radeon Pro Vega 64X graphics and a 256 GB RAM

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Instagram adds in-app shopping to let users buy from 20 beauty and fashion brands including Kylie Cosmetics, Nike, and Huda Beauty (Emma Sandler/Digiday)

Emma Sandler / Digiday: Instagram adds in-app shopping to let users buy from 20 beauty and fashion brands including Kylie Cosmetics, Nike, and Huda Beauty  —  Shopping on Instagram is about to change forever.  —  On March 19, the social platform announced in a blog post it was launching a beta shopping program … Instagram

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Apps are the unexpected savior of dying indigenous languages

In a globalized world, “global languages” have come increasingly to the fore, often at the expense of smaller, regional tongues and dialects. Of all the world’s languages — around 7,000, by best estimates — only a few hundred are represented online, and a very small number predominate. English — long dubbed the “language of business” and latterly known as the lingua franca

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Watch Nvidia’s new AI turn MS Paint-style doodles into photorealistic masterpieces

Researchers at Nvidia have developed a deep learning model that can take shitty digital sketches – like the ones you’d create with a trackpad, zero talent, and Microsoft Paint – and generate beautiful photorealistic landscapes in an instant. It’s called GauGAN (named after post-Impressionist Paul Gauguin, and Generative Adversarial Networks), and it works like a

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Amid a noticeable uptick in Mirai botnet activity, a Palo Alto Networks report says a new Mirai malware variant targets signage TVs and presentation systems (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Amid a noticeable uptick in Mirai botnet activity, a Palo Alto Networks report says a new Mirai malware variant targets signage TVs and presentation systems  —  Security researchers spot new Mirai botnet with an enhanced arsenal of IoT exploits.  —  Security researchers have spotted … Amid a noticeable uptick in Mirai

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‘Drug-dealing’ football coach sues Bitcoin fund manager over $14M loss

In Australia, a suite of high-profile cryptocurrency investors (including accused drug trafficker and former football coach Mark “Bomber” Thompson) are preparing to take their Bitcoin fund manager to court over $14.2 million (AU$20 million) in losses. Stefanos Papanastasiou (39), founder of what claims to be Australia‘s first online bed retailer, is under fire by a

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CEO of Exactis talks about the fallout after the marketing company exposed 230M personal records on a public server, says he plans to focus on another startup (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

Andy Greenberg / Wired: CEO of Exactis talks about the fallout after the marketing company exposed 230M personal records on a public server, says he plans to focus on another startup  —  STEVE HARDIGREE HADN’T even gotten to the office yet, and his day was already a waking nightmare. CEO of Exactis talks about the

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European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager on why breaking up big tech should be a last resort measure, GDPR favoring large companies, and more (Recode)

Recode: European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager on why breaking up big tech should be a last resort measure, GDPR favoring large companies, and more  —  Vestager spoke with Recode’s Kara Swisher in front of a live audience at South by Southwest.  —  On the latest episode of Recode Decode … European Commissioner for Competition

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