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Poll: Cable news viewers more likely to believe political falsehoods than print, public radio consumers

It should surprise no one that where we gets our news plays a significant part in determining what we believe to be true. But lying isn’t partisan. Democrat or Conservative, both parties lie with astonishing frequency. According to a recent Washington Post poll, a startling number of citizens still recognize facts solely along party lines,

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Report: Facebook renamed Building 8, its hardware skunkworks lab, to Portal after the device launched, moved more experimental projects to Facebook Reality Labs (Nick Statt/The Verge)

Nick Statt / The Verge: Report: Facebook renamed Building 8, its hardware skunkworks lab, to Portal after the device launched, moved more experimental projects to Facebook Reality Labs  —  The hardware group is now focused on Portal and other projects, while far-off ideas are part of Reality Labs Report: Facebook renamed Building 8, its hardware

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How Huawei is pushing China's grand tech ambitions forward with a secretive enterprise unit that is estimated to net $10B+ in revenue this year (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: How Huawei is pushing China’s grand tech ambitions forward with a secretive enterprise unit that is estimated to net $10B+ in revenue this year  —  – Secretive enterprise unit carries on undistracted by U.S. rift  — Services for internet, cloud to net $10 billion this year How Huawei is pushing China's

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Tumblr’s ‘female-presenting nipples’ language isn’t semantic — it’s oppression

Tumblr‘s whiplash-inducing ban on “all adult content” has been about as well-received as a tequila-fart in a car full of strangers with the windows stuck in the up position. Furthermore, it’s offensive, poorly-implemented, and serves little use besides shaming women for having nipples. The company, which is owned by Verizon Media Group, announced it would implement

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GE to spin out its industrial IoT software business into a separate company with $1.2B in revenue, sell 90% of ServiceMax to Silver Lake for an undisclosed sum (Forbes)

Forbes: GE to spin out its industrial IoT software business into a separate company with $1.2B in revenue, sell 90% of ServiceMax to Silver Lake for an undisclosed sum  —  By Nigel Fenwick, Vice President, Principal Analyst; Frank Gillett, Vice President, Principal Analyst; Michele Pelino, Principal Analyst; Paul Miller, Senior Analyst GE to spin out

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Sources: private equity firm Thoma Bravo is in early talks to acquire McAfee from TPG and Intel for a "significant premium" on McAfee's 2016 valuation of $4.2B (Alex Sherman/CNBC)

Alex Sherman / CNBC: Sources: private equity firm Thoma Bravo is in early talks to acquire McAfee from TPG and Intel for a “significant premium” on McAfee’s 2016 valuation of $4.2B  —  – Private equity firm Thoma Bravo is in early talks to acquire all of McAfee from TPG and Intel, sources say. Sources: private

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Sources: T-Mobile and Sprint expect prompt merger approval from CFIUS after SoftBank, Deutsche Telekom agree to consider curbing the use of Huawei's equipment (Reuters)

Reuters: Sources: T-Mobile and Sprint expect prompt merger approval from CFIUS after SoftBank, Deutsche Telekom agree to consider curbing the use of Huawei’s equipment  —  WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – T-Mobile US Inc and Sprint Corp expect their merger to be approved by a U.S. national security panel … Sources: T-Mobile and Sprint expect prompt merger

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Revolut gets a European banking license via the Bank of Lithuania, which allows it to offer services like current accounts and non-prepaid debit cards across EU (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Revolut gets a European banking license via the Bank of Lithuania, which allows it to offer services like current accounts and non-prepaid debit cards across EU  —  Fintech startup Revolut is now officially a bank.  While the startup initially expected to get its European banking license during … Revolut gets a

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