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    • Udacity, which has 10M+ registered users from 160+ countries, says 50,000 students have graduated from its nanodegree programs that cost between $1K and $2.4K (Bernadette Tansey/Xconomy)

    Bernadette Tansey / Xconomy: Udacity, which has 10M+ registered users from 160+ countries, says 50,000 students have graduated from its nanodegree programs that cost between $1K and $2.4K  —  Bernadette Tansey  —  Udacity, a pioneer in the online teaching of IT skills, is celebrating a milestone today … Udacity, which has 10M+ registered users from

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    • Faire, an online wholesale marketplace for local retailers, raises $40M Series B and $60M Series C at a valuation of $535M, bringing the total raised to $116M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

    Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Faire, an online wholesale marketplace for local retailers, raises $40M Series B and $60M Series C at a valuation of $535M, bringing the total raised to $116M  —  In a world where retailers big and small struggle to compete with Amazon, a startup that is working to help local

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    Scott Swaaley On High Voltage

    If you were to invent a time machine and transport a typical hardware hacker of the 1970s into 2018 and sit them at a bench alongside their modern counterpart, you’d expect them to be faced with a pile of new things, novel experiences, and exciting possibilities. The Internet for all, desktop computing fulfilling its potential,

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    • Focal Elegia Review: Neutral hi-fi headphones you can actually commute with

    The Focal Elegia is not your typical high-end headphone. After the highly successful Utopia and Clear, the Elegia is Focal Audio’s first contribution into the high-end closed market. Closed-back headphones have traditionally been something of a rarity in the high-end market, simply because physics makes it harder to reduce resonances and distortion on closed headphones,

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    • Irish Data Protection Commission says that this week it has opened a broad investigation into Facebook's GDPR compliance in light of numerous data breaches (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

    Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Irish Data Protection Commission says that this week it has opened a broad investigation into Facebook’s GDPR compliance in light of numerous data breaches  —  Facebook is facing a broad investigation from the Irish data regulator into the high number of data breaches this year … Irish Data Protection Commission

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    • SIPC, which insures money in brokerage accounts, disputes Robinhood's claims that funds in newly launched checking and savings accounts is protected by the SIPC (Julie Verhage/Bloomberg)

    Julie Verhage / Bloomberg: SIPC, which insures money in brokerage accounts, disputes Robinhood’s claims that funds in newly launched checking and savings accounts is protected by the SIPC  —  The Securities Investor Protection Corp. said a new checking account from Robinhood Financial LLC raises red flags … SIPC, which insures money in brokerage accounts, disputes

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    • Discord says its PC game store will offer a 90/10 revenue split when it opens for all game developers in 2019 (Jeff Grubb/VentureBeat)

    Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: Discord says its PC game store will offer a 90/10 revenue split when it opens for all game developers in 2019  —  The video game industry is witnessing the death of the standard revenue split for distribution platforms.  For years, stores like Steam have taken 30 percent of every sale. Discord

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    • Facebook says that between Sept. 13 and Sept. 25 a bug in a photo API gave app developers access to photos that were uploaded but never shared by ~6.8M users (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)

    Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Facebook says that between Sept. 13 and Sept. 25 a bug in a photo API gave app developers access to photos that were uploaded but never shared by ~6.8M users  —  Reset the “days since the last Facebook privacy scandal” counter, as a Facebook has just revealed a Photo API bug

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    • Xiaomi Mi 8 and Mi 8 Pro review: great camera, performance, and value for money but MIUI has many quirks and the in-display fingerprint scanner is inconsistent (Scott Scrivens/Android Police)

    Scott Scrivens / Android Police: Xiaomi Mi 8 and Mi 8 Pro review: great camera, performance, and value for money but MIUI has many quirks and the in-display fingerprint scanner is inconsistent  —  Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi is a jack of all trades.  It makes a variety of connected gadgets, including TVs, toothbrushes, scooters, and even

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