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Auto Tuning For A Vintage Stereo

In 1984 there weren’t many ways to listen to high-quality music, so an FM tuner was an essential part of any home hi-fi system. The Pioneer TX-950 picked up by [The Curious Lorenz] would have been someone’s pride and joy, with its then-cutting-edge microprocessor control, digital PLL tuning, and seven-segment displays. Astoundingly it doesn’t have

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Marketing materials on a Huawei website detailed surveillance tech to detect people's ethnicity and help suppress protests, co-created with partners like Megvii (Washington Post)

Washington Post: Marketing materials on a Huawei website detailed surveillance tech to detect people’s ethnicity and help suppress protests, co-created with partners like Megvii  —  Facing international outcry over its testing of a “Uighur alarm” system, Huawei said it is committed to human rights “at the highest level.” Marketing materials on a Huawei website detailed

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Vista Equity Partners announces it is acquiring Utah-based IT training and workforce development company Pluralsight for $3.5B (GlobeNewswire)

GlobeNewswire: Vista Equity Partners announces it is acquiring Utah-based IT training and workforce development company Pluralsight for $3.5B  —  Vista to acquire all outstanding shares of Pluralsight for $20.26 per share in cash  —  Pluralsight, Inc. (NASDAQ: PS), the technology workforce development company … Vista Equity Partners announces it is acquiring Utah-based IT training and

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Source: Treasury's hackers used a flaw in a SolarWinds product; SolarWinds, which touts 300K+ customers, says the flaw was the result of a "supply chain attack" (Dustin Volz/Wall Street Journal)

Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: Source: Treasury’s hackers used a flaw in a SolarWinds product; SolarWinds, which touts 300K+ customers, says the flaw was the result of a “supply chain attack”  —  Russia’s foreign intelligence service is suspected of being behind the hacks  —  WASHINGTON—Multiple federal … Source: Treasury's hackers used a flaw in

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Modal, which provides ecommerce services for automotive dealers and brands, raises $15M Series A led by American Honda, bringing its total raised to ~$20M (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)

Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: Modal, which provides ecommerce services for automotive dealers and brands, raises $15M Series A led by American Honda, bringing its total raised to ~$20M  —  Buying a car can be a daunting experience, but Modal is out to make the process easier and in a way that can be accomplished

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Sources: Apple TV+ was making Scraper, a show about Gawker Media, with several episodes written, then Tim Cook sent an email about it and the project was killed (Ben Smith/New York Times)

Ben Smith / New York Times: Sources: Apple TV+ was making Scraper, a show about Gawker Media, with several episodes written, then Tim Cook sent an email about it and the project was killed  —  Big tech companies now exert huge influence over what stories get told.  The message is clear: Be careful who you

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Source: EA has ignited a bidding war for Codemasters, topping Take-Two Interactive's £725M offer that was agreed upon last month for the British game developer (Mark Kleinman/Sky News)

Mark Kleinman / Sky News: Source: EA has ignited a bidding war for Codemasters, topping Take-Two Interactive’s £725M offer that was agreed upon last month for the British game developer  —  The $40bn US-based games giant EA has ignited a bidding war for Britain’s Codemasters, Sky News understands.  —  Created with Sketch. Source: EA has

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Nēsos, which is developing a noninvasive, drug-free method to treat rheumatoid arthritis using a wearable earbud, comes out of stealth with $16.5M in funding (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)

Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: Nēsos, which is developing a noninvasive, drug-free method to treat rheumatoid arthritis using a wearable earbud, comes out of stealth with $16.5M in funding  —  Nēsos launched out of stealth Thursday and is poised to commercialize a new method for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. Nēsos, which is developing a

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Sources: state-backed Russian hacking group APT29, or Cozy Bear, is behind the hacks of US Treasury, NTIA, and FireEye (Ellen Nakashima/Washington Post)

Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: Sources: state-backed Russian hacking group APT29, or Cozy Bear, is behind the hacks of US Treasury, NTIA, and FireEye  —  The Russian government hackers who breached a top cybersecurity firm are behind a global espionage campaign that also compromised the Treasury and Commerce departments … Sources: state-backed Russian hacking group

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