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    • Pundits proclaimed the death of the PC since the iPad was announced nearly a decade ago, but with 250M+ sold annually, PCs, while not growing, are far from dead (Ed Bott/ZDNet)

    Ed Bott / ZDNet: Pundits proclaimed the death of the PC since the iPad was announced nearly a decade ago, but with 250M+ sold annually, PCs, while not growing, are far from dead  —  Back on January 27, 2010, a very Big Thinker declared the PC dead.  A decade later, the PC is very much

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    RC Strandbeest is a Head Above the Rest

    Prolific maker [Jeremy Cook] recently put the finishing touches (at least, for now) on his impressive ClearCrawler remote controlled Strandbeest, which includes among other things a surprisingly expressive “head” complete with LED matrix eyes. For anyone in the audience who was only mildly terrified of these multi-legged robotic beasties before, you may want to avert

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    • A look at Arm China, which has become a key player in China's chip industry and sources say has doubled staff since SoftBank sold control to a Chinese venture (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asian Review)

    Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asian Review: A look at Arm China, which has become a key player in China’s chip industry and sources say has doubled staff since SoftBank sold control to a Chinese venture  —  Since SoftBank sold control, venture doubles staff and develops cryptographic IP  —  TAIPEI — Arm China … A look

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    • India-based B2B logistics network Shadowfax raises $60M Series D from Flipkart, others, bringing its total raised to $100M, sources say at a valuation of ~$250M (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

    Manish Singh / TechCrunch: India-based B2B logistics network Shadowfax raises $60M Series D from Flipkart, others, bringing its total raised to $100M, sources say at a valuation of ~$250M  —  Walmart’s Flipkart has backed Indian startup Shadowfax in a new $60 million financing round as the retail giant works to strengthen its logistics network in

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    • Procreate 5 arrives with Photoshop brush import, Animation Assist, and CMYK mode

    Animation Assist. | Image: Savage Interactive Procreate 5, Savage Interactive’s newest update for the iOS painting and illustration app, is now available. The free update brings long-awaited features such as Photoshop (ABR) brush import, custom brush creation, CMYK mode, and more robust animation features. The app runs on a new Valkyrie graphics engine that works

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    • Report on the hack-for-hire market: attacks that phish 2FA to access email accounts cost $100-$400; such attacks can be prevented with physical security keys (Ariana Mirian/Communications of the ACM)

    Ariana Mirian / Communications of the ACM: Report on the hack-for-hire market: attacks that phish 2FA to access email accounts cost $100-$400; such attacks can be prevented with physical security keys  —  Communications of the ACM, December 2019, Vol. 62 No. 12, Pages 32-37 … A single email address often underpins one’s entire online identity

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    • Beijing orders all government offices and public institutions to remove foreign PC equipment and software within three years, allowing only Chinese-made tech (Australian Financial Review)

    Australian Financial Review: Beijing orders all government offices and public institutions to remove foreign PC equipment and software within three years, allowing only Chinese-made tech  —  Yuan Yang and Nian Liu  —  Beijing has ordered all government offices and public institutions to remove foreign computer equipment … Beijing orders all government offices and public institutions

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    • Admins of local Facebook groups, which are often a town square, neighborhood watch, and an emergency info service rolled into one, on what it's like to run them (Cameron Wilson/BuzzFeed)

    Cameron Wilson / BuzzFeed: Admins of local Facebook groups, which are often a town square, neighborhood watch, and an emergency info service rolled into one, on what it’s like to run them  —  Untrained volunteers are running communities that are a town square, Neighbourhood Watch and emergency information service all rolled into one. Admins of

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    • Dolls Kill, an SF-based online boutique for counter-culture fashion, raises $40M Series B from Sequoia, bringing its total raised to $60M (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

    Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: Dolls Kill, an SF-based online boutique for counter-culture fashion, raises $40M Series B from Sequoia, bringing its total raised to $60M  —  When the storied venture firm Sequoia likes a deal, it will sometimes not only lead one of its financing rounds but fund it exclusively — no matter how that

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