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Self-driving startup Wayve, which considers sophisticated sensor tech like lidar unnecessary for safe autonomous driving systems, raises $20M Series A (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Self-driving startup Wayve, which considers sophisticated sensor tech like lidar unnecessary for safe autonomous driving systems, raises $20M Series A  —  Wayve, a U.K.-based startup that’s developing artificial intelligence (AI) that teaches cars to drive autonomously using reinforcement learning … Self-driving startup Wayve, which considers sophisticated sensor tech like lidar unnecessary

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Line and SoftBank's Yahoo Japan announce merger plan, aim to sign a deal by December 2019, and integrate the businesses by October 2020 (Nikkei Asian Review)

Nikkei Asian Review: Line and SoftBank’s Yahoo Japan announce merger plan, aim to sign a deal by December 2019, and integrate the businesses by October 2020  —  SoftBank and Naver’s venture to be Japan’s largest online player  —  TOKYO — The operators of Yahoo sites in Japan and the Line chat app jointly announced …

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Sources: ByteDance is in talks with record companies to launch a music streaming service as soon as next month, would debut it initially in Brazil, India, more (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)

Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: Sources: ByteDance is in talks with record companies to launch a music streaming service as soon as next month, would debut it initially in Brazil, India, more  —  The Chinese company behind the popular video app TikTok is set to go head-to-head with the likes of Spotify and Apple …

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Intel unveils plans for a 7nm Xe GPU, codenamed Ponte Vecchio, meant to rival Nvidia in handling datacenter AI workloads, but fails to give a release window (Dylan Martin/CRN)

Dylan Martin / CRN: Intel unveils plans for a 7nm Xe GPU, codenamed Ponte Vecchio, meant to rival Nvidia in handling datacenter AI workloads, but fails to give a release window  —  The upcoming data center GPU, in combination with its new oneAPI programming interface, will give Intel more ammunition to compete … Intel unveils

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Hackaday Links: November 17, 2019

Friday, November 15, 2019 – PASADENA. The 2019 Hackaday Superconference is getting into high gear as I write this. Sitting in the Supplyframe HQ outside the registration desk is endlessly entertaining, as attendees pour in and get their swag bags and badges. It’s like watching a parade of luminaries from the hardware hacking world, and

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After ICANN lifted price caps on .org domains in June, the Internet Society has sold Public Interest Registry, the top level domain's operator, to PE firm Ethos (Andrew Allemann/Domain Name Wire)

Andrew Allemann / Domain Name Wire: After ICANN lifted price caps on .org domains in June, the Internet Society has sold Public Interest Registry, the top level domain’s operator, to PE firm Ethos  —  Ethos Capital, led by former ABRY Partners Managing Partner, buys .Org registry.  —  I thought this might happen.  And now it

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The White House confirms that President Trump will tour Apple's manufacturing plant in Austin on November 20 (Eric Rosenbaum/CNBC)

Eric Rosenbaum / CNBC: The White House confirms that President Trump will tour Apple’s manufacturing plant in Austin on November 20  —  – Apple announced its new Mac Pro will be assembled at the Austin factory after winning tariff exemptions from the Trump administration in September.  —  How Apple CEO Tim Cook won over Trump

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Sensor Tower: TikTok has passed 1.5B downloads worldwide on the App Store and Google Play, with 614M downloads in 2019 so far, up 6% YoY (Abrar Al-Heeti/CNET)

Abrar Al-Heeti / CNET: Sensor Tower: TikTok has passed 1.5B downloads worldwide on the App Store and Google Play, with 614M downloads in 2019 so far, up 6% YoY  —  The app has had 614 million downloads so far just this year, according to mobile intelligence firm Sensor Tower.  —  TikTok has passed 1.5 billion

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