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    • Udacity CEO Sebastian Thrun lays out the company's challenges in an internal email, says it still isn't profitable even after generating $90M in revenue in 2018 (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

    Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: Udacity CEO Sebastian Thrun lays out the company’s challenges in an internal email, says it still isn’t profitable even after generating $90M in revenue in 2018  —  Co-founder’s impassioned email was a “rallying cry”  —  “I’m a fighter.  I believe in our people, I believe in our mission … Udacity CEO

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    • Researchers find new flaws in 4G and 5G letting hackers perform a targeted denial of service attack on a phone and track its location using ~$200 in equipment (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

    Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Researchers find new flaws in 4G and 5G letting hackers perform a targeted denial of service attack on a phone and track its location using ~$200 in equipment  —  A group of academics have found three new security flaws in 4G and 5G, which they say can be used to intercept

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    • Survey finds that about 24% of US adults listen to podcasts daily or a few times a week and about 50% listen at least once a month (Dave Zohrob/Chartable)

    Dave Zohrob / Chartable: Survey finds that about 24% of US adults listen to podcasts daily or a few times a week and about 50% listen at least once a month  —  Podcasts have been around since at least 2004.  But unlike text-based news and blogs, which have gone through waves of centralization and disruption

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    • Open letter from New York's state budget director regarding Amazon's pullout, which he calls a "tremendous loss", claiming that HQ2 would have had a 9-to-1 ROI (Robert Mujica/Office of NY Governor …)

    Robert Mujica / Office of NY Governor Andrew M. Cuomo: Open letter from New York’s state budget director regarding Amazon’s pullout, which he calls a “tremendous loss”, claiming that HQ2 would have had a 9-to-1 ROI  —  “As just about everyone in this state, if not the country, knows by now, Amazon has terminated its

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    • Sources: Accurx, a UK startup with a messaging service for medical teams and patients, has raised £8.8M Series A led by Atomico (Steve O'Hear/TechCrunch)

    Steve O’Hear / TechCrunch: Sources: Accurx, a UK startup with a messaging service for medical teams and patients, has raised £8.8M Series A led by Atomico  —  Accurx, the U.K. startup and Entrepreneur First alumni that has developed a messaging service for doctor surgeries, has raised £8.8 million in Series A funding, TechCrunch has learned.

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    • Microsoft unveils Azure Kinect, a new depth-sensing camera for enterprises that uses Azure cloud; pre-orders for the dev kit are open now for $399 in China, US (Tom Warren/The Verge)

    Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft unveils Azure Kinect, a new depth-sensing camera for enterprises that uses Azure cloud; pre-orders for the dev kit are open now for $399 in China, US  —  It’s for developers to build AI algorithms  —  Kinect originally debuted as an Xbox 360 accessory for motion sensing so you could

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    • Google researchers devise Spectre-like attack with no known mitigation, say software is inadequate to defend from Spectre-type bugs due to high performance cost (Peter Bright/Ars Technica)

    Peter Bright / Ars Technica: Google researchers devise Spectre-like attack with no known mitigation, say software is inadequate to defend from Spectre-type bugs due to high performance cost  —  Researchers also devise a Spectre-like attack with no known mitigation.  —  Researchers from Google investigating the scope … Google researchers devise Spectre-like attack with no known

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