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    • Xiaomi announces a partnership with Meitu to sell Xiaomi phones under the Chinese selfie app maker's brand, with Meitu "still involved" in camera software (Sam Byford/The Verge)

    Sam Byford / The Verge: Xiaomi announces a partnership with Meitu to sell Xiaomi phones under the Chinese selfie app maker’s brand, with Meitu “still involved” in camera software  —  Chinese selfie app and smartphone maker Meitu has announced that Xiaomi is effectively taking over its hardware business. Xiaomi announces a partnership with Meitu to

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    • JD.com reports Q3 revenues of $15.09B, up 25.1% YoY, but posts $94.7M loss, says it will move its warehouse business into a separate unit to boost income (Reuters)

    Reuters: JD.com reports Q3 revenues of $15.09B, up 25.1% YoY, but posts $94.7M loss, says it will move its warehouse business into a separate unit to boost income  —  (Reuters) – China’s JD.com Inc reported third-quarter revenue on Monday that fell short of analysts’ estimates on sluggish sales in its core e-commerce business. JD.com reports

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    • Tim Cook says some level of government regulation over Silicon Valley is inevitable, defends Apple's deal for Google's search engine despite privacy concerns (Jon Porter/The Verge)

    Jon Porter / The Verge: Tim Cook says some level of government regulation over Silicon Valley is inevitable, defends Apple’s deal for Google’s search engine despite privacy concerns  —  ‘I think their search engine is the best’  —  Apple CEO Tim Cook has defended his company’s deal with Google … Tim Cook says some level

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    • Sources: Apple reduced production orders for all new iPhone models in recent weeks; iPhone XR production was slashed by up to one third of the initial 70M (Wall Street Journal)

    Wall Street Journal: Sources: Apple reduced production orders for all new iPhone models in recent weeks; iPhone XR production was slashed by up to one third of the initial 70M  —  In recent weeks, Apple slashed production orders for all three iPhone models that it unveiled in September Sources: Apple reduced production orders for all

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    Flywire Circuits at the Next Level

    The technique of assembling circuits without substrate goes by many names; you may know it as flywiring, deadbugging, point to point wiring, or freeform circuits. Sometimes this technique is used for practical purposes like fixing design errors post-production or escaping tiny BGA components (ok, that one might be more cool than practical). Perhaps our favorite use

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    • Mojo Vision exits stealth and says it has raised $50M for its "invisible computing" AR platform; sources say Mojo Vision is aiming to develop AR contact lenses (Ian Sherr/CNET)

    Ian Sherr / CNET: Mojo Vision exits stealth and says it has raised $50M for its “invisible computing” AR platform; sources say Mojo Vision is aiming to develop AR contact lenses  —  What if instead of a bulky headset or cumbersome glasses to give you the futuristic augmented reality overlay … Mojo Vision exits stealth

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    • San Francisco-based travel marketing platform Sojern raises $120M Series D led by TCV at a valuation of $300M+, says it's been profitable for last 13 quarters (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

    Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: San Francisco-based travel marketing platform Sojern raises $120M Series D led by TCV at a valuation of $300M+, says it’s been profitable for last 13 quarters  —  Travel continues to be one of the biggest verticals online, projected to be worth over $1 trillion by 2022 … San Francisco-based travel marketing

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    The Lost Art Of Steam Heating

    We got pointed by [packrat] to a 2015 presentation by [Dan Holohan] on the history and art of steam heating systems. At the advent of central heating systems for entire buildings, steam was used instead of water or air for the transport medium. These systems were installed in landmark buildings including the Empire State Building,

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    • Profile of British Army's 77th Brigade, staffed with experts in graphic design, social media, and data analytics to conduct online influence operations (Carl Miller/WIRED UK)

    Carl Miller / WIRED UK: Profile of British Army’s 77th Brigade, staffed with experts in graphic design, social media, and data analytics to conduct online influence operations  —  They are soldiers, but the 77th Brigade edit videos, record podcasts and write viral posts.  Welcome to the age of information warfare Profile of British Army's 77th

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    • Apex.AI raises $15.5M Series A from Canaan, Lightspeed, others for the enterprise version of the Robot Operating System, an open-source middleware for robotics (Megan Rose Dickey/TechCrunch)

    Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: Apex.AI raises $15.5M Series A from Canaan, Lightspeed, others for the enterprise version of the Robot Operating System, an open-source middleware for robotics  —  Apex.AI is emerging out of stealth today with quite the claim — an operating system for autonomous vehicles that will never fail. Apex.AI raises .5M Series

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