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    • Israel-based AdaSky raises $20M from South Korean automotive components manufacturer Sungwoo Hitech for its far-infrared thermal cameras used in autonomous cars (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

    Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Israel-based AdaSky raises $20M from South Korean automotive components manufacturer Sungwoo Hitech for its far-infrared thermal cameras used in autonomous cars  —  In October 2017, two-year-old Israeli startup AdaSky emerged from stealth with what it claimed was the first far-infrared (FIR) … Israel-based AdaSky raises M from South Korean automotive components

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    • Canaan, maker of bitcoin mining hardware, let its application for a Hong Kong IPO to raise at least $400M lapse (Reuters)

    Reuters: Canaan, maker of bitcoin mining hardware, let its application for a Hong Kong IPO to raise at least $400M lapse  —  HONG KONG (Reuters) – Canaan Inc, one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency mining equipment makers, has let its application for a Hong Kong IPO of at least $400 million lapse … Canaan, maker

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    • A beginner’s guide to AI: Human-level machine intelligence

    Welcome to TNW’s beginner’s guide to AI. This (currently) five part feature should provide you with a very basic understanding of what AI is, what it can do, and how it works. The guide contains articles on (in order published) neural networks, computer vision, natural language processing, algorithms, and artificial general intelligence.  There are few technologies that inspire

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    • Amazon will now allow AWS account owners to set the default access setting for all of their account's S3 buckets as non-public to prevent accidental data leaks (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

    Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Amazon will now allow AWS account owners to set the default access setting for all of their account’s S3 buckets as non-public to prevent accidental data leaks  —  New settings will prevent accidental S3 bucket leaks —if customers take the time to apply them. Amazon will now allow AWS account owners

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    • Amazon announces Wake-on-Lan Controller, which enables Alexa to switch on devices over Wi-Fi or ethernet when they can not be woken up via the cloud (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

    Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Amazon announces Wake-on-Lan Controller, which enables Alexa to switch on devices over Wi-Fi or ethernet when they can not be woken up via the cloud  —  Have a smart device with a sleep mode that would normally prevent it from power toggling remotely?  Amazon today announced Wake-on-Lan Controller … Amazon announces

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    • Microsoft is testing ads in Mail app on Windows 10; Microsoft says it was an experimental feature never intended to be tested broadly and is being turned off (Mehedi Hassan/Thurrott.com)

    Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott.com: Microsoft is testing ads in Mail app on Windows 10; Microsoft says it was an experimental feature never intended to be tested broadly and is being turned off  —  Update: Microsoft’s head of communications claimed on Twitter that ads on the Mail app were “never intended” … Microsoft is testing ads

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    • Google says Diane Greene to step down as Google Cloud CEO in early 2019, will be replaced by former president of Oracle Thomas Kurian (CNBC)

    CNBC: Google says Diane Greene to step down as Google Cloud CEO in early 2019, will be replaced by former president of Oracle Thomas Kurian  —  Diane Greene, who was hired three years ago to build Google’s cloud-computing business, is being replaced in that job by former Oracle executive Thomas Kurian. Google says Diane Greene

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    • Verizon's My Numbers app lets users add up to four additional numbers with separate voicemail and text messaging boxes on a single phone, for $15/mo per number (Makena Kelly/The Verge)

    Makena Kelly / The Verge: Verizon’s My Numbers app lets users add up to four additional numbers with separate voicemail and text messaging boxes on a single phone, for $15/mo per number  —  The service is $15 a month per number  —  Carrying multiple phones for personal and business uses might be over for Verizon

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    • SEC settles with Paragon Coin and CarrierEQ, which agree to start filing audited financial reports and refund investors of 2017 ICOs who want their money back (Dave Michaels/Wall Street Journal)

    Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal: SEC settles with Paragon Coin and CarrierEQ, which agree to start filing audited financial reports and refund investors of 2017 ICOs who want their money back  —  Agreements require startups to comply with investor-protection rules  —  WASHINGTON—Two startups that raised money … SEC settles with Paragon Coin and CarrierEQ,

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    • Sources: Airbnb recognized "substantially more" than $1B in Q3 revenue, on track to report EBITDA profits for 2018, and earned $100M on $2.6B in revenue in 2017 (Deirdre Bosa/CNBC)

    Deirdre Bosa / CNBC: Sources: Airbnb recognized “substantially more” than $1B in Q3 revenue, on track to report EBITDA profits for 2018, and earned $100M on $2.6B in revenue in 2017  —  – A source told CNBC the company is on track to be profitable for the second straight year, as measured by earnings before

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    • Code reveals Facebook is testing a new feature that would let users watch videos together on Messenger and chat about them (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)

    Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Code reveals Facebook is testing a new feature that would let users watch videos together on Messenger and chat about them  —  Netflix and chill from afar?  Facebook Messenger is now internally testing simultaneous co-viewing of videos.  That means you and your favorite people could watch … Code reveals Facebook is

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    Turning A Rotary Tool Into A CNC

    Now that 3D printers are everywhere, electronics are cheap, and open source software is extremely capable, just about anyone can build a CNC machine. That’s exactly what [Nikodem] did by turning a Dremel tool into an extremely capable CNC machine that’s able to cut MDF and acrylic and can engrave aluminum. The electronics for the

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