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Monday, August 31, 2020
Netflix Is Offering Free Access to Select Original Movies and Series, Even Without an Account
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US Telecoms Giant Bug Causes Global Internet Outages
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The best outdoor smart home products to buy in summer 2020 - CNET
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The best office chairs for 2020 - CNET
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Huawei Focusing on Cloud Business That Still Has Access to US Chips Despite Sanctions: Report
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CenturyLink Bug Causes Global Internet Outages, Affects Hulu, PlayStation Network, and Xbox Live
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Kymeta raises $85M led by Bill Gates as it prepares to launch a flat panel antenna for cellular and satellite broadband connections (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
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Kymeta raises $85M led by Bill Gates as it prepares to launch a flat panel antenna for cellular and satellite broadband connections — Bill Gates is boosting his bet on next-generation satellite broadband technology, leading a new $85 million funding round for Kymeta as the Redmond, Wash. …
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The airline founder building Asia’s next super app
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Redmi 9 to Go on Sale in India Today for the First Time at 12 Noon via Amazon, Mi.com: Price, Specifications
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How the startup Farmers Business Network is trying to disrupt the largely brick-and-mortar $40B US farm supply business, while agri giants refuse to play along (Jacob Bunge/Wall Street Journal)
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How the startup Farmers Business Network is trying to disrupt the largely brick-and-mortar $40B US farm supply business, while agri giants refuse to play along — Farmers Business Network faces pressure from big suppliers as it tries to grow its online platform
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Redmi 9 to Go on Sale in India Today for the First Time at 12 Noon via Amazon, Mi.com: Price, Specifications
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Redmi 9 to Go on Sale in India Today for the First Time
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Moto G9 to Go on First Sale in India Today
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Moto G9 to Go on First Sale in India Today at 12pm (Noon) via Flipkart: Price, Specifications
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30 of the best TV shows to stream on Hulu - CNET
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30 best movies to stream on Disney Plus - CNET
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Tenet ending explained and all questions answered - CNET
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Moto G9 to Go on First Sale in India Today at 12pm (Noon) via Flipkart: Price, Specifications
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The best gaming routers in 2020 - CNET
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Profile of cloud database company Snowflake's CEO Frank Slootman, hired sixteen months ago, as he takes his third startup public (CNBC)
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Profile of cloud database company Snowflake's CEO Frank Slootman, hired sixteen months ago, as he takes his third startup public — - Frank Slootman is preparing to take Snowflake public 13 years after his first tech IPO, Data Domain, and eight years after his second, ServiceNow.
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Government paid influencers to promote Test and Trace
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SpaceX Saocom launch: Watch rare on-shore Falcon 9 rocket landing live - CNET
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WWE Payback 2020: Live updates, results and match ratings - CNET
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Sunday, August 30, 2020
Galaxy Note 20 Ultra review: Amazing features, but is anyone a 'power user' anymore? - CNET
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Okta, which provides identity management service for companies, has been a big beneficiary of remote work during lockdown with its stock rising 106% since March (Nico Grant/Bloomberg)
Nico Grant / Bloomberg:
Okta, which provides identity management service for companies, has been a big beneficiary of remote work during lockdown with its stock rising 106% since March — - Businesses, schools tap firm's tools to secure online access — McKinnon stays cautious on outlook as investors seek growth
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What Does Walmart See in TikTok? Millions of Young Shoppers
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Review: Pixel 4A officially has the best camera for the money - CNET
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China's New Tech Export Controls Could Give Beijing a Say in TikTok Sale
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TikTok Sale: China's New Tech Export Controls Could Give Beijing a Say
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iPhone 'batterygate' settlement: There's still time to claim your $25 - CNET
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A look at the rapid growth of TikTok in Southeast Asia, where the app has been downloaded 360M times, up 151% YoY, according to Sensor Tower (Fanny Potkin/Reuters)
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A look at the rapid growth of TikTok in Southeast Asia, where the app has been downloaded 360M times, up 151% YoY, according to Sensor Tower — SINGAPORE (Reuters) - At 19, Sandy Saputra is big on TikTok Indonesia. Within a year, he's leapt from quiet, small-town life to star influencer status …
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Stop buying breakable phones: The new rugged phones are tough and hot - CNET
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iPhone 11 and 11 Pro might secretly be waterproof: Results of our water test - CNET
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Remember when we wore cell phones on belts? This Motorola phone started the trend - CNET
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Cory Doctorow highlights the conceptual limitations of Shoshana Zuboff's "surveillance capitalism" and details how to dismantle it (Cory Doctorow/OneZero )
Cory Doctorow / OneZero :
Cory Doctorow highlights the conceptual limitations of Shoshana Zuboff's “surveillance capitalism” and details how to dismantle it — The most surprising thing about the rebirth of flat Earthers in the 21st century is just how widespread the evidence against them is.
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Locus Maps App: Finder of Lost Phones and Great for Surveys Too
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iPhone SE vs. Pixel 4A: Apple and Google's 2020 budget phones, compared - CNET
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Slack discloses a now fixed critical RCE flaw in its desktop app; Slack paid $1,750 bug bounty to researcher, which critics say is a paltry sum for such a bug (Jack Morse/Mashable)
Jack Morse / Mashable:
Slack discloses a now fixed critical RCE flaw in its desktop app; Slack paid $1,750 bug bounty to researcher, which critics say is a paltry sum for such a bug — Slack and its scores of desktop app users just dodged a major bullet. — The communications tool relied upon by journalists …
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From The Boys to Enola Holmes, What to Watch in September
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Construction of a $20B chip manufacturing plant in Wuhan stopped due to lack of funding, the latest example of China's semiconductor efforts failing to take off (South China Morning Post)
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Construction of a $20B chip manufacturing plant in Wuhan stopped due to lack of funding, the latest example of China's semiconductor efforts failing to take off — Construction on a US$20 billion state-of-the-art semiconductor manufacturing plant in Wuhan has stalled due to a lack of funding It's …
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All the best apps for drawing on your iPad - CNET
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How a law professor became the target of posts on conservative sites, social media harassment, and PR firms hired by gig economy companies, for supporting AB5 (Dara Kerr/CNET)
Dara Kerr / CNET:
How a law professor became the target of posts on conservative sites, social media harassment, and PR firms hired by gig economy companies, for supporting AB5 — Labor activists are targeted in a social media campaign as gig economy companies spend millions to prevent workers from becoming employees.
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Medium says it had 1.2B page views in Q2 and now has "several hundred thousand" paying subscribers, and will start offering custom domains again (Ev Williams/The Official Medium Blog)
Ev Williams / The Official Medium Blog:
Medium says it had 1.2B page views in Q2 and now has “several hundred thousand” paying subscribers, and will start offering custom domains again — Upcoming features and a status update — We've had a busy summer. — Last month, we announced new features coming to our publishing tools …
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Best laptop under $500 of 2020 in stock from HP, Lenovo, Dell and more - CNET
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Tweet honoring actor Chadwick Boseman becomes most-liked Twitter post ever - CNET
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ReliaQuest, a managed cybersecurity and intelligence services provider, raises $300M led by KKR, says its revenue grew more than 450% in the past three years (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)
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ReliaQuest, a managed cybersecurity and intelligence services provider, raises $300M led by KKR, says its revenue grew more than 450% in the past three years — ReliaQuest, a company developing a cybersecurity managed service and intelligence platform for global enterprises …
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Saturday, August 29, 2020
Microsoft Surface Duo's dual-screen hinge design is already winning me over - CNET
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A roundup of trends from YC's S20 Demo Day, which saw plenty of virtual events and edtech startups, and at least seven self-described "Shopify for X" startups (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)
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A roundup of trends from YC's S20 Demo Day, which saw plenty of virtual events and edtech startups, and at least seven self-described “Shopify for X” startups — Y Combinator's Summer 2020 batch was the first to be completely virtual from interview to Demo Day.
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Facebook Failure to Remove Militia Page a 'Mistake': Zuckerberg
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Apple Blocks Fortnite Maker Epic Games From Game Developer Tools
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Apple Blocks Fortnite Maker Epic Games From Game Developer Tools
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BlueCity, owner of China's biggest gay dating app Blued, buys Chinese lesbian dating app LESDO, marking the first ever deal within the country's LGBT market (Reuters)
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BlueCity, owner of China's biggest gay dating app Blued, buys Chinese lesbian dating app LESDO, marking the first ever deal within the country's LGBT market — BEIJING (Reuters) - BlueCity BLCT.O, the owner of China's biggest gay men dating app Blued, said on Wednesday it had bought …
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UK-based patent translation and IP search services company RWS has agreed to buy SDL, which develops language translation software, for £809M in all-stock deal (Nic Fildes/Financial Times)
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UK-based patent translation and IP search services company RWS has agreed to buy SDL, which develops language translation software, for £809M in all-stock deal — Support services group continues expansion with largest UK tech acquisition this year — RWS has agreed to pay £809m …
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Chadwick Boseman, star of Black Panther, is dead at 43 - CNET
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Viva Republica, the parent company of the popular South Korean p2p payments app Toss, raises $173M at a valuation of $2.6B, bringing its total raised to $530M (Caixin Global)
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Viva Republica, the parent company of the popular South Korean p2p payments app Toss, raises $173M at a valuation of $2.6B, bringing its total raised to $530M — Viva Republica, the operator of peer-to-peer payment service Toss, has raised $173 million in a round led by existing investors …
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Google is removing apps from Play Store that access the Fediverse, says Fediverse can be used to access servers hosting content with hate speech (Caleb Chen/Privacy News Online ...)
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Google is removing apps from Play Store that access the Fediverse, says Fediverse can be used to access servers hosting content with hate speech — A growing number of mobile apps meant to access the Fediverse are being removed from the Google Play Store. According to user reports …
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Yes, Bill & Ted Face the Music has an end-credits scene - CNET
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Sources: SoftBank-backed AUTO1, a German online used-car marketplace operating in 30 markets and last valued at $3.8B in 2018, is ramping up for an IPO (Bloomberg)
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Sources: SoftBank-backed AUTO1, a German online used-car marketplace operating in 30 markets and last valued at $3.8B in 2018, is ramping up for an IPO — - German group ramps up preparations for planned listing — Company was valued at 2.9 billion euros in 2018 fundraising
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Best French press coffee makers for 2020: Oxo, Bodum, Frieling and more - CNET
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Elon Musk shows Neuralink brain link working in a pig - CNET
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The best Labor Day sales for 2020: Ring security, vacuums, audio gear and more - CNET
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Inside Asana, whose CEO Dustin Moskovitz rejected Silicon Valley's hard-charging style while building the company, as it prepares for a investor roadshow (Alex Konrad/Forbes)
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Inside Asana, whose CEO Dustin Moskovitz rejected Silicon Valley's hard-charging style while building the company, as it prepares for a investor roadshow — Covering venture capital, software and startups … At the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, upbeat synth music announces the arrival of Dustin Moskovitz.
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Pinterest is canceling its 490,000-square-foot lease at San Francisco's unbuilt 88 Bluxome project, citing a shift toward remote work amid the pandemic (Roland Li/San Francisco Chronicle)
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Pinterest is canceling its 490,000-square-foot lease at San Francisco's unbuilt 88 Bluxome project, citing a shift toward remote work amid the pandemic — Pinterest terminated its massive 490,000-square-foot lease at San Francisco's unbuilt 88 Bluxome project, citing a shift toward more remote work amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Neuralink, Musk's brain-computer interface company, revealed a prototype showing readings from a pig's brain using a coin-shaped device implanted under skull (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
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Neuralink, Musk's brain-computer interface company, revealed a prototype showing readings from a pig's brain using a coin-shaped device implanted under skull — During a press conference held virtually this afternoon, scientists at Elon Musk's Neuralink gave a progress update.
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OnePlus reportedly working on a new phone and smartwatch - CNET
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Peacock: Everything to know about the free streaming app from NBCUniversal - CNET
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HBO Max: Everything to know about HBO's bigger streaming app - CNET
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Disney is reportedly making a new movie based on Disneyland's Haunted Mansion - CNET
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Internal report: Kenosha Guard Page was flagged at least 455 times before Facebook took it down, with four moderators saying it didn't violate any rules (Ryan Mac/BuzzFeed News)
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Internal report: Kenosha Guard Page was flagged at least 455 times before Facebook took it down, with four moderators saying it didn't violate any rules — In a companywide meeting on Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that a militia page advocating for followers to bring weapons …
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Friday, August 28, 2020
Best gas grills of 2020: Comparing Weber, Char-Broil and more - CNET
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Amazon Halo Fitness Band Launched With Tone Feature That Can Analyse ‘Postivity and Energy’ in User’s Voice
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Review: Made-in-India Raji Is a Feminist Fable and a Strong Debut
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ProteanTecs, which provides an AI-based service to monitor chip reliability, raises $45M led by Koch Disruptive, bringing the total amount raised to $100M (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
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ProteanTecs, which provides an AI-based service to monitor chip reliability, raises $45M led by Koch Disruptive, bringing the total amount raised to $100M — ProteanTecs, which provides an AI platform to monitor chip reliability, today closed a $45 million funding round.
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Raji: An Ancient Epic Review: A Feminist Fable and a Commendable Debut
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Gamescom 2020: All the best trailers, demos and announcements - CNET
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50 best TV shows to stream on Netflix - CNET
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Facebook says that to add the new paid events feature to its app on iOS, Apple had it remove a message telling users that Apple takes a 30% cut of sales (Reuters)
Reuters:
Facebook says that to add the new paid events feature to its app on iOS, Apple had it remove a message telling users that Apple takes a 30% cut of sales — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc on Thursday told Reuters that Apple Inc rejected its attempt to tell users the iPhone maker would take a 30% cut …
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Realme Narzo 10A to Go on Sale in India Once Again Today via Flipkart, Realme.com: Price, Specifications
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Realme Narzo 10A on Sale in India Today via Flipkart, Realme.com
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The best indoor home security cameras for 2020 - CNET
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The New Mutants team on why the superhero story was worth the long wait - CNET
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UVC wands kill viruses. They're also a 'major safety issue,' experts warn - CNET
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Best alarm clocks of 2020 - CNET
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Bill & Ted Face the Music review: A most excellent adventure through time - CNET
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Realme Narzo 10A to Go on Sale in India Once Again Today via Flipkart, Realme.com: Price, Specifications
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Facebook allows advertisers to target users in mainland China, despite national ban; Facebook says this is intentional, as a "small fraction" can circumvent ban (Sarah Frier/Bloomberg)
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Facebook allows advertisers to target users in mainland China, despite national ban; Facebook says this is intentional, as a “small fraction” can circumvent ban — - Social network has been blocked in mainland China since 2009 — Ad archive shows messages targeting Beijing, Shanghai, Yunnan
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Mobile users still "ripped off" by operators says Which?
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Elon Musk to show off working brain-hacking device
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15 best movies to stream on Amazon Prime Video - CNET
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Nutanix reported FY 2020 revenue of $1.31B, up 6% YoY, and announced a $750M investment from Bain Capital, as CEO and co-founder Dheeraj Pandey to retire (Natalie Gagliordi/ZDNet)
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Nutanix reported FY 2020 revenue of $1.31B, up 6% YoY, and announced a $750M investment from Bain Capital, as CEO and co-founder Dheeraj Pandey to retire — Nutanix also announced that Bain Capital will purchase $750 million in Convertible Senior Notes to become a leading shareholder in the company.
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