Lee Jae-yong: Samsung heir faces fresh charges over 2015 merger South Korean prosecutors indict Lee Jae-yong on alleged stock and accounting fraud over a 2015 merger. September 01, 2020 at 11:16AM

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Scientists develop portable, point-of-care Covid-19 test

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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 launch event kicks off today: How to watch live streaming The event will be held online due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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Sources: Apple is building ~75M 5G iPhones for later this year, along with two new Apple Watch versions, iPad Air with edge-to-edge screen, and smaller HomePod (Bloomberg)

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Zoom revenues skyrocket as profits double The popular video conferencing app has seen a 458% jump in customer growth compared with last year. September 01, 2020 at 04:24AM

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Walmart unveils its new membership service Walmart+, launching Sept. 15 for $98 per year, will offer free, unlimited same-day delivery, fuel discounts, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Stanford launches Cable TV News Analyzer, a free AI-powered online service for querying the screen time of public figures or specific topics on cable TV news (Thomas Macaulay/The Next Web)

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Bella Thorne, OnlyFans and the battle over monetising content Content creators say OnlyFans has slashed incomes by placing caps on prices charged on the platform. September 01, 2020 at 09:12AM

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Facebook threatens news sharing ban in Australia The social media giant is preparing for a new law that would force it to pay publishers for news articles. September 01, 2020 at 09:18AM

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Google quietly updates its AdMob Help Center with iOS 14 information, says it will use Apple's ATT API for triggering the IDFA opt-in notice (Allison Schiff/AdExchanger)

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US hotel operator MCR Development to buy StayNTouch, a cloud platform for hotels, for $46M, after Trump said StayNTouch's Chinese owners threaten US security (Katy Stech Ferek/Wall Street Journal)

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Bollywood Dads: Celebrity fathers over 40 who are setting lockdown fitness goals

For workout motivation, we can look to some of the most recognisable faces in Bollywood, who despite being 40 or above have not let themselves slack for even a moment.

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Reinvent Technology Partners, a new SPAC formed by Reid Hoffman, Zynga founder Mark Pincus and hedge fund manager Michael Thompson, have filed for a $600M IPO (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

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Horoscope Today: Astrological prediction for September 1, what's in store for Aries,...

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Facebook warns it will block Australian users and news organizations from sharing news stories on Facebook and Instagram if the ACCC's proposal passes (New York Times)

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Google-Facebook ditch plans to dock giant data cable in Hong Kong The US government had expressed concerns that China might steal data carried by the cable. August 31, 2020 at 05:51PM

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Employees at equity management service Carta, most of them women, say they were belittled, excluded from meetings, and punished if they voiced their concerns (Erin Griffith/New York Times)

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Dealroom: VC investment in farm automation startups is up 40% year-to-date, amid a shortage of agricultural workers during the pandemic (Emiko Terazono/Financial Times)

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Eruditus, which partners with top-tier universities to offer courses globally, raises $113M Series D from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and others (Alnoor Peermohamed/The Economic Times)

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Summer Travel: From road trips to beaches, here's how to make the most of your vacation...

As the world begins to open back up again, this is the perfect time to use those remaining vacation days and enjoy the last of the summer.

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TikTok to 'strictly' obey China's tech takeover law New rules mean Beijing could block the sale of the app's video recommendation engine. August 31, 2020 at 05:43PM

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Tesla Autopilot detects speed limits and green lights The new update is available to drivers in the US with Autopilot activated. August 31, 2020 at 05:22PM

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Netflix says it is offering free access to select original content to non-subscribers, on Android and web, with a 30-second skippable ad for Netflix (Akhil Arora/NDTV Gadgets 360)

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Mexican cartel hitmen seem to have adopted the use of bomb-laden drones in assassinations, following the tactic's proliferation on Iraqi and Syrian battlefields (Joseph Trevithick/The Drive)

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Gomukhasana: Esha Gupta bids our Monday blues goodbye with her picture of Yoga ...

Esha Gupta finds ‘profound peace’ as she attempts a variation of Gomukhasana and we can’t help but mark it as our Monday motivation to grind.

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YouTube testing Picture in Picture mode for its iOS app One can start playing a video and then close the app to continue watching it in a smaller window.

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New York-based healthcare analytics company Aetion raises $82M Series B (Alaric DeArment/MedCity News)

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Chess Olympiad: India and Russia both get gold after controversial final India is declared joint winner with Russia after two players lost connection during the final round. August 30, 2020 at 11:24PM

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Sir Isaac Newton's notes among Cambridge web gallery 'treasures' Cambridge University Library adds high-resolution images of its collection to a free culture site. August 31, 2020 at 04:34AM

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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 launch event kicks off on September 1: Here is all we know so far Galaxy Z Fold 2 was first showcased at the Galaxy Unpacked online event on August 5.

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Happy Onam 2020: 26 dishes in the Onam Sadhya feast, what they're called

Onam Sadhya: Over two dozen dishes are prepared for this grand feast, and preparations usually start a few days in advance.

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Fortnite game hackers earning over Rs 8.7 crore a year The hackers first collect few thousand stolen Fortnite accounts together and auction in private Telegram channels selling from anywhere between $10,000 and $40,000 per log.

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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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The airline founder building Asia’s next super app AirAsia’s Tony Fernandes is expanding into banking, music and e-payments to help tackle the travel slump. August 31, 2020 at 09:39AM

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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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Horoscope Today: Astrological prediction for August 31, what's in store for Aries,...

Daily horoscope: Astrological prediction for August 31, what’s in store for Aries, Leo, Virgo, Libra and other zodiac signs.

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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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Government paid influencers to promote Test and Trace Taxpayer money was used to pay influencers to promote Test and Trace. August 31, 2020 at 04:57AM

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Samsung starts mass production of 16 GB LPDDR5 DRAM using extreme ultraviolet lithography, says the process clears a "major developmental hurdle" in scaling RAM (Jon Fingas/Engadget)

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Report: black market for stolen game logins generates $1B annually, with logins for Fortnite, Roblox, Minecraft, and RuneScape accounting for ~$700M in sales (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

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Internal postings show Ankhi Das, a top Facebook exec in India, supporting "strongman" Modi's party before he was elected in 2014 and disparaging its main rival (Wall Street Journal)

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Online creators are creating deepfake memes as the technology grows more accessible, and publishing YouTube instructions so others can learn how (Karen Hao/MIT Technology Review)

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Microsoft rebrands Bing search engine, Windows Defender and renames Office 365 Microsoft is working to rebrand its search engine Bing and the developer community has witnessed visible changes to the service in the recent past.

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Blood test may predict those likely to develop psychotic disorders: Study

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Tesla releases new software update to visually detect speed limit signs, and more (Fred Lambert/Electrek)

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A look at autonomous boat tech as ocean research nonprofit Promare says it will unveil in September a fully autonomous ship called Mayflower with IBM as partner (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

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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)

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'Back to Hogwarts': Potterheads get robes and wands ready as 'classes' resume in...

This September will cast an ‘expelliarmus’ on all our drooping Covid moods as ‘online classes’ in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry catch Harry Potter fans by surprise.

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YouTube tests Picture-In-Picture mode for iOS, says report Once the user has the feature enabled, one can start playing a video and then closing the app to keep watching it in a smaller window.

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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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The intellectual legacy of Charles Allen

In his prodigious output of 25 books Charles wrote about many disputed issues in Indian history some of which have political implications today

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Covid-19: The daredevils who defy scientific advice

Many continue to go about their lives, refusing to follow simple preventive health guidelines, as if the world is already in a post-pandemic era

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'Mee Raqsam' is a modern masterpiece

it illustrates not just the growing hindu-muslim fissures, but the love between a father and his daughter. politics recedes, as it should. love wins, as it must

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Why the GST framework is in trouble

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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 )

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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)

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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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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)

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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)

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Horoscope Today: Astrological prediction for August 30, what's in store for Aries,...

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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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As Palantir files to go public, an in-depth analysis of its business model, a look at its politics and challenges it faces amid a widespread move to privacy (Byrne Hobart/The Diff)

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