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One Terrible Habit That Jack Dorsey And Steve Jobs Have In Common

One Terrible Habit That Jack Dorsey And Steve Jobs Have In Common : Dorsey’s biggest threat when working 18-hour days may be sleep deprivation.�A person his age should get between 7 and 9 hours, according to the National Sleep Foundation. Even if he slept the full six hours he has to himself, he’d still be an hour under the minimum amount of recommended rest.
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A Burst of Energy in Bangladesh - The New York Times

A Burst of Energy in Bangladesh - The New York Times : Bangladesh is producing 8,300 megawatts of power this year — that’s an increase of 800 megawatts from last year, and a stunning 4,800 megawatts more than was produced in 2009, the year after the current government was voted in. Our homes, at least in the capital city, enjoy uninterrupted power.
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New Apple hire is probably a sign that ‘Tesla’s graveyard’ will eventually be a threat to Tesla | Re/code

New Apple hire is probably a sign that ‘Tesla’s graveyard’ will eventually be a threat to Tesla | Re/code : Apple has reportedly hired Tesla’s former vice president of vehicle engineering, Chris Porritt. While Apple declined to comment, Porritt’s experience positions him to be a likely candidate to head up the company’s yet-to-be-announced electric�car effort, Project Titan. In the past, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has brushed off Apple’s ongoing poaching of its executives this way: “They have hired people we’ve fired,” Musk told German newspaper Handelsblatt. “We always jokingly call Apple the ‘Tesla Graveyard.’ If you don’t make it at Tesla, you go work at Apple.”
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BMW, Daimler No Longer Want to Be Part of the Apple Inc. (AAPL) Car

BMW, Daimler No Longer Want to Be Part of the Apple Inc. (AAPL) Car : The German publication claims that Apple’s talks with BMW ended last year. Indeed, Apple CEO Tim Cook was reported visiting BMW’s headquarters in Munich, Germany last year. Some key Apple executives also visited the company’s plant that makes the mass market electric i3, following which talks abruptly broke between the German luxury auto maker and Apple. Talks with Daimler, however, ended only very recently, Handelsblatt noted. The magazine says the disagreement between the parties is majorly linked with control and data functions of the vehicle. Citing “industry sources,” Handelsblatt said that Apple is interested in retaining the vehicle’s data access and usage to its own internal cloud software. On the other hand, auto makers BMW and Daimler are stricter on customer data protection, which they both tout as a key element of their future strategy. The news comes days after another German publication Frankfurter
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Panama Papers: Email Hackable via WordPress, Docs Hackable via Drupal - Wordfence

Panama Papers: Email Hackable via WordPress, Docs Hackable via Drupal - Wordfence : gained access to client documents via Drupal. We are breaking the story today about the link between WordPress and MF’s�email server. The Drupal story has already been covered earlier this week in the media by Forbes (see below), but we are providing some data to support it.
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Twitter Lands NFL ‘Thursday Night Football’ Streaming Deal | Variety

Twitter Lands NFL ‘Thursday Night Football’ Streaming Deal | Variety : Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Twitter will pay about $10 million for the OTT rights, less than the next highest bid of $15 million, according to multiple reports. After the announcement, Twitter’s investor-relations account tweeted: “In regard to the NFL deal, please note that all expense was contemplated in our FY’16 guidance given on our Q4’15 earnings call.”
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Apple For The Next 40 Years - Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) | Seeking Alpha

Apple For The Next 40 Years - Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) | Seeking Alpha : The last time a tax holiday was voted by the US Congress was in 2004 when corporations were allowed to repatriate offshore cash at a tax rate of 5.25%. Corporations brought $362 billion to the US economy on that occasion. This is essential for long-term investors as sooner or later the tax holiday will probably be voted and AAPL's offshore cash will be available for dividends and buybacks.
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Daring Fireball: The iPhone SE

Daring Fireball: The iPhone SE : There have been six basic iPhone form factors to date. (Seven, if you choose to count the Plus-sized 6 and 6S separately.) The aluminum original iPhone (3.5-inch, non-retina) The plastic iPhone 3G and 3GS (3.5-inch, non-retina) The glass-backed iPhone 4 and 4S (3.5-inch, retina) The aluminum iPhone 5, 5S, and SE (4-inch, retina) The plastic multi-colored 5C (4-inch, retina) The aluminum iPhone 6 and 6S (4.7- and 5.5-inch, retina) With the introduction of the new iPhone SE, the iPhone 5-style industrial design is the first to be used for three separate product generations. But it’s worth noting that this form factor skipped a generation — there was no 4-inch iPhone with iPhone 6-class internals. It truly says something that an industrial design first introduced in 2012 remains utterly modern and relevant in 2016.
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