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Google's own self-driving cars will hit public roads this summer with safety drivers aboard and speed capped at 25mph — Green lights for our self-driving vehicle prototypes — When we started designing the world's first fully self-driving vehicle, our goal was a vehicle that could shoulder the entire burden of driving.
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Sources: Google to place buy buttons alongside sponsored search results on mobile in coming weeks; products will still be provided and sold by retailers — Can Google Outsell Amazon and eBay? — Company will launch buy buttons on its search-results pages in coming weeks
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| Robert Cookson / Financial Times: |
Sources: Several European mobile operators plan option to block ads on their networks this year, consider blocking Google ads by default to force concessions — Mobile operators plan to block online advertising — Several mobile operators plan to block advertising on their networks … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Oculus Details Rift's Recommended PC Specs, ‘Pauses’ Mac Development — We're still a little while off from the Oculus Rift's official consumer launch - pre-orders are starting later this year, the company revealed recently, with shipping beginning early next year.
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| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Carl Icahn invests $100M in Lyft as part of $150M extension to earlier round, calls Lyft's $2.5B valuation a bargain compared to rival Uber's $41B valuation — Icahn Takes $100 Million Stake in Lyft — Investor calls Lyft's valuation a bargain to ride-sharing rival Uber
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Samsung tells users Samsung Wallet will be discontinued June 30 as it prepares to launch Samsung Pay — Samsung Wallet to be discontinued on June 30th — With Samsung Pay's launch inching closer and closer, the Korean manufacturer has decided to shut down the Samsung Wallet service.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Security researchers publish Google App Engine exploits 3 weeks after private disclosure to company with no response; Google now says it's mitigating the issues — Researcher turns tables, discloses unpatched bugs in Google cloud platform — Bugs give hackers beachhead to attack Google App Engine, run malicious code.
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| Michael A Riley / Bloomberg Business: |
Penn State's College of Engineering hires Mandiant, cuts Internet connection after FBI warns of two breaches, one linked to state-sponsored hackers in China — Chinese Hackers Force Penn State to Unplug Engineering Computers — Penn State University, which develops sensitive technology for the U.S. Navy … | Ben Sisario / New York Times: |
Pandora should pay 2.5% of revenue to BMI instead of 1.75%, court rules — Ruling in Royalty Case Gives BMI a Victory Against Pandora — Last week, Pandora Media won two battles in its long-running war against the music industry, but on Thursday, it lost one — this time over how much it should pay …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
CBS's Video Streaming Service Now Offers Live TV In Over 60% Of The U.S. — CBS's on-demand video streaming service will now offer local, live TV feeds which cover over 60% of the U.S., the company announced this morning. CBS All Access, the network's over-the-top streaming video service … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Razer Nabu X review: a $50 comfortable smartband with fairly accurate step counting but has useless LED user interface and adds no functionality to phones — Razer Nabu X smartband review — Most people associate Razer with gaming laptops, mice, and other hardware.
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