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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
The Android N developer preview with split-screen multitasking, bundled notifications, improved Doze for better battery, more, available today as an OTA update — The Android N developer preview with split-screen multitasking is available today — Well, this was unexpected.
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| Jake Smith / ZDNet: |
Google drops Pixel C tablet from $500 to $349, following Android N developer release — Google gives its flagship tablet a substantial price cut for developers (or who claims to be one), following the release of a new developer version of Android on Wednesday.| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Google's DeepMind has defeated Go champion Lee Se-dol in first of five matches, a historic victory for AI — Google's DeepMind defeats legendary Go player Lee Se-dol in historic victory — A huge milestone has just been reached in the field of artificial intelligence: AlphaGo …
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| Alex Heath / Tech Insider: |
Facebook buys popular selfie filter app Masquerade, will keep it operational as a stand-alone app, integrate its technology — Facebook just bought the popular face swapping app that's dominating the App Store right now — Get ready to see more silly selfies.
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Thanks:@alexeheath| Globes Online: |
Replay Technologies acquired by Intel, sources say for $175M, one week after the multi-dimensional video tech startup raised $13.5M — Intel acquires Israeli co Replay Technologies for $175m — The Tel Aviv based startup has developed multi-dimensional video imaging technologies for sports TV coverage.
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Tweets: @arstechnica and @shaig
| Daniel Kahn Gillmor / American Civil Liberties Union: |
How the FBI can bypass auto-erasing without Apple's help by backing up part of the shooter's iPhone — One of the FBI's Major Claims in the iPhone Case Is Fraudulent — Does the FBI need to worry about the San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone self-erasing? — “We have enormous computing power …
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| Sonam Joshi / Mashable: |
Facebook Lite data-efficient Android app passes 100M MAUs in 9 months, plans to add background video downloads, after adding low-res streaming last year — Facebook Lite is growing faster than Facebook app — Facebook Lite, the stripped-down version of the social networking app that was launched in 2015 …
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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Let's Encrypt has issued 1M free TLS certificates since launch just over three months ago — Let's Encrypt reaches one million certificate encryption milestone — One million free TLS certificates have now been issued, paving the way for better encryption and security on the Web.
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| Leo Kelion / BBC: |
Skype says it will end support for its Skype for TV app in June — Skype ditches support for smart TVs — Skype has announced that it is ending support for its smart TV software. — The Microsoft-owned chat app said that the move reflected the public preference for using mobile devices … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Google introduces Destinations, a travel tool available via search on mobile, with information on flights, hotels, price comparisons, more — Google Search now has travel guides to help plan your vacation — Google is trying to make planning vacations less of a hassle.
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| Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
The White House launches The Opportunity Project, opening local and federal datasets of nine cities including New York and San Francisco to developers — The White House Wants You to Build Tools to Improve Our Cities — A whole lot of valuable information is trapped in the antiquated databases … | Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Air Transport Services Group will lease, operate 20 Boeing 767's for Amazon, issues warrants for Amazon to acquire up to 19.9% of ATSG shares over five years — Amazon has leased 20 Boeing 767s to carry out fulfillment services — Amazon has finalized a deal with Air Transport Services Group … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google joins Open Compute Project, which Facebook founded five years ago to help open source IT infrastructure hardware — Google joins the Open Compute Project — Google today announced that it is joining the Open Compute Project (OCP), a five-year-old project founded by Facebook …
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Wired, Google Cloud Platform Blog, ZDNet and ZDNet
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
With just 3 games, Supercell made $924M in profits on $2.3B in revenue in 2015 — There's something magical in the water, or the snow, in Finland. Helsinki-based Supercell announced some astounding financial results for 2015 based on revenues from its three hit mobile games: Clash of Clans, Boom Beach, and Hay Day.| Catalin Cimpanu / Softpedia News: |
Researchers at Michigan State unlocked fingerprint-protected Samsung Galaxy S6 and Huawei Honor 7 phones using inkjet prints — You Can Unlock Fingerprint-Protected Phones with a Regular Inkjet Printer — Two researchers have come up with a new method of hacking smartphones … | Helene Fouquet / Bloomberg Business: |
Lower chamber of parliament in France passes bill 474 to 32 that will impose penalties on tech executives who deny access to encrypted data in terror probes — France Clears Bill That Could Force Apple to Unlock Terror Data — Apple's encryption may face tougher legal challenge in FranceSponsor Posts
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