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Facebook hires Regina Dugan, head of Google's ATAP and former DARPA chief, to lead new Building 8 R&D group that has budget of hundreds of millions of dollars — Google's ATAP Head Regina Dugan Joins Facebook To Start DARPA-Inspired Team — Regina Dugan, the high profile former head of DARPA …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Amazon announces $290 Kindle Oasis, its thinnest Kindle to date, which comes with leather case that extends battery life; pre-orders open today, ships April 27 — Amazon's Kindle Oasis is the funkiest e-reader it's ever made — Amazon's philosophy with the Kindle line has been consistent …
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GoPro poaches top Apple designer Daniel Coster to be VP of design; GoPro shares jump over 18% — GoPro Poached a Top Apple Designer and Shares Are Soaring — Shares of GoPro gpro popped nearly 16% in afternoon trading Wednesday after a report said the troubled camera maker had poached a member of Apple's aapl elite design group.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google launches Android N Developer Preview 2 with new 3D rendering API, launcher shortcuts, and Emoji Unicode 9 — Google today launched the second release of the Android N developer preview. You can start testing your apps against this release by downloading the new preview from developer.android.com/preview.| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Nest CEO Tony Fadell went to Google's all-hands meeting to defend Nest. Here's what he said. — After a spate of damning articles about Nest, CEO Tony Fadell came to the weekly staff meeting of sister company Google to counter the negative press and defend Nest's corporate culture and sales figures.| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
Google Calendar launches Goals feature on iOS and Android, which automatically schedules your self-improvement activities into gaps in your calendar — Google Calendar's new Goals will help find you time for self-improvement — Google Calendar turns 10 this year, but the service isn't ready …
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| Eric Geller / The Daily Dot: |
The Email Privacy Act, which eliminates a loophole allowing authorities to get some electronic records without a warrant, clears House committee vote — Major online privacy bill easily clears first vote in Congress — A popular online privacy bill easily cleared its first hurdle in the House on Tuesday.
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Reuters, USA Today, The Hill, AppleInsider, US News, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Politico. Thanks:@ericgeller
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat launches feature that lets you pin emoji to moving objects in videos, rolling out on Android today, coming soon to iOS — Snapchat augments reality with 3D Stickers — Today Snapchat revealed its new 3D stickers that can be pinned to objects in a video and stick with them no matter how they or your camera move.
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Daily Mail, The Daily Dot, Engadget, 9to5Google, BGR, The Next Web, The Verge, TechnoBuffalo, Mashable and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @joshconstine
| Walt Mossberg / The Verge: |
Stewart Butterfield says Slack is working on threaded messages, hopes to update service with the feature by next quarter — Mossberg: Slack beats email, but still needs to get better — Welcome to Mossberg, a weekly commentary and reviews column on The Verge and Re/code …
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| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
Sources: FBI did not use Cellebrite to crack San Bernardino iPhone, paid hackers for undisclosed software flaw that was used to create hardware to crack PIN — FBI paid professional hackers one-time fee to crack San Bernardino iPhone — The FBI cracked a San Bernardino terrorist's phone …
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Computerworld, SiliconBeat, Wired, Guardian, Nextgov, ZDNet, 9to5Mac, FierceWireless, TechCrunch, USA Today, Ars Technica, SecurityWeek, iLounge, Digital Trends, ZDNet, AppAdvice.com Latest, O'Grady's PowerPage, Patently Apple, Tech Insider, iPhone in Canada Blog, Vox, Inquirer, Daily Mail, TechnoBuffalo, TechSpot, BGR, The Next Web, Computerworld, Fortune, Newser, Softpedia News, Gizmodo, iPhone Hacks, Engadget, AppleInsider and MacRumors. Tweets: @mepfuller. Thanks:@cauchon
| Neeraj Choubey / Facebook Code: |
Facebook announces new terrestrial connectivity systems, Terragraph and Project ARIES, to bring Internet to underserved urban and rural areas, respectively — Introducing Facebook's new terrestrial connectivity systems — Terragraph and Project ARIES — Facebook believes that people … | Biz Carson / Business Insider: |
GM's $1B acquisition of Cruise stalls due to lawsuit from alleged cofounder seeking equity; GM still expects deal to close in Q2 — Silicon Valley's largest acquisition of 2016 is stuck in a legal quagmire — General Motors announced in March that it was buying Cruise, a self-driving car startup …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft, Samsung commit to supporting Facebook's React Native app development framework for Windows 10 and Tizen platforms, respectively — Facebook's React Native gets backing from Microsoft and Samsung — React Native was originally developed by Facebook to allow its developers to take React …
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Windows Blog, InfoWorld, Facebook Code, WinBeta and Makeitopen.com
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google's updated version of TensorFlow allows for machine learning using distributed computing — Google has given its open-source machine learning software a big upgrade — Last November, Google opened up its in-house machine learning software TensorFlow, making the program that powers …
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