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Apple confirms June 13-17 for WWDC 2016; ticket applications begin at 10 a.m. PT on April 22, with recipients notified April 25 — Siri announces WWDC 2016 will be held June 13th through June 17th in San Francisco [Update] — [UPDATE: Apple has confirmed what Siri told us earlier today.
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Bill Campbell, legendary “Coach” to Silicon Valley execs, and former Intuit CEO, has died of cancer at age 75 — Silicon Valley's Legendary ‘Coach’ Bill Campbell Has Died — Bill Campbell — who garnered the name “The Coach” for the sage advice and counsel he gave numerous tech leaders …
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YouTube debuts live 360 video, releases API for hardware makers to integrate into devices, also launches spatial audio for on-demand YouTube videos — YouTube rolls out support for 360-degree live streams and spatial audio — YouTube will today begin supporting 360-degree live streaming on its service …
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Supreme Court declines appeal by the Authors Guild to challenge Google Books, leaving in place the 2015 ruling in favor of Google, and ending the copyright suit — Supreme Court rejects challenge to Google book-scanning project — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge …
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MIT's new AI platform, which incorporates input from human experts, can predict 85% of cyberattacks, which is 3x better than previous benchmarks — System predicts 85 percent of cyber-attacks using input from human experts — Virtual artificial intelligence analyst developed … | Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
IBM beats Q1 earnings targets with quarterly revenue of $18.7B; strategic businesses including cloud and analytics grew revenue 14% year-over-year — IBM beats Q1 earnings targets on double-digit cloud growth — IBM said quarterly revenue from its strategic businesses including cloud … | Jordan Pearson / Motherboard: |
BlackBerry Won't Confirm or Deny it Gave Encryption Keys to Law Enforcement — Last week, a joint investigation by Motherboard and VICE News revealed that Canada's federal police are in possession of the “global encryption key” that unlocks every non-corporate BlackBerry user's encrypted BBM messages.
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| Alex Sherman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: YP Holdings, once called YellowPages.com, plans first-round Yahoo bid as it works with Goldman Sachs on strategic options — YP Plans First-Round Bid for Yahoo — Online directory said working with Goldman Sachs on strategy — YP Holdings separated from Yellow Pages print business in 2015
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| Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed: |
Facebook Messenger's Spring store shopping bot lacks customer reviews, ignores your price range and upsells you, and makes checkout a chore — 6 Things That Definitely Sucked About Facebook's New Shopping Bot — Help, I am being bullied by a bot for not wanting to pay more than $100 for sneakers.
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Netflix net subscriber growth was better than expected with 2.23M in US and 4.51M overseas, but company gave weak guidance; stock down about 10% after hours — Netflix Adds More Users Than Expected — Shares fall in after-hours trading on lackluster outlook for current period| Nicole LaPorte / Fast Company: |
Sources: Apple held secret talks with A-listers at Sundance and in LA, plans to move into original content alongside Facebook, YouTube, and Alibaba — Apple, Facebook, Google, and Alibaba Take Hollywood — Since Netflix and Amazon proved that outsiders can thrive in entertainment … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
A look at the Latin American countries that bought Hacking Team exploit packages and then used them to spy on political opposition — Hacking Team's ‘Illegal’ Latin American Empire — Leer en Español. — In early April, 2014, a spy from the Ecuador's intelligence agency sent …
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Tencent launches Enterprise WeChat, an office communications and administration service, for mobile and desktop in mainland China — Tencent Targets Corporate Clients With Enterprise WeChat Launch — China's biggest Internet companies are trying to provide more services designed for workplaces
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