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| Julia Love / Reuters: |
Apple says it has invested $1B in Chinese Uber rival Didi Chuxing — Apple Inc (AAPL.O) said on Thursday it has invested $1 billion in Chinese ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing, a move that Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said would help the company better understand the critical Chinese market.
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| Justin Oskofsky / Facebook: |
Facebook explains how Trending Topics works, publishes internal guidelines, reiterates that discrimination against sources of any political origin isn't allowed — At Facebook, we stand for connecting every person — for a global community, for bringing people together, for giving all people a voice …
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Mark Zuckerberg promises “full investigation” on Trending Topics matter, will talk to “leading conservatives” — I want to share some thoughts on the discussion about Trending Topics. — Facebook stands for giving everyone a voice.
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Leaked documents show human intervention at almost every stage of Facebook's news operation — Exclusive: Leaked internal guidelines show human intervention at almost every stage of its news operation, akin to a traditional media organization — Leaked documents show how Facebook …
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| Rajan Patel / Official Google Blog: |
Google unveils GBoard in US, an iOS keyboard app that lets you search the web, find GIFs, emojis, places, and more from the keyboard — iPhone users—this one's for you. Meet Gboard, a new app for your iPhone that lets you search and send information, GIFs, emojis and more, right from your keyboard.
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| Slav Petrov / Google Research Blog: |
Google open sources SyntaxNet, a neural network framework for parsing natural language, and releases Parsey McParseface, a SyntaxNet-trained English parser — At Google, we spend a lot of time thinking about how computer systems can read and understand human language in order to process it in intelligent ways.
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| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Automattic quietly acquired the rights to .blog TLD in 2015 for about $19M, will start selling the domains this year — The company behind the world's most popular publishing platform is trying to make .blog happen. — WordPress.com owner Automattic announced today that it has …
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| Alex Webb / Bloomberg: |
Apple's average app review time has fallen from 8.8 days a year ago to 1.95 days in the past two weeks — Average approval times reduced to two days from about nine — Apple is trying to keep developers loyal to iOS projects — Apple Inc. has cut the approval time for new submissions …
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| John Ribeiro / Computerworld: |
Mozilla court filing asks government to turn over details of Tor browser flaw to protect Firefox users before making details of vulnerability public — Mozilla says it wants to check if the vulnerable code is found in Firefox code — Mozilla has asked a court that it should be provided information …
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The Mozilla Blog, Gizmodo, Help Net Security, The Intercept, SecurityWeek, Softpedia News, Engadget, Gizmodo UK, ZDNet, The Next Web, VentureBeat, BetaNews and Motherboard. Tweets: @astepanovich
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Western Digital officially completes acquisition of SanDisk for around $16B — Western Digital has now officially purchased flash memory manufacturer SanDisk after regulator approval was passed earlier this week. The agreement between the two storage companies was originally announced last October in a deal worth nearly $19 billion.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia beats with Q1 revenue of $1.3B, up 13% YoY, credits growth to gaming, automotive, and deep learning — Graphics chip maker Nvidia reported earnings for its fIrst fiscal quarter ended April 30 that beat Wall Street's expectations. — Nvidia's results are a bellwether for the PC industry … | Ethan Baron / Mercury News: |
Bay Area tech layoffs more than doubled in first four months of 2016 to 3,135 compared to same period in 2015 — In yet another sign of a slowdown in the booming Bay Area economy, tech layoffs more than doubled in the first four months of this year compared to the same period last year.
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