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May 13, 2016, 11:55 AM

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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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Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook:

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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Sam Thielman / Guardian:

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 …

Casey Newton / The Verge:

Facebook director of product management for News Feed says Trending Topics team's priority is bug fixing, biased News Feed wouldn't serve 1B users well

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Trista Kelley / Bloomberg:

SWIFT warns of a new hacker attack on a commercial bank similar to Bangladeshi heist, says it is part of a wider highly adaptive campaign targeting banks — Hackers used malware to target PDF reader of commercial bank — Warning comes after cyber heist from Bangladesh central bank

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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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Caleb Weiss / The Long War Journal:

Islamic State releases first Android app directed exclusively at children, that teaches vocabulary with jihadist themes — Home page of the application — The Islamic State's “Library of Zeal” has released an application for teaching the Arabic alphabet to children on Android devices.

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Jordan Golson / The Verge:

Google seeking testers for self-driving cars in Arizona; applicants must have clean driving records, bachelor's degrees, and type 40WPM, will be paid $20/hour — Do you live in Arizona and want to get paid to “drive” a self-driving car? Google could have a job for you.

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Julia Fioretti / Reuters:

Europe agrees on cross-EU roaming access for Netflix and other video subscription services — Consumers will be able to access their online subscriptions for services like Netflix (NFLX.O), Sky (SKYB.L) and Canal+ (IPO-CANALFRA.PA) when they travel across the European Union under proposals tentatively agreed …

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Yuka Koshino / Wall Street Journal:

Foxconn to replace Sharp CEO, most of the board after acquisition; Tai Jeng-wu, Foxconn's No. 2 executive, will succeed Sharp's current CEO — Japanese company's net loss widens; chief executive and most of board will be replaced — TOKYO— Sharp Corp. on Thursday unveiled sweeping management changes …

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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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