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| Jack Clark / Bloomberg: |
Source: Google plans big expansion of Project Tango with focus on indoor mapping and VR, seeks eventual ubiquity for the technology, to showcase progress at I/O — Tango to give phones new sense of their immediate surroundings — Project is crucial part of Google's virtual reality efforts
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| Rahul Bhatia / Guardian: |
How Facebook, oblivious to India's concerns, used heavy-handed tactics and failed with Free Basics — ntil Mark Zuckerberg arrived in a bright orange helicopter in October 2014, Chandauli had never seen a celebrity visitor. One of 44,795 villages in the state of Rajasthan …
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| Kevin Poulsen / Wired: |
Profile of Maksym Igor Popov, a Ukrainian hacker turned FBI mole who later tried to scam EMC, AT&T, and the FBI — I'm sorry; your browser does not support HTML5 video in WebM with VP8 or MP4 with H.264. — Typography by Michiel Schuurman — O — One Thursday in January 2001 …
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Sources: group led by Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert, backed by Warren Buffet, and advised by former senior Yahoo executives bids for Yahoo — Former execs Dan Rosensweig and Tim Cadogan are also helping in the Yahoo sweepstakes. — Apparently, once you bleed purple, you never stop.| Mark Bergen / Recode: |
How Google Fiber is aggressively competing with cable companies: better service, faster speeds, neighborhood outreach, maybe wireless, and cheaper prices — Forget self-driving cars and drones. Five years later, where is Google's broadband business going? — It's a crisp spring Friday in Kansas City and Jim is upset with Google.
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| Sarah Jeong / Motherboard: |
Oracle v Google trial, which is based on the notion that APIs are copyrightable, hinges on a judge and jurors who don't have a firm grasp of FOSS philosophy — The problem with Oracle v. Google is that everyone actually affected by the case knows what an API is, but the whole affair … | Giuseppe Nelva / DualShockers: |
Microsoft Discontinues Support for Project Spark; Online Services Going Down in August — Today Project Spark Community Manager Thomas Gratz announced on the game/creativity platform's official forums that support for the game is officially being discontinued.
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Project Spark, The Daily Dot, Windows Central, Tech Times, BetaNews, SiliconANGLE, SlashGear, Ars Technica UK, International Business Times, Kotaku, Neowin, Blue's News, Engadget and WinBeta
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| Serenity Caldwell / iMore: |
Apple acknowledges reports of music files lost while using iTunes, plans update with more safeguards next week — iTunes may play a role in reports that Apple Music was replacing user libraries with DRM-encumbered files. — Apple on Friday confirmed to iMore that a very small number … | BBC: |
Study: 45% of online households in US refrained from some online activities due to security and privacy concerns, 19% experienced an online security breach — Almost half of American households with at least one internet user have been “deterred” from online activity recently because of privacy or security concerns, a survey has said.
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| Bertel King, Jr / Android Police: |
Android VR Placeholder Pops Up In The Google Play Developer Console — Yesterday we reported on a rumor that Google would unveil a new “Android VR” platform at Google I/O next week, along with a standalone headset. Today we're seeing what looks like additional evidence.| Wesley Yin-Poole / Eurogamer.net: |
Behind the rise and fall of Lionhead, the Peter Molyneux-founded video game developer, known for Fable, which Microsoft acquired in 2006 and closed this year — Hear me roar. — In October 2008, Microsoft released Lionhead's Fable 2 to critical and commercial acclaim.
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