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Uber officially confirms testing self-driving Ford Fusion cars in Pittsburgh — Uber is testing its fleet of self-driving Ford Fusion cars on the streets, bridges and hills of Pittsburgh, the ride-sharing company confirmed for the first time Wednesday. — The San Francisco-based firm …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Netflix launches Fast.com, a simple ad-free website to test download speeds — Netflix wants you to know how fast your internet connection is, and has today launched a new website, Fast.com, that will give you that information. Basically, it's a simplified speed test website that only focuses … | Apple: |
Apple opens office in Hyderabad, India to develop maps for Apple products, will create up to 4,000 jobs — Apple® today announced the opening of a new office in Hyderabad that will focus on development of Maps for Apple products, including iPhone®, iPad®, Mac® and Apple Watch®.
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| Jacob Long / Android Police: |
Google unveils Family Library for Google Play purchases, will allow apps to be shared among six people, likely beginning July 2 — We knew it was coming eventually, but just before the Google I/O keynote began, Google updated its developer documentation with more details about Family Library.
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| Lawrence Abrams / Bleeping Computer: |
TeslaCrypt ransomware shuts down, developers release master decryption key so victims can recover their files for free — In surprising end to TeslaCrypt, the developers shut down their ransomware and released the master decryption key. Over the past few weeks, an analyst for ESET had noticed …
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| Kate Conger / TechCrunch: |
Google Allo's end-to-end encryption, which is not enabled by default, uses Open Whisper Systems' encryption protocol — Google announced its new messaging app Allo at its I/O developers conference today, and it looks pretty cool. It's a feature-rich interface with graphics and doodles …
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| Michael Crider / Android Police: |
Xiaomi announces the Mi Box, a 4K Android TV set-top box with Bluetooth voice remote, coming to US soon — You might have noticed that there aren't a lot of Android TV boxes around. Aside from the original Nexus Player, the much-recommended NVIDIA SHIELD, and the generally regrettable Razer Forge TV …
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Google will ban payday-loan ads while Alphabet's venture capital arm GV invests in online payday lender LendUp — Lendup specializes in short-term, small-dollar loans with annual percentage rates generally in the triple digits — Google announced this month it would ban payday-loan ads.| Dustin Volz / Reuters: |
Senators introduce bill to block rule that would allow judges to issue search warrants for remote access to computers in any jurisdiction — A small group of bipartisan senators introduced a bill Thursday that would block a pending judicial rule change allowing U.S. judges to issue search warrants …
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Samsung Pay now works with loyalty cards in the US — You can load all of your membership cards right into the mobile payment service on your Galaxy phone. — by , Shara Tibken — Got a ton of pesky loyalty cards you can never find when you need them? Samsung's got you covered.
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| Brian Stelter / CNNMoney: |
Zuckerberg meets conservatives, calls to rebuild trust after Trending Topics bias claims — Facebook is courting conservative friends through a Wednesday afternoon meeting with CEO Mark Zuckerberg. — The unusual session with about a dozen prominent conservative commentators and leaders …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Android Pay now works at Bank of America ATMs; Android Pay integration now available for all developers — After announcing the expansion of Android Pay in the U.K. earlier today, Google also made a few additional announcements around its mobile payments service at its I/O developer conference today.| Tim Cushing / Techdirt: |
Federal Judge Says Internet Archive's Wayback Machine A Perfectly Legitimate Source Of Evidence — Those of us who dwell on the internet already know the Internet Archive's “Wayback Machine” is a useful source of evidence. For one, it showed that the bogus non-disparagement clause KlearGear used …
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Trademark and Copyright Law and Slashdot
| Norm Jouppi / Google Cloud Platform Blog: |
Google announces it has built a Tensor Processing Unit, a custom chip for machine learning and tailored for TensorFlow — Posted by Norm Jouppi, Distinguished Hardware Engineer, Google — Machine learning provides the underlying oomph to many of Google's most-loved applications.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google turns Firebase into a unified platform for developers, with analytics, new notification system, and more; a free plan is now available — Google offers a plethora of cloud services that mobile developers can use to power their apps. With Firebase, which it acquired in 2014 …
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| CNET: |
Interview with Sundar Pichai on Google's new Assistant, messaging apps, more and the company's vision for AI — Sundar Pichai, who takes the I/O stage for the first time since becoming CEO in October, says he's on a “journey” from mobile to AI. Good thing he has an assistant.| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
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