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May 20, 2016, 12:10 AM

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Ina Fried / Recode:

Google will compete with its partners and sell its own Daydream virtual reality headsets — Think Nexus, but for VR. — While focusing yesterday on its new virtual reality headset as a design that will be licensed to partners, Google also plans to sell a version of Daydream itself.

More: YouTube Blog, Google Developers Blog, VentureBeat, Engadget, 89.3 KPCC, Google Developers, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, Android Central, UploadVR, The Verge, eWeek, PhoneDog.com and US News

Tweets: @googlevr and @googledevs

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Lucas Matney / TechCrunch:

Unreal Engine adds full Google Daydream VR support, native Unity support coming this summer — VR developers looking to get started on readying content for Google's new Daydream VR platform can get started today thanks to an Unreal Engine preview version (4.1.2) that adds support for the Google platform.

More: UnrealEngine, Digital Trends, UploadVR, VRFocus, Android Authority, VentureBeat, The Register, The Verge, Android Central, UploadVR, Marketing Land, VentureBeat, VRFocus, The Verge, TechCrunch and The Verge

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Developers can test Android apps on select Chrome OS devices starting in June, wide release planned for September — Google is finally bringing the Google Play store, including its more than 1.5 million Android apps, to Chrome OS. Google Play will first arrive with Chrome OS version 53 …

Tom Warren / The Verge:

IDC analyst says Chromebooks outsold Macs for the first time in the US in the latest quarter — Google's low-cost Chromebooks outsold Apple's range of Macs for the first time in the US recently. While IDC doesn't typically break out Windows vs. Chromebook sales, IDC analyst Linn Huang confirmed the milestone to The Verge.

Aaron Aupperlee / Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:

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 …

Kate Conger / TechCrunch:

Oracle co-CEO Safra Catz argues Google split the Java community in two, cost Oracle hundreds of millions of dollars — Oracle and Google are back in the courtroom again — the same court they started in back in 2010, when Oracle first sued Google over the company's use of 37 Java APIs in its Android operating system.

More: Ars Technica, Reuters, Ars Technica, Business Insider, TechCrunch, The Digital Reader, Business Insider, Ars Technica, Pocketnow, Ars Technica and FierceCIO News. Tweets: @calbucci

Wall Street Journal:

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.

More: LendUp and Guardian. Tweets: @gvteam and @paulg

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 …

More: U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, Associated Press, Engadget, Motherboard, ZDNet, TechCrunch, Roll Call and Morning Consult. Tweets: @eff

Wall Street Journal:

Samsung and Alibaba announce that Samsung Pay will work with Alipay — South Korean smartphone giant is desperate to revive its position in the Chinese market — Samsung Electronics Co. agreed with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s financial-services affiliate to cooperate on mobile payments …

More: Reuters, AppleInsider and CNET

Shara Tibken / CNET:

Samsung Pay now works with loyalty cards in the US

More: Samsung Newsroom, ZDNet, Pocketnow, PYMNTS.com, Droid Life, Android Central, SlashGear, PhoneDog.com, Android Beat, Engadget and The Verge

Biz Carson / Business Insider:

GM's Cruise settles with Jeremy Guillory, acknowledges him as co-founder — Self-driving car startup Cruise has settled a lawsuit against its former cofounder Jeremy Guillory. — The lawsuit came about after General Motors announced that it was buying the self-driving car company for a reported $1 billion earlier this year.

More: Silicon Valley Business …, Detroit Free Press, Fortune, Automotive News Automaker, Fortune, Ubergizmo, Engadget and Investor's Business Daily

Bloomberg:

SoftBank Opens Pepper Robot to Android in Bid to Broaden Appeal — Pepper will run applications from Google's Android platform — Masayoshi Son sought to position Pepper as an app platform — SoftBank Group Corp. is opening its Pepper robot to Android apps.

More: Engadget, ZDNet and The Next Web

Miguel Helft / Forbes:

Google CEO Sundar Pichai confirms “Area 120” corporate incubator plans, says it is about “giving people a chance at 20% time more formally” — Google CEO Sundar Pichai confirmed to FORBES that the company is planning to set up a new corporate incubator dubbed “Area 120.”

More: Business Insider, CNET, The Verge and VentureBeat. Tweets: @elatable

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Now you can embed Reddit posts on other websites — Reddit posts are going to get the chance to live beyond Reddit itself, thanks to new embedding capabilities. — If you're an online writer or publisher, that means you can start including live Reddit content in your stories.

More: The Next Web, The Verge and Washington Post

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