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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 …
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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®.
| 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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| 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.| 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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| Charles McLellan / ZDNet: |
Adobe launches Spark ‘visual storytelling’ web app, updates companion iOS apps — Adobe's Spark family provides browser-based and mobile tools that allow anyone to create engaging visual content for deployment on social platforms. — Adobe has provided free iOS apps for creating visually … | 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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| 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 … | 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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Tweets: @brianroemmele, @qhardy, @chrisbaglieri and @dakami
| 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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Socialnomics, SiliconBeat, Politico, The Verge, Breitbart, Recode, TIME, Digital Trends and CNET. Tweets: @hadas_gold. See also Mediagazer
| 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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Samsung Newsroom, ZDNet, PYMNTS.com, Android Central, SlashGear, Pocketnow, Engadget, Droid Life, PhoneDog.com, Android Beat and The Verge
| 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.| 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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Official Google Blog, The Firebase Blog, Google Analytics Blog, CIO.com, Android Developers Blog, SocialTimes, Christopher S. Penn Blog, Search Engine Roundtable, Android Authority, Silicon Republic, Official Google Blog, Designer, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, Google Analytics Blog, AppleInsider, BGR, BetaNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, ProgrammableWeb.com, Android Developers Blog, Google Developers, Search Engine Land, Inside AdWords, Engadget and VentureBeat
| Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: |
Android apps and the Google Play Store are coming to Chrome OS — It looks like there's a little tidbit of information that might have been originally planned for the keynote (pulled because of time restraints, maybe?). According to a session description now on the Google I/O website … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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Google Operating System, Inquirer, Tech Insider, THE EQUITY KICKER, Droid Life, The Verge, TalkAndroid.com, PYMNTS.com, TechnoBuffalo and Android Authority. Tweets: @codinghorror
| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Google reveals plans for new VR headset and motion controller slated for this fall, to be part of Daydream, Google's VR platform that's baked into Android N — At its annual I/O developer conference today, Google is showing off a reference design for a new virtual reality headset that builds … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
| 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.
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Recode, New York Times, Google Operating System, ZDNet, Laughing Squid, Daring Fireball, The Loop, Light Reading, Business Insider, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, Tech Insider, eWeek, Forbes, The Register and Softpedia News. Thanks:@cauchon
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