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Inside Project Ara, Google's quest to create a modular smartphone — The building that houses Google's Advanced Technology and Products division offers a few subtle hints that something weird is going on inside. The pirate flags in the bathroom. The big sign reminding ATAP employees …
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| Ina Fried / Recode: |
Project Ara modular phone shipping to developers in Q4 2016, to consumers in 2017; Google is spinning out Ara from ATAP team into a separate business unit — Consumers will have to wait until next year. — Google said Friday that it is nearly ready to let developers get their hands on Project Ara …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google and Levi's will launch touch-enabled jacket that lets you control music, maps, and more in spring 2017, the first consumer garment for Project Jacquard — At Google's I/O conference today, Google's Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) research unit offered an update …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google demos watch and speaker with Project Soli radar sensors to detect hand gestures — “How are you going to interact with an invisible computer?” — When you hear a question like that posted in a conference room at a major tech corporation like Google, you expect you're …
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| Rene Ritchie / iMore: |
Apple has pulled the iOS 9.3.2 update for 9.7-inch iPad Pro that was bricking some tablets and says it is working on a fix — Following the iOS 9.3.2 update, Apple is looking into ‘Error 56’, affecting a ‘small number’ of iPad customers. — Update: Apple has pulled the iOS 9.3.2 update …
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| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Google is betting on its formidable lead in AI to catch up in areas where it is behind its big tech rivals like Facebook, Apple, and Amazon — The search giant's annual developer conference revealed that Google is playing catch-up to its Big Tech competitors and it doesn't seem to care one bit.
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Palantir buying up to $225M of common stock back from employees at $7.40/share, well over price several investors value preferred stock, says leaked memo — The “liquidity event" will offer current and former employees $7.40 a share for their common stock — a price above where some large investors value their own Palantir stakes.| Aaron Pressman / Fortune: |
Online consumer lending startup Avant lays off nearly 60 people, about 7% of its workforce, puts plans for credit card, expansion into Australia on hold — With the business climate for the once richly-funded wave of online lending startups worsening by the day, bad news continues to hit the sector.| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Current and former workers say Facebook Trending Topics group was ill-managed, relied on personal news judgment, had no intentional, institutional bias — SAN FRANCISCO — Last July, in a seventh-floor conference room at Facebook's Lower Manhattan offices, a small group met to discuss the future of news media on the social network.
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Sources: Verizon and others are expected to bid $2B to $3B for Yahoo's core business, less than $4B to $8B figure reported earlier — Most of previous bids for core business came in the range of $4 billion and $8 billion; bids are due first week of June — Verizon Communications Inc …
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Hackers stole $9M from Ecuadorian Banco del Austro in 2015 by sending Wells Fargo SWIFT messages to transfer funds, court documents show — Cybercriminals stole $9 million in 2015 from an Ecuador bank in attack similar to one against Bangladesh's central bank about a year later| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
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