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| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
If users prioritize big-data AI services, like those offered by Google, Amazon, Facebook, then Apple will be in a position similar to BlackBerry was in 2007 — Before the iPhone, RIM's BlackBerry was the king of smartphones. They seemed unstoppable, because by most accounts …
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Recode, iPhone Hacks and Quartz
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See also Mediagazer| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Spotify family plan is now cheaper, $14.99 for up to 6 people — Spotify is catching up with the competition when it comes to family plans. Like Apple Music and Google Play Music, families can now subscribe to Spotify Premium for $14.99 per month and get six different Spotify accounts and profiles.
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Spotify News, Engadget, The Verge, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, BGR, iMore, VentureBeat, The Next Web, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, hypebot and Cult of Mac. Tweets: @peterpham
| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft announces five-year exclusive partnership with Chinese software publisher NetEase to bring Minecraft to PCs and smartphones in China — Long-awaited news serves as reminder of China's resistance to Western software. — When Microsoft opened its wallets in 2014 and traded $2.5 billion … | Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg: |
Race to build VR cameras escalates as Google teams with IMAX and Yi Technology on new rigs — Google is working with new camera manufacturers IMAX and Yi Technology to ramp up production — One of the most impressive things Google unveiled at its developers conference last May was an odd, disc-shaped gadget called the Odyssey.
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Wall Street Journal, Google Developers Blog, Engadget, The Verge, Tnooz, CNET, USA Today, TechCrunch, Mashable, Ubergizmo, Pocket-lint, Road to VR, 9to5Google, Digital Photography Review, Fortune, Daily Mail, Polygon, VentureBeat, Android Authority, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear, InvestorPlace, BGR and Liliputing
| Princeton Web Transparency & Accountability Project: |
Study of 1M top sites sheds light on techniques some firms use to track users: Canvas, Canvas-Font, AudioContext fingerprinting, local WebRTC IP discovery, more — During our January 2016 measurement of the top 1 million sites, our tool made over 90 million requests, assembling the largest dataset …
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Motherboard, Schneier on Security, Ira Michael Blonder, MIT Technology Review, Softpedia News, On the Wire, TechCrunch, ZDNet, BGR and The Verge
Tweets: @techreview, @whatthebit and @theofficialacm
| Dave Gershgorn / Popular Science: |
Google's open-source research project Magenta uses AI to generate music, video, other visual arts, makes the process easier with TensorFlow, will launch June 1 — THE MULTI-DISCIPLINARY MACHINE — If Google's artificial intelligence can paint its dreams, why not make other kinds of art?
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Quartz, Gizmodo, The Verge, 9to5Google, Business Insider, Engadget and The Next Web. Thanks:@davegershgorn
| Tristan Harris: |
Ten ways tech products are designed to manipulate users to spur usage — Estimated reading time: 12 minutes. — I'm an expert on how technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities. That's why I spent the last three years as Google's Design Ethicist caring about how to design things …
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Boing Boing. Tweets: @andy3martin, @ibogost, @sonyaellenmann, @randfish, @max_hoffmann, @felixsalmon and @mikeindustries
| Monica Nickelsburg / GeekWire: |
Microsoft amends terms for its consumer services to address terrorism-related content, expands “notice-and-takedown” policy, mulls Bing partnerships with NGOs — The threat of terrorism has escalated the age-old battle between national security and individual rights …
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Microsoft on the Issues, BBC, Inquirer, Softpedia News, Digital Trends, TechSpot, Tech Times, Ars Technica and Engadget
| Sean Hollister / CNET: |
Google's Ara team on why they ditched swappable core components like CPUs and radios to focus on differentiated modules like cameras, batteries, and glucometers — Next year, Google will sell a smartphone with interchangeable parts. Swap in different ones to give the phone new abilities.| David Pierce / Wired: |
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AppleInsider, PYMNTS.com, Inquirer, Softpedia News, The Next Web, Technabob, Tech Times, International Business Times, 9to5Google, Android Police, Fortune, SiliconANGLE, Phandroid, BuzzFeed, Pocket-lint, Pocketnow, ZDNet, Recode, TechnoBuffalo, Android Beat, PhoneDog.com, The Register, Neowin and TechSpot
| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
How OneCore, the modularized OS at the heart of Windows 10, fulfills Microsoft's quest to enable apps that work well across PCs, phones, tablets, Xbox, and more — Microsoft promised developers that Windows would run anywhere. This summer, it finally will.| Chris DiBona / Google for Education: |
Google launches Science Journal, an Android app that uses your phone's sensors to record experimental data including movement, light, and sound — We believe that anyone can be a maker. Making doesn't just mean coding or working with electronics. It can be building or cooking …
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The Next Web, The Verge, CNET, Silicon Republic, Digital Trends, Tech Times, Technabob, The Daily Dot, BetaNews, Engadget, Gizmodo, Android Police, SlashGear, Android Central and Exploratorium Blog
Tweets: @googleforedu, @digiphile and @imagination
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Vizio P-Series review: great 4K TV but Google Cast-powered approach and Android tablet remote have a learning curve, casting via the SmartCast app can be buggy — Vizio's 2016 lineup of 4K HDR TVs aren't actually TVs at all. Well, they are, but since they don't have tuners built in, the company can't market them as television sets.Sponsor Posts
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