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| 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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Tweets: @jandawson, @ampressman and @peterpham
| 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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Analysis of 7K+ cases: strong bias against black defendants found in crime prediction software that's increasingly relied upon to guide sentencing in US courts — There's software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it's biased against blacks.
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Gizmodo, ProPublica and The Verge
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Thanks:@ravichandrans25| 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, Business Insider, The Verge, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, Engadget and The Next Web. Thanks:@davegershgorn
| 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 …
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| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Facebook buys VR audio company Two Big Ears and debuts “Facebook 360 Spatial Workstation”, a free software suite for designing spatial audio — Today Facebook announced it's acquired Two Big Ears, a spatial audio technology company, for an undisclosed sum.
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| 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.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: China's Tencent seeks majority stake in Clash of Clans maker Supercell, in early stage talks with SoftBank — Chinese Internet firm's discussions with Japan's SoftBank are still at early stage — HONG KONG—Internet company Tencent Holdings Ltd. of China is in talks …
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| 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.
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TechCrunch, Socialnomics, TechnoBuffalo and Ubergizmo. Tweets: @counternotions. Thanks:@starfire2258
| 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 and On the Wire
Tweets: @whatthebit, @techreview and @theofficialacm
| 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, Softpedia News, Inquirer, Digital Trends, TechSpot, Tech Times, Engadget and Neowin
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google plans to bring password-free logins to Android apps by year-end via Project Abacus — Google's plan to eliminate passwords in favor of systems that take into account a combination of signals - like your typing patterns, your walking patterns, your current location, and more …
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PCWorld, Myce.com, AndroidHeadlines.com and PYMNTS.com
| 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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