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| Amar Toor / The Verge: |
Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Microsoft agree to EU hate speech rules that mandates review of “the majority of” hateful content within 24 hours of notification — Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and YouTube today agreed to European regulations that require them to review …
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Periscope to let livestream viewers vote on whether flagged comments are abusive in “flash juries” of five random users — Attention livestreamers: You've been summoned for jury duty. — Attention Periscope users: You've been summoned for jury duty.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Samsung announces 512GB NVMe SSD weighing only 1 gram with read and write speeds of 1500MB/s and 900MB/s, available starting in June — Samsung today announced that mass production has begun on a new NVMe PCIe solid state drive in a ball grid array package, the first of its kind to be available in large quantities.| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Source: Google Home's ARM-based microprocessor and Wi-Fi chip to be the same as those in the Chromecast — When Google executive Mario Queiroz unveiled a new voice-controlled virtual assistant, Google Home, at the company's developer conference this month, he left out a key detail …
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| Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab: |
36% of smartphone users in Asia-Pacific region use browsers that automatically block ads; global mobile adblocking userbase hits 419M, up 90% YoY, says PageFair — The rise of mobile adblocking may not be burning publishers in the U.S. so far, but the story is very different in Asia.
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New York Times, ZDNet, Business Insider, TechSpot, Screenwerk, Fortune, Tech Times and PageFair. See also Mediagazer
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram officially announces its new business tools, including business profiles, analytics, more; businesses must have a Facebook Page to enable them — Instagram this morning officially announced the launch of its tools for business users, including new business profiles … | Nagraj Kashyap / The Official Microsoft Blog: |
New Microsoft Ventures division to focus on early-stage investments in cloud, SaaS, security, and machine learning startups — When I came to Microsoft earlier this year, I was driven by the opportunity to establish a corporate venture group that would create an additional channel to engage the start-up ecosystem.
| Dustin Volz / Reuters: |
US appeals court rules no warrant needed for cellphone location data, overturning a divided 2015 opinion — Police do not need a warrant to obtain a person's cellphone location data held by wireless carriers, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday, dealing a setback to privacy advocates.
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| Danny Yadron / Guardian: |
Sources: Facebook planning to introduce optional end-to-end encryption mode to Messenger app — The move illustrates how technology companies are doubling down on secure messaging while not wanting to get in the way of their other business objectives — Facebook users this summer … | Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
The Intel Broadwell-E Review: Core i7-6950X, i7-6900K, i7-6850K and i7-6800K Tested — What would you do with more CPU cores? This is a question I see posted from an Intel employee on a yearly basis, and it actually is a difficult question to answer depending on your computing background.
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The Verge, Engadget, The Verge, PCWorld, Liliputing, Inquirer, ZDNet, VentureBeat, CNET, The Register, Engadget and Digital Trends. Tweets: @valarauca1. Thanks:@iancutress
| Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
| The Duo Security Bulletin: |
Analysis shows Lenovo, Acer, HP, Dell, and Asus are shipping laptops with bloatware that's known to be insecure — Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) refer to the first boot of a new PC as the out-of-box experience (OOBE). As you battle your way through modal dialogues for questionable software …
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International Business Times, CSO, BetaNews, Engadget, CNET, PCWorld, Softpedia News, Digital Trends, The Register and ZDNet
| Jeremy Wagstaff / Reuters: |
Xiaomi to preinstall Office and Skype on all devices as it buys 1.5K patents from Microsoft, cross-licences others — Software maker Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) is selling about 1,500 of its patents to Chinese device maker Xiaomi [XTC.UL], a rare departure for the U.S. company and part …
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Microsoft, Recode, 9to5Google, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, BetaNews, Windows Central and PhoneDog.com
| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Atari will enter IoT market with new connected devices in partnership with Sigfox — Atari announced today that it is plunging into the Internet of Things with a line of connected objects that will debut later this year. — Just what those gadgets might be, however, remains shrouded in mystery.
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Business Wire, Engadget, TechHive, MobileSyrup.com, The Verge, AndroidHeadlines.com, FierceWireless, PhoneArena, Ubergizmo and TrustedReviews. Tweets: @jrosenworcel
| Bloomberg: |
Source: Uber gets $1B credit facility, basically a line of credit, in a deal led by Goldman Sachs to expand its Uber Xchange subprime auto leasing business — In its relentless pursuit for growth, Uber needs new drivers, and many of those drivers need cars.
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Motherboard, Consumerist and Dealbreaker
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| Tom Hals / Reuters: |
Ruling from Delaware judge finds that Michael Dell, Silver Lake Partners underpriced their 2013 $24.9B buyout of Dell by 22%, may have to pay tens of millions — Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners underpriced their 2013 $24.9 billion buyout of Dell Inc [DI.UL] by about 22 percent …
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