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June 6, 2016, 2:25 PM
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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Cortana arrives on Xbox One for preview members  —  Microsoft is releasing a new Xbox One update for its preview members today, and it includes access to Cortana for the first time.  While Microsoft had originally planned to introduce Cortana for Xbox One last year, the company delayed …
Roger Cheng / CNET:
T-Mobile to offer one share of its stock to customers with option to earn more, as well as other freebies like movie tickets and free Gogo inflight Wi-Fi time  —  The wireless carrier says customers will get freebies such as free pizza, inflight Wi-Fi access and even shares of its stock.
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest accounts hacked, LinkedIn password dump likely to blame  —  Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg understandably has accounts on other social networks - it only makes sense to keep up with what the competition is up to.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Blizzard announces it's integrating Facebook Live into all of its PC games for gameplay streaming  —  Blizzard Entertainment and Facebook have teamed up to weave Facebook identity and social networking services into the enormously popular Overwatch PC and console video game as well as other popular Battle.net games.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Former NASA chief Daniel Goldin unveils his startup, KnuEdge, after ten years in stealth, says it's raised $100M to date to build “neural chips”  —  It's not all that easy to call KnuEdge a startup.  Created a decade ago by Daniel Goldin, the former head of the National Aeronautics …
Wall Street Journal:
Cadillac's new retail strategy calls for some virtual reality showrooms without cars to reduce overhead, but many dealerships are wary  —  A portion of stores for GM's luxury division will become showrooms with virtual-reality headsets and no cars  —  Buyers walking into a Cadillac dealer …
Kyle Orland / Ars Technica:
With fewer than 500K Steam Machines sold in the last seven months, Valve's SteamOS appears dead in the water  —  Sales of under 500,000 machines so far show an utter lack of market demand.  —  It's been about seven months now since Valve officially got into the hardware business with its Steam Machines …
Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:
After acquisition by Google, Nest got “virtually unlimited budget”, quadrupled employees, had no new products, caused constant bad PR, and may be for sale now  —  Nest quadrupled its employees, launched no new products, and caused constant bad PR.
Reuters:
France is seeking €356M from Priceline's Booking.com for unpaid taxes between 2003 and 2012, SEC filing shows  —  French tax authorities are seeking 356 million euros ($397.37 million) in unpaid taxes from Booking.com, a unit of Priceline Group (PCLN.O), the latest multinational …

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Ruth La Ferla / New York Times:
Graydon Carter opens a physical store called Air Mail Newsstand in NYC, as an extension of his digital newsletter Air Mail, selling books, magazines, and more

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Filing: Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav's 2023 compensation package was worth $49.7M, up 26.5% from the year prior, with $23.1M in stock awards

Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
Interviews with over a dozen current and former WAMU staffers and contractors show management's contradictory, unclear messaging about its closure of DCist

Earlier Picks

Mike Freeman / Los Angeles Times:
American Airlines signs contract with ViaSat for in-flight Wi-Fi on some of its planes, ending Gogo's exclusivity
Joseph Cox / Motherboard:
Over 100M records from Russian social media site VK, with unencrypted passwords, names, emails, and phone numbers, on sale by hacker named Peace for 1 bitcoin
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