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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's Windows 10: Anniversary Update to hit August 2; 350 million devices and counting — Microsoft will release Windows 10 on August 2 across the more than 350 million active devices where it is now running, and on other coming new PCs, phones and more.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook puts friends above publishers in “News Feed Values” and ranking change — After the conservative trends fiasco, Facebook is pushing itself to a new standard of transparency. The company is publishing a formal “News Feed Values” document that details how it decides what shows up in your feed …
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Thanks:@joshconstine. See also Mediagazer| Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
Amazon to subsidize Android phones for Prime members by showing lock screen ads and pre-installing Amazon apps — Amazon today said it would begin offering Prime members significant discounts on select unlocked Android smartphones, in exchange for the ability to pre-install Amazon apps and show customers more ads on the phones.
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Recode, TechCrunch, Amazon.com, VentureBeat, Android Authority, Android Police, CNET, ZDNet, ABC News, GeekWire, TalkAndroid.com, teleread.org, PhoneDog.com, Gotta Be Mobile, FierceWireless and Pocketnow. Tweets: @vladsavov
| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Uber to track driver behavior like high speed and abrupt braking, give feedback to improve safety — The software is aimed at improving driver safety, but could raise privacy concerns — Uber Technologies Inc. has developed new technology to track when drivers of the ride-hailing app go too fast …
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Uber Engineering Blog, Uber Global, Recode, TIME, The Verge, CNET, MacRumors, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, BuzzFeed, ABC News, Consumerist and WRAL Tech Wire. Tweets: @wsj
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Hillary Clinton's tech agenda: invest in CS and STEM ed, build out broadband for all, fix copyright, defend net neutrality, safeguard privacy, support USDS — Today's dynamic and competitive global economy demands an ambitious national commitment to technology, innovation and entrepreneurship.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft is giving students a free Xbox One with Surface Pro 4 purchases — Microsoft is tempting students to buy a Surface Pro 4 this week with a new promotion running at its retail stores in the US. The software maker is taking $300 off when students buy a Surface Pro 4 and Xbox One.| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Mozilla launches Codemoji, a web-based game that illustrates how ciphers work through emoji — Sure, people will tell you that encryption is important to maintaining your online privacy, but how do you wrap your head around the concept? Mozilla wants to help.
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Inquirer, The Next Web, Ubergizmo, The Mozilla Blog and TechCrunch
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Huawei Matebook Review: sleek appearance and fast performance is let down by design quirks and poor battery life, hard to recommend as a laptop replacement — In the world of tablet computing, there are two camps. There's the Microsoft Surface (and its clones) camp, which attempts …
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ZDNet, Engadget, PC Magazine, Ars Technica, Laptop Mag, Neowin, TechCrunch, BetaNews, Digital Trends and Windows Central
| Cody Toombs / Android Police: |
Google Fit rolls out with a major visual redesign, improved goals, and a configurable widget — It's been a long time since we last saw an update to Google Fit, but after some subtle hints during the Android Wear presentations during Google I/O, it was fairly obvious something big was in the works.
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Phandroid, TalkAndroid.com and Android Beat
| Rex Crum / Mercury News: |
Lending Club cuts 179 jobs, promotes interim CEO Scott Sanborn to permanent chief — SAN FRANCISCO — Embattled online loan marketplace Lending Club on Tuesday named a new chief executive and said it will cut 12 percent of its workforce as it deals with the continued fallout from May's forced resignation of ex-CEO Renaud Laplanche.| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
A free bot service, DoNotPay, has helped successfully challenge 160K+ traffic tickets in London, New York since launching last fall; Seattle expansion planned — A bot made to challenge traffic tickets has been used more than 9,000 times by New Yorkers, according to DoNotPay maker Joshua Browder.
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ZDNet, Guardian, Quartz, BGR, Telegraph, TIME, SiliconBeat, Silicon Republic, Business Insider, TechSpot, Forbes, PCWorld, BBC, SiliconANGLE, The Register, Newser, tech.co, Boing Boing, Gizmodo, Inquirer, Neowin and Ubergizmo
| Satya Nadella / Slate: |
How humans and AI can work together to solve society's greatest challenges — Advanced machine learning, also known as artificial intelligence or just A.I., holds far greater promise than unsettling headlines about computers beating humans at games like Jeopardy!, chess, checkers, and Go.
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Business Insider, Gizmodo, Vanity Fair, Idle Words, The Verge, USA Today, GeekWire, New York Times, Fortune, The Fire Hose, Windows Central, MSPoweruser and WinBeta
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| Biz Carson / Business Insider: |
Leaked investor update doc: Lyft had record May, providing 12.7M rides that month, but volume may flatten with Austin retreat and college students heading home — Lyft had a record May, completing 12.7 million rides in the month, according to a leaked investor update viewed by Business Insider.
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Digital Trends, New Orleans Times-Picayune, Fortune and Bloomberg. Tweets: @neilcybart. Thanks:@lexnfx
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