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March 29, 2017, 10:50 AM

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Karl Bode / DSLreports:
House passes resolution that lets ISPs sell customers' browsing history without user permission, 215 to 205 along party lines  —  As most had expected, the House of Representatives today voted 215 to 205 to kill privacy rules protecting US broadband subscribers.
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Inside the privacy vote: Democrats said it would make ISPs “more powerful than Amazon and Google”, GOP said rules “unfairly skew advertising market”  —  Congress passes bill allowing ISPs to sell customer Web surfing data.  —  The House of Representatives voted today …
Yusuf Mehdi / Windows Blog:
Microsoft announces Windows 10 Creators Update will roll out on April 11 as a free update, Surface devices will arrive in more countries on April 20  —  Creativity has led the inspiration of our world's greatest inventors, architects, educators, entrepreneurs, developers, and students …
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Google begins testing order-ahead feature on Waze, announces Dunkin' Donuts as first partner, says it plans to team up with other merchants if test goes well  —  A customer enters a Dunkin' Donuts store in New York City.  —  Waze's traffic navigation app already shows ads prodding drivers …
Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch:
Uber's first diversity report: staff is 36.1% female worldwide with 15.4% female engineers; in US, 49.8% white, 30.9% Asian, 8.8% black, 5.6% Hispanic overall  —  Uber just released its highly anticipated, first-ever diversity report detailing the demographics of its employees as of this month.
Will Norris / Google Open Source Blog:
Google launches new site to detail how it uses, releases, and supports opens source, includes internal documentation and processes for projects  —  Free and open source software has been part of our technical and organizational foundation since Google's early beginnings.
Cromwell Schubarth / Silicon Valley Business Journal:
Quantum computing startup Rigetti announces it raised $24M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz in March 2016 and $40M Series B led by Vy Capital in Nov. 2016  —  A “spaceshot” company that emerged from Y Combinator three summers ago and is targeting a revolutionary change in the way computers work …
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Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:
Turvo, a collaborative logistics startup, raises $25M Series A led by Activant, with participation from individual investors including Tony Fadell, Aaron Levie  —  Turvo, a two-year-old, Sunnyvale, Ca.-based company, is emerging today with an idea so ambitious that investors have provided …
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
AWS launches Amazon Connect, a tool for call centers that uses its Lex speech recognition and AI; Salesforce says it's integrating Einstein service with Connect  —  Amazon Web Services just unveiled a new service for running call centers, dubbed Amazon Connect, leveraging the same technology used …
Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Facebook copied Snapchat a fourth time, and now all its apps look the same  —  Facebook doesn't seem concerned with giving each of its core services a unique identity.  —  Facebook is copying Snapchat again: Today it launched Stories, the 24-hour photo and video montages that ultimately disappear, inside of its core Facebook app.
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