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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
YouTube's $35/mo. TV streaming service debuts in Los Angeles, NYC, Chicago, Philadelphia, and San Francisco Bay area, with 4 major networks, 40+ cable channels — Young people in the United States have already made the switch from traditional television to streaming services.
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| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Facebook to allow flagging revenge porn for review and removal, prevent further sharing of removed images on Messenger and Instagram using photo-matching tech — Facebook has implemented a new photo-matching technology to ensure people can't re-share images previously reported and tagged as revenge porn … | Washington Post: |
FCC's Ajit Pai and FTC's Maureen Ohlhausen on why FCC's ISP privacy rules were bad, and how FTC's authority to police ISPs' privacy practices will be restored — Ajit Pai is chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Maureen Ohlhausen is acting chairman of the Federal Trade Commission.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google says its TPU chips are 15x to 30x faster on average for machine learning than a standard GPU/CPU combination and offer 30x to 80x better TeraOps/Watt — It's no secret that Google has developed its own custom chips to accelerate its machine learning algorithms.
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Tweets: @theregister, @patrickmoorhead, and @chrismessina
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft outlines diagnostics data collected by Windows 10 and introduces advanced settings to cut back collection, available in the Creators Update — Another attempt to ease privacy concerns — Microsoft has been responding to Windows 10 privacy concerns for nearly two years now …
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Windows Blog, Computerworld, Windows Central, PCWorld, Ars Technica, ZDNet, Engadget, Digital Trends, InfoWorld, Windows Central, BetaNews, Tom's Hardware, The Seattle Times, The Fire Hose, Neowin, and On MSFT. Tweets: @windows
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: NFL and Amazon strike $50M deal to stream 10 Thursday night games to Prime members; price is five times that of NFL's agreement with Twitter last year — Deal for 10 Thursday night games will be available only to Amazon Prime members — Amazon is ready for some football.
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Cloud data warehouse vendor Snowflake Computing raises $100M led by Iconiq Capital — Snowflake Computing, a cloud data warehouse player led by former Microsoft exec Bob Muglia, raised money to expand its engineering team and European footprint. We talked shop with Muglia.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Adblock Plus parent company Eyeo says it has acquired Sweden-based micropayment service Flattr — Eyeo, the Germany-based company behind perennially popular adblocking service Adblock Plus, has today announced that it has acquired Flattr, a micropayment and microdonation service headquartered in Sweden.| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
An in-depth look at recent challenges to Google's search reputation, from fake news sites in results, to disturbing answers from Google Home — The past few months have been bad for Google's search reputation. Long considered the “gold standard” in search, Google has seen its search results questioned as never before.| Harriet Taylor / CNBC: |
Facebook begins testing a free version of its Workplace enterprise tool, called Workplace Standard, aimed at smaller businesses — Facebook is introducing a free version of Workplace, its social networking tool for workers to chat and collaborate. — “We're making Workplace work for more companies …
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Axios, CNET, Business Insider, and Seeking Alpha
| Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed: |
Profile of MicroChip, who says he's a software developer in Utah and who built a pro-Trump bot-infested Twitter network that sways trending topics — At 7:23 on Sunday evening, the conservative internet personality Mike Cernovich tweeted that former national security adviser Susan Rice had requested the …
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Boing Boing and New York Magazine
Tweets: @maxseddon, @schreckreports, @mat, @davidaxelrod, @bernstein, @xainth, @pkafka, @brendannyhan, @jonlemire, @headhntr, and @murphymike
| Elyse Betters / Pocket-lint: |
Twitch opens up its Steam-like game store, will give partnered streamers 5% of sales that originate from their channel — Amazon-owned Twitch is no longer just about streaming and watching games. It's now a place where you can buy games, too. — The game-streaming service …
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Twitch Blog, Twitch Blog, PCWorld, The Verge, ValueWalk, Tom's Guide, SlashGear, Tech Times, Ubergizmo, DualShockers, The Next Web, Game Revolution, Gamasutra, TechSpot, bit-tech.net, Kotaku, Engadget, and pcgamer
Tweets: @twitch and @hearthpwn
| Sam Thielman / The Guardian: |
Interview with Tim Berners-Lee on his 2016 ACM A.M. Turing Award, the recent privacy vote, clickbait, and online advertisements — As the world wide web creator accepts the prestigious Turing award, he talks to Sam Thielman about the US Congress's rollback of privacy rules and fake news
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Tweets: @sundarpichai, @duckduckgo, and @w3c
| Victor H. / PhoneArena: |
Battery life test shows Galaxy S8+ runs for 8 hours between charges, is second only to iPhone 7 Plus which runs for 9 hours, 5 minutes between charges — We already know that the Samsung Galaxy S8+ is an incredible phone: it has the stunning, futuristic design, it has the camera and it has the performance … | Jamie Rigg / Engadget: |
Huawei launches Honor 8 Pro flagship with 5.7-inch Quad HD display, 8-core Kirin 960 SoC, and 6GB RAM for £475, available to pre-order in UK today — There's Huawei, and then there's Honor. While both are technically the same company, the Honor brand takes some of the best bits … | Daniel Thomas / BBC: |
British public to trial driverless shuttle bus in London over next three weeks; Oxbotica has developed the tech for the shuttle, which travels up to 10mph — Members of the British public are getting their first extended trial of a driverless shuttle bus. — Over the next three weeks … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Uber opens its Instant Pay debit card system to more drivers and says $1.3B in cash-outs were made in 2016 — Uber introduced Instant Pay last year, as a way to use the revenue from their Uber fares right away, without waiting for it to be deposited into their own bank account.
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Axios and VentureBeat
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