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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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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Canonical will discontinue its Unity desktop interface, focusing on GNOME instead, and will shutter its mobile projects — Ubuntu phones and tablets are dead, but the desktop, server, and cloud live on. — Six years after making Unity the default user interface on Ubuntu desktops …
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| 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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| The Verge: |
Verizon is primed to become ad-tracking giant and take full advantage of an impotent FCC, using consumer data without permission, as it's done with supercookies — Zombie adtech is coming to kill Google — Two seemingly unrelated things happened Monday that actually point directly at the future of the internet:
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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.| 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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| 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 …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft launches 'Who's In,' a social event planning app for iMessage — Microsoft's name isn't exactly synonymous with social networking, though that hasn't stopped the company from finding angles into this space - generally, with more of a focus on the business side of socializing, as with its LinkedIn and Yammer acquisitions.
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App Store, Digital Trends, Mashable, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, MSPoweruser, and The Verge
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon debuts a dashboard for Alexa Skills, letting developers track unique customers, and an API for requesting specific location data — Amazon this morning rolled out new tools for developers of Alexa apps, aka “Skills,” which aim to give them more insight into their app's users …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Facebook Stories now shows friends who haven't posted, creating the impression of a ghost town on the little-used feature — Facebook launched a new story feature in its main app last week, adding a Snapchat-esque feed of ephemeral pictures and videos to the top of the News Feed.
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| 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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| Biz Carson / Business Insider: |
Udacity spins out Voyage to focus on creating a fleet of self-driving taxis using retrofitted cars; Voyage has raised a seed round from Khosla Ventures, others — Six months ago, online education startup Udacity set out to train a new legion of self-driving car engineers.
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