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Google adds fact checking information to search results and Google News worldwide — Last October, Google launched support to highlight fact-checking articles within Google News in the US and the UK. Now those articles will get special presentation as part of general Google searches worldwide.
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| Walt Mossberg / The Verge: |
Walt Mossberg is retiring in June, shortly after the 2017 Code Conference, ending a 47-year career at publications including the WSJ, Recode, and The Verge — Thanks for reading, watching, listening — It was a June day when I began my career as a national journalist.
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| Kerry Flynn / Mashable: |
Twitter sues the Trump administration after Customs and Border Protection tries to compel the social network to reveal the identity behind @alt_USCIS account — So remember how President Donald Trump (a.k.a. @realDonaldTrump) loves Twitter and credits it with helping him win the election?
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Samsung forecasts $8.8B Q1 profit, an almost 50% jump YoY, expects sales of $44.2B, which won't include Galaxy S8 sales which hit market April 21 — The South Korean giant's latest quarterly likely benefited from its business supplying chips, displays and other components.
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Sources: FCC Chairman tells trade groups of plans to update net neutrality rules created under Obama, wants to keep basic principles but move enforcement to FTC — The chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission is moving quickly to replace the Obama administration's landmark net neutrality rules … | Ben Popper / The Verge: |
YouTube says it will only allow channels with 10K lifetime views to monetize videos, to help make sure revenue flows only to those who play by the rules — The rule change is meant to weed out bad actors — Five years ago, YouTube opened their partner program to everyone.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Project Zero finds serious Broadcom WiFi chipset flaw that allows hacking of many Android devices; Google releasing patch this month; iOS was patched in 10.3.1 — Broadcom chips allow rogue Wi-Fi signals to execute code of attacker's choosing. — A broad array of Android phones are vulnerable … | Google Research Blog: |
Google's testing Federated Learning, a new approach to machine learning that keeps user data as well as model training on users' devices, with Gboard on Android — Posted by Brendan McMahan and Daniel Ramage, Research Scientists — Standard machine learning approaches require centralizing … | Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google says it has reduced fake Google Maps listings by 70% since June 2015 by improving business verification methods and using machine learning to fight spam — Google announced that they have heard about all the Google Maps spam issues over the years and have taken several steps to reduce the fake results in Google Maps.
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| Ev Williams: |
Twitter co-founder Ev Williams says he's selling up to 30% of his Twitter shares so he can continue to invest in other causes and companies — A note for Twitter shareholders and employees — If you're not a Twitter shareholder or employee (or reporter who covers such things) …
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| Pan Yue / China Money Network: |
Sources: Chinese personalized news recommendation app Toutiao raises $1B Series D led by Sequoia and CCB International at over a $12B valuation — Sequoia Capital and CCB International, an investment unit of China Construction Bank Co., have led a series D investment of around US$1 billion … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Uber expands its open source data visualization tool beyond mapping to other visual datasets, including network traffic — You may not be aware, but Uber offers an open source version of the data visualization framework it uses internally, called deck.gl. The tool was made available …
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