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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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Israel-based Otonomo raises $25M Series B for its cloud software that helps automakers monetize data generated by connected cars — It's no secret that data is the hot new revenue source for automakers, who are seeing additional profit opportunities bloom as vehicles become more connected …
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| Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC: |
Okta shares open up 35%+ on first day of trading after raising $187M in its IPO — Okta shares popped more than 35% percent on Friday morning in their debut on the public market, trading around $23. — Shares of the stock started trading on the Nasdaq with the symbol OKTA.
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| 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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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 … | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Bill Gates-backed satellite antenna company Kymeta discloses $73.5M round in SEC filing, its largest round to date as total funding approaches $200M — Kymeta has raised its largest investment round to fuel development of the company's satellite antenna technology.Thanks:@johnhcook
| 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 … | 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 … Sponsor Posts
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