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Samsung: Bixby's voice functions will be delayed until late spring in US, other Bixby options including visual search, reminders coming at Galaxy S8 launch 4/21 — One of the key signature features of Samsung's Galaxy S8 , its Bixby voice assistant, won't work out of the box, when the device goes on sale later this month.
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Internal Uber email says Rachel Whetstone, SVP of global public policy and communications, will leave the company and be replaced by deputy Jill Hazelbaker — The longtime PR pro is being replaced by her deputy Jill Hazelbaker. — According to an internal email from Uber CEO Travis Kalanick …
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Sources: Fitbit's first “proper” smartwatch and pair of Bluetooth headphones slated to arrive this fall after delays due to problems with GPS and waterproofing — Fitbit's (FIT) first “proper” smartwatch and first-ever pair of bluetooth headphones are due out this fall after a series … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google launches an experiment on the web called AutoDraw, which uses machine learning to suggest stock drawings as the user makes a sketch — Drawing isn't for everyone. I, for one, am definitely not very good at it. But with AutoDraw, Google is launching a new experiment today …
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| Li Tao / South China Morning Post: |
Huawei's CEO Eric Xu Zhijun questions the future of smartwatches, says even though the company has released two watches to date, he will never use one — It turns out even people at the very cutting edge of technical innovation are entitled to a “technophobe” moment.| Bogdan Petrovan / Android Authority: |
LG confirms it has received offers after rumors surfaced about proposed ~$880M Google investment into its OLED display panel business — In a regulatory filing for the Korean stock exchange, LG confirmed that it received offers of investment for its OLED display business … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft Word exploit that bypasses Windows safeguards has been sent to millions to push Dridex bank fraud malware — Blast could give a boost to Dridex, one of the Internet's worst bank fraud threats. — Booby-trapped documents exploiting a critical zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Word … | Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Lyft confirms $600M in new funding at a $7.5B post-money valuation — Lyft has confirmed that it has raised a new round of funding, bringing in $600 million from a mix of new and existing investors. The latest investment places a $7.5 billion post-money valuation.
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Facebook's David Marcus clarifies that Messenger's business model focus is advertising and that Messenger is not taking a cut of payments on the platform — Messenger is focused on mobile advertising — just like the rest of Facebook. — When Facebook hired David Marcus …
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Dropbox adds offline support to Paper on Android and iOS and says the app now works in 20 languages; core Android app gets document scanning, following iOS — Cloud file syncing and sharing software company Dropbox today announced an update to its core Android app.
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| Sean Chan / MSPoweruser: |
Skype for Windows 10 comes out of preview, is now open for all users with new features including group video calling and SMS support — After a year of testing, Microsoft's Skype app for Windows 10 came out of preview back in March for Windows Insiders. Today, Microsoft is rolling …
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Stripe acquires Indie Hackers, a knowledge sharing site for entrepreneurs, will run it as independent subsidiary — Stripe has acquired the knowledge-sharing service for entrepreneurs known as Indie Hackers. While financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, Indie Hackers will remain operational as an independent subsidiary.| Sarah Kuranda / CRN: |
Tanium names former DreamWorks executive Fazal Merchant as CFO and COO, to replace Eric Brown who suddenly left the company a few weeks ago — Tanium has named Fazal Merchant, an executive with an M&A background, as its new COO and CFO, the company announced Tuesday.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A look at Windows 10 Creators Update's best features: picture-in-picture, dynamic lock, Paint 3D, Night Light, better privacy controls, Inking in Windows photos — Microsoft has been testing its latest Windows 10 Creators Update in recent months, and it's now ready to roll out to existing machines.Sponsor Posts
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