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How Facebook's shifting priorities and inferior monetization options for Instant Articles are leading some big publishers to abandon the format — Facebook's Instant Articles promised to transform journalism — but now big publishers are fleeing — Inside Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters …
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| Nitasha Tiku / BuzzFeed: |
How Zuckerberg has polished his image to win people over, beginning with greater use of personal FB posts in 2015 and culminating in his current US talking tour — Until recently — , Mark Zuckerberg's most iconic public appearance may have been the image of the young startup founder sweating through …
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| Katie Benner / New York Times: |
Leaked documents reveal the hotel industry's plan to combat Airbnb with lobbying, pushing for bills at state level, and funds for anti-Airbnb research — SAN FRANCISCO — Last year, Airbnb underwent a rough regulatory patch. — The short-term rental company became a Federal Trade Commission target … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google reaches $7.8M out-of-court settlement in Android antitrust case in Russia, which was originally filed by Yandex — Google has reached a settlement with Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) agency in the antitrust case the Russian search rival Yandex had originally filed …
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
AI technique called “generative adversarial networks”, where neural networks are pitted against one another, could lead to unsupervised learning — The day Richard Feynman died, the blackboard in his classroom read: “What I cannot create, I do not understand.”
Tweets: @ericschmidt and @googleresearch
| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
Several hours passed before Facebook removed a video of a murder shared on the social network — Facebook took posts down hours later — A Cleveland man is at large after reportedly killing someone and uploading the footage to Facebook. The video appears to show a man identified by police …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says Windows exploits disclosed by Shadow Brokers have been patched on all currently supported versions of Windows — Microsoft says it has already patched the Windows exploits released by the Shadow Brokers group. The hacking tools, likely originating from the NSA …
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Tweets: @arstechnica, @zackwhittaker, @thegrugq, @swiftonsecurity, @snowden, @phillip_misner, @josephfcox, and @snowden
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Tweets: @motherboard, @lorenzofb, @arstechnica, @mossadnews, @misterch0c, @zackwhittaker, and @kateconger
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft confirms that just about a dozen Windows Phone models will officially support the Windows 10 Creators Update — Microsoft is rolling out a new test builds for Windows 10 to phone Insiders (and to PC users), while acknowledging that only a dozen or so Windows Phone models will get Windows 10 Creators Update.| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
The next Mac Pro should prioritize versatility as aggressive minimalism, among other factors, led to failure of the 2013 Mac Pro — Much of modern Apple's design philosophy is to relentlessly strip down most products to the bare minimum in certain areas as technological progress allows …
| Robert Fenner / Bloomberg: |
China's Ant Financial ups offer for MoneyGram by 36% to $1.2B; MoneyGram board approves deal — Ant Financial raised its agreed offer for MoneyGram International Inc. by 36 percent as the financial-services company controlled by Chinese billionaire Jack Ma tries to top a competing offer.
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Reuters, New York Times, Tech in Asia, MediaNama, and TechCrunch
| John Markoff / New York Times: |
Robert Taylor, the innovator who played key roles in the invention of Arpanet, the Alto computer, and the computer mouse, dies at 85 — Like many inventions, the internet was the work of many inventors. But perhaps no one deserves more credit for that world-changing technological leap …
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Tech Times, CNET, Engadget, Memex 1.1, TechSpot, NPR, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, The Guardian, AlmanacNews.com, and YourStory.com
Tweets: @katiehafner, @michael_nielsen, @nytobits, @stewartbrand, @xor, and @guyraz
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
How Google, Apple, and Microsoft and their operating systems are faring in their fight for the cheap computer market — The war for cheap computers is about to begin — It feels like a long time since we've had a great big knock-down, drag-out operating system battle.
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