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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo to offer free rides in its self-driving minivans to residents of Phoenix, Arizona as part of an “early rider program”, available to users today — Major milestone for the Google spin-off — Starting today, residents of the greater Phoenix metropolitan area can sign up to go for a ride in a self-driving minivan.
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| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Google allows users to report offensive autocomplete suggestions and Featured Snippets, will show more authoritative content for obscure and infrequent queries — Google knows it has a search quality problem. It's been plagued since November with concerns about fake news … | Vindu Goel / New York Times: |
Filing shows Yahoo's Marissa Mayer is set to make $186M from Verizon deal, from stock options, restricted stock units, and shares — SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo shareholders will vote June 8 on whether to sell the company's internet businesses to Verizon Communications for $4.48 billion.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook tests displaying links to fact-checks beside stories inside Related Articles widget — Facebook wants you to think about whether a headline is true and see other perspectives on the topic before you even read the article. In its next step against fake news, Facebook today begins testing …
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
AV provider Webroot mistakenly flagged Windows system files as malware, bricking millions of managed PCs worldwide; company is working on a fix — Windows' system files were flagged as malicious, and Facebook was marked as a phishing site. — Tough day for anyone running Webroot antivirus.
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| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Inside Zuckerberg's and Facebook's evolving approach to misinformation and filter bubbles, now that the issues have been more openly acknowledged — Mark Zuckerberg now acknowledges the dangerous side of the social revolution he helped to start. But is the most powerful tool for connection …
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| Patrick Brzeski / Hollywood Reporter: |
Netflix signs licensing deal with iQiyi, one of China's top video streaming services and a subsidiary of the country's search giant Baidu — The streaming giant has been attempting to negotiate greater accesss to the huge Chinese market for several years. — Blocked by regulators … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sources: data management startup Rubrik is raising up to $200M at a $1B valuation led by IVP — Make way for another juggernaut amongst enterprise startups: Rubrik, a data backup company that only emerged from stealth in 2015, is in the process of raising between $150 million and $200 million …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Volkswagen-backed Gett in talks to buy Juno for ~$250M as Uber rivals consolidate; one source says the talks are at an advanced stage — As Uber continues to work through its many layers of turmoil as a business, its smaller rivals are seizing the moment and consolidating to double … Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Samuel Gibbs / The Guardian: |
Thai man broadcasts killing his 11-month-old child with Facebook Live; the two clips were taken down after 24 hours, garnering 112K and 258K views respectively — Distressing footage of murder of 11-month old in Thailand was accessible to Facebook users for approximately 24 hours before being taken down
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google and Intertrust debut PatentShield, which takes equity in return for helping startups defend against patent litigation by using their large IP portfolios — Google and Intertrust today announced the launch of PatentShield, a new program that aims to help defend startups from patent litigation …
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| Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: |
Jimmy Wales launches Wikitribune, a crowdfunded news site that will use journalists to write and volunteers to fact check in effort to combat fake news — The crowd-funded news platform aims to combat fake news by combining professional journalism with volunteer fact checking: “news by the people and for the people.”
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