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Memo: Anthony Levandowski to stop work on LiDAR amid Waymo lawsuit, will remain with Uber, report to Eric Meyhofer who was named head of Uber's ATG — Anthony Levandowski, the head of Uber's self-driving group, is stepping aside in face of trade-theft accusations from his former employer, Waymo.
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Alphabet Q1 results: $24.75B revenue, up 22% YoY, and $5.42B net profit; Other Bets collected $244M in revenue but had an operating loss of $855M — Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2017.
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| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Sources: Apple in talks with payments industry partners to launch Venmo-like P2P money-transfer service; one source says service could be announced this year — Could the money-transfer service be called Apple Cash, perhaps? — Apple's on-again, off-again flirtation with building …
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Amazon posts Q1 revenue of $35.71B, up 23% YoY, as operating income declines 6% YoY to $1B — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2017. — Operating cash flow increased 53% to $17.6 billion for the trailing twelve months …
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| Bloomberg: |
Apple's self-driving Lexus seen in Silicon Valley with 64-channel lidar, at least two radars and a series of cameras — Almost two weeks after Apple Inc. secured permission to test its autonomous-car technology in California, the first images of the vehicle have emerged from Silicon Valley roads.
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| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Facebook identifies efforts to falsely amplify content and sentiment using fake accounts, as seen in US election, improves detection using patterns of activity — Facebook Inc (FB.O) acknowledged on Thursday that it has become a battleground for governments seeking to manipulate public opinion …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC releases the full text of Ajit Pai's proposal to roll back Title II net neutrality rules ahead of May 18 vote, opens commenting system — Bans on blocking and throttling may not be necessary, FCC says. — You can now start filing public comments on the Federal Communications Commission plan to eliminate net neutrality rules.
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| Microsoft: |
Microsoft reports Q3 2017 revenue of $22.1B as its Intelligent Cloud business hits $6.8B, driven by 93% YoY growth of Azure; Surface revenue down 26% YoY — REDMOND, Wash. — April 27, 2017 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended March 31, 2017:
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Google opens up Classroom, its learning suite, to anyone with a Google account, expanding it beyond G Suite users — Google Classroom is opening up even further: After allowing anyone to join classes last month, expanding the learner side of the equation beyond just those with G Suite …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google debuts Google Assistant SDK in preview, letting developers run Assistant on their own hardware — Build your own Google Home out of whatever you want. — Today Google is launching yet another Google Assistant feature: The Google Assistant SDK. This will allow developers to run … | Chris Morris / CNBC: |
Nintendo has sold 2.74M Switch units since it went on sale in March, more than Wii U sold in its first year, and 2.76M copies of Zelda: Breath of the Wild — - Those sales figures are 20 percent of what the last console — the Wii U — has sold in four and a half years. — Nintendo's back in the game.
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| Bloomberg: |
Jimmy Iovine says Apple will introduce a new version of Apple Music that better showcases video alongside the next version of iOS — The company wants to turn its music app into a one-stop shop for pop culture. — Subscribe Reprints — Will.i.am was shopping a reality show to TV networks …
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