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Microsoft debuts 13.5" Surface Laptop running Windows 10 S with 4 color options, USB 3 Type A, Mini DisplayPort, 14.5-hour battery life, ships June 15 from $999 — Microsoft has announced a brand new Windows-powered notebook called the Surface Laptop. — At an event in New York City today …
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Microsoft unveils Windows 10 S, a streamlined version for education that only runs apps from Windows Store, launching this summer — At its education event in New York City today, Microsoft announced a new edition of its latest operating system: Windows 10 S. Available on first-party …
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Microsoft updates Teams with education-focused tools, including a dashboard for students' work with access to learning materials, available this summer — Microsoft Teams started life competing with Slack in the workplace, but now Microsoft plans to bring its chat and collaboration app to another environment: schools.
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Hands-on: Microsoft targets backpacks with its 2.76 lbs Surface Laptop, lighter than MacBook Air; keyboard impresses with suede-like durable Alcantara covering — Microsoft has already cracked the professional and creative markets with inventive tablets and a desktop that turns into a virtual drafting table.
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Windows 10 S laptops, starting at $189, to ship this summer with free Office 365 and a one-year subscription of Minecraft Education Edition — Microsoft's answer to Chrome OS is called Windows 10 S. This new operating system is a streamlined and secured version of Windows 10.
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Microsoft readies June preview of its full-featured “Centennial” 32-bit Office apps, coming to its Windows and Education Stores this fall — Microsoft will begin testing in June preview versions of its full-featured Office apps,which will be downloadable and updatable from its Windows and Education Stores.
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Facebook rolls out Instant Games on Messenger to all users, currently with up to 50 games including Words with Friends — Facebook is announcing today that it is rolling out Instant Games on Messenger more broadly to the 1.2 billion people who use the messaging system every month.| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: code written by women at Facebook rejected far more than men's; Facebook says study inaccurate, performed by former employee with incomplete data — Analysis found female engineers received 35% more rejections of their code than men — Last year, a longtime engineer …
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Survey of 942 AirPods owners says 82% are “very satisfied” and 16% are “satisfied”, beating customer satisfaction levels of other new Apple products — Last week, we ran a follow up to the voice assistant research study we published last year around this time.
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After 18 years, About.com is rebranding as Dotdash and will launch a travel-focused vertical later this month — On Tuesday, About.com is going to change its name. The digital publisher is expected to announce at the Collision Conference that it will henceforth be known as Dotdash (pronounced “dot-DASH").| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google will now allow 300x250 ads above the fold on mobile webpages, says they can be ‘user-friendly’ — Google today announced a change to its AdSense policy that will remove a limitation previously in place that restricted certain kinds of ads “above the fold” - meaning, visible on a website without scrolling down the page.| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Docker appoints former SAP exec Steve Singh as CEO to replace Ben Golub — Docker was tagged with a $1 billion valuation in the heady days of 2015, when the term “unicorn” was still in vogue and venture capitalists spoke frequently of FOMO (fear of missing out).
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YouTube revamps its desktop site with an updated design based on Google's Material Design, optional dark theme, and faster framework — YouTube turned 12 on Monday. To celebrate the milestone, the company is today launching a redesign of its desktop site, which now takes advantage …
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Shopify reports Q1 revenue of $127.4M, up 75% YoY, raises 2017 revenue forecast to $615M-630M; stock up 6%+ — The company said revenues were bolstered by a record number of merchants signing up for its services. — Small business technology provider Shopify reported better-than-expected …
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Nine Senate Republicans co-sponsor legislation to nullify the FCC's net neutrality rules — (R-Utah) introduced a bill Monday to nullify the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules. — “Few areas of our economy have been as dynamic and innovative as the internet,” Lee said in a statement.| Ms. Smith / Network World: |
Report: Facebook document shared with advertiser shows company's ability to detect feelings of teens, but Facebook denies serving targeted ads based on emotions — Leaked document reveals Facebook knows when teens feel ‘useless,’ but the company denies serving targeted ads based on emotions
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Salesforce launches AppExchange partner program and $100 million platform fund — Salesforce is looking to take its AppExchange to the next phase to better address the increased demand for subscription-based services within the enterprise. Today the company launched a partner program …
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Facebook builds new Express Backbone network, to split the cross-data center server-to-server traffic from regular Internet-facing user traffic — Facebook has multiple data centers in the U.S and Europe. For the past ten years, they were connected by a single wide-area (WAN) backbone network known as the classic backbone or CBB.Sponsor Posts
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