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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
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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| Charlie Demerjian / SemiAccurate: |
Intel patches remote exploit that affects chips from 2008-2017 with Active Management Technology option enabled — Nehalem through Kaby all remotely and locally hackable — Every Intel platform from Nehalem to Kaby Lake has a remotely exploitable security hole.
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| 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).| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Twitter unveils 16 streaming partners for its live video service, including BuzzFeed, The Verge, Viacom, WNBA, MLBAM, PGA, Bloomberg, and Live Nation — Last year: NFL. This year: Bloomberg, the WNBA, Live Nation and our friends at The Verge. — Yesterday, Twitter announced it was building …
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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.
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| 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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| Joe Durbin / UploadVR: |
7invensun, a Chinese HTC Vive accelerator startup, plans to launch a $220 eye tracking peripheral called aGlass next month — Eye tracking is one feature that could could benefit the performance and affordability of high-end virtual reality headsets. The HTC Vive should become …
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| Jing Cao / Bloomberg: |
IAC to buy Angie's List in $500M+ deal; Angie's List will be combined with HomeAdvisor to form new publicly traded company called ANGI homeservices Inc. — IAC/InteractiveCorp agreed to buy consumer-recommendation website Angie's List Inc., intending to combine the business …
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| Nathan McAlone / Business Insider: |
Scott Belsky, Behance founder and venture partner at Benchmark, launches Prefer, an app for on-demand “relationship-based” services — The biggest problem with “on-demand” apps, the Uber for XYZ model, is that they make whichever service they are selling a commodity …
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| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Google Maps, Amazon, and eBay have pulled support for Apple Watch from their iOS apps — In recent months, major companies that offered dedicated Apple Watch apps have since abandoned the platform, quietly removing support for watchOS in updates submitted to the App Store.
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