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Sources: Apple will update its laptop lineup at WWDC, planning MacBook Pro with Kaby Lake and faster chips for MacBook and MacBook Air — Refreshed MacBooks could win back disappointed loyalists — Announcement expected at developers conference in June — Apple Inc. plans to announce …
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| John Koetsier / Forbes: |
Amazon announces that Alexa skills will soon be able to push notifications to Alexa enabled devices for users who have opted in — “The weather is great this morning; you should take a run,” is something that Amazon's Alexa will never say to you ... unless you've added a fitness skill and opted-in to notifications.
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| Tim Peterson / Marketing Land: |
Facebook admits another ad measurement mistake, its tenth since September of 2016, refunds advertisers, saying the error affected just 0.04% of impressions — The mistake — mischarged clicks on video carousel ads by smartphone web users — is the first that directly affected advertisers' wallets.
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| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Bragi announces two new earbuds, the $329 Dash Pro, and a custom-fit version for $499, updates its OS to include real-time language translation — While also adding real-time language translation and a professional custom fit option — Bragi has announced a new version of the Dash …
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| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
DJI launches smart TV app with aerial content and 4k video for Samsung's Tizen TVs and Apple TV — Just a few months after GoPro threatens to close its entertainment doors, DJI is ready to step in. The drone-cum-camera company has just announced that it's launching a Smart TV app that'll stream plenty … | Steven Levy / Wired: |
An inside look at how Apple's “spaceship” Apple Park campus came to be, commissioned as one of Steve Jobs' last projects as CEO, with capacity for 12K employees — On June 7, 2011, a local businessman addressed a meeting of the Cupertino City Council.
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Third-party apps providing mail, contacts, and calendar services will need app-specific passwords for iCloud access beginning June 15 — App-specific passwords are set to become a mandatory requirement for third-party apps that access iCloud user data, according to an Apple Support email sent out today.
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| Kellex / Droid Life: |
Verizon cancels its LG Watch Sport variant, which had just launched in February — Within the past few days, those who had pre-ordered the LG Watch Sport from Verizon received cancellation emails. That seemed odd, obviously, since the watch has been available for months …
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| Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: |
Samsung says it has sold 5M Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus devices since April 21 — Samsung Electronics has sold 5 million Galaxy S8s globally less than a month after launching, a figure that will likely be further boosted next month as availability expands. — Samsung Electronics …
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram is testing location-based stories that bring together publicly available posts from the area — Instagram wants to let you see everything going on somewhere right now. TechCrunch has discovered that Instagram is testing a new Location Stories feature that compiles publicly shared …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Slack adds screen sharing to its Mac and Windows apps two years after acquiring Screenhero — For when a screen shot just won't cut it, Slack's paid users can nowshare live video of their screens during video calls. The addition of the feature comes a slow two years after Slack bought Screenhero … | John Mannes / TechCrunch: |
Partnership on AI adds Intel, Salesforce, SAP, others as it formalizes Grand Challenges, which provide incentives to tackle big issues with social ramifications — Intel, Salesforce, eBay, Sony, SAP, McKinsey & Company, Zalando and Cogitai are joining the Partnership on AI … | Sam Levin / The Guardian: |
Review shows Facebook's anti-fake news initiatives as ineffective, with many articles disputed by fact-checkers being labeled “disputed” too late or not at all — hen Facebook's new fact-checking system labeled a Newport Buzz article as possible “fake news”, warning users against sharing it, something unexpected happened.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Amazon launches 4K Alexa-powered Fire TVs with voice remote, available for preorder now, starting at $449 for the 43" model, $899 for 65" — Amazon's war with Roku enters its next phase — Like Roku before it, Amazon is working with TV makers to release smart televisions … | Biz Stone / Medium: |
Twitter cofounder Biz Stone says he's returning to the company to guide company culture, more — I worked at Twitter for about six years. In that time, the service grew from zero people to hundreds of millions of people. Jack was the original CEO and when he returned I was very happy.
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Tweets: @biz, @karaswisher, @kadhimshubber, @jack, @nickbilton, @anthonynoto, @cnbcnow, @inafried, @adambain, and @sarahfrier
| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Senators and their staffers given the approval to use encrypted messaging app Signal by the Senate Sergeant at Arms — Senate staffers can now use what is widely considered the world's most secure messaging app. — Just one week after the Senate switched on web encryption …
Tweets: @mmasnick and @trevortimm
| Bloomberg: |
Source: Google will announce its voice-based AI Assistant is coming to iPhones and that it's integrating Assistant into GE home appliances at Google I/O — The Alphabet unit plans to expand its voice-based assistant beyond its own hardware at this week's I/O conference
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple launches Today at Apple website as it expands its in-store course line-up with classes in art, design, music, photography, more — Last month, Apple announced its plans to offer an expanded set of educational sessions at its stores, which will now feature more in-depth training …
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