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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
AlphaGo retires from competitive Go after defeating world number one 3-0 — AlphaGo is going out on top. After beating Ke Jie, the world's best player of the ancient Chinese board game Go, for the third time today at the Future of Go Summit in Wuzhen, Google's DeepMind unit announced …
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| Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
Inside DoD's Digital Defense Service, which revamps tools and procedures lagging behind the private sector, and draws Silicon Valley talent for two-year tours — A disembodied voice sounded over a loudspeaker. “Incoming. Take cover,” it warned to anyone within earshot. Then, the sirens began to wail.
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| Karl Bode / Techdirt: |
Chetan Sharma: after 17 straight years of QoQ growth, cellular data revenues dropped in Q1 2017 — We've noted for some time how T-Mobile's crazy idea to be nice to consumers (well, if you exclude their attacks on the EFF and net neutrality) has been a great thing for American consumers.
Tweets: @whatthebit
| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Uber says that Travis Kalanick's mother has died in a boating accident; his father is in serious condition — Travis Kalanick's father Donald was seriously injured. — Bonnie Kalanick, the mother of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, has died in a boating accident, a company spokesperson said.
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| Chris Johnston / The Guardian: |
British Airways cancelled all flights from London Heathrow and Gatwick on Saturday due to a major IT failure — IT outage leaves travellers unable to check in online, with some passengers stranded on a plane on the tarmac at Heathrow — British Airways has cancelled all flights from Heathrow …
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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable: |
Google adds “Personal” tab to search filters, which shows results from user's Gmail, Photos, more — Google now lets searchers filter their search results by “personal” results. By that, it mostly means emails, flights, anything related to that Gmail account they are logged into.
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| Rachel Becker / The Verge: |
As rumors about Apple's glucose tracker intensify, a look at scientific and technological challenges to non-invasive blood sugar monitoring — ‘Everybody thinks they have a way to do it, and everybody, so far, has failed’ — Illustrations by James Bareham and Rosy Warren
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| Selina Wang / Bloomberg: |
How apps like De Dao, fewer entertainment options, and widespread adoption of mobile payments are fueling a paid content boom in China — For years, China was known mostly for copying U.S. innovations. Now, the copy-catting is flowing the other way. — Back in early 2016 …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Delivery Hero plans to announce by mid-June a Frankfurt IPO at a valuation of about $4.5B — Online food takeaway firm Delivery Hero is set to float before the summer break in a deal valuing one of Europe's biggest start-ups at up to 4 billion euros ($4.5 billion), people close to the matter said on Tuesday.
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| Robert Levine / Billboard: |
Spotify settles class action suit filed by a group of songwriters over mechanical rights, to set up $43.4M fund as compensation for unpaid royalties — Spotify has reached a settlement with a group of songwriters who had sued for copyright infringement, eliminating an potential complication …
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| Sam Levin / The Guardian: |
Google says it is too expensive and time-consuming to compile and hand over salary records to the US government in the gender pay case — Officials said it was too financially burdensome and logistically challenging to hand over salary records that the government requested in discrimination case
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| Megan Molteni / Wired: |
FDA to open a unit of 13 engineers including devs, experts in AI and cloud computing, to keep pace with changes to medical devices powered by machine learning — When Bakul Patel started as a policy advisor in the US Food and Drug Administration in 2008, he could pretty much pinpoint …
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