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Canada's top court rules that Google can be compelled by lower courts to remove search results worldwide, causing concern among civil liberties groups — The Supreme Court of Canada ruled against Google on Wednesday in a closely-watched intellectual property case over whether judges can apply …
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| Brian Crecente / Polygon: |
Sources: Andy Rubin-backed AR gaming glasses startup CastAR shuts down, lays off about 70 and is liquidating assets — About 70 employees laid off, Eat Sleep Play shuttered — PIN — CastAR, the augmented reality start-up co-created by two former Valve employees, laid off its staff … | New York Times: |
Malware attack raises concern that the NSA has lost control over cyberweapons they developed, and that damage from the Shadow Brokers leaks could be much worse — Twice in the past month, National Security Agency cyberweapons stolen from its arsenal have been turned against two very different partners …
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| Kate Conger / Gizmodo: |
In filing, Uber suggests Levandowski downloaded Waymo IP as negotiating tactic for $120M bonus, reasserts that Kalanick told him to not share IP on disks — Uber laid out new details in a court filing today about how it learned the former lead of its self-driving car unit, Anthony Levandowski …
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Nutanix announces strategic partnership with Google Cloud and unveils new tools for hybrid cloud management — Google Cloud and Nutanix joint customers will be able to manage on-premises and public cloud infrastructure as one unified service. — Nutanix and Google have formed …
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Google officially debuts its internal Area 120 startup incubator and announces a VR advertising project called Advr aimed at testing formats — Google today is more formally taking the wraps off its internal incubator, Area 120, with the launch of a dedicated website, alongside the launch … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Google Photos begins rolling out new suggested sharing features, including dedicated in-app sharing tab and optional automatic sharing — Google is now starting to roll out the major new sharing features announced for Google Photos last month. — The update adds a dedicated “sharing” …
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| Dani Deahl / The Verge: |
Researchers using 1.6M tweets from the 2011 London riots identify threats up to an hour faster than the police — By up to an hour — A new study by Cardiff University has determined that Twitter can be used to identify dangerous situations up to an hour faster than police reports.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitch says its mobile app has been installed 83M+ times and will update in early July with live streaming, its social feed Twitch Pulse, and dark mode theme — Amazon-owned game-streaming site Twitch today announced a series of changes coming soon to its mobile application …
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| Michael Brown / TechHive: |
Eero Home WiFi System 2 review: easier to setup and more powerful, but it is pricey and not the fastest mesh router among the competition — Eero Home WiFi System (second generation) … The second-generation Eero Home WiFi System is even easier to set up than the first …
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Interview with Lyft's John Zimmer on its culture, values, marketing strategy, and the firm's refusal to gloat over Uber's escalating woes, more — It has been a rough, scandal-filled year for Uber. But don't expect John Zimmer, Lyft's president, to gloat about his competitor's misfortunes.| Tony Romm / Recode: |
White House confirms Trump nominated Brendan Carr, FCC general counsel and Pai ally, for FCC GOP slot; he named Jessica Rosenworcel for Democratic slot earlier — Carr is an ally of agency chairman Ajit Pai, and previously worked in the telecom industry. — (Update, 8:29 p.m. ET: The White House confirmed Carr's nomination.)
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