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| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Sources: the 2017 Pixel XL, manufactured by LG, will have a 6" AMOLED display with a 2:1 aspect ratio and smaller bezels — The image you see above is what we believe to be an accurate representation of Google's 2017 flagship smartphone, the 2nd-generation Pixel “XL.”
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| Karl Bode / Techdirt: |
AT&T Pretends To Love Net Neutrality, Joins Tomorrow's Protest With A Straight Face — You'd be hard pressed to find a bigger enemy of net neutrality than the fine folks at AT&T. The company has a history of all manner of anti-competitive assaults on the open and competitive internet …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Google announces a new AI-focused early stage venture fund, Gradient Ventures, which promises its portfolio startups access to Google engineers — - The idea is to spur innovation in artificial intelligence while also providing interesting experiences to Google engineers.| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Facebook to gradually expand worldwide beta of display ads in Messenger's Home screen, which follow an auction-based model — Facebook Messenger will start to extend its home screen ads beta worldwide in the weeks ahead, Messenger head of product Stan Chudnovsky announced today.
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Facebook, The Verge, Marketing Land, Engadget, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Recode, SiliconBeat, Digital Trends, Fortune, 9to5Google, East Bay Times, Droid Life, Mashable, Ubergizmo, Business Insider, ZDNet, iPhone in Canada Blog, New York Magazine, Reuters, Seeking Alpha, and CNET. Tweets: @caseynewton
| Wall Street Journal: |
As Google pays academics for research that often ends up justifying its controversial business practices, many academics fail to disclose their funding source — Google operates a little-known program to harness the brain power of university researchers to help sway opinion and public policy …
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| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Ex-Twitter engineers raise $10.5M Series A for microservices management startup Buoyant — Buoyant, a 13-person startup led by former Twitter engineers and now backed by a former member of Twitter's board of directors, has raised a $10.5 million Series A round to apply lessons learned … | Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Twitter hires a new CFO: Ned Segal, longtime Goldman Sachs banker and recent Intuit exec, relieving COO Anthony Noto of CFO duties he's held since November — Segal was most recently at Intuit. — Twitter has hired a new CFO: Ned Segal, a longtime Goldman Sachs banker who was most recently …
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| AnandTech: |
How Intel's new “Skylake-SP"-based Xeon server chips, launched today, stack up against AMD's EPYC line — This morning kicks off a very interesting time in the world of server-grade CPUs. Officially launching today is Intel's latest generation of Xeon processors, based on the “Skylake-SP” architecture.
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ZDNet, Intel Newsroom, The New Stack, New York Times, MacRumors, Ars Technica, The New Stack, PC Perspective, IT World Canada, GeekWire, and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @ampressman. Thanks:@iancutress
| Sean Hollister / CNET: |
Logitech acquires headset maker Astro Gaming for $85M in all-cash deal to expand into game console market — The PC peripherals company hopes to crack the console gaming market. — Logitech is one of the best-known brands of keyboards, mice, headphones and webcams, whether you're a gamer or not.
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| Dustin Volz / Reuters: |
Knight First Amendment Institute sues Trump for blocking Twitter users, alleging the practice amounts to an unconstitutional effort to suppress dissent — A free-speech group said on Tuesday it sued U.S. President Donald Trump for blocking Twitter users from his @realDonaldTrump account …
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knightcolumbia.org, The Verge, The Hill, and SiliconBeat. Tweets: @dannysullivan. Thanks:@dnvolz
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
1Password moves away from one-time licensing with a local storage option to a cloud-based $2.99/month subscription — 1Password is moving away from its one-time license, local storage option, and security researchers are not happy about it. — If you're worried about getting hacked …
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Tweets: @cryptovillage, @kennwhite, @wbm312, and @bsletten
| Kristina Lustig / Stack Overflow Blog: |
Stack Overflow announces Channels, a private Q&A space for teams, in beta, and available for free for now — Here's What We're Working on and How You Can Get Involved — On Stack Overflow, a question gets asked once, answered, and then becomes a central point of knowledge for thousands of others who read it on our site.
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