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Microsoft acquires Cycle Computing, which develops software for orchestrating workloads in the Azure, Amazon, and Google clouds, for an undisclosed amount — Microsoft is buying Cycle Computing, which develops software for orchestrating workloads in the Azure, Amazon and Google clouds, for an undisclosed amount.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich leaves President Trump's American Manufacturing Council, says the divided political climate is causing serious harm to critical issues — Intel said Monday that CEO Brian Krzanich was leaving President Trump's American Manufacturing Council, the latest executive …
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| Ken White / Popehat: |
Dreamhost, after working with DoJ for several months, opposes DoJ request for info on owners and visitors of anti-Trump site, including 1.3M IP addresses — I used to have DreamHost as a webhost. We parted ways, but I always admired and appreciated that they reliably stood up for their customers …
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| Karissa Bell / Mashable: |
Amazon launches “Instant Pickup” points to fulfill pickup orders in minutes, now live near a few college campuses in the US — If you think speaking to your fellow humans is the worst part about going to the local corner store, Amazon might just have a solution.
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| Tony Romm / Recode: |
Uber settles with FTC over misleading customers on its privacy policies, will submit to 20 years of privacy checkups by outside auditors — In a settlement, Uber will have to submit to 20 years of privacy checkups. — The U.S. government on Tuesday issued sweeping new penalties against Uber … | Eric Jackson / CNBC: |
Q&A with ex-PayPal COO David Sacks on how cryptocurrency poses long term threat to VC model and is fulfilling PayPal's initial dream to be “database of money” — - David Sacks was PayPal's COO back in its early days, and says cryptocurrency is now fulfilling … | Salvador Rodriguez / Reuters: |
US judge orders LinkedIn to remove any tech stopping hiQ Labs from scraping public profile data, after LinkedIn sent cease and desist letter in May — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge on Monday ruled that Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) LinkedIn unit cannot prevent a startup …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft announces general availability of .NET Core 2.0, .NET Standard 2.0, and ASP.NET Core 2.0 — Microsoft is rolling out .NET Core 2.0, .NET Standard 2.0 and ASP.NET Core 2.0, advancing the company's goal of more of a common .NET platform everywhere.
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| Andrew Tarantola / Engadget: |
MIT researchers unveil Pensieve, a machine learning system for enabling smoother streaming of high-quality online video with less rebuffering — The “Pensieve” system automatically adjusts video quality based on network conditions — Buffering and pixelation are the scourge of streaming video.
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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable: |
Google fixes AdWords exploit that allowed advertisers to create non-clickable ads, which led to many publishers getting low cost-per-click rates — As many of you know, Google confirmed an AdSense exploit where ad buyers were able to manipulate the ad platform which resulted in many AdSense publishers noticing a huge decline in CPCs.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook is deleting posts linking to an obscene Daily Stormer article on Charlottesville victim, after initially being shared more than 65K times — Daily Stormer article violated community standards, company says — A blog post attacking a victim of white supremacist violence in Charlottesville … | Steve Kovach / Business Insider: |
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
KGI: 3rd-generation Apple Watch will ship this year in LTE and non-LTE models, won't have “obvious change” to form factor, will keep 38mm and 42mm sizes — Reliable analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities has released a new forecast on the next generation Apple Watch.
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| Financial Times: |
Beijing's public transport payments company Yikatong launches Android app for allowing commuters to pay for journeys by tapping their smartphones — Read next … Everyone in Beijing can now get on to public transport with the tap of a smartphone — everyone except Apple iPhone users.
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TechCrunch, Bank Innovation, AppleInsider, Tech in Asia, Cult of Mac, Fortune, Finextra Research Headlines, and Patently Apple. Tweets: @ft
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
IOpipe, which provides tools for developing and monitoring serverless applications for AWS Lambda, comes out of beta and raises $2.5M in seed funding — Serverless applications are all the rage right now — and some companies are even leapfrogging containers to go all-in on services like AWS Lambda and Azure Functions.
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