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When internet intermediaries like GoDaddy, Google, and CloudFlare bar neo-Nazis, dangerous precedent is set for silencing legitimate voices — In the wake of Charlottesville, both GoDaddy and Google have refused to manage the domain registration for the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website that …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Essential Phone review: edge-to-edge screen is great, good performance and battery life, but has a mediocre camera, an unproven module system, and no 3.5mm jack — An arcane artifact from an unrealized future — Even though it was announced less than three months ago at the Code Conference …
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| Anousha Sakoui / Bloomberg: |
Sources: movie studios, including Warner Bros. and Universal Pictures, in talks with Apple, Comcast to offer movie rentals within weeks of theatrical release — Studios are said focused on project despite exhibitor pushback — Theater chains are said to seek 10 years of revenue split
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google is rolling out autoplaying AI-generated silent 6-second previews for videos in search results, while on Wi-Fi in Android Chrome and Google apps — Google announced a major update to its mobile search results pages today. Whenever your query brings up a video, Google will now show …
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| Ryne Hager / Android Police: |
Google will livestream official Android O launch on August 21st; teaser file name suggests it will be called Oreo — Today it has been revealed that Android O, the next major version of Google's operating system, will be “touching down” (and likely shown off) on August 21st at 2:40 PM ET via a livestreamed event from New York City.
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| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed: |
Travis Kalanick files reply to fraud lawsuit, says Benchmark ambushed him in a public and personal attack, and that the case should be privately arbitrated — The former Uber CEO filed court documents late Thursday that say the investors behind the lawsuit ambushed him, and that the case should be privately arbitrated.
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| Jordan Fabian / The Hill: |
Donald Trump authorizes elevation of US Cyber Command to the status of Unified Combatant Command, triggering a review of whether it should be separated from NSA — President Trump announced Friday he is boosting U.S. Cyber Command to a full combatant command, triggering a review of whether …
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Facebook VP Deb Liu talks about Marketplace expansion plans including adding ticket sales and listings from local car dealers and real estate agents — Facebook wants to bring ticket sales and bigger retailers inside Marketplace. — Facebook has big plans for Marketplace …
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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Google is testing new tools with NYT and FT to boost subscriptions for publishers; tools may include changes to “first click free”, payment, targeting options — Changes coming around search results and potentially payments — New York Times and Financial Times are first early testers| David McCabe / Axios: |
US lawmakers and advocates on both the left and right are increasingly calling for regulating Google, Facebook, and Amazon — Tech behemoths Google, Facebook and Amazon are feeling the heat from the far-left and the far-right, and even the center is starting to fold.| Reuters: |
Following President Trump's Monday order, the United States Trade Representative formally launches probe into China's alleged theft of US intellectual property — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Friday formally launched an investigation into China's alleged theft of U.S. intellectual property … | Sara Fischer / Axios: |
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