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Sources: 2nd generation Snap Spectacles to ship in Q3 with improved performance; 3rd gen planned for 2019 with two cameras for 3D-like depth effects in videos — Snap Inc. plans to launch a second version of its Spectacles glasses this year followed by a more ambitious third version equipped …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
AWS in US is experiencing connectivity issues affecting services like Slack, Atlassian, Twilio and devices like Echo with Amazon's Alexa voice assistant — - Atlassian, Slack, Twilio and other web services are having problems that appear to be related to the cloud issue.
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TechCrunch, GeekWire, The Verge, Engadget, Digital Trends, Ars Technica, The Register, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Android Authority, ZDNet, and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @engadget
| Michelle Robbins / Search Engine Land: |
Google expands snippets to provide multiple answers to search queries that could be interpreted in different ways — Google has been rolling out many new search features over the past few months related to images, featured snippets, and the knowledge graph.
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| John McCrank / Reuters: |
Equifax expects $275M in 2018 costs from the data breach, says 2.4M additional customers were affected by 2017 cyber attack — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Equifax Inc (EFX.N) said on Friday it expects $275 million in costs in 2018 related to the credit reporting company's massive data breach last year …
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Tweets: @zdnet, @toddheberlein, @skuranda, @mikaelthalen, and @lichtspektrum
| Sean McLain / Wall Street Journal: |
Toyota is teaming up with two other Japanese companies to form a $2.8B Tokyo-based company to develop software for self-driving cars — New company's goal is software of high enough quality to be used in passenger cars — TOKYO— Toyota Motor Corp. TM -.94% said it would spend nearly $3 billion …
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| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Facebook's security team issued memo about Russian interference in Dec. 2016; firm's disclosures complicated by concerns about image, Mueller gag order — Social-media giant played down allegations Russia exploited its platform, deepening perceptions it is oblivious to public concern about its social impact
Tweets: @juliacarriew, @persuasivepr, @noahshachtman, @rebeccaballhaus, and @kirstengrind
| Wall Street Journal: |
Former recruiter sues Google, says YouTube set minority hiring quotas, stopped hiring white and Asian males last year for tech jobs, fired him for complaining — A former employee alleges tech firm set quotas for hiring minorities — YouTube last year stopped hiring white and Asian males …
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Tweets: @roran_stehl, @patrickmoorhead, @dmac1, @wsj, and @dmac1
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Rovio misses on Q4 revenue of €73.9M vs €77.33M estimated and announces closure of a year-old London office, departure of head of games unit; stock down 9%+ — Gaming and entertainment company Rovio continues to have a very hard time of it as it faces the music on the waning popularity …
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GlobeNewswire News Room, BBC, Reuters, TechSpot, MarketWatch, GlobeNewswire News Room, Pocket Gamer.biz, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Variety, and Business Insider. Tweets: @ingridlunden
| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Best of MWC: Galaxy S9, demise of bezels, Vivo's Apex concept phone, Lenovo Chromebooks; worst of MWC: iPhone X notch copycats, AR Emoji, LG's rebadged “V30s” — The future has more notches than headphone jacks — Mobile World Congress 2018: what happened?
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram may be preparing to launch audio and video calling within its direct messaging system according to files and icons buried in its APK — Instagram wants to be your phone, not just your camera. And it wants to be better at it than Snapchat. Files buried in Instagram …
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XDA Developers, The Verge, AndroidGuys, Socialnomics, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, Tom's Guide, PhoneDog.com, Mashable, Android and Me, SlashGear, TechSpot, Ars Technica, MacRumors, Android Central, New York Magazine, iPhone in Canada Blog, Neowin, Android Police, International Business Times, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, and Engadget
Tweets: @joshconstine and @joshconstine
| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
State lawmakers in Maryland, New York, and Washington weigh bills regulating political ads on Facebook, Google, and Twitter — Alonzo Washington delivered a dire warning to his fellow delegates in Maryland's legislature last month: Russia might try to influence their elections, too.| TechCrunch: |
Sources: UiPath raises ~$120M Series B at $1B+ valuation for enterprise back-office automation bots; UiPath raised $30M at estimated $109M valuation in April — The initial hype around bots — applications that run partly or entirely using natural language processing, machine learning …
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