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Sources: Facebook will not unveil its smart speakers at F8 while it deals with data misuse scandal, but still plans to launch speakers later this year — Social network had hoped to show off devices at F8 in May — Company still plans to launch products later this year
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| Dylan Byers / CNNMoney: |
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg will testify before Congress “within a matter of weeks” — Zuckerberg says he's open to testifying before Congress — After repeated calls for him to do so, Mark Zuckerberg has decided he will testify before Congress.
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Tweets: @foxbusiness, @tonyromm, @sarahfrier, and @tonyromm
| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple debuts Everyone Can Create, a free curriculum to make it easier for teachers to integrate drawing, music, filmmaking, or photography into lesson plans — Apple announced Everyone Can Create, a new free curriculum for teachers, during its “Let's Take a Field Trip” event at Chicago's Lane Technical High School today.
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| Lory Gil / iMore: |
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Google says it will acquire GIF platform Tenor, which is integrated into a variety of keyboards and messaging apps like Facebook Messenger — Google will be acquiring Tenor, which powers a variety of GIF keyboards on phones and messengers like Facebook Messenger, the companies announced today.
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The Keyword, Tenor, Yourstory.com, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, CNET, Axios, Android Central, Seeking Alpha, and VentureBeat. Tweets: @mattlynley
| Chris Mellor / The Register: |
Pure Storage and Nvidia unveil AIRI, a four-petaflop platform using Nvidia's DGX-1 servers and Pure's FlashBlade storage system for large-scale AI initiatives — 0.5 PFLOPS FP32, 0.5 PB of effective flash storage — Pure Storage and Nvidia have produced a converged machine-learning system …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google adds support for 39 more languages to Maps — Google today announced that Google Maps is getting support for 39 additional languages. — The newly supported languages are Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Burmese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian … | Susan Decker / Bloomberg: |
A US appeals court revives Oracle's billion-dollar copyright claim against Google, saying Google's use of Java wasn't “fair use” — Google could owe Oracle Corp. billions of dollars after an appeals court said it didn't have the right to use the Oracle-owned Java programming code … | Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
On-demand shipping/delivery startup Shyp, which raised a total of ~$63M, is ending operations and laying off all its employees — The company that hoped to revolutionize shipping is ending operations today-a poster child for a whole era of venture-funded ideas that has come and gone.
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Kevin Gibbon, TechCrunch, Crunchbase News, Gizmodo, Yourstory.com, TechSpot, and Business Insider
Tweets: @shyp, @arishi_, @sumanthr, @srcasm, @rrhoover, @gregbensinger, @mdudas, @eringriffith, and @joemfbrown. Thanks:@mariedomingo
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
A deep look at JavaScript-based cryptocurrency mining service Coinhive, a cryptojacking tool used to steal processing power of users' devices for mining Monero — Multiple security firms recently identified cryptocurrency mining service Coinhive as the top malicious threat to Web users …
Tweets: @briankrebs, @briankrebs, and @marloegroup
| Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Uber says it will not renew its self-driving permit in California and that it has suspended testing in Pittsburgh, Toronto and San Francisco — Uber plans to end all self-driving-car testing in California, according to a letter from the state Department of Motor Vehicles to the company.
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Tweets: @darakerr, @reutersbiz, and @csaid
| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Oscar Health raises $165M in a round led by Founders Fund with participation from Alphabet's Capital G and Verily; sources say funding brings valuation to $3.2B — - Oscar Health's valuation is now at more than $3 billion, sources say, after it raised another big round from Alphabet, Founders Fund and others.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
VR camera maker Lytro is shutting down, and former employees are going to Google — Futuristic “light field” camera maker Lytro is shutting down, according to a statement posted online. The company says that starting today, it will stop “taking on new productions and providing professional services … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Google revamps its Play Store and Play Movies & TV app to show users where they can stream content from 28 streaming services, not including Netflix — Google is promoting Android streaming-media apps from partners — including HBO, Amazon, Hulu, ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC … | Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Uber will pay $10M to settle a discrimination and hostile workplace class action lawsuit filed last year on behalf of 420 women and minority engineers — Uber will pay $10 million to settle a discrimination and hostile workplace class action lawsuit filed last year on behalf of 420 women and minority engineers.
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