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Sources: Trump personally pushed US Postmaster General Megan Brennan to double the rate the Postal Service charges Amazon and other companies, but was rebuffed — President Trump has personally pushed U.S. Postmaster General Megan Brennan to double the rate the Postal Service charges Amazon.com …
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Fortune, Nextgov, The Hill, PYMNTS.com, CNET, Reuters, GeekWire, Recode, Engadget, TechCrunch, CNBC, Seeking Alpha, The Verge, Gizmodo, and Bloomberg
Facebook: Matt Millburn. Tweets: @jdawsey1, @trevortimm, @mgsiegler, @benjysarlin, @nickwingfield, @tomcoates, @tomcoates, @ddale8, and @jayrosen_nyu
| Rhett Jones / Gizmodo: |
Report: Snap CEO was inspired by Chinese apps for Snapchat redesign, wanted to make the app friendlier to older users, launched redesign despite staff concerns — Snap's stock price is now hovering around its lowest point ever since the company went public last year.
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The Information, 9to5Mac, Engadget, Ubergizmo, MSPoweruser, and Motley Fool
Tweets: @cityofthetown, @joshconstine, @mattnavarra, @kmclaughlinsf, @jessicalessin, @chandism, @carnage4life, and @amir
| Reuters: |
A look at Chinese “accelerators” in Silicon Valley, 11 of which have been created since 2013, that aim to identify promising startups and bring them to China — Koh Gui Qing, Salvador Rodriguez — NEW YORK/ SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Beijing's unslakeable thirst for the latest technology …
Tweets: @marcorubio
| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Alleged owners of Mugshots.com, a site that publishes mugshots and demands payment for removal, arrested on extortion, money laundering, identity theft charges — Mugshots.com is a “business permeated with fraud,” California AG says. — Two alleged owners of Mugshots.com …
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State of California, Engadget, Wired, Gizmodo, The Hill, Newser, The Guardian, Washington Post, Boing Boing, BleepingComputer.com, BBC, and WFMZ-TV
Tweets: @jhawklawyer and @rebeccavallas
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple is telling developers to remove CallKit from apps listed in App Store in China after government request, likely because of CallKit's VoIP functionalities — Apple has started cracking down on yet another type of application in China. Following the earlier removal of VPN apps …
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Google removed “Don't be evil” from the top of its code of conduct in late April or early May, Wayback Machine archives show, but kept one mention at the bottom — Google's unofficial motto has long been the simple phrase “don't be evil.” But that's over, according to the code …
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Business Insider, 9to5Google, and The Daily Beast
Tweets: @find_evil, @nick_kapur, @pinboard, @evepeyser, @robshilkin, and @mhbergen. Thanks:@andrewcouts
| Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: |
Interviews with pioneers of AI and PM Justin Trudeau about the history of neural networks and how the Canadian government brought the AI researchers together — Over the past five years, artificial intelligence has gone from perennial vaporware to one of the technology industry's brightest hopes.
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Associated Press, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, and Patently Apple
Tweets: @teamdatatonic, @rgmelko, @inklesspw, @katiadmi, and @counternotions
| Music Business Worldwide: |
After reports that it is inflating streaming numbers for big stars and is late paying royalties, Tidal hires cybersecurity firm to investigate potential breach — Under-fire streaming platform TIDAL has announced that it has enlisted an “independent, third party cyber-security firm” …
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MacRumors, Variety, Gizmodo, Cult of Mac, Forbes, KnowTechie, AppleInsider, PYMNTS.com, Engadget, Fortune, CNET, RAIN News, The Verge, and CelebrityAccess. Tweets: @mgsiegler
| Wendy Lee / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Facebook has leased all the 43 floors of the Park Tower at Transbay in San Francisco, a week after some Instagram employees moved into nearby office space — Facebook on Friday signed a lease at 43-story Park Tower, making the social networking giant one of the city's largest tech tenants.
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Data shows Tencent bought stakes in 277 tech companies between 2013 and 2017, and the value of its stakes in public companies topped $33B at the end of 2017 — Social-media and videogame giant bought stakes in 277 tech companies since 2013, and its deal-making pace is accelerating| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Source: Google edited some Duplex calls used in demo to protect identity of businesses involved; one restaurant in the demo may have been identified by Mashable — - Company is said to tell staff that robo-caller will ID itself — Duplex demo at company's I/O conference caused a firestorm
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Mashable, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, Mercury News, The Verge, SlashGear, TechCrunch, dmlp.org, and BGR
Tweets: @gruber and @sarahfrier
| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Oculus Mobile Store adds support for free and paid downloadable content in beta for Oculus Go and Samsung Gear VR with Rift support coming soon — Post-release downloadable content has become so commonplace in games that today's digital stores need to support it.
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Oculus Developer Blog, Gamasutra, and Road to VR
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