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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 … | Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Bank of America begins rolling out its AI-powered assistant, Erica, which will help its 25M mobile clients do banking tasks by voice, text, and gestures — The virtual assistant will be available to Bank of America's 25 million mobile clients — Bank of America on Friday officially introduced Erica …
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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, Ubergizmo, Engadget, Motley Fool, and MSPoweruser
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| Ernie Smith / Motherboard: |
A history of the music industry's first efforts at creating music streaming services after Napster and why they failed given the importance of streaming now — Lessons from the music industry's initial consumer-hostile reaction to the Napster saga. Going from $16 CDs to unlimited streaming is really hard.
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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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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| 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 …
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| 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
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| Patrick Winn / GlobalPost Investigations: |
Interviews with experts and defectors detail North Korea's Reconnaissance General Bureau, whose hackers are estimated to have stolen $650M+ — The Reconnaissance General Bureau, North Korea's equivalent to the CIA, has trained up the world's greatest bank-robbing crews.
Facebook: Patrick Winn. Tweets: @pri, @bdeskin, @pritheworld, @pritheworld, @pri, @pwinn5, and @pri_security
| Mehreen Khan / Financial Times: |
Majority of European Parliament members are pushing for Mark Zuckerberg's testimony, due to be given in a private session on Tuesday, to be streamed live — MEPs have revolted against plans for Mark Zuckerberg to attend a closed-door grilling in the European Parliament next week … | Kate Conger / Gizmodo: |
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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Mashable, Business Insider, 9to5Google, and The Daily Beast
Tweets: @find_evil, @nick_kapur, @pinboard, @evepeyser, @robshilkin, and @mhbergen. Thanks:@andrewcouts
| 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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