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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Evan Spiegel talks about Snapchat redesign, going public, and Facebook copying its key innovations at Code Conference — Snap's CEO weighs in on Facebook's long history of copying him — Evan Spiegel publicly addressed Facebook's longstanding practice of copying his company's products Tuesday …
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Tweets: @alexstamos, @kurtwagner8, @alexstamos, and @benthompson
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Snapchat is prepping Snapkit platform to let developers bring a version of Snapchat's camera, a “login with Snapchat” option, and Bitmoji to other apps — Snapchat is secretly planning the launch of its first full-fledged developer platform, currently called Snapkit.
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Engadget, The Verge, Ubergizmo, Mashable, 9to5Mac, and Axios
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| Chartbeat Blog: |
Direct mobile traffic to publisher sites surpasses referral traffic from Facebook, including desktop and mobile, for the first time — New data shows that for the first time, mobile direct-to-site traffic has surpassed Facebook. Could this mean that mobile does not equal social after all?
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| Paul Elias / Associated Press: |
US judge sentences Toronto man to five years in prison and fines him $250K for using data stolen in giant Yahoo data breach to hack into private email accounts — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A young computer hacker who investigators say unwittingly worked for Russian spies was sentenced to five years …
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| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon XR1, company's first dedicated platform/SoC for VR, AR, and mixed reality headsets, coming late 2018 — For the better part of the past few years now, Qualcomm has been making a serious and concentrated effort to establish themselves as the dominant player in the mobile VR space.
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| Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
HP Omen 15 laptop updated for better gaming with Nvidia Max-Q GPU and reduced screen bezel, to be released July 29 with prices starting at $979 — HP made a comeback with its refreshed Omen gaming laptop line last year, and now the company is updating the model with the most ubiquitous size ahead of E3.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
iOS 11.4 arrives with Messages in iCloud, about a year after the feature's announcement, to help sync iMessages across devices and save local storage space — Almost a full year after it was announced — It's been a long time coming, but Apple is finally launching its Messages in iCloud feature today with the release of iOS 11.4.| Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeed: |
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Tweets: @macrumors, @stevekovach, @backlon, and @joannastern
| Robbie Gonzalez / Wired: |
Facebook will give researchers encrypted laptops to access Facebook's data and publish findings without pre-approval, in push to prevent abuse during elections — FACEBOOK IS KEEPING a close eye on misinformation in the lead-up to 2018's elections. Which elections, exactly?
Tweets: @wired and @knightfdn
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Imgur, the GIF and image sharing site with ~250M MAUs, launches video support, and COO says he expects the company to be profitable this year — Imgur is the internet's best time sink, where 250 million monthly users silently consume an endless community-curated collection of absurd GIFs …
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| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
As governments increasingly take an interest in data sovereignty, cloud providers like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft will benefit in the long term — The Great Privacy Policy Email Deluge of 2018 may have finally petered out, but we are just starting to build an understanding of who the winners …
Tweets: @calbucci
| Benny Geteng / Post Courier: |
Papua New Guinea says it will ban Facebook for a month in the future in a bid to crack down on fake users and study how fake news and pornography spreads — FACEBOOK Users In The Country Can Expect A Month's Shutdown Access To The Site In PNG In Order For The Communications And Information Technology Department To Carry...
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Tweets: @boboleia, @lcmoser, @jimwaterson, @heldavidson, @anneapplebaum, @justinpickard, and @schuetze_k
| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com: |
Google unveils Chrome 67 for Windows, Mac, and Linux with Generic Sensors API, WebXR Device API for building VR/AR experiences, WebAuthn protocol support, more — Google released earlier today Chrome 67, the latest stable release of its web browser. According to changelogs released with Chrome 67 …
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| Katie Canales / Business Insider: |
Microsoft surpassed Alphabet's market value for the first time in three years by about $10B on Tuesday — - Microsoft's market value was $753 billion at end of day Tuesday, surpassing Google's parent company Alphabet in valuation for the first time in three years.| Deb Riechmann / Associated Press: |
FBI and DHS say North Korea used two pieces of malware to target US infrastructure and aerospace, financial, and media companies over nine years — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration issued a fresh warning Tuesday about malicious North Korean cyber activity, as that nation's leader dispatched …
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Tweets: @gwcchs and @ericgeller
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Ava raises $30M Series B for its fertility-tracking bracelet — As the worlds of health and technology continue to knit closer together through advances in hardware and big data analytics, a startup called Ava, which has built a $199 wearable device and app to help women track their fertility cycles …
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Tech.eu, VentureBeat, and PE Hub Blog
| Robert Hof / SiliconANGLE: |
Nvidia unveils HGX-2, a cloud computing platform for AI and high performance computing, which consists of 16 GPUs delivering 2 petaflops per second — Hoping to maintain the high ground in artificial intelligence and high-performance computing, Nvidia Corp. late Tuesday debuted …
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Inquirer, GlobeNewswire News Room, VentureBeat, The Register, ZDNet, and Network World. Thanks:@robhof
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Bird, an electric scooter-sharing startup, is raising $150M led by Sequoia Capital at a $1B valuation and has plans to raise more for this round — - The $150 million round will help Bird fend off competition — CEO Travis VanderZanden was formerly a leader at Uber and Lyft
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CNET, TechCrunch, Crunchbase News, and Business Insider
| Finextra Research: |
Tradeshift, a Danish startup that builds private marketplaces for businesses and facilitates supply chain payments, raises $250M Series E at $1.1B valuation — Supply chain finance outfit Tradeshift has joined the unicorn club after closing a $250 million Series E funding round led …
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TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Computer Business Review, and Global Trade Review
| Alex Heath / Cheddar: |
Snap shares some workforce diversity stats, with just 13% of tech roles filled by women, amid internal debate over “toxic” culture ignited by ex-staffer's email — The Cheddar Summary — A former Snap software engineer wrote an email last November criticizing the company …
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TechCrunch, Fast Company, Business Insider, The Verge, Fortune, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @alexeheath, @shiraovide, @cityofthetown, @kerrymflynn, @alexeheath, and @karaswisher. Thanks:@nycjim
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Uber rival Taxify raises $175M at $1B valuation led by German automotive giant Daimler, says it plans further expansion in Europe and Asia — There's a new unicorn in the global ride-hailing space after Taxify, a startup born in Estonia that does battle with Uber across Europe and Africa …
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Tech.eu, Bloomberg, Financial Review, Estonian World, and Silicon Republic
| New York Times: |
Inside the debate at Google about the company's cooperation with the military on AI, after contract for Defense Department's project Maven became public — WASHINGTON — Fei-Fei Li is among the brightest stars in the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence, somehow managing to hold …
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