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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, 9to5Google, Ubergizmo, Mashable, 9to5Mac, and Axios
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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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| Terri Walter / 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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| 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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The Verge, Wired, Fortune, VentureBeat, and Axios
Tweets: @kateconger, @nytpolitics, @daiwaka, and @eff
| 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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| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Plex redesigns iOS and Android apps, adds new personalization features and support for podcasts — Updates coming to iOS and Android today — Today Plex is releasing an entirely redesigned mobile experience on iOS and Android. The new apps offer improved navigation …
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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.
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The Verge, Yahoo! Finance, Beyond Search, Softpedia News, Seeking Alpha, Neowin, GeekWire, MSPoweruser, and Investor's Business Daily. Tweets: @thurrott
| 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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Engadget, U.S. Department of Justice, Ubergizmo, Reuters, CNET, and Silicon Republic
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| Edmund Lee / Recode: |
James Murdoch says ~50% of Hulu's 20M subscribers opt for the $11.99/month ad-free plan, instead of the $7.99/month plan with commercials — But does he think Facebook could one day offer an ads-free version? Maybe not. — Hulu has three principal owners at the moment, including 21st Century Fox … | 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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Google Chrome Releases, Inquirer, Thurrott.com, SecurityWeek, Neowin, and VentureBeat
| 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
| Rob LeFebvre / Engadget: |
Facebook begins rolling out polls for Messenger Stories, in a similar style to polls on Instagram Stories — Facebook announced quite a few changes and additions to its Messenger app at its recent F8 event, including a planned redesign and a way to buy Nike sneakers and other products in AR.
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Digital Trends and Adweek
| 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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MIT Technology Review, GlobeNewswire News Room, Inquirer, VentureBeat, The Register, ZDNet, and Network World. Thanks:@robhof
| 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
| Amelia Heathman / London Evening Standard: |
Pleo, a European startup that uses smart payment cards and mobile app to help employees track company related expenses, raises $16M Series A led by Kinnevik — London's fintech scene shows no signs of slowing down when it comes to investments — Business expenses are one of the trickier things to manage in the workplace.
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| 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
| 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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CSO, Reuters, US-CERT, The Hacker News, The Register, SecurityWeek, US-CERT, Axios, and Washington Times
Tweets: @gwcchs and @ericgeller
| 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.
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The Next Web, Inquirer, BetaNews, Apple Support, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, and BGR. Tweets: @alexhern
| Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeed: |
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Tweets: @macrumors, @stevekovach, and @backlon
| 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, CNBC, TechCrunch, Crunchbase News, and Business Insider
| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Madrid-based OnTruck, which develops a platform to match supply and demand in the road freight industry, raises €25M Series B led by Cathay Innovation — Madrid-based OnTruck, which has built a “haulage tech platform” to better match supply and demand in the road freight industry … | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Amazon's Whole Foods expands 10% discount on some items for Prime members to 12 additional states including Colorado, Arkansas, Texas, and Northern California — Amazon today expanded its new 10 percent discounts on sale items and other special deals for Prime members at Whole Foods …
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