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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 …
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
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 …
Rani Molla / Recode:
Mary Meeker's annual internet trends report: smartphone shipments stagnate as average selling price drops, e-commerce sales growth and time online rise, more  —  Here's a first look at the most highly anticipated slide deck in Silicon Valley.  —  It's that time of year again …
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.
Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Google's Project Fi adds support for three new handsets: LG G7 ThinQ, the newly announced LG V35 ThinQ, and Moto G6  —  More choices at last  —  Google announced today that Project Fi users will soon have a few more device choices.  Three new phones will work with Google's wireless service …
Terri Walter / Chartbeat Blog:
Direct mobile traffic to publisher sites surpasses referral traffic from Facebook, including desktop and mobile, for the first time  —  We've gotten a number of questions from this post about how we define direct traffic, and just to clarify, Chartbeat's definition of direct traffic does not include dark social.
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 …
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 …
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.
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:
GPU database developer SQream raises $26.4M Series B led by Alibaba Group, bringing total funding to ~$40M, as it deepens its focus on China  —  SQream, the GPU database developer, will deepen its focus on China after raising a $26.4 million Series B led by Alibaba Group.
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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