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Sources: Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene told employees that company will not renew its Project Maven AI contract with DoD; the current contract expires in 2019 — Google will not seek another contract for its controversial work providing artificial intelligence to the U.S. Department of Defense …
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| Barbara Ortutay / Associated Press: |
Facebook to shut down Trending and is testing new features like a breaking news label for publishers, a Today In section, and a News Video in Watch section — Facebook is shutting down its sometimes-problematic “trending” news section after four years. — This image provided by Facebook shows …
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| Dan Rys / Billboard: |
Spotify updates its hateful content and conduct policy, says it will no longer use the provision that led to removal of R. Kelly and XXXTentacion from playlists — Three weeks after Spotify announced a new policy regarding hate content and hateful conduct on its service …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Samsung will announce Galaxy Note 9 on August 9 at an “Unpacked” event in New York — - Device upgrades to focus on camera system, faster processor — Apple also plans larger iPhone model for later in the year — Samsung Electronics Co. plans to highlight … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple is working on a new ad network for app promotion, in talks with Snap, Pinterest, others to distribute its search ads for apps — Increasing ad sales could help offset slowing iPhone growth, but effort would face stiff competition from Google and Facebook
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Sources: Apple to debut tools at WWDC that let two iPhones share augmented reality data phone-to-phone without storing data in the cloud — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) next week will debut tools to let two iPhone users share augmented reality while limiting the personal data sent …
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Sources: Microsoft has recently held talks to buy GitHub, which was valued at $2B in the latest financing round in 2015 — - The talks have come amid GitHub's struggle to replace CEO and founder Chris Wanstrath, who stepped down 10 months ago. — GitHub was last valued at $2 billion in 2015 …
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Sources: Lyft has agreed to acquire Motivate, a startup behind services like Ford GoBike in SF and Citi Bike in NY, likely for $250M or more — Lyft has agreed to buy Motivate, which runs some of the biggest U.S. bike-share programs, according to two people briefed about the deal.
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| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
Binance announces $1B fund of funds which will also invest directly in blockchain firms, with ride-hailing initiative backed by Didi cofounder as first project — Binance, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has announced it is launching a $1 billion “Social Impact Fund” …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram says making its feed algorithmic led to its users seeing 90% of friends' posts, compared to 50% before the change and explains how the feed works — Instagram users were missing 70 percent of all posts and 50 percent of their friends' posts before the app ditched the reverse chronological feed for an algorithm in July 2016.| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Former Google business head Nikesh Arora has been named CEO and chairman of Palo Alto Networks, replacing Mark McLaughlin, who will become vice chairman — The security company is on the upswing of late. — Nikesh Arora, the former chief business officer at Google, has been named CEO … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
AT&T says it will not ask SCOTUS to review the decision in FTC's lawsuit over misleading promises of mobile broadband speeds, will pursue settlement — AT&T finally gives up attempt to cripple FTC authority over broadband. — AT&T has given up its years-long quest to cripple …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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