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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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newsroom.spotify.com, BuzzFeed, NPR, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, CNET, TechCrunch, Engadget, Axios, Neowin, and Music Business Worldwide
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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: 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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Tweets: @typesfast, @fromedome, @henrygrabar, @vogon, @jason_rowley, @amir, @eliotwb, and @dylanljmartin
| 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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BABIFinance, SiliconANGLE, China Money Network, TechCrunch, The Next Web, NewsBTC, Crowdfund Insider, SludgeFeed, Tech in Asia, and CCN. Tweets: @prestonjbyrne
| Jeremy Burge / Emojipedia: |
Unicode Consortium announces that 2018 emojis are coming on June 5, proposes adding flamingo, white heart, diving mask, Hindu temple, more to 2019 emoji — Unicode 11.0 arrives on June 5, 2018. This signals the date which companies can begin supporting the new emojis.
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CNET, International Business Times, Engadget, MacRumors, SlashGear, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @mgsiegler, @diskopo, and @ow
| Jaikumar Vijayan / eWeek: |
Google says Pixel 2 encryption feature prevents even an attacker with highly-privileged access to the device from accessing data without the owner's cooperation — An encryption feature available with Google Pixel 2 smartphones ensures even an attacker with highly-privileged access to a mobile device won't be able to access data.
| Patrick Collinson / The Guardian: |
Visa says it is experiencing a service disruption preventing some Visa transactions in Europe from being processed — Card giant confirms it is suffering an outage and is investigating the cause — Visa's payment network has crashed across the UK and Europe, sparking chaos as transactions are failing or being denied.
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The Independent, BleepingComputer.com, BBC, Sky News, Bitsonline, Metro.co.uk, Dailystar.co.uk, Independent.ie, and PaymentsSource
Tweets: @anth0nypears0n, @seamusduggan, @niiiaaammmh, @jamesrbuk, and @jonathanhaynes
| Chloe Aiello / CNBC: |
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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ZDNet, Business Insider, and GeekWire
Tweets: @mattrosoff, @stroughtonsmith, and @beckpeterson
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Hulu announces a major business reorganization; Chief Content Officer Joel Stillerman and two VPs are leaving, and Dan Phillips, formerly of TiVo, joins as CTO — On the heels of Hulu's news of its growing live TV business, which has now reached 800,000 subscribers, the streaming service today announced … | Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
Data analytics startup Domo files for an IPO, says it lost $176.6M in 2017, has $72M left in the bank, and needs access to more money by August — - Domo, a $2.28 billion data analytics startup, has filed to go public. — It's not profitable, according to the filings: In 2017 …
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CNBC, Forbes, and Business Insider
Tweets: @shiraovide, @angusdav, @jaredhecht, @shiraovide, @shiraovide, and @lexnfx
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Apple declines invitation to EU lawmaker's hearing on tax evasion, saying it does not want to prejudice its challenge to the EU order over back taxes to Ireland — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - IPhone maker Apple has turned down an invitation to an EU lawmakers' hearing, saying it does not want to prejudice …
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