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SEC's William Hinman, head of Division of Corporate Finance who oversees cryptocurrencies, says Bitcoin and Ether are not securities but many ICOs are — The SEC's point man on cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings (ICOs) says that bitcoin and ether are not securities but that many …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft begins rolling out Redstone 5 preview of Windows 10 to Insiders with SwiftKey support on desktop, new gaming features, and more — Testers can try it out today — Microsoft is planning to bring its SwiftKey keyboard to Windows 10 later this year.
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Windows Blog, Brad Sams, BleepingComputer.com, ZDNet, Windows Central, MSPoweruser, Neowin, On MSFT, and On MSFT
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Helped by AI, Microsoft says the Windows 10 April 2018 Update is now on 250M devices, the fastest version of Windows 10 to reach the milestone — Like other tech giants, Microsoft wants everyone to know that the company is heavily investing in AI. The latest example in this quest …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat launches Snap Kit developer platform, letting other apps use Snap's login, Bitmoji avatars, public Stories, and Snap Map content — Developers join the Stories war — Today Snapchat finally gets a true developer platform, confirming TechCrunch's scoop from last month about Snap Kit.
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| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Google refreshes its Ad Settings tool and Why this ad? feature to help users control information that is used to target ads and understand the ads that appear — Facing growing questions about how personal data is used to target advertising, Google today announced a series of updates … | Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
Apple says an upcoming software update will disable Lightning port data transfer after an hour of inactivity, closing a loophole that lets police crack iPhones — SAN FRANCISCO — Apple has long positioned the iPhone as a secure device that only its owner can open.
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| Anna Irrera / Reuters: |
Ripple's chief cryptographer says banks are not ready to use blockchain to process cross-border payments due to scalability and privacy issues — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Banks are unlikely to use distributed ledgers to process cross-border payments for now because of scalability and privacy issues …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google says App Maker, its tool for quickly building and deploying business apps on the web, is now generally available as part of G Suite — It's been a year and a half since Google announced App Maker, its online tool for quickly building and deploying business apps on the web.
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| Joshua Goldman / CNET: |
Samsung announces second generation Chromebook Plus with 12.2-inch touchscreen, 2-in-1 form factor, Intel CPU, 32GB storage, and more for $500 — Chromebooks — laptops running on Google's browser-based Chrome OS — are generally designed for affordability, making the term “premium Chromebook” something of an oxymoron.
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Samsung Newsroom, 9to5Google, XDA Developers, Android Authority, Android Police, Engadget, Laptop Mag, BetaNews, Thurrott.com, and Droid Life. Thanks:@byjoshg
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google says its Tasks app will become part of the core G Suite service on June 28 — Google has revealed that its Tasks app will graduate to become a G Suite core service on June 28. — Google Tasks, if you recall, has existed in something of an odd place for years …
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G Suite Updates Blog, Android Authority, and 9to5Google
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Lidar startup Luminar says Volvo is making a “substantial” investment in the company and buying its lidar sensors — Luminar will supply lidar sensors to the Swedish auto giant — Lidar startup Luminar is on a bit of a hot streak. After announcing a major deal with Toyota … | Antonio Villas-Boas / Business Insider: |
OnePlus CEO Pete Lau says over 1M people bought the OnePlus 6 in its first 22 days on sale, up from 1M in three months for previous flagships — - OnePlus sold 1 million units of its latest smartphone, the OnePlus 6, in less than a month. — It's a small number compared to Apple …
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9to5Google, Thurrott.com, The Verge, CNET, and TechSpot. Tweets: @getpeid. Thanks:@stevetweedie
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Amazon starts shipping its $249 DeepLens AI camera to developers in the US — Back at its re:Invent conference in November, AWS announced its $249 DeepLens, a camera that's specifically geared toward developers who want to build and prototype vision-centric machine learning models.
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AWS News Blog, Engadget, ZDNet, GeekWire, VentureBeat, and Technology Personalized
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Sources: Microsoft is working on tech that would eliminate cashiers and checkout lines from retail stores and has had talks with Walmart about a collaboration — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) is working on technology that would eliminate cashiers and checkout lines from stores …
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Marketing Land, ZDNet, TechCrunch, Windows Central, Ars Technica, The Next Web, BuzzFeed, The Verge, TechSpot, Fortune, GeekWire, SlashGear, Adweek, Gizmodo, On MSFT, Retail Dive, Thurrott.com, CNET, Inquirer, Engadget, and MSPoweruser
| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
An overview of the new Siri Shortcuts feature in iOS 12, and the Shortcuts app, which will be available as a separate app on the App Store this fall — In my Future of Workflow article from last year (published soon after the news of Apple's acquisition), I outlined some of the probable outcomes for the app.
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iPhone in Canada Blog
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
European Commission names 52 experts, including researchers from Google and IBM, to its High Level Group on AI, an advisory body to draft AI ethics guidelines — The European Commission on Thursday named 52 experts to its High Level Group on Artificial Intelligence, an advisory body tasked … Sponsor Posts
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