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Google announces Project Stream as it partners with Ubisoft to test game streaming, seeks users in US to test Assassin's Creed Odyssey via the Chrome browser — In a surprise announcement Monday, Google revealed a partnership with Ubisoft to bring the upcoming Assassin's Creed Odyssey to your Chrome Browser.
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Co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger announce VP of Product Adam Mosseri as new Head of Instagram — We are pleased to announce that Adam Mosseri, our current Vice President of Product, will become the Head of Instagram starting today. We are thrilled to hand over the reins … | Bloomberg: |
Sridhar Ramaswamy, Google's advertising chief, is leaving to join Greylock Partners as a VC, and will be replaced by Prabhakar Raghavan, who heads G Suite — - Ramaswamy heading to Greylock as a venture capital partner — Google is replacing its top advertising executive, Sridhar Ramaswamy …
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USPTO has rejected all but three of 56 claims in Waymo's 936 patent, which played a key role in Waymo-Uber suit, after a complaint by an unaffiliated engineer — Eric Swildens had no dog in the fight other than intellectual curiosity. — A lone engineer has succeeded in doing … | Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Verizon says it's started rolling out its Verizon 5G Home broadband service in Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, and Sacramento, for typical speeds of 300Mbps — Less than a year after announcing that it would launch the first commercial 5G network in the United States … | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
What to expect at Microsoft's hardware event at 4pm ET today: Surface Pro 6, updates to the Surface Laptop, Surface Studio, and HoloLens — It's fall. That means every big to mid-sized tech company is holding an event to debut its latest offerings in time for the holidays.| James Wagner / Chromium Blog: |
Starting in Chrome 70, users will be able to restrict extensions' access to a custom list of sites or require a click to grant access on a page-by-page basis — Incredibly, it's been nearly a decade since we launched the Chrome extensions system. Thanks to the hard work and innovation …
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Apple launches “Everyone Can Create” curriculum, announced at its education event last March in Chicago, on Apple Books — Fist announced at Apple's education event in Chicago, the company today launched its new “Everyone Can Create” curriculum on Apple Books.
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Sources: Amazon subsidiary IMDb is expected to announce a free, ad-supported video service, similar to The Roku Channel, for Amazon Fire TV users this week — - Amazon is expected to announce a free, ad-supported video service on Fire TV which will feature libraries of past TV shows and movies …
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Twitter outlines its election integrity efforts ahead of midterms, says it removed ~50 accounts pretending to be members of various state Republican parties — We are committed to improving the health of the public conversation on Twitter and protecting the integrity of elections is an essential part of that mission.| Isabella Steger / Quartz: |
Yahoo Japan announces it will shut down its GeoCities service in March 2019, 22 years after its launch, citing profitability and technological issues as reasons — A decade ago, internet users who grew up with Web 1.0 bid a fond farewell to Sunset Strip, Rodeo Drive, Colosseum, and other …
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New Zealand travelers may now be compelled at customs to hand over device passwords or face a $5K fine on “reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing”, under new law — Travellers who refuse to hand over their phone or laptop passwords to Customs officials can now be slapped with a $5000 fine.| Washington Post: |
US Justice Department moves to sue California in order to quash its new net neutrality law — The Trump administration said Sunday it will sue California in an effort to block what some experts have described as the toughest net neutrality law ever enacted in the United States …
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