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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Sources: Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser that will replace Edge as the default browser on Windows 10 — Microsoft is throwing in the towel with Edge and is building a new web browser for Windows 10, this time powered by Chromium. — Microsoft's Edge web browser …
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| Adam D'Angelo / The Quora Blog: |
Quora says it discovered a data breach on Nov. 30 affecting about 100M users, exposing names, email addresses, hashed passwords, and other non-public content — We recently discovered that some user data was compromised as a result of unauthorized access to one of our systems by a malicious third party.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft open sources the Open Neural Network Exchange runtime, a key part of Windows ML platform, and makes Azure Machine Learning service generally available — Following its alliance with Facebook around the Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX), Microsoft is open-sourcing the ONNX runtime engine for machine learning.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft debuts public preview of Visual Studio 2019 for Windows and Mac, with a new window layout, more space for coding, a new search experience, and more — At its Microsoft Connect(); 2018 virtual event today, Microsoft announced the initial public preview of Visual Studio 2019 — you can download it now for Windows and Mac.| James Somers / New Yorker: |
Profile of Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, the only Google Senior Fellows, who joined the company in 1999 and have pair-programmed some of its key infrastructure — Coding together at the same computer, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat changed the course of the company—and the Internet.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
DuckDuckGo study finds that Google personalizes search results even when logged out or using the private browsing incognito mode — A study, albeit from competitor DuckDuckGo, finds that Google search results can vary significantly — The amount of personalization inherent in any one of Google's …
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| Stefan Etienne / The Verge: |
Razer Blade Stealth updated with a new design, Windows Hello, and an option for a 4K screen with discrete graphics; launching today with same $1,399 base price — The updated Blade Stealth might be a charmer — Razer is updating one of its most recognizable laptops, the 13.3-inch Blade Stealth, with a new chassis and specs.
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Fortnite-maker Epic Games announces a PC and Mac game store to rival Steam's, coming “soon”, with 88% of revenue going to developers, up from 70% on Steam — Fortnite-maker Epic Games is capping off their insanely successful 2018 with an even more ambitious product launch …
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Tweets: @albertwenger, @kylebrussell, and @kylebrussell
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Bose announces Frames, its AR glasses that use sound to relay information, available to preorder now for $199, shipping in January — More information about its AR platform is coming at SXSW — Bose has officially announced a consumer release of Frames, its augmented reality sunglasses …
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| Politico: |
Sources: officials at NRCC, the House GOP's campaign arm, had several months' worth of emails stolen in 2018 by what some think was a nation-state hacker — Republican leaders were not informed until POLITICO contacted committee officials about the incident.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google to expand eSIM support for Pixel 3 to Sprint and carriers in Germany, the UK, and India in the coming months — With eSIM technology, users no longer have to manage the tiny-sized card thanks to all the necessary information becoming digitized. Google today announced expanded eSIM support …
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| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
New Nvidia AI research project uses objects and scenery from within existing videos to build new interactive environments in realistic city landscapes — It all started with cities and — what else? — Gangnam Style. — Attendees of this year's NeurIPS AI conference in Montreal can spend … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google launches Flutter 1.0, its Android and iOS mobile app SDK, as Square announces two new Flutter SDKs for easy payments — At Flutter Live in London today, Google launched version 1.0 of Flutter, the company's open source mobile UI framework that helps developers build native interfaces for Android and iOS.| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Inside Google's Area 120, the company's in-house startup incubator founded in 2016 that has since greenlighted about 50 projects by Google employees — Google's “20% time“-the long-standing perk that invites employees to carve off a fifth of their working hours to devote to personal projects …
Tweets: @harrymccracken, @fastcodesign, @fearofpoets, @gabor, and @lifeatgoogle
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft and Docker announce a new joint open-source project, the Cloud Native Application Bundle, that makes packaging and running cloud-native apps easier — Microsoft and Docker today announced a new joint open-source project, the Cloud Native Application Bundle (CNAB) … | Anna Hensel / VentureBeat: |
Facebook schedules F8 2019 for April 30-May 1 in San Jose — Developers, mark your calendars: Facebook announced today that its annual F8 conference will be held on April 30 - May 1, 2019 at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, CA. — Though Facebook hasn't released the official schedule yet …
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
2018 State of European Tech report: funding reached a record $23B, all-male founders get 93% of capital, and almost 50% women suffer discrimination in workplace — The 2018 State of European Tech report, now in its fourth year, was released today. Assembled by investment firm Atomico …
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Atomico, Slush 2018, Tech.eu, Atomico, Telecoms.com, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Forbes, Yahoo News, and State of European Tech 2018
Tweets: @brenthoberman and @fdestin
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Facebook makes Collections shareable, allowing users to share gift ideas or shopping lists with friends — This holiday season, Facebook is hoping you'll use a relatively little-known feature to share your gift ideas. — With collections, users can already save Facebook content … | Thenmozhi Soundararajan / New York Times: |
After Jack Dorsey's trip to India and encounter with the harassment Dalits face on Twitter, it's time to include minorities in talks of platform accountability — Dalits and other Indian gender, religious, tribal and ethnic minorities are regularly harassed on Twitter by right-wing troll armies.
Tweets: @johnstanly, @nytimes, @techworkersco, @equalitylabs, @scribe_it, @equalitylabs, @jilliancyork, and @sarahjeong
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