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| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
1,000+ Googlers sign a petition demanding Google remove Kay Coles James, president of the conservative Heritage Foundation, from its external AI advisory board — ‘They think that some of our colleagues either do not or should not exist’ — When Google announced an external advisory board …
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Source: Slack plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange in June or July, taking the same path as Spotify for its direct listing — The workplace messaging company Slack Technologies Inc. plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange in June or July, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils new mid-range 13-inch Surface Book 2 with Intel quad-core i5 processor, 256GB storage, and 8GB RAM for $1,499 — Microsoft is quietly refreshing its Surface Book 2 base model today. The software giant is introducing Intel's latest 8th Gen quad-core i5 processor …
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| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Mark Zuckerberg, in a conversation with Axel Springer's CEO, floats a “news tab to surface more high quality news”, says Facebook could pay publishers — The Facebook CEO floated a “news tab to surface more high-quality news,” and said he's willing to write checks to support it.
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| Gintautas Dumcius / Boston Business Journal: |
CollegeVine, a college guidance platform that predicts a student's chance of acceptance and helps families manage the application process, raises $24M Series B — CollegeVine, the Cambridge-based education technology startup, has raised $24 million as it eyes offering its services to employers as an employee benefit.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Valve confirms its Index VR headset with integrated headphones and new controllers will ship on June 15, plans full reveal for May 1 — You won't have to wait until May to learn more about Valve's Index VR headset. Valve briefly posted (and promptly removed) unfinished pages for the Index …
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| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Lyft shares close down 11.85% on second day of trading, after its stock jumped 8.7% on the day of IPO — SAN FRANCISCO — Lyft's debut on the stock market is off to a bumpy start. — The ride-hailing company went public in a blaze of glory on Friday, as its stock jumped 8.7 percent … | Alison Griswold / Quartz: |
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Intel Capital says it's invested $117M in 14 startups, the majority of which create products and services related to AI — Intel Capital today announced an investment of $117 million in 14 startups doing things like making AI inference faster, helping manufacturers deploy AI systems …
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| Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair: |
Sources: Apple tried hard to sign up The New York Times and WaPo to Apple News+, was flexible on some terms but wanted the papers' entire content offerings — The Times and Post resisted Eddy Cue's hard sell ("We'll make you the most-read newspaper in the world.")
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Gmail launches email scheduling and brings Smart Compose to all Android phones with subject suggestions and personalized greetings — Despite Google's long-standing love affair with April Fools' fakery, fifteen years ago today the internet giant was deadly serious when it launched what would become one of its biggest products: Gmail.
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| Klint Finley / Wired: |
Cloudflare says users can now join waitlist for its mobile-only VPN service Warp via its 1.1.1.1 app, says it has plans to offer a faster, paid version of Warp — VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORKS (VPNs) can help protect your internet traffic from prying eyes. VPN services route your email … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
A new biography on Tim Cook offers a first-hand view from former staff about how Apple battled the FBI's order to unlock the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone — A new biography of Apple chief executive Tim Cook out this month describes the moment — and the deliberations … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
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