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Google I/O keynote live stream — Learn about the latest product and platform innovations at Google.
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| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Google Lens coming to Google Search; some search results to include 3D models for an AR view of what you searched for; Lens translation coming to low-end phones — Imagine you're thinking about chairs, and you Google up some to try out in your living room.
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Google announces Duplex on the Web, less focused on mimicking speech, can now handle car rentals, tickets, and fill online forms with info Google has about you — Last year, Google stoked intense controversy when it announced Duplex, a technology that uses eerily human-sounding artificial …
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| The Verge: |
Live blog of Google I/O keynote, where new hardware is expected, including a larger Google Home Hub and a line of Pixel 3A phones, alongside Android 10 Q — And maybe a few surprises, too — Google's annual developer keynote is here and thanks to a lot of leaks, we have a fairly good idea of what to expect.
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9to5Google, Android Police, TechCrunch, CNET, Gizmodo, CNN, Gizmodo, and TechRadar.com
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Google says its next-gen Assistant is 10X faster and includes more app-specific functionality, coming to Pixel phones later this year — After three years, the voice-activated helper gets its biggest update yet. And it shows just how much Google already knows about you.
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ZDNet and The Keyword
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google Assistant is getting a driving mode, with large touch-friendly shortcuts to navigate, make a call, and more, available this summer on Android phones — Google Assistant is already available in Google Maps, but it's now getting an optimized phone mode. This presents a feed of suggestions like directions and music.| Jordan Palmer / Android Police: |
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
First look at Android Q: dark mode, better gestures, Live Caption, improvements to OS security updates via Project Mainline, Focus Mode, and more — It isn't about what's new, it's about what's better — A full release is expected this fall, but Google is announcing new major features … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google unveils Live Caption, coming with Android Q, which shows a real-time transcription of any video or audio a user plays on their phone — It even works when using video chat apps — Google waited until I/O 2019 to demonstrate one of the most impressive features of Android Q. It's called Live Caption …
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Samsung says it cannot confirm the shipping date for Galaxy Fold and will cancel pre-orders, unless told not to, if they do not ship by May 31 — SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday it cannot confirm the shipping date for its foldable device Galaxy Fold yet and apologized …
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Droid Life, Tizen Help, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, AppleInsider, Engadget, MacRumors, Gizmodo, Thurrott, 9to5Google, The Verge, Android Authority, Inquirer, Gizchina, TalkAndroid.com, CNBC, Mashable, Android Beat, Silicon Republic, ZDNet, TechSpot, Gearburn, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, BetaNews, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, and iDownloadBlog.com
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Symantec: a Chinese state-sponsored hacker group co-opted and repurposed NSA hacking tools to attack US allies and private companies in Europe and Asia in 2016 — Chinese intelligence agents acquired National Security Agency hacking tools and repurposed them in 2016 to attack American allies …
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Current and former employees discuss how Apple's stores changed under Angela Ahrendts' reign, with challenges around customer service festering — Web Smith's recent experience at his local Apple store in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio, has been an exercise in frustration.
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MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Cult of Mac. Tweets: @damanr
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Cruise Automation, GM's self-driving division, raises $1.15B at a $19B valuation from investors including SoftBank, Honda, and T. Rowe Price Associates — Post-money valuation is now $19 billion — Cruise Automation, the self-driving division of General Motors, announced on Tuesday …
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Google Search will get the Full Coverage feature from Google News, and soon be able to index and surface podcast content that can be listened to in web results — Google Search is getting an upgrade with better news coverage and now, podcast indexing. At the company's developer conference Google … | Chris Hoffman / How-To Geek: |
Microsoft debuts WSL 2, featuring “dramatic” performance increases, support for Docker, and shipping with a Linux kernel, to be updated through Windows Update — Microsoft today announced Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2—that's WSL 2. It will feature “dramatic file system …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
US Department of Energy says AMD and Cray will build the world's fastest supercomputer, dubbed Frontier, by 2021, with 1.5 exaflops of processing power — Dubbed Frontier, the supercomputer expected to go online in 2021 with 1.5 exaflops of processing power
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Engadget, CNET, Axios, AnandTech, ZDNet, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @teslachick and @someinfosecguy
| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
As Europe clamps down on online hate speech and misinformation, concerns grow that these efforts will harm free expression and stifle dissent — LONDON — In Spain, activists were convicted for social media posts that violated an expanded antiterrorism law.| Vice: |
More than 100 Riot Games employees walked out on Monday to protest the company's use of forced arbitration to settle sexual harassment lawsuits — ‘League of Legends’ developers walkout to protest the company's use of forced arbitration to settle sexual harassment lawsuits.
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Riot Games, The Verge, Los Angeles Times, Kotaku, Washington Post, Softpedia News, Destructoid, Engadget, Dot Esports, and Boing Boing
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
With today's WordPress 5.2 release, the CMS for ~34% of all websites finally gets cryptographically-signed updates and a modern cryptographic software library — WordPress 5.2 released with support for cryptographically-signed updates, a modern cryptographic library.| Washingtonian: |
A parent's first-hand account about how content found on Reddit, 4chan, and YouTube helped their 13-year-old become infatuated with the alt-right — A Washington family's nightmare year. — When my son Sam,* who was then 14, asked me to take him to the Mother of All Rallies on the Mall in September 2017 …
Tweets: @lrozen, @emilynussbaum, @willsommer, @vcav, @moneyries, @sonofdadandmom, and @neontaster
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Several people suspected of involvement in running Deep Dot Web, a site facilitating access to dark web sites, arrested by FBI and others in several countries — The FBI have arrested several people suspected of involvement in running Deep Dot Web, a website for facilitating access to dark web sites and marketplaces.
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