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Sources: DOJ is preparing an antitrust investigation into Google's practices related to search and other businesses — The Justice Department is preparing an antitrust investigation into Google's practices related to search and other business, sources say.

Tony Romm / Washington Post:

Sources: DOJ began work on a possible Google antitrust investigation after brokering a deal with FTC, which considered and opted not to pursue the case in 2013 — A possible probe could open a new chapter in the tech giant's troubles with regulators around the world who contend that the company is too large

More: New York Times and Reuters

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Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

What to expect from WWDC 2019: new Mac Pro, iOS 13 with Dark Mode and updates to core apps, macOS 10.15 with Marzipan apps, and 31.6-inch 6K pro display — Apple's big Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote is happening on Monday, June 3rd, and this year looks to be more consequential than most.

Cade Metz / New York Times:

DeepMind researchers detail how they designed autonomous agents that exhibited humanlike behavior when playing a first-person multiplayer game mode in Quake III — Chess and Go were child's play. Now A.I. is winning at capture the flag. Will such skills translate to the real world?

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Neil Cybart / Above Avalon:

By having an estimated one billion active device users, Apple has a self-sufficient level of ecosystem strength to thrive despite slowing user growth — Apple's ecosystem is massive. Approximately a billion people are using more than 1.4 billion Apple devices.

Tweets: @neilcybart, @neilcybart, @neilcybart, @neilcybart, @neilcybart, and @stevesi

Jeffrey Mervis / Science:

IEEE bans Huawei staff from journal article peer-reviews since papers may contain non-public Huawei ban-related info, keeps Huawei's other membership privileges — A major scientific society has banned employees of Huawei, the Chinese communications giant, from reviewing submissions …

More: South China Morning Post, Financial Times, The Register, Wired, CNET, TechSpot, TechCrunch, The Register, Reuters, KrASIA, Inquirer, Android Central, and Bloomberg

Brian Burlage / VICE:

A self-described Reddit “karma whore” shares how he learned to make Reddit posts go viral and reflects on his years-long unfulfilling journey to 8M+ karma — My years-long journey to the top of Reddit's karma leaderboards has only made me feel more alone.

Tweets: @jason_koebler, @motherboard, @adrjeffries, @samleecole, @josephfcox, @brianburlage, and @peterslattery3

Alex Kantrowitz / Tech Giant Update:

Camera app VSCO, which has an ad-free social feed and makes its money on subscriptions, says 2M+ people paid $20 in 2018 for its premium service — The camera app VSCO is unlike its social counterparts. Though it has a feed similar to Facebook's News Feed and Twitter's Timeline …

Tweets: @kantrowitz, @kantrowitz, @kantrowitz, and @caseynewton. Thanks:@kantrowitz

Christine Fisher / Engadget:

Report: Apple to limit third-party tracking in apps for kids starting next week — As tech companies grapple with safety and privacy concerns, Apple will reportedly limit third-party tracking in kids apps starting next week. While the company hasn't announced the change, a source told The Wall Street Journal that it's in the works.

Source: Wall Street Journal. More: The Verge, MSPoweruser, The Verge, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, Gizmodo, Pocket-lint, Boing Boing, AppleInsider, GeekWire, 9to5Mac, CNET, iPhone in Canada Blog, Seeking Alpha, and The Mac Observer

Tweets: @joannastern, @joannastern, @couldrynick, @basche42, @joannastern, @ohmdee, @mims, @bethanymac12, @reckless, @ihnatko, @trippmickle, @wsj, @joannastern, @chronotope, @gigabarb, @pierce, @ismurray, @profcarroll, and @dangillmor

Amy Maxmen / Nature:

As anonymized phone records of millions of people in low-income countries are used in big data projects for saving lives, critics worry about potential misuse — Researchers have analysed anonymized phone records of tens of millions of people in low-income countries.

Tweets: @semihakcomak, @gquaggiotto, @gquaggiotto, and @amymaxmen

Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech:

MediaTek claims its 7nm chipset is the world's first SoC with an integrated 5G modem, will ship in devices in 2020 using Arm's Cortex-A77 CPU and Mali-G77 GPU — Today MedaTek is making quite an unusual announcement: The company is the first to announce a SoC with an integrated 5G modem.

More: Engadget, Gizmodo, GSMArena.com, XDA Developers, Pocket-lint, Business Insider, Reuters, VentureBeat, PR Newswire, The Verge, ExtremeTech, and Trak.in

Tweets: @philipmichaels and @andyboxall

Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC:

Profile of Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram who, sources say, argued for removing fake news and demoting Breitbart in News Feed in 2017 and early 2018 — KEY POINTS — In succeeding Instagram CEO and co-founder Kevin Systrom, Adam Mosseri has to balance his staff's desire for autonomy with the greater needs of Facebook.

More: Forbes and Yahoo Finance

Tweets: @roundtrip, @sal19, @mosseri, @cnbc, @robaeprice, and @stevekovach. Thanks:@mattrosoff

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