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Gurdeep Pall / The Official Microsoft Blog:

Skype Translator, a real-time language translation tool, will begin rolling out later this year — Microsoft demos breakthrough in real-time translated conversations — The following post is from Gurdeep Pall, Corporate Vice President of Skype and Lync at Microsoft.

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Satya Nadella on Microsoft's future, the “post-post-PC era,” and his immediate to-do list — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at the Code Conference — Highlights: Microsoft's future is about building platforms and software for productivity. Nadella says we're entering a “post-post-PC era.”

More: The Verge, Re/code, Fortune, ReadWrite, TechCrunch, Gigaom, BGR, Neowin, GamesIndustry International, Softpedia News, WinBeta, Polygon, Electronista, GeekWire, gameinformer.com, Re/code, TechCrunch and Business Insider

Tweets: @jguynn, @jonfortt, @kabster728, @ahess247, @reckless, @stevecase, @lanceulanoff, @stevenlevy and @parislemon

Liz Gannes / Re/code:

Google unveils a self-driving car prototype, sans steering wheel, accelerator, and brake, speed limited to 25mph — Google's New Self-Driving Car Ditches the Steering Wheel — Google has finally built its own car from scratch. And it looks like a gondola with wheels.

More: The Official Google Blog, Re/code, Re/code, The Verge, PC Magazine, Washington Post, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Engadget, Ars Technica, Associated Press, The Register, ExtremeTech, Geek.com, blog.chron.com, GadgeTell, EE Times, Daily Dot, The Atlantic Online, Inquirer, Wall Street Journal, Phandroid, TechCrunch, Search Engine Roundtable, Mashable, The Tell, Washington Post, BBC, Forbes, Connectedly, PC World, Guardian, Bloomberg, GSMArena Blog, GeekWire, DisplayBlog, Gigaom, BetaNews, Search Engine Land, CNET News, Mercury News, Marketing Land, Fortune, NEWS.com.au, NPR, The Technology Chronicles, BuzzFeed, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, Android Authority, The Next Web, The Equity Kicker and The Hill

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Chris Duckett / ZDNet:

iCloud not compromised in Apple ID attack: Apple — Summary: Apple has produced a minuscule response to the Apple ID attack that began affecting Australian and New Zealand iCloud users yesterday. — Chris Duckett — Almost a half and a day after a number of Australian users reported finding …

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Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:

Hackers remotely lock some Apple devices in Australia using Find My iPhone, demand ransom

More: Wired, Softpedia News, Washington Post, Daily Dot, F-Secure Antivirus …, PandoDaily, TIME and PC Magazine

David Pierce / The Verge:

Amazon confirms its fight with publishing giant Hachette is real, and it's far from over — The war for ebooks rages on — Amazon's spat with publishing conglomerate Hachette has been unofficial but well-documented, as the retail giant uses its considerable muscle to gain more favorable terms …

More: Amazon.com, The Register, New York Times, GadgeTell, Gizmodo, The Mac Observer, The Next Web, Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, CNET News, Bloomberg, Re/code, SlashGear and PC Magazine. See also Mediagazer

Wall Street Journal:

Facebook seeks EU antitrust review of WhatsApp deal in bid to avoid multiple national probes — Facebook Seeks EU Antitrust Review of WhatsApp Deal — Unexpected Twist to $19 Billion Deal Already Approved in the U.S. — Facebook Inc. 's acquisition of messaging service WhatsApp is facing …

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Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:

NTT DOCOMO, Japan's Largest Carrier, To Start Carrying The iPad Air And iPad Mini 2 On June 10 — Apple announced today that it will begin to sell the iPad Air and iPad mini with Retina display in Japan on NTT DOCOMO's network starting June 10. NTT DOCOMO is the country's largest carrier …

More: Apple, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, AppleInsider, PadGadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, Pocketnow, Cult of Mac, The Next Web, AppleTell and App Advice

Cade Metz / Wired:

Mark Russinovich embodies Microsoft's new company attitude as a principal architect of Azure — Microsoft's Most Clever Critic Is Now Building Its New Empire — Before joining Microsoft and becoming one of its most important software engineers, Mark Russinovich was in the business of pissing the company off.

More: Wired.co.uk

Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:

Apple granted patent for embedding sapphire displays in LiquidMetal iPhone chassis — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday issued Apple a patent describing a process in which an iPhone's display glass — including sapphire — is integrally joined with a bezel made out of amorphous metal alloy, namely LiquidMetal.

More: Computerworld, TechCrunch, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacDailyNews, BGR, TUAW, Business Insider and Gizmodo

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:

Canada's Pitch to Tech Entrepreneur: We'll Pay 80% of Your Salaries — Lucrative Rebates Aimed at Top Tech Talent — Imagine you are launching or running a startup and there's a place where all of your developers—the biggest expense for most tech companies—cost one quarter what they do in Silicon Valley.

More: SlashGear

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Wavii founder Adrian Aoun leaving Google, taking some of the Wavii team with him — Wavii Founder Leaves Google — Lots of Google executives are at the Re/Code Code conference in Rancho Palos Verdes this week. But at least one of them won't be a Google executive for very much longer.

More: Wall Street Journal and Re/code

Tim Peterson / AdAge:

Yahoo Plots YouTube Rival for Summer Debut After Delay — Portal's Proposed Terms Have Received Pushback From YouTube Creators — Yahoo wants to rival YouTube for viral videos. — Creativity Reimagined — Is there room for another YouTube? — Yahoo is ramping up talks …

More: USA Today, Wall Street Journal, SlashGear, SocialTimes, VentureBeat, Pocket-lint, CNET News and TechnoBuffalo. See also Mediagazer

Rebecca Jeschke / Electronic Frontier Foundation:

AF Holdings is denied 1K IP addresses in federal court, big win against copyright trolls — Crushing Blow for Copyright Trolls: Appeals Court Halts AF Holdings' Extortion Scheme — Copyright Holders Can't Abuse Legal System to Pressure Thousands of Internet Users to Pay Unfair Settlements

More: DSLreports, Bloomberg, TorrentFreak, The Register, Gigaom and Los Angeles Times. See also Mediagazer

Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica:

Valve: Steam Machines delayed until 2015 — Valve attached this controller sketch image to its announcement. Go ahead, pick it apart for clues about new hats coming to Team Fortress 2! — Valve Software — On Tuesday evening, Valve Software used a forum in the Steam games-store app …

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Microsoft Buys Mobile App Management Platform Cappitan, Will Integrate It Into Azure — Yesterday, Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella noted that Azure, the company's cloud platform, had more work to do have better traction with startups and developers. Today, the company is taking a step to improve that …

More: GeekWire, The Next Web, ZDNet, Microsoft Azure Blog and Softpedia News

Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:

Google Using Machine Learning to Boost Data Center Efficiency — Google is using machine learning and artificial intelligence to wring even more efficiency out of its mighty data centers. — In a presentation today at Data Centers Europe 2014, Google's Joe Kava said the company has begun using …

More: ZDNet, The Official Google Blog, TechCrunch, Gigaom, Engadget, 9to5Google and Google Cloud Platform Blog

LG:

LG announces the G3, its new flagship smartphone with a 5.5" 2560 x 1440 display that launches May 28 in South Korea, later in other countries — WITH NEW G3, LG AIMS TO REDEFINE CONCEPT OF SMART AND SIMPLE — LG Electronics (LG) today introduced to the world its eagerly anticipated G3 smartphone …

More: lgmobile.mediaroom.com and Gotta Be Mobile. Tweets: @harrymccracken

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

LG Officially Outs Its Leaky G3 Smartphone: Bigger Hardware, Flatter Software

More: ReadWrite, The Register, Inquirer, BetaNews, CNET News and NEWS.com.au

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