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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.
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| 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.”
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| 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.
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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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| 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 … | 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.
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| 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 … | 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.
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| 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
| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
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| 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.| 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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| Mark Hearn / 9to5Google: |
Google blocking extensions not listed in the Chrome Web Store for Windows users — Google announced today that it's now blocking local Chrome extensions to protect Windows users from malicious software. This means that only extensions coming from the Chrome Web Store can be installed on Chrome for Windows.| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Facebook reduces volume of auto-posted stories from third-party apps in News Feed — Facebook gives up on automatically posting everything you do online — Mark Zuckerberg's quantified self dream is over — for now — Last week, Facebook made a small but very important change to Instagram.
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| Bloomberg: |
China Said to Push Banks to Remove IBM Servers for Security — The Chinese government is pushing domestic banks to remove high-end servers made by International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) and replace them with a local brand, according to people familiar with the matter …
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| eMarketer Newsroom: |
Forecast: Twitter could reach 400M users in 2018, 40.1% in Asia-Pacific, 19% in North America — Emerging Markets Drive Twitter User Growth Worldwide — More than 40% of Twitter users worldwide will be in Asia-Pacific by 2018 — Twitter's user base will increase 24.4% in 2014 … Sponsor Posts
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