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Intel unveils Apollo Lake next generation platform for cheap Atom-based devices, with first products shipping in the second half of 2016 — Intel Unveils New Low-Cost PC Platform: Apollo Lake with 14nm Goldmont Cores — This week, at IDF Shenzhen, Intel has formally introduced … | Clive Thompson / New York Times: |
The Minecraft Generation: How Mojang's virtual sandbox, which sells 10K copies per day, is teaching millions of children to master the digital world — The Minecraft Generation — How a clunky Swedish computer game is teaching hundreds of millions of children to master the digital world. — J
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The history of content moderation, the laws that govern internet speech, and how safety works online — The secret rules of the internet — Julie Mora-Blanco remembers the day, in the summer of 2006, when the reality of her new job sunk in. A recent grad of California State University …
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Alphabet's Access CEO Craig Barratt says it is looking into providing fixed wireless services where installing fiber is too expensive — Google Fiber wants to beam wireless Internet to your home — Over the past five years, Google Fiber has laid its high-speed Internet in a handful of cities and pledged to come to several more.| Darren Orf / Gizmodo: |
Facebook's initial Messenger chatbots are slow, frustrating, and useless — Facebook Chatbots Are Frustrating and Useless — Facebook's new Messenger chatbots are barely two days old, and it's definitely showing. Right now, you can only interact with a few, and finding them is a huge pain in the ass.
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Oracle acquires Israeli big-data firm Crosswise for reported $50m — Company figures out which devices a user owns, helps advertisers target their pitches better — Big data giant Oracle announced Thursday that it had acquired Israeli big data firm Crosswise, a specialist in “cross-device” … | Reuters: |
Apple opposes unlocking iPhone in Brooklyn drug case, saying the government has not proven its help is necessary — Apple opposes U.S. appeal over iPhone in New York drug case — Apple Inc argued on Friday that the U.S. Justice Department had failed to substantiate that it needed …
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GoPro announces GoPro VR 360-degree video channel, mobile apps, discloses $5K Omni VR rig price tag, will demo “LiveVR” streaming at NAB show starting on Monday — GoPro announces VR video app and livestreaming tools — It's been a busy few days for GoPro.
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Assisted driving tech firm Nauto raises $12M Series A led by Andy Rubin's Playground Global — Nauto raises $12 million for driverless car technology that's street-legal today — Even before the blockbuster acquisition of Cruise Automation by General Motors for more than $1 billion … | Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
Researchers uncover GozNym, malware that is a hybrid of Nymaim and Gozi that has stolen $4M from customers of 24 US and Canadian banks in just 3 days — Eastern European Cyber Crooks Raid US Banks For $4 Million In Just 3 Days — In early April, cybercriminals believed … | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
India debuts Unified Payment Interface, a system built on top of its existing biometric-backed ID project to simplify digital banking for its 1.2B+ citizens — India's Audacious Plan to Bring Digital Banking to 1.2 Billion People — A biometrics-backed ID system will make it easier for everyone … | Politico: |
Inside the European Commission's efforts to create a digital single market and how the creative industry is pushing back — Copyright fight club — EU wants to change how millions watch Hollywood films and YouTube videos, but legacy media groups are pushing back hard.Sponsor Posts
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