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May 13, 2016, 2:05 PM

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Julia Love / Reuters:
Apple says it has invested $1B in Chinese Uber rival Didi Chuxing  —  Apple Inc (AAPL.O) said on Thursday it has invested $1 billion in Chinese ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing, a move that Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said would help the company better understand the critical Chinese market.
New York Times:
Sources: Apple and Didi were in contact for more than a year, closed the $1B deal in three weeks after CEOs met in April to discuss cooperation  —  HONG KONG — In April, Apple's chief executive, Timothy D. Cook, sat down for the first time with the leaders of the Chinese ride-hailing app Didi Chuxing to discuss working together.
Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook:
Mark Zuckerberg promises “full investigation” on Trending Topics matter, will talk to “leading conservatives”  —  I want to share some thoughts on the discussion about Trending Topics.  —  Facebook stands for giving everyone a voice.
Justin Oskofsky / Facebook:
Facebook explains how Trending Topics works, publishes internal guidelines, reiterates that discrimination against sources of any political origin isn't allowed  —  At Facebook, we stand for connecting every person — for a global community, for bringing people together, for giving all people a voice …
Sam Thielman / Guardian:
Trista Kelley / Bloomberg:
SWIFT warns of a new hacker attack on a commercial bank similar to Bangladeshi heist, says it is part of a wider highly adaptive campaign targeting banks  —  Hackers used malware to target PDF reader of commercial bank  —  Warning comes after cyber heist from Bangladesh central bank
Dustin Slaughter / Motherboard:
Philadelphia Police Department admits it disguised a license plate surveillance truck as a Google Maps vehicle  —  The vehicle in question.  Image: Dustin Slaughter  —  The Philadelphia Police Department admitted today that a mysterious unmarked license plate surveillance truck disguised …
Julia Fioretti / Reuters:
Europe agrees on cross-EU roaming access for Netflix and other video subscription services  —  Consumers will be able to access their online subscriptions for services like Netflix (NFLX.O), Sky (SKYB.L) and Canal+ (IPO-CANALFRA.PA) when they travel across the European Union under proposals tentatively agreed …
Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:
Automattic quietly acquired the rights to .blog TLD in 2015 for about $19M, will start selling the domains this year  —  The company behind the world's most popular publishing platform is trying to make .blog happen.  —  WordPress.com owner Automattic announced today that it has …
Jordan Golson / The Verge:
Google seeking testers for self-driving cars in Arizona; applicants must have clean driving records, bachelor's degrees, and type 40WPM, will be paid $20/hour  —  Do you live in Arizona and want to get paid to “drive” a self-driving car?  Google could have a job for you.
Pradeep / MSPoweruser:
Microsoft adding fingerprint support to Windows 10 Mobile this summer  —  Biometrics is an increasingly popular technology that provides convenient access to systems, services, and resources.  Microsoft Windows added Biometrics support back in 2012.  The Windows Biometric Framework (WBF) …
Slav Petrov / Google Research Blog:
Google open sources SyntaxNet, a neural network framework for parsing natural language, and releases Parsey McParseface, a SyntaxNet-trained English parser  —  At Google, we spend a lot of time thinking about how computer systems can read and understand human language in order to process it in intelligent ways.
Caleb Weiss / The Long War Journal:
Islamic State releases first Android app directed exclusively at children, that teaches vocabulary with jihadist themes  —  Home page of the application  —  The Islamic State's “Library of Zeal” has released an application for teaching the Arabic alphabet to children on Android devices.

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