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| Aaron Aupperlee / Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: |
Uber officially confirms testing self-driving Ford Fusion cars in Pittsburgh — Uber is testing its fleet of self-driving Ford Fusion cars on the streets, bridges and hills of Pittsburgh, the ride-sharing company confirmed for the first time Wednesday. — The San Francisco-based firm … | Norm Jouppi / Google Cloud Platform Blog: |
Google announces it has built a Tensor Processing Unit, a custom ASIC specifically for machine learning and tailored for TensorFlow — Posted by Norm Jouppi, Distinguished Hardware Engineer, Google — Machine learning provides the underlying oomph to many of Google's most-loved applications.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google turns Firebase into a unified platform for developers, with analytics, new notification system, and more; a free plan is now available — Google offers a plethora of cloud services that mobile developers can use to power their apps. With Firebase, which it acquired in 2014 …
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| Apple: |
Apple opens office in Hyderabad, India to develop maps for Apple products, will create up to 4,000 jobs — Apple® today announced the opening of a new office in Hyderabad that will focus on development of Maps for Apple products, including iPhone®, iPad®, Mac® and Apple Watch®.
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Netflix unveils Fast.com that offers speed tests from Netflix's servers; no click required, test begins when you land at the site — Netflix wants you to know how fast your internet connection is, and has today launched a new website, Fast.com, that will give you that information.
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| Lawrence Abrams / Bleeping Computer: |
TeslaCrypt ransomware shuts down, releases master decryption key for victims — In surprising end to TeslaCrypt, the developers shut down their ransomware and released the master decryption key. Over the past few weeks, an analyst for ESET had noticed that the developers of TeslaCrypt …
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| Jacob Long / Android Police: |
Google unveils Family Library for Google Play purchases, will allow apps to be shared among six people, likely beginning July 2 — We knew it was coming eventually, but just before the Google I/O keynote began, Google updated its developer documentation with more details about Family Library.| Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: |
Android apps and the Google Play Store are coming to Chrome OS — It looks like there's a little tidbit of information that might have been originally planned for the keynote (pulled because of time restraints, maybe?). According to a session description now on the Google I/O website … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google announces Duo, a one-on-one HD video-calling app, coming to iOS and Android later this summer
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| Michael Crider / Android Police: |
Xiaomi announces the Mi Box, a 4K Android TV set-top box with Bluetooth voice remote, coming to US soon — You might have noticed that there aren't a lot of Android TV boxes around. Aside from the original Nexus Player, the much-recommended NVIDIA SHIELD, and the generally regrettable Razer Forge TV …
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Official Android Blog, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Investor's Business Daily, Pocketnow, The Verge, Liliputing, CNET, News18, Liliputing, Android Central and Android Authority. Tweets: @hbarra
| Brian Stelter / CNNMoney: |
Zuckerberg meets conservatives, calls to rebuild trust after Trending Topics bias claims — Facebook is courting conservative friends through a Wednesday afternoon meeting with CEO Mark Zuckerberg. — The unusual session with about a dozen prominent conservative commentators and leaders …
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Samsung Pay now works with loyalty cards in the US — You can load all of your membership cards right into the mobile payment service on your Galaxy phone. — by , Shara Tibken — Got a ton of pesky loyalty cards you can never find when you need them? Samsung's got you covered.
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| Alex Hern / Guardian: |
Google takes right to be forgotten battle to France's highest court — Company is appealing against decision by French data protection authority to apply search-results ruling to all its domains — Google is appealing to France's highest court over a legal ruling that could require … | Tim Cushing / Techdirt: |
Federal Judge Says Internet Archive's Wayback Machine A Perfectly Legitimate Source Of Evidence — Those of us who dwell on the internet already know the Internet Archive's “Wayback Machine” is a useful source of evidence. For one, it showed that the bogus non-disparagement clause KlearGear used …
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Android Pay now works at Bank of America ATMs; Android Pay integration now available for all developers — After announcing the expansion of Android Pay in the U.K. earlier today, Google also made a few additional announcements around its mobile payments service at its I/O developer conference today.| CNET: |
Interview with Sundar Pichai on Google's new Assistant, messaging apps, more and the company's vision for AI — Sundar Pichai, who takes the I/O stage for the first time since becoming CEO in October, says he's on a “journey” from mobile to AI. Good thing he has an assistant.
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New York Times, Google Operating System, ZDNet, Laughing Squid, Daring Fireball, The Loop, The Verge, Light Reading, Business Insider, SiliconANGLE, Tech Insider, Forbes, YouTube, TechCrunch and Droid Life. Thanks:@cauchon
| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Google reveals plans for new VR headset and motion controller slated for this fall, to be part of Daydream, Google's VR platform that's baked into Android N — At its annual I/O developer conference today, Google is showing off a reference design for a new virtual reality headset that builds … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Android Wear 2.0 hands-on: new interface is much improved and easier to use, third-party complications are useful, but the QWERTY keyboard is not impressive — One of the surprise announcements from Google's keynote session at I / O this year was Android Wear 2.0.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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