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| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
If users prioritize big-data AI services, like those offered by Google, Amazon, Facebook, then Apple will be in a position similar to BlackBerry was in 2007 — Before the iPhone, RIM's BlackBerry was the king of smartphones. They seemed unstoppable, because by most accounts …
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| Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg: |
Race to build VR cameras escalates as Google teams with IMAX and Yi Technology on new rigs — Google is working with new camera manufacturers IMAX and Yi Technology to ramp up production — One of the most impressive things Google unveiled at its developers conference last May was an odd, disc-shaped gadget called the Odyssey.
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| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft announces five-year exclusive partnership with Chinese software publisher NetEase to bring Minecraft to PCs and smartphones in China — Long-awaited news serves as reminder of China's resistance to Western software. — When Microsoft opened its wallets in 2014 and traded $2.5 billion … | Sean Hollister / CNET: |
Google's Ara team on why they ditched swappable core components like CPUs and radios to focus on differentiated modules like cameras, batteries, and glucometers — Next year, Google will sell a smartphone with interchangeable parts. Swap in different ones to give the phone new abilities.| David Pierce / Wired: |
Inside Project Ara, Google's quest to create a modular smartphone — The building that houses Google's Advanced Technology and Products division offers a few subtle hints that something weird is going on inside. The pirate flags in the bathroom. The big sign reminding ATAP employees …
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Inquirer, AppleInsider, The Next Web, Softpedia News, Tech Times, International Business Times, Fortune, The Verge, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, Phandroid, BuzzFeed, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Pocket-lint, Recode, The Register, 9to5Google, TechnoBuffalo, The Verge, The Verge, Android Beat, TechSpot, PhoneDog.com, Neowin, The Verge, Droid Life, TalkAndroid.com, Tech Insider, Android Authority, Gizmodo, BGR, Pocketnow, TechnoBuffalo and TechCrunch. Tweets: @vladsavov
| Monica Nickelsburg / GeekWire: |
Microsoft amends terms for its consumer services to address terrorism-related content, expands “notice-and-takedown” policy, mulls Bing partnerships with NGOs — The threat of terrorism has escalated the age-old battle between national security and individual rights …
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| Princeton Web Transparency & Accountability Project: |
Study of 1M top sites sheds light on techniques some firms use to track users: Canvas, Canvas-Font, AudioContext fingerprinting, local WebRTC IP discovery, more — During our January 2016 measurement of the top 1 million sites, our tool made over 90 million requests, assembling the largest dataset …
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| Tristan Harris: |
Ten ways tech products are designed to manipulate users to spur usage — Estimated reading time: 12 minutes. — I'm an expert on how technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities. That's why I spent the last three years as Google's Design Ethicist caring about how to design things …
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Boing Boing and Mike Industries. Tweets: @andy3martin, @ibogost, @sonyaellenmann, @randfish, @max_hoffmann, @felixsalmon and @mikeindustries
| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
How OneCore, the modularized OS at the heart of Windows 10, fulfills Microsoft's quest to enable apps that work well across PCs, phones, tablets, Xbox, and more — Microsoft promised developers that Windows would run anywhere. This summer, it finally will.
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Nokiapoweruser, Softpedia News and Ars Technica UK
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| Dave Gershgorn / Popular Science: |
Google's open-source research project Magenta uses AI to generate music, video, other visual arts, makes the process easier with TensorFlow, will launch June 1 — THE MULTI-DISCIPLINARY MACHINE — If Google's artificial intelligence can paint its dreams, why not make other kinds of art?| Chris DiBona / Google for Education: |
Google launches Science Journal, an Android app that uses your phone's sensors to record experimental data including movement, light, and sound — We believe that anyone can be a maker. Making doesn't just mean coding or working with electronics. It can be building or cooking …
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The Verge, The Next Web, CNET, Tech Times, Silicon Republic, Digital Trends, BetaNews, Technabob, The Daily Dot, Engadget, Android Police, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Android Central and Exploratorium Blog
Tweets: @googleforedu, @digiphile and @imagination
| Kelly Fiveash / Ars Technica: |
Inside the European Commission's antitrust fight against Google, from the first Foundem complaint in 2009 to a potential $3B fine, expected in next few weeks — A brief history of a dominant Google's soul-searching competition battle in the EU. — If you've ever wondered how Google defines the term …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google and Levi's will launch touch-enabled jacket that lets you control music, maps, and more in spring 2017, the first consumer garment for Project Jacquard — At Google's I/O conference today, Google's Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) research unit offered an update …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
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