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| David Meyer / Fortune: |
Asus unveils Zenbo, a $599 home robot with voice command recognition, touchscreen, smart-home integrations, more; dev program in works; launch date undisclosed — Asus asuuy may be best known as the maker of laptops and phones, but on Monday it unveiled a fairly low-cost robot that can help …
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
ASUS ZenBook 3: thinner, lighter, and faster than the MacBook with Core i7, 16GB RAM, and 1TB SSD for $1,999 — How much more can ASUS shave off of the ZenBook, its flagship ultraportable? Apparently, quite a bit. The company's new ZenBook 3, announced today at Computex, clocks in at just two pounds and 11.9mm (0.46 inches) thick.
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| Amar Toor / The Verge: |
Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Microsoft agree to EU hate speech rules — Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and YouTube today agreed to European regulations that require them to review “the majority of” hateful online content within 24 hours of being notified — and to remove it, if necessary … | Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
Intel's Broadwell-E gaming CPU is a stunner, offering 10 cores for a whopping $1,723 — Meet the next flagship chip for overclocking, gaming, and transcoding. — On paper, Intel's massive new 10-core—yes, 10—Broadwell-E gaming chips top out at 3.8GHz. But buying one is like purchasing …
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| Reuters: |
Iran gives foreign messaging apps a year to move all data and activity linked to Iranian users onto servers inside the country — May 29 Iran has given foreign messaging apps a year to move data they hold about Iranian users onto servers inside the country, prompting privacy and security concerns on social media.
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| Gordon Kelly / Forbes: |
Microsoft adds a warning pop-up to “upgrade to Windows 10” prompt that tricked many to upgrade, but the main prompt remains deceitful — This week Microsoft finally went too far. The company's obsession with forcing as many Windows 10 upgrades as possible saw it descend into dirty tricks more typical of malware.
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| Bob Dormon / Ars Technica UK: |
A deep dive into internet infrastructure including submarine cable networks and landing stations, data centers, and last-mile networks in the UK — Ah, there you are. That didn't take too long, surely? Just a click or a tap and, if you've some 21st century connectivity, you landed on this page in a trice.| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
ARM announces new Cortex-A73 CPU and Mali-G71 GPU, hoping to power mobile VR in 2017 — ARM, the company that designs the processor architectures used in virtually all mobile devices on the market, has used Computex Taipei 2016 to announce new products that it expects to see deployed in high-end phones next year.| Steve Baker / Quora: |
Why motion sickness will remain a serious problem for many users of VR products, and potentially a liability issue — • This answer won a Most Viewed Writer in — INTRODUCTION: — I've been working with helmet mounted displays in military flight simulation for several decades - I am an expert in the field.
| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
How the United Arab Emirates has used foreign-supplied hacking tools to crack down on human rights activists — SAN FRANCISCO — In the last five years, Ahmed Mansoor, a human rights activist in the United Arab Emirates, has been jailed and fired from his job, along with having his passport confiscated …
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The Citizen Lab, SecurityWeek and Softpedia News
Tweets: @smith_jeffreyt, @thomas_drake1, @kenroth, @nikcub and @nicoleperlroth
| Kirsten Korosec / Fortune: |
NuTonomy raises $16M Series A, source says at about $100M valuation, plans to launch a self driving taxi service in 2018 in Singapore — NuTonomy, the autonomous vehicle software startup and MIT spinoff that received early backing from Ford executive chairman Bill Ford's venture capital firm … | Nicola Twilley / New Yorker: |
Terrapattern, the first open-access, neural net-powered reverse image search tool for satellite imagery, launches in alpha — “Why don't you click on the tennis court?” Golan Levin, an associate professor of art at Carnegie Mellon University, suggested. I was looking at a satellite image …
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