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Uber raises $3.5B from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, will add managing director of the fund to its board — SAN FRANCISCO — In its quest to build a global empire, Uber has turned to the Middle East for its biggest infusion of cash from a single investor.
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| Noah Kulwin / Recode: |
Bloomberg hires Mark Gurman to cover consumer electronics starting this summer — Gurman graduated college last month. — Over the last few years, Mark Gurman has made a name for himself as the go-to guy for Apple product scoops. And now he's taking his talents to Bloomberg.
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Meeker report: global internet users surpass 3B but adoption rate flat except in India; voice assistants' word accuracy, latency, usage rates continue improving — The 2016 edition of Mary Meeker's annual Internet Trends report covers today's Internet growth and an in-depth look at the following:
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Sources: Apple preparing new external 5K display as current model goes out of stock, may feature integrated GPU, could be announced at WWDC — The current $999 (!) Thunderbolt Display is showing its age to put it mildly, now significantly overshadowed by Retina MacBooks and iMacs in terms of screen resolution and quality.| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
Yahoo publishes three FBI national security letters previously under gag order from 2013 and 2015, making it one of the first companies to do so — Yahoo has just published three national security letters, controversial government demands for information usually accompanied by a gag order and rarely made public.
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Intel CEO Brian Krzanich planned, then cancelled, a Thursday night fund-raiser for Donald Trump; Trump to hold rally in San Jose instead — PALO ALTO, Calif. — Donald J. Trump would not be Silicon Valley's first choice as president. Or its second. Or maybe even its third.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google brings Google Cast to Fiber TV boxes, enabling media and app streaming similar to Chromecast devices — Beginning today, Google is turning every single one of its Google Fiber cable boxes into Chromecasts. The company just announced that it'll be rolling out an update over the coming weeks … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google's My Account will now help both iOS and Android users find their lost phones — Google has announced an update to its “My Account” service launched last year which will now include a feature that helps users find their lost or stolen phone. You'll soon be able to find this new option …
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| Mike Murphy / Quartz: |
Facebook announces Deep Text, an AI engine to understand meaning and sentiment behind posts, so the platform's content can be categorized, searched effectively — Today, Facebook announced Deep Text, an AI engine it's building to understand the meaning and sentiment behind all of the text posted by users to Facebook.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce buys Demandware for $2.8B, taking a big step into e-commerce — Salesforce made its name originally with cloud-based software to help salespeople manage their leads and close deals; and today the company took a big step into the business of sales itself.
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| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
OnePlus 3 to launch globally on June 14 without an invite system — When the remarkable OnePlus One arrived two years ago, it made people reimagine the $300 smartphone. But it also made everyone reimagine how they buy a phone, with an invitation-based system as frustrating as it was arcane.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
CoreOS launches Torus, a new open source distributed storage system — CoreOS today announced the launch of Torus, its latest open source project. Just like CoreOS's other projects, Torus is all about giving startups and enterprises access to the same kind of technologies that web-scale companies like Google already use internally.
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| Jennifer Lynch / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
FBI Wants to Remove Privacy Protections from its Massive Biometrics Database — EFF and 44 Other Organizations Call for More Time to Respond — Since 2008, the FBI has been assembling a massive database of biometric information on Americans. This database, called Next Generation Identification …
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