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Facebook Messenger debuts group video chat supporting 6 users on a split screen who can utilize selfie masks and up to 50 voice/text secondary participants — Teen app sensation Houseparty will get some competition as Facebook Messenger islaunching its own split-screen group video chat feature. 6 users …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Apple says it will appeal EU's $14B tax claim this week, arguing that EU disregarded corporate law and Ireland's tax experts to maximize penalty — Apple (AAPL.O) will launch a legal challenge this week to a record $14 billion EU tax demand, arguing that EU regulators ignored tax experts …
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| Cliff Taylor / The Irish Times: |
Ireland publishes formal objections to EU's order to collect €13B in back taxes from Apple, says EC has exceeded its powers, misunderstood Irish tax law, more — EU Commission expected to give full judgment on €13bn case today — The Government has moved to pre-empt … | Daniel Terdiman / Fast Company: |
Mark Zuckerberg talks about progress and challenges building his home assistant Jarvis, a project he's spent 100-150 hours on this year — Facebook's CEO still loves to code. Here's an exclusive peek at his new project, which plays music, makes toast, and occasionally annoys his wife.
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Sources: Airbnb is building a flight-booking tool, which is in early development — Airbnb Inc. is developing a service for booking air travel as the home-rental startup looks to compete with Priceline Group Inc. and Expedia Inc. for more of people's online travel spending.| Ulf Frisk / Security | DMA: |
FileVault 2 flaw present in macOS before version 10.12.2 allowed a $300 Thunderbolt device to steal the password of a locked or sleeping Mac — macOS FileVault2 let attackers with physical access retrieve the password in clear text by plugging in a $300 Thunderbolt device into a locked or sleeping mac.
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
SCOTUS will hear patent case that could limit “venue shopping”, the patent troll practice to file cases in friendly jurisdictions like Eastern District of Texas — In a move that may shake-up U.S. patent law, the Supreme Court this week decided to hear a case about where patent owners …
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| Gavin Clarke / The Register: |
Oracle expands audits of Java SE customers and partners for not paying for Advanced Desktop, Suite, and Advanced layers, issues some bills upward of $100K — Thought Java was “free”? Think again (and you owe us $$$ in 2017) — Oracle is massively ramping up audits of Java customers …
Tweets: @bodil, @joshbloch, and @counternotions
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Wearable AR display maker Lumus raises $30M, completing $45M round led by Quanta Computer, with participation from HTC and others — Lumus has completed a $45 million funding round for its augmented reality displays for smartglasses. — Lumus previously announced it had raised $15 million …
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| Ryan Carter / L.A. Daily News: |
Los Angeles County says email phishing scam from May exposed personal data of 756K people, possibly including home addresses, financial, and medical information — A Nigerian national has been charged, and others are being sought, in connection with a hack of Los Angeles County emails … | Gideon Lewis-Kraus / New York Times: |
How Google used neural networks and machine learning to transform Translate, an early sign of how AI is poised to reinvent computing itself — How Google used artificial intelligence to transform Google Translate, one of its more popular services — and how machine learning is poised to reinvent computing itself.
Tweets: @glenngabe, @ruskin147, @nytimes, @sspencer_smb, and @annehelen
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
OneWeb raises $1.2B, with $1B from SoftBank, to build high volume satellite production facility for affordable satellite-based internet service — The battle for satellite-powered internet is heating up. Weeks after Tesla asked the U.S. Government for permission to launch a service powered …
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