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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Maps lets you save and share favorite places with launch of Lists, which can be public, private, or shared with a link — Google Maps is today rolling out a new feature to all users on iOS and Android devices that will allow you to make lists of places that you can star, save and share with friends.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Tim Cook says augmented reality is ‘a big idea like the smartphone’ — Like TV, AR is becoming an Apple passion project — It's no secret that Apple's culture of secrecy forbids even the most powerful at the company from spilling details about upcoming products.| Allister Heath / Telegraph: |
Tim Cook says fake news is “killing people's minds”, calls for a PSA campaign, school education, and new tools from tech companies to battle it — Tim Cook, the boss of Apple, is calling for governments to launch a public information campaign to fight the scourge of fake news, which is “killing people's minds”.| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Verizon launches unlimited plan at $80/mo. for one device or $45/mo. per device for four lines, with 10GB of 4G LTE tethering; throttling kicks-in at 22GB/line — Verizon today introduced its first unlimited data plan since 2011. Verizon Unlimited, which includes unlimited talk, text …
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| Gabriel Snyder / Wired: |
Inside NYT's digital transformation: luring subscribers via Beta Group's vertical apps, a Facebook chatbot, live video, VR, and more on top of strong journalism — Arthur Gregg Sulzberger doesn't remember the first time he visited the family business. He was young, he says, no older than 6 …
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| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Apple joins the Wireless Power Consortium, which promotes the Qi wireless charging standard — Long-running rumors that Apple will add wireless charging to the iPhone 8 have been lent additional weight with the news that the company has joined an industry group devoted to wireless power.
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| Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
With PC market in decline, Intel shifts its strategy to “data center first”, using newest manufacturing technologies for server chips like Xeon before PC CPUs — With Intel's forecasts projecting the PC could be the smallest moneymaker five years from now, the company has gone … | Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
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Thanks:@iancutress| Pew Research Center: |
Report documents the views of 1.3K tech experts, scholars, businesspeople, and government leaders on the future of algorithms and their impact on society — Algorithms are instructions for solving a problem or completing a task. Recipes are algorithms, as are math equations. Computer code is algorithmic.| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
Restricted spyware from government cyberarms dealer NSO Group found on the phones of advocates for Mexico's 2014 soda tax — SAN FRANCISCO — Last summer, Dr. Simón Barquera's phone started buzzing with a series of disturbing text messages from unknown numbers. One said his daughter had been in a serious accident.
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| Kris Carlon / Android Authority: |
The Information: Huawei shipped 139M smartphones in 2016, up almost 30% YoY; consumer division revenues grew 42% to $26B as profits declined ~10% to $2B — We've already reported on Huawei's dramatic growth over the last year. The company sold 30 percent more phones in 2016 than in the year previous …
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| Ali Breland / The Hill: |
Oracle appeals May 2016 ruling that Google's use of Java APIs in Android was fair use, continuing the companies' seven-year legal battle — Oracle filed an appeal brief on Friday night reviving its copyright and patent claim lawsuit against Google over a dispute regarding the company's Android mobile operating system.
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| Lauren Smiley / Backchannel: |
How an increasing number of Silicon Valley employees are trying to organize political resistance against Trump — Silicon Valley employees are emerging as a potent group of anti-Trump activists. Can they make a difference? — The morning after Trump's immigration ban, Jessica Alter was jogging by San Francisco's Crissy Field.
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