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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.
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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”.| 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.| Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: |
Valve's Steam Direct to replace Steam Greenlight, will charge developers a fixed fee to submit a game instead of relying on users to vet submissions — Valve wants to take itself out of the equation when it comes to the Steam PC gaming marketplace, and that means it is ending …
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| 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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| George Avalos / Mercury News: |
Analysis: Bay Area tech sector's job growth in 2016 slowed to 3.5%, or 26.7K jobs, down from 6% growth, or 42.3K jobs, in 2015 — Even with looming layoffs, tech still drives region's economy — SAN JOSE — Job growth in the tech industry used to zoom like a race car, but these days … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Instant Tethering, which lets Google devices seamlessly share cellular data connections, is now officially available to select Pixel and Nexus devices — First spotted in testing last month, Instant Tethering automatically and seamlessly shares a cellular data connection through Wi-Fi.
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
FCC says wireless spectrum auction bidding has ended at $19.6B for 84 MHz, a significantly lower price than many analysts forecasted — The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said Friday that bidding in the wireless spectrum auction has ended at $19.6 billion, significantly less than many analysts had initially forecast.
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| Kif Leswing / Business Insider: |
Image of Magic Leap rig from January leaks, showing a bulky backpack containing a visible circuit board; CEO says it was a test rig to collect room data — Magic Leap, the $4.5 billion startup backed by Google building technology that “augments” human vision with digital imagery …
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Ubergizmo, SlashGear, Mashable, Recode, Fortune, Engadget, Gizmodo, Tech Times, The Verge, UploadVR, and Axios
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Thanks:@redletterdave| Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Intel reveals 8th Generation Core microarchitecture will remain on the 14nm process node, making it the fourth generation 14nm chip — A quick news piece on information coming out of Intel's annual Investor Day in California. As confirmed to Ashraf Eassa by Intel at the event …
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Thanks:@iancutress| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Prince's Warner Music catalog returning Sunday to subscription-streaming services, including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, Napster, and iHeartRadio — Songs of late music legend Prince will again be available on multiple streaming-music services on Sunday, in releases timed for the 59th Grammy Awards.
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Quartz, VentureBeat, BBC, Bloomberg, Engadget, Ars Technica, Neowin, The Next Web, Billboard, NME, FACT Magazine, Bloomberg, Fortune, SiliconBeat, Vibe, SPIN, Rolling Stone, CNNMoney, TeamRock, Radio.com, TIME, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @eldsjal. See also Mediagazer
| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
Ford says it will invest $1B into Argo AI over 5 years and take a majority stake in the startup; Argo AI will work on autonomous driving tech for Ford's cars — The automaker will take a majority stake in Argo AI, founded by two top engineers from Google and Uber.
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