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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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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: large payouts awarded to veteran members of Google's self-driving unit in 2015 preceded a talent exodus — ‘F-you money’ awarded to veteran team members boosted parent Alphabet's R&D costs, prompting comment from the company's CFO — For the past year, Google's car project …
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Sources: Samsung Display won an Apple order for 60M OLED panels, worth about $4.35B, adding to a deal struck last April to supply 100M OLED panels — Samsung Display has received a display panel order from Apple for an additional 5 trillion won ($4.35 billion) in organic light-emitting diodes.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
T-Mobile adds HD video and 10GB of high-speed tethering to its unlimited plan in response to Verizon's new unlimited plan — HD video and 10GB of high-speed tethering starting Friday — It's been only a day since Verizon resurrected its unlimited data plan, and the company's competitors …
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| Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
Microsoft debuts “spectator view” for HoloLens, a way to create video of peoples' experience with mixed reality holograms, requires camera with HDMI output — A way to show not just holograms, but people interacting with them — Virtual reality and augmented reality headsets …
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Disney Severs Ties With YouTube Star PewDiePie After Anti-Semitic Posts — Disney said it was severing ties with Felix Kjellberg, a top star with 53 million subscribers to his “PewDiePie” YouTube channel, after he posted videos in which he makes anti-Semitic jokes or imagery.
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Apple's Eddy Cue says “Planet of the Apps” reality show will premiere this spring exclusively on Apple Music and will also have its own dedicated app — At the Code Media conference this evening, Apple's Eddy Cue sat down alongside Ben Silverman for an interview.
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See also Mediagazer| Blair Hanley Frank / PCWorld: |
Amazon launches Chime, a video teleconferencing service for Windows, MacOS, iOS, and Android, available for businesses in three pricing tiers — Companies looking for a new video- and teleconferencing system have a fresh face to turn to in the market: Amazon Web Services.| Brett Williams / Mashable: |
Dubai to introduce EHang autonomous one-person taxi drones by July 2017; drone can fly about 31 miles on a single charge and has a top speed of about 100 mph — If you make it to Dubai this summer, you might have the chance to catch a brand new type of self-driving vehicle. One that flies.| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Facebook is in talks with record labels about licensing their music, focusing on how to prevent copyright violations in user-generated videos — Social network seeks accord for user videos, and possibly more — Music clips could lure ads away from $70 billion TV industry
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See also Mediagazer| 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.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Yik Yak's lead mobile developer publishes group messaging app Hive to App Store and Google Play, possibly signalling pivot for the company — Yak to the drawing board — In the weeks before it laid off most of its staff, Yik Yak employees believed the company was back on the right track.
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