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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.| 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: Twitter plans to pare down three ad products, including legacy TellApart business, the firm's direct response business, and aspects of Promoted Tweets — Feb 13, 2017, 11:23 amFeb 13, 2017, 11:53 am — Twitter continues to bleed cash and its advertising business has begun shrinking, so it's time for a change.
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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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Business Insider, ZDNet, Quartz, The Next Web, International Business Times, BetaNews, Engadget, BGR, iLounge, IHS Technology, TechCrunch, Inquirer, AppAdvice.com Latest, iPhone in Canada Blog, and The Verge. Tweets: @mgsiegler
| 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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| Joshua Goldman / CNET: |
Razer's 14-inch Blade laptop gets updated with Kaby Lake CPUs, starting at $1.8K in US; 4K UHD touchscreen option will be available in Q2 — Razer made its slim 14-inch Blade into one of the smallest VR-ready PCs last September by dropping in Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1060 GPU.
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| Nathan McAlone / Business Insider: |
Former members of Google News team remember how Google News accepted sites while mitigating spam and rejecting or de-ranking unreliable and biased sources — For the small team maintaining one of the world's most popular news sites, the job was straightforward: weed out liars and scammers.| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Facebook is in talks with record labels about licensing their music for the social network, positioning it as a competitor to YouTube — Social network seeks accord for user videos, and possibly more — Music clips could lure ads away from $70 billion TV industry| 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 starts at 22GB/line — Verizon today introduced its first unlimited data plan since 2011. Verizon Unlimited, which includes unlimited talk …
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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 … | Annalee Newitz / Ars Technica: |
Analysis of Wikipedia comments shows that under half of personal attacks in 2015 were made anonymously; 30% came from registered users with 100+ contributions — New study of Wikipedia comments reveals most attackers aren't anonymous. — We've all heard anecdotes about trolling on Wikipedia … | 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 … | 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.| 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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