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Sources: Apple hired two executives who worked on satellites at Google, held talks with Boeing about investment or partnership in Boeing's satellite venture — Apple said to have held talks about investing in Boeing satellite broadband project — After revolutionizing phones …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Samsung and Google partner to make Google Play Music the default music service on new Samsung phones and tablets worldwide, starting with Galaxy S8 and S8+ — Samsung and Google today announced a new partnership that will make Google Play Music the default music player and music service including …
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| Daniel Rubino / Windows Central: |
Leaked document shows recommended minimum specs for Windows 10 Cloud OS devices: quad-core Celeron or better CPU, 4GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, 40 WHr+ battery — A new low-cost Surface device and Windows 10 Cloud OS combo could do some serious damage to Google's Chromebook ambitions in U.S. schools.
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| Agam Shah / PCWorld: |
Qualcomm CEO: first Windows 10 PC with Snapdragon 835 is scheduled for Q4 2017 — But don't expect a flood of Windows 10 PCs based on ARM chips — If you want a Windows 10 PC that doesn't have an x86 chip from Intel or AMD, your wish will be granted in the fourth quarter.
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| Bérénice Magistretti / VentureBeat: |
Quora raises $85M round led by Y Combinator to expand internationally and develop its ads business; CEO Adam D'Angelo says the platform has 190M monthly uniques — EXCLUSIVE: — Quora is known for being an under-the-radar company. But in an exclusive interview with VentureBeat … | Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Elon Musk reveals plans for his startup Neuralink, says initial focus is on developing neural implants for treating brain injuries, to explore telepathy later — Startup Neuralink aims to treat disabled and ultimately create a new language of ‘consensual telepathy’
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| Jessica Davies / Digiday: |
The Guardian confirms it has stopped publishing its articles to Apple News and Facebook Instant Articles — Publishers aren't happy with the deal platforms are cutting them. Now, the Guardian has dropped both Facebook's fast-loading Instant Article format and removed its content from Apple News.
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| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Machine learning data management startup SafeGraph raises $16M Series A from IDG Ventures and 100+ high-profile individual investors — San Francisco-based machine learning data management startup SafeGraph Inc. has raised a $16 million funding round led by IDG Ventures USA but including … | William Alden / BuzzFeed: |
Sources: after performing some pilot work, Palantir never signed full-fledged contract with NSA; Palantir CEO called CIA “recalcitrant” in 2015 staff meeting — Palantir Technologies, the Silicon Valley data company co-founded by billionaire investor Peter Thiel … | Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed: |
Waymo filing: during deposition this week, Uber engineer “was forced to admit” that Uber was working on a second, more Waymo-like Lidar and hid it from court — An Uber self-driving Volvo drives in Pittsburgh Friday, March 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google and partners in Coalition for Better Ads are working on a tool designed for publishers to filter some ads; IAB head says tool isn't ad blocker — A Chrome feature to filter ads is coming — just don't call it an ad-blocker. — After seven months of work … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube says 12M videos, including those with LGBTQ+ topics, are now available in Restricted Mode after fix, adds way to report videos wrongly excluded — YouTube today claims to have fixed an issue with its service that was causing it to incorrectly filter content in “Restricted Mode” … Sponsor Posts
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