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Google partners with Audi and Volvo to put Android in cars to host Maps, Spotify, Google Assistant, and control temperature, seat positioning, without a phone — The search giant is partnering with Audi and Volvo to ship car systems running the Android operating system.
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| Corbin Davenport / Android Police: |
Netflix adopts Google-provided Widevine DRM, thereby blocking downloads of its app on rooted/unlocked Android devices — Earlier today, Netflix started showing up as ‘incompatible’ on the Play Store for rooted and unlocked Android devices. However, the app itself continued to work fine …
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| Lucinda Shen / Fortune: |
Cybersecurity stocks rise on WannaCrypt news, with the five biggest firms cumulatively adding nearly $6B in market cap on Monday — Despite the global scale of the ransomware attack dubbed “WannaCry,” its creators have reportedly collected just $50,000 in bitcoin from the hack as of early Monday.
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| Brad Smith / Microsoft on the Issues: |
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| Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC: |
Judge blocks Uber's Levandowski from lidar-related work amid lawsuit filed by Alphabet's Waymo, orders Uber to try to compel Levandowski to return stolen docs — One of Uber's top engineers will no longer be able to work on a key self-driving car technology, a U.S. judge ordered …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Leaked HTC U 11 video shows Edge Sense, which detects how much force is applied to phone frame, Snapdragon 835, 12MP rear and 18MP front cameras, no 3.5mm jack — HTC released an excellent smartphone last year in the HTC 10, so we were disappointed later in the year when that was followed up by the U Ultra.
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reddit, VentureBeat, The Verge, Mobilescout.com, and Android and Me
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Phil Libin exits General Catalyst for All Turtles, a new AI “startup studio” with several GC-backed AI bot startups joining as foundation members — AI is one of the buzzwords of the moment in the world of tech, with startups coming at the concept from all angles — computer vision …
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| Takashi Mochizuki / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Nintendo plans to release a Zelda game for smartphones following an Animal Crossing game that's slated to ship in the second half of 2017 — Nintendo plans to offer its game “The Legend of Zelda” for smartphones in the second half of the year, the Kyoto company's latest effort to expand its mobile-games lineup.
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Tweets: @pldhnet, @serkantoto, and @mgsiegler
| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Snap pilots ads for world lenses, its AR filters for the rear-facing camera, which sources say cost 30% more than the $300K-$700K promotional lenses — Snapchat's user growth is slowing. Prepare for the deluxe ads. — On Cinco de Mayo, millions of Snapchat users willingly turned their selfies into an ad for Taco Bell.| Marcus Weisgerber / Defense One: |
Pentagon creates Algorithmic Warfare Cross Functional Team for integration of big data and AI across the military, starting with analysis of video from drones — Turning hours of drone video into actionable intelligence is just the start for the fast-moving machine-learning team.| New York Times: |
FireEye report details links between Vietnamese government and years of hacks of foreign companies, dissidents, journalists, and other targets — HONG KONG — Hackers in Vietnam have been attacking foreign companies and other targets for years, seeking information and using tactics … | TechCrunch: |
VMware says it has acquired app analytics firm Apteligent, previously known as Crittercism — May 15, 2017, 2:35 pmMay 15, 2017, 2:43 pm — VMware announced today that it has acquiredApteligent, a startup that will allow it to provide more tools to customers building and optimizing mobile apps.
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
API management and analytics firm Tibco Software announces it will acquire data science company Statistica — A year after Dell sold off Statistica, Tibco is picking up the company to bolster its IoT analytics capabilities. — API management and analytics firm Tibco on Monday announced …
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