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An inside look at how Apple's “spaceship” Apple Park campus came to be, commissioned as one of Steve Jobs' last projects as CEO, with capacity for 12K employees — On June 7, 2011, a local businessman addressed a meeting of the Cupertino City Council.
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Source: Google will announce its voice-based AI Assistant is coming to iPhones and that it's integrating Assistant into GE home appliances at Google I/O — The Alphabet unit plans to expand its voice-based assistant beyond its own hardware at this week's I/O conference
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google I/O 2017 preview: new capabilities for Assistant and Home, more details about Android O, updates on Daydream and Project Tango, more — Google I/O begins on May 17th, 2017 at 10AM PT / 1PM ET with CEO Sundar Pichai taking the stage for the keynote. Held at the Shoreline Amphitheater …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
HTC launches 5.5" U11 flagship with Quad HD display, Snapdragon 835, pressure-sensitive edge, no 3.5mm jack, preorders open now for $649 unlocked — The HTC U11 will be available from Sprint next month — HTC is announcing its newest smartphone today, the U11 flagship.
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| David Cardinal / DxOMark: |
DxOMark gives the HTC U11 camera a score of 90, the highest ever, which is a point above Google Pixel and two points above Samsung Galaxy S8 — Mobile Review — Overview — With an overall DxOMark Mobile score of 90, the HTC U11 is the highest-rated smartphone camera we have ever tested.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram adds Snapchat-style face filters, an eraser tool for drawings, and hashtags for Stories — Today Instagram Stories adds a more subtle and mature but error-prone copycat of Snapchat's beloved augmented reality selfie filters. The eight initial “face filters” …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Amazon launches 4K Alexa-powered Fire TVs with voice remote, available for preorder now, starting at $449 for the 43" model, $899 for 65" — Amazon's war with Roku enters its next phase — Like Roku before it, Amazon is working with TV makers to release smart televisions … | Biz Stone: |
Twitter cofounder Biz Stone says he's returning to the company to guide company culture, more — I worked at Twitter for about six years. In that time, the service grew from zero people to hundreds of millions of people. Jack was the original CEO and when he returned I was very happy.| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
Sources: Uber board director Ryan Graves and CTO Thuan Pham may come under scrutiny in the sexual harassment investigation and could be fired — Several sources suspect that board member and executive Ryan Graves and CTO Thuan Pham will be fired. — Uber's investigation …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
DocuSign says recent malware phishing attacks targeting its users were the result of a breach of a “non-core” system and that only email addresses were accessed — DocuSign, a major provider of electronic signature technology, acknowledged today that a series …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook updates live streaming policy to ban videos using static images and polls with inanimate material — Facebook is banning misleading uses of its Live video format. The company tells TechCrunch that it's adding a section to its Live API Facebook Platform Policy that reads …
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Digital Trends, Axios, Facebook for Developers, Social Media Today, Ubergizmo, VatorNews, Adweek, and Engadget. Tweets: @joshconstine
| Michael J. Coren / Quartz: |
AngelList announces “Angel Funds”, which it has been testing since 2014, letting select users raise “funds” of around $500K-$1M to invest in multiple startups — AngelList, a startup-funding website, announced today it was launching Angel Funds to let “founders back founders.”| Alexander J Martin / Sky News: |
UK's National Data Guardian says Google's DeepMind received 1.6M NHS patients' data on an “inappropriate legal basis” — Google's artificial intelligence arm received the personally identifying medical records of 1.6 million patients on an “inappropriate legal basis” …
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