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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
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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| Bloomberg: |
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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| 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.| 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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| John Koetsier / Forbes: |
Amazon announces that Alexa skills will soon be able to push notifications to Alexa enabled devices for users who have opted in — “The weather is great this morning; you should take a run,” is something that Amazon's Alexa will never say to you ... unless you've added a fitness skill and opted-in to notifications.
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| 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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| Biz Stone / Medium: |
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.
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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 … | Lucian Constantin / PCWorld: |
Shadow Brokers group claims to have more exploits and plans to offer them via a subscription based service slated for June — The group plans to sell more Equation exploits and cyberespionage data through a subscription-based service — A group of hackers that previously leaked alleged …
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| 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 found liable. — Uber's investigation …
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Google makes its globally distributed relational database, Cloud Spanner, generally available — The globally distributed relational database has garnered “tremendous interest” so far, Google says. — Google on Tuesday is making Cloud Spanner, its globally distributed relational database …
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| 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.”| 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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