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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple will update its laptop lineup at WWDC, planning MacBook Pro with Kaby Lake and faster chips for MacBook and MacBook Air — Refreshed MacBooks could win back disappointed loyalists — Announcement expected at developers conference in June — Apple Inc. plans to announce …
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Tweets: @mattlynley, @mcwm, @johnpaczkowski, @fromedome, @markgurman, @loudmouthjulia, and @detroitborg
| 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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Tweets: @jakobrosin, @aaronykng, @oliviasolon, @joannastern, @johnpaczkowski, @mcwm, @ryantate, @_am1t, and @neilcybart
| 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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| 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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SiliconBeat, BGR, Recode, The Verge, AppAdvice.com, Mashable, Search Engine Land, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNET, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Fortune, and INSIDER. Tweets: @markgurman
| 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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Instagram Blog, Search Engine Land, The Verge, Recode, Pocket-lint, Quartz, 9to5Mac, Softpedia News, TalkAndroid.com, Adweek, AppAdvice.com, Android Police, Cult of Mac, Engadget, iPhone Hacks, International Business Times, Windows Central, Gotta Be Mobile, Tech Times, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, PhoneDog.com, SlashGear, Gizmodo, Droid Life, Android Central, Los Angeles Times, CNET, New York Magazine, The Next Web, GeekWire, The FADER, MacStories, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Google, iMore, and NBC Bay Area. Tweets: @steve_campbell. Thanks:@joshconstine
| Tim Peterson / Marketing Land: |
Facebook admits another ad measurement mistake, its tenth since September of 2016, refunds advertisers, saying the error affected just 0.04% of impressions — The mistake — mischarged clicks on video carousel ads by smartphone web users — is the first that directly affected advertisers' wallets.
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Facebook, Wall Street Journal, International Business Times, Axios, CNNMoney, Reuters, Adweek, and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @jimrutenberg
| 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 … | 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: |
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ZDNet, Digital Trends, Forbes, Newser, TechSpot, SlashGear, TalkAndroid.com, Android Authority, INSIDER, Android Police, and BetaNews. Tweets: @shiraovide
| 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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Tweets: @biz, @jack, @anthonynoto, @nickbilton, @kadhimshubber, @cnbcnow, @inafried, @adambain, and @sarahfrier
| 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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CNET, Steemit, emptywheel, Telegraph, SecurityWeek, InfoWorld, USA Today, The Hacker News, International Business Times, Washington Post, and The Hacker News
Tweets: @3ncr1pt3d, @gossithedog, @jank0, @ericgeller, @ashk4n, @thegrugq, @thegrugq, @thegrugq, and @thegrugq
| 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.”
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AngelList Blog, TechCrunch, and PE Hub Blog
Tweets: @angellist, @rrhoover, @chudson, and @davemcclure
| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Third-party apps providing mail, contacts, and calendar services will need app-specific passwords for iCloud access beginning June 15 — App-specific passwords are set to become a mandatory requirement for third-party apps that access iCloud user data, according to an Apple Support email sent out today.
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9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Fortune, iDownloadBlog.com, The Mac Observer, iMore, AppAdvice.com, iPhone Hacks, iLounge, and Cult of Mac
| Kellex / Droid Life: |
Verizon cancels its LG Watch Sport variant, which had just launched in February — Within the past few days, those who had pre-ordered the LG Watch Sport from Verizon received cancellation emails. That seemed odd, obviously, since the watch has been available for months …
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9to5Google, Android Authority, Engadget, Android Police, SlashGear, PhoneDog.com, Phandroid, Android Beat, and The Verge
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Slack adds screen sharing to its Mac and Windows apps two years after acquiring Screenhero — For when a screen shot just won't cut it, Slack's paid users can nowshare live video of their screens during video calls. The addition of the feature comes a slow two years after Slack bought Screenhero … | 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 … | Sam Levin / The Guardian: |
Review shows Facebook's anti-fake news initiatives as ineffective, with many articles disputed by fact-checkers being labeled “disputed” too late or not at all — hen Facebook's new fact-checking system labeled a Newport Buzz article as possible “fake news”, warning users against sharing it, something unexpected happened.| John Mannes / TechCrunch: |
Partnership on AI adds Intel, Salesforce, SAP, others as it formalizes Grand Challenges, which provide incentives to tackle big issues with social ramifications — Intel, Salesforce, eBay, Sony, SAP, McKinsey & Company, Zalando and Cogitai are joining the Partnership on AI … Sponsor Posts
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