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Microsoft unveils new Surface Pro with 13.5 hour battery life, Kaby Lake, optional 4G LTE; preorders open today starting at $799, ships June 15 in 26 countries — Available on June 15th starting at $799 — Microsoft is launching a new Surface Pro today, and it's dropping its numbering scheme as a result.
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| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Uber underpaid NYC drivers for past 2.5 years, is refunding them the difference plus interest, which may cost the firm upwards of $45M — The ride-hailing company says it is refunding the money after miscalculating its commissions — Uber Technologies Inc. on Tuesday said it mistakenly underpaid …
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
LeEco says it's laying off 325 employees, or 70% of its US business' workforce, due to a lack of funding — Little-known LeEco cuts 70 percent of its US workforce as its lofty goals couldn't match the reality of a tough market. — It was a chilly January night in Las Vegas as Danny Bowman … | Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft debuts Windows 10 for Chinese government, letting the government use its own encryption, remove features, and get updates from joint venture in China — New Surface tablet has better battery, faster processors — Microsoft to release Windows 10 for Chinese government| Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: |
Chaos Computer Club hackers say they have defeated Samsung Galaxy S8's iris recognition system using a fake iris — Hackers of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) in Germany have managed to defeat the iris recognition system on Samsung's flagship Galaxy S8 smartphones.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Huawei unveils the Matebook E, an update to the original Matebook, a more powerful 13" flagship X model, and 15" D model, all expected to ship this summer — The company also announced the MateBook E and MateBook D — The MateBook was Huawei's first shot at building a Windows 10 laptop …
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Snapchat introduces custom Stories for capturing group moments with friends with the option to invite nearby users to join — A natural evolution — Snapchat today is rolling out custom Stories, a new form of Story designed to make sharing around big events easier.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils collaborative inking Whiteboard app for Windows 10 and adds many enhancements to inking experience in Office apps — Microsoft is unveiling a new Whiteboard app for Windows 10 today. It's an app that's designed for the company's Surface devices, and provides two-way inking for Windows 10.
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple and Nokia settle patent dispute with Nokia receiving patent royalties from Apple; Apple will resume selling Nokia health products — Nokia and Apple announced today that they have settled all litigation related to their intellectual property dispute and agreed a multi-year patent license.| Washington Post: |
Google to begin using credit and debit card transaction data to show online ads prompt consumers to buy in physical stores, details tech to preserve privacy — SAN FRANCISCO — Google will begin using data from billions of credit and debit card transactions — including card numbers …
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Marketing Land, Bloomberg, Axios, TechCrunch, Ad Age, Recode, TechCrunch, Android Central, and AdExchanger. Tweets: @mattlynley
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Google begins selling Jamboard, its Surface Hub competitor, in US for $5K plus a $600/year service fee per device — Working in a modern office can be pretty strange. I go hours without speaking to my co-workers, yet I'm in constant communication with them through a chat app.
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VentureBeat, Android Authority, and 9to5Google
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon expands Amazon Channels to UK, Germany, taking aim at pay-TV users — The race to control the TV is on, and today comes some news out of Europe underscoring Amazon's ambitions in that department. The e-commerce giant announced the launch of Amazon Channels in the UK and Germany …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Pinterest adds dish recognition feature to Lens, reviews and ratings for recipes, and food filters within Search such as dietary preference and cook time — Pinterest is today launching a handful of new ways to find recipes using its Lens and Search tools.
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's head of worldwide HR, Denise Young Smith, to become VP for Inclusion and Diversity, reporting to Tim Cook; CFO Luca Maestri to temporarily fill HR role — Apple's head of Worldwide Human Resources Denise Young Smith will now run diversity programs for the company under a newly created VP position …
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TechCrunch, AppleInsider, CNNMoney, The Verge, iMore, MacRumors, and iDownloadBlog.com
Tweets: @jordankahn and @jordankahn
| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
CDN provider Fastly, used by sites like The New York Times and Pinterest, raises $50M led by Sorenson Capital, bringing its total funding to $180M — Content delivery company Fastly has raised $50 million in financing to expand its footprint as a corporate supplier of speedy application, website, and web service delivery.
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Marketwire, FinSMEs, theWHIR.com, VentureBeat, and silicontap.com
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Facebook debuts new group features for Live, including Live With, letting users stream side-by-side, and Live Chat with Friends private chatrooms — Facebook Live might be about bringing the entire community together around events, but sometimes you just want to know the reactions of your buddies.
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The Verge, Android Police, BuzzFeed, ABC News, Engadget, Business Insider, Marketing Land, The Next Web, Facebook, New York Magazine, Adweek, and Mashable
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram launches Story Search for hashtags and locations — Instagram Stories wants to be your window into what's going on around a topic or place right now, so it's adding a way to search Stories two months after Snapchat did the same. Instagram users can now search for a location or hashtag …
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