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Uber fires VP Anthony Levandowski for refusing to cooperate in the Uber vs Waymo case, according to an internal email — SAN FRANCISCO — Uber has fired Anthony Levandowski, a vice president of technology and the star engineer leading the company's self-driving automobile efforts …
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| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Essential Home announced as a privacy-focused Amazon Echo competitor, to have a round “auto-display” and be less cloud dependent, reportedly coming late summer — ‘An entirely new type of product’ — Essential Home is the new intelligent assistant with round “auto-display” just announced by Andy Rubin's new venture.
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| Meghann Farnsworth / Recode: |
Andy Rubin talks about the Essential PH-1 smartphone and Home at Code Conference — Rubin was interviewed live at Code Conference by Walt Mossberg. — Andy Rubin is the creator of Android and built the Danger Hiptop, one of the first devices to merge threaded messaging, email and the full web into a phone.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Nest unveils Cam IQ, a smart home camera with a 4K video sensor that uses Google's AI for facial recognition; preorders open now for $299, ships end of June — The Cam IQ presents an intriguing mix of high-fidelity video and smart motion detection and alerts
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| Andrew Dalton / Engadget: |
Twitter creates Requests inbox that filters DMs from people you don't follow, rollout for iOS and Android apps today, coming to web within months — Twitter may never stop tweaking it's direct messaging function. Last summer, the social network added so many features to the DM tab … | Kbeneven / Check Point Blog: |
Researchers find 41 Android apps from a single developer with several million downloads that fraudulently click on ads, now removed from Play Store — Check Point researchers discovered another widespread malware campaign on Google Play, Google's official app store.
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US Supreme Court rules against Lexmark, finding ink cartridges in printers can be resold despite patent holder restrictions — Ruling is blow to printer companies, pharmaceutical industry — Patent rights end once company sells product, Roberts says — The U.S. Supreme Court …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Reddit now lets users tag their posts with location, powered by Foursquare data, coming first to mobile — Reddit has been quietly transforming into a more mature social network, and today it's adding another small but critical piece: the ability to add location tags to posts.| Matthew Miller / ZDNet: |
BlackBerry KEYone will be available in the US May 31 at select Best Buy stores and online from $549.99 — The highly anticipated launch of the BlackBerry KEYone will take place in the US tomorrow. Customers can enter select Best Buy stores to see the device before buying or pick one up online.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Samsung debuts the Notebook 9 Pro with 360-degree hinge, 13.3" and 15" versions, embedded S-Pen, USB-C, more; pricing and release date TBD — Samsung is bringing its S Pen technology to the company's notebook line today. At Computex, Samsung is launching its new Notebook 9 Pro.| Reuters: |
EU agrees to set aside €120M to bring WiFi to 6,000-8,000 municipalities, which currently have limited internet access, by 2020 — May 29 European Union institutions agreed on Monday to set aside 120 million euros to provide free wireless internet connections by 2020 to up to 8,000 municipalities …
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Tech and advertiser trade groups helped Congress dismantle Obama-era internet privacy rules — Congressional Republicans knew their plan was potentially explosive. They wanted to kill landmark privacy regulations that would soon ban Internet providers, such as Comcast and AT&T …
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