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Microsoft announces Microsoft 365 subscriptions for businesses with Office and Windows combined — Microsoft is announcing Microsoft 365 today, a new way for businesses to purchase Office and Windows together. While the software giant has sold Office 365 and Windows 10 to businesses …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft Azure Stack hardware, which allows customers to run private instances of Azure in their datacenters, is ready to order from Dell EMC, HPE and Lenovo — Microsoft's first three server partners are starting to take orders for Microsoft's hybrid-computing Azure Stack appliances.| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Amazon has quietly rolled out free smart home consultation and $99 in-home product installation service in seven markets — The new service is aimed at educating customers about “the smart home” — and, naturally, about Alexa. — For 15 years, Best Buy's Geek Squad installation …
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| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Facebook drops price of Oculus VR headset for the second time in four months, now $399 with Touch Controller for six weeks — The Oculus Rift and Touch controller bundle is $399 for the summer, months before Oculus' big fall event. — Facebook's Oculus Rift VR headset already got one price drop back in March.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Chinese government has told state-run telecoms to block individuals' access to VPNs by February 1 — 2018 deadline to stop individuals from accessing global web — Tightening controls come amid Xi's goal of “cyber-sovereignty” — China's government has told telecommunications carriers …
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Google launches internal initiative called PAIR to study and help prevent potential prejudices in AI systems, open sources two tools for examining datasets — The company says its new research initiative will tackle bias in AI and make the technology more accessible
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| Jim Rutenberg / New York Times: |
News Media Alliance, with members including NYT, WaPo, and News Corp, seeks antitrust exemption from Congress to negotiate collectively with Google and Facebook — Google and Facebook continue to gobble up the digital advertising market, siphoning away revenue that once paid for the quality journalism …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Twitter lets you avoid trolls with new settings options to mute newly registered users, people you don't follow, and people who don't follow you — When trolls barge into people's notifications with offensive replies or user names, they might not keep coming back to Twitter.| Reuters: |
Indian telecom operator Reliance Jio is investigating an alleged data breach of 100M+ customers including names, telephone numbers, and email addresses — India's Reliance Jio is investigating whether personal data of over 100 million of its customers had leaked onto a website … | Davey Alba / Wired: |
As internet firms receive more orders to remove content worldwide, experts worry the internet could be forced to comply globally with the strictest local laws — THE RULINGS ON online speech are coming down all over the world. Most recently, on June 30, Germany passed a law …
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| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
US magistrate judge rules that Uber lawyers can depose Alphabet CEO Larry Page and rejects Uber's attempt to get docs from Lyft about its deal with Waymo — Also, Uber's attempt to get documents from competitor Lyft gets squashed. — A US magistrate judge has ruled (PDF) …
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| Anna Irrera / Reuters: |
Stripe partners with WeChat Pay, which has 600M+ users, and Alipay, with 520M+ users, to let its merchants outside China integrate payments via those platforms — Silicon Valley startup Stripe has partnered with digital payment providers Alipay and WeChat Pay to enable merchants using …
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