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Microsoft unveils $10B Rural Airband Initiative to bring better broadband to 23.4M Americans, to start efforts in 12 states by offering seed money to local ISPs — In an event scheduled for Tuesday in Washington, D.C., Microsoft plans to propose using technology it helped develop as a cornerstone …
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As Google pays academics for research that often ends up justifying its controversial business practices, many academics fail to disclose their funding source — Google operates a little-known program to harness the brain power of university researchers to help sway opinion and public policy …
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| Karl Bode / Techdirt: |
AT&T Pretends To Love Net Neutrality, Joins Tomorrow's Protest With A Straight Face — You'd be hard pressed to find a bigger enemy of net neutrality than the fine folks at AT&T. The company has a history of all manner of anti-competitive assaults on the open and competitive internet …
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Facebook to gradually expand worldwide beta of display ads in Messenger's Home screen, which follow an auction-based model — Facebook Messenger will start to extend its home screen ads beta worldwide in the weeks ahead, Messenger head of product Stan Chudnovsky announced today.
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| Dustin Volz / Reuters: |
Knight First Amendment Institute sues Trump for blocking Twitter users, alleging the practice amounts to an unconstitutional effort to suppress dissent — A free-speech group said on Tuesday it sued U.S. President Donald Trump for blocking Twitter users from his @realDonaldTrump account …
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| Mishaal Rahman / xda-developers: |
Android 7.1 Nougat has a “Panic Detection” mode that detects frantic back button presses and returns users to home screen, to stop apps that hijack back button — While many readers of Android-centric websites such as our own are less likely to come across situations … | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Ubuntu now available in the Windows Store, is designed to run in a sandbox inside Windows 10 and focused on running command line utilities like bash or SSH — Microsoft announced at its Build 2017 developer conference earlier this year that Ubuntu would be heading to the Windows Store …
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Tweets: @tinkersec and @withinrafael
| Corrie Driebusch / Wall Street Journal: |
Snap drops 7%+ to $15.88, well below its $17 IPO price, as Morgan Stanley downgrades the company's stock — Morgan Stanley cut its price target for shares of the Snapchat parent - Snap Inc.'s rough week continued Tuesday, as a bank that led its initial public offering slashed its price target for the Snapchat parent's stock.| AnandTech: |
How Intel's new “Skylake-SP"-based Xeon server chips, launched today, stack up against AMD's EPYC line — This morning kicks off a very interesting time in the world of server-grade CPUs. Officially launching today is Intel's latest generation of Xeon processors, based on the “Skylake-SP” architecture.
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ZDNet, The New Stack, The New Stack, MacRumors, Ars Technica, and New York Times. Tweets: @ampressman. Thanks:@iancutress
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UK cybersecurity startup Darktrace raises $75M Series D led by Insight Venture Partners, at an $825M valuation — With cybercrime projected to reap some $6 trillion in damages by 2021, and businesses likely to invest around $1 trillion over the next five years to try to mitigate that …
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SiliconANGLE, ACN Newswire, Light Reading, Tech.eu, FinSMEs, PE Hub Blog, VentureBeat, KKR, DealStreetAsia, ZDNet, Business Insider, and Fortune
Tweets: @jd and @ingridlunden
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Google announces a new AI-focused early stage venture fund, Gradient Ventures, which promises its portfolio startups access to Google engineers — - The idea is to spur innovation in artificial intelligence while also providing interesting experiences to Google engineers.
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
1Password moves away from one-time licensing with a local storage option to a cloud-based $2.99/month subscription — 1Password is moving away from its one-time license, local storage option, and security researchers are not happy about it. — If you're worried about getting hacked …
Tweets: @cryptovillage, @kennwhite, @wbm312, and @bsletten
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