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| Thuy Ong / The Verge: |
Amazon, Reddit, Netflix, Airbnb, Spotify, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and many others in tech are rallying today in support of net neutrality — Amazon, Reddit, Facebook, Google and Twitter are fighting the FCC's changes — Technology giants like Amazon, Spotify, Reddit, Facebook, Google …
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Tweets: @sundarpichai, @kamalaharris, @ashleymayer, @policy, @dozba, @venkatananth, @reckless, @google, @opera, and @ryanmerkley
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
14M+ records of Verizon users who called customer service, including phone numbers, addresses, PINs, were left exposed for over week after telecom was notified — Customer records for at least 14 million subscribers, including phone numbers and account PINs, were exposed.
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UpGuard, Axios, The Verge, MacRumors, USA Today, Associated Press, KTLA, The Register, Tom's Guide, CNBC, TechSpot, Public Knowledge, Talkin' Cloud, International Business Times, The Hacker News, Engadget, GeekWire, ZDNet, DSLreports, and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @karlbode. Thanks:@zackwhittaker
| Bill Ready / PayPal: |
PayPal added as a payment option on iTunes, App Store, iBooks, and Apple Music in Canada and Mexico, with roll-out in US and other countries soon — Starting today in Canada and Mexico, and rolling out in other countries including the US soon after, PayPal customers will be able to pay for App Store …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft unveils new Outlook for iOS and Android with quick reply, improved sidebar, and improves search to include attachments, travel plans, deliveries, more — Microsoft today unveiled a redesigned version of its popular Outlook mobile app for iOS and Android, which most notably includes … | John Anon / Android Headlines: |
Google releases Backup and Sync as a single desktop backup app, eliminating need for individual uploader tools for Google Drive and Google Photos — Google has today announced the launch of its new Backup and Sync tool. This is a feature which is now available for both Windows and Mac …
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| Lauren Thomas / CNBC: |
Amazon Prime Day drove record levels of Prime sign-ups and sales, with sales growing 60% YoY; the Echo Dot was the most popular purchase among Prime members — - Prime Day sales this year surpassed Amazon's Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the e-commerce giant says.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google acquires Indian AI startup Halli Labs, which was building AI tools to address “old problems and domains” — Some more M&A news in the world of artificial intelligence. Today it was made public that Google has acquired Halli Labs, a very young (its first public appearance …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Microsoft releases free Seeing AI app on iOS that uses AI to recognize people, objects, and scenes, and narrates the world to blind people — Microsoft has released Seeing AI — a smartphone app that uses computer vision to describe the world for the visually impaired.
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Microsoft, MacRumors, App Store, eWeek, CNET, SlashGear, San Francisco Chronicle, Neowin, Digital Trends, Windows Central, International Business Times, MacStories, Engadget, iPhone Hacks, MSPoweruser, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, On MSFT, Seeking Alpha, AppAdvice.com, Technology Personalized, Business Insider, and 9to5Mac
| Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic: |
New tech allows realistic superimposing of people's mouth movements in video, making them appear to say something they didn't, which could be used to deceive — The president was seething. — His problem was with the press, yes, but also with the technology they used. Electronic media had changed everything.
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UW Today, The Register, SiliconANGLE, Inquirer, Tech2, Gizmodo, The Verge, SlashGear, Engadget, The Next Web, GeekWire, The Mac Observer, and YouTube. Tweets: @jstrauss
| Jeremy Kahn / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft launches Microsoft Research AI lab in Redmond, involving 100+ AI scientists, focused on developing general purpose AI, challenging Google's DeepMind — Will move toward developing general-purpose learning systems — Also launches AI project for environmental sustainability
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Report: Amazon is considering giving Alexa developers access to transcripts of what people say when their applications are used — A substantial shift in Amazon's stance on consumer privacy — Amazon is considering granting third-party app developers access to transcripts of audio recordings saved …
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Tweets: @theinformation, @paleofuture, @mikeisaac, @williamalden, @shiraovide, and @sarahcuda
| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Facebook adds Facebook Live support to its social VR app Spaces, allowing Oculus Rift users to broadcast their VR hangouts on the social network — Earlier this year, Facebook launched Spaces, a social VR experience that lets you and your friends interact with each other in virtual reality.
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