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Google says it's opening an artificial intelligence research center in Beijing, its first in China — Google has officially announced that it is opening an AI center in Beijing, China. — The confirmation comes after months of speculation fueled by a major push to hire AI talent inside the country.
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Tweets: @ebkania, @qingqingparis, and @evawxiao
| Josh Lipton / CNBC: |
Apple awards $390M from its $1B Advanced Manufacturing Fund to Finisar, which makes laser chips used in iPhone X and AirPods for depth and proximity sensing — - Apple is investing $390 million into Finisar, which makes chips used by Apple products for depth and proximity sensing.
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StreetInsider.com, Apple, Wall Street Journal, SiliconANGLE, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, CNET, Ars Technica, Associated Press, VentureBeat, The Verge, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Silicon Valley Business …, iDownloadBlog.com, Business Insider, TechSpot, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Loop, Fortune, iDownloadBlog.com, New York Times, Seeking Alpha, Reuters, Cult of Mac, iPhone Hacks, and Fone Arena. Tweets: @marrathon
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
T-Mobile has acquired Denver-based TV tech company Layer3 TV and says it will launch its own wireless TV service to compete with Comcast, others, in 2018 — T-Mobile says it will launch its own TV service in 2018, expanding its competitive focus beyond the U.S. wireless giants to target major cable …
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Newsroom, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Android Authority, The Verge, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Bloomberg, CNET, Variety, VideoInk, and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @pkafka
| Kim Willsher / The Guardian: |
French government moves to ban smartphone use in primary, junior, and middle schools, affecting children age 6-15, starting in September 2018 — Pupils, teachers and parents seem less than convinced by measure prohibiting use in primary, junior and middle schools
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ZDNet, The Memo, The Next Web, Ubergizmo, Telegraph, NPR, The Verge, The Times & The Sunday Times, Sky News, and Quartz. Tweets: @lukehashman
| Kif Leswing / Business Insider: |
Early reviews from videographers and other creative professionals find iMac Pro has much improved performance, is decent value, and looks good in Space Grey — - Apple's iMac Pro goes on sale on Thursday starting at $5000. — Early reviews, from professional photographers and programmers, are positive.
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Tweets: @bwjones, @gregkurstin, @pschiller, @cabel, @mkbhd, @cabel, @cabel, and @mgsiegler
| Jeff Benjamin / 9to5Mac: |
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Tweets: @stevesi, @neilcybart, and @neilcybart
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Google and Tamasek report: Southeast Asia's internet economy growth has exceeded expectations by 35%, now estimated to reach $50B in 2017 and $200B by 2025 — Southeast Asia is now the world's third largest region for internet users — with more people online than the entire U.S. population …
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The Keyword, Xinhua News Agency, Business Insider Singapore, The Straits Times, DealStreetAsia, Tech in Asia, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @fintechnewsth, @rajananandan, @maxwalden_, and @techcrunch
| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
David Marcus, VP of messaging products at Facebook and a former president of PayPal, will be joining Coinbase's board — Coinbase, a popular site for buying cryptocurrencies, is soaring. In the last week, Coinbase's app shot to No. 1 in the iTunes store, while a flood of interest …
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The Coinbase Blog, Bitcoinist.com, CNBC, PYMNTS.com, ZDNet, CoinDesk, Business Insider, Seeking Alpha, and TechCrunch
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitter makes it easier to tweetstorm by adding a threads feature, letting you easily add linked tweets from the compose screen, rolling out in coming weeks — Time for some game theory — A few months after being spotted in tests, Twitter's tool for creating tweestorms is now an official part of the app.
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Twitter, Wired, Pocket-lint, TechSpot, MediaNama, Social Media Today, Newser, Neowin, International Business Times, Slate, Mashable, Axios, Engadget, TechCrunch, and BuzzFeed
Tweets: @stevesi, @dane, @stevesi, @mattmcgee, @joshconstine, @mgsiegler, @ow, @samfbiddle, @da7e, @jbillinson, @senatorshoshana, @jmover, and @jack
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Swedish payments startup iZettle raises $47M Series D, reportedly at a $950M valuation, led by Dawn Capital — iZettle — the commerce platform based out of Stockholm that competes against companies like Square, Paypal and SumUp to provide card transactions using smartphones and tablets …
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Bank Innovation, Reuters, Bloomberg, City A.M., VentureBeat, and Business Insider. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times: |
Facebook says Russia's Internet Research Agency spent just $0.97 on 3 Brexit-related ads, seen by ~200 users, over 4 days in May 2016, ahead of June 2016 vote — LONDON — Facebook, confounding expectations, said on Wednesday that the company had found no evidence of a significant Russian effort …
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Telegraph, BBC, TechCrunch, BuzzFeed, and Financial Times
Tweets: @markdistef, @markdistef, @jimwaterson, and @nigel_farage
| Reuters: |
South Korea says it may tax capital gains from cryptocurrency trading and ban minors from opening accounts on exchanges — SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's government has called an emergency meeting to discuss the trading of cryptocurrencies, and measures on the market will be announced on Friday …
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BetaNews, Bloomberg, SiliconANGLE, Bitcoinist.com, TechSpot, Seeking Alpha, Financial Times, CNNMoney, and Slate
Tweets: @cnntech, @reuterstech, and @reuterstech
| Dani Deahl / The Verge: |
Algoriddim releases djay Pro 2 for macOS with better song library management and AI-powered features like Automix for smooth transitions — And, it's pretty good at it — Algoriddim's next generation of its DJ software, Djay Pro 2, has just been released, available for macOS.
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Engadget, Mac App Store, iMore, MacRumors, Algoriddim, 9to5Mac, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @sriramvsharma
| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
How activist Ma Jun aggregates data on China's worst water polluters, causing some to be banished from Apple's supplier list, in an effort backed by Alibaba — Online database records at least 830,000 cases of pollution — Western brands among customers using app to monitor suppliers| New York Times: |
As net neutrality protests take center stage on Reddit, Kickstarter, and others, tech giants including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Netflix keep a low profile — Protests to preserve net neutrality, or rules that ensure equal access to the internet, migrated online on Tuesday …
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Vanity Fair, Recode, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Tim Berners-Lee, and New York Times
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