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| Tony Romm / Recode: |
A coalition of state attorneys general, led by the New York AG, pledge to sue the FCC for repealing net neutrality rules — States like Washington and New York are gearing up to fight the FCC's recent repeal. — The United States is about to go to war with itself over net neutrality.
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
FCC votes to dismantle Obama administration's net neutrality rules in a 3-2 vote; Ajit Pai says rollback is “helping consumers and promoting competition” — WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to dismantle landmark rules regulating the businesses …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
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| Jim Finkle / Reuters: |
“Triton” malware, likely the work of a nation-state, found in Schneider Electric industrial safety systems often used in nuclear, oil and gas plants — (Reuters) - Hackers likely working for a nation-state recently invaded the safety system of a critical infrastructure facility …
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
YouTube debuts 360-degree YouTube VR app on Steam in early access for HTC Vive, but users of the beta are reporting several problems from bugs to crashes — There's a lot of VR content out there, but much of it is for one platform or another — what works on Gear VR may not on Daydream, the HTC Vive or the Oculus Rift.
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| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Alphabet's X inks deal with the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh to install 2,000 boxes that provide high-speed wireless internet using light beams — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's X research division said on Thursday that India's Andhra Pradesh state government would buy …
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| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
As AOL Instant Messenger shuts down today after 20 years, readers reminisce about the heyday of instant messaging — Ars readers reminisce about the heyday of instant messaging. — Today, America Online Instant Messenger, better known by its acronym, AIM, went dark after more than two decades of faithful service.
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| Jason Koebler / Motherboard: |
Motherboard and Vice to build and document a Brooklyn community internet that will connect to NYC mesh network and will not rely on a traditional ISP — The net neutrality battle has been exhausting. It has come at enormous cost in time, energy, attention, and money.| Ben Fox Rubin / CNET: |
Amazon says it will start selling Apple TV and Google Chromecast again, two years after removing them — Amazon said Thursday that it will again be selling Apple TV and Google Chromecast devices, two video-streaming gadgets the e-commerce giant removed from its site two years ago and that compete with its own Fire TV products.
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| Davide Ghiglione / Financial Times: |
Italy's tax agency says Amazon to pay €100M to settle outstanding tax claims covering the period between 2011 and 2015 — Italy's tax agency - known as Agenzia delle Entrate - said it reached an agreement with Amazon to settle outstanding tax claims covering the period between 2011 and 2015.
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Indonesia's ride-hailing service Go-Jek has acquired offline payment firm Kartuku, payment gateway Midtrans, and payment and lending network Mapan — Go-Jek, the company leading Uber and Grab in Southeast Asia's largest market, has bagged a hat trick of deals to advance its mobile payment strategy.| Shruthi Muraleedharan / Facebook: |
Facebook debuts Snooze, a News Feed feature to temporarily unfollow a person, Page, or group for 30 days — One of our core News Feed values is giving people more control. Today, we're launching Snooze, which will give you the option to temporarily unfollow a person, Page or group for 30 days.
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| Sarah Knapton / Telegraph: |
Google AI team helps NASA identify a new planet in the Kepler-90 star system, found with the aid of a neural network using data from the Kepler Space Telescope — Google has previously discovered lost tribes, missing ships and even an forgotten forest. But now it has also found two entire planets.
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Tweets: @sundarpichai and @sundarpichai
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Apple begins selling its own Thunderbolt 3 USB-C to USB-C cable, with transfer speeds of up to 40 Gbps, for $39 — Why aren't these the standard ones, again? — It's taken a while, but Apple is finally selling its own Thunderbolt 3 USB-C cables in the Apple Store.
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| Richard Gao / Android Police: |
Essential Phone's camera app has been downloaded ~50K times, according to Google Play, suggesting sales have been weak — By now, it should be apparent that the Essential Phone hasn't sold in the numbers that Andy Rubin and co. had thought it would. Having started at an MSRP of $699 … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Canary and Canary Flex cameras will be updated to add AI-powered person detection and more AI features in coming months — More AI-powered features are coming soon — Both the Canary and Canary Flex home security cameras are being updated with a new, AI-driven feature today: person detection.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple launches its podcast analytics service in beta, which only tracks data from iOS 11 and iTunes 12.7 users — At WWDC this year, Apple announced it would soon offer its own podcast analytics service for show creators who publish on Apple Podcasts. Today, that service has launched into beta …
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