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| Liz Hamren / Windows Blog: |
Microsoft brings 15-inch Surface Book 2 to 17 more countries starting today; both 15-inch and 13-inch variants will come to more countries over next two months — Surface Book 2 is the most powerful Surface we've ever built, and customers love that they can run their most demanding applications from anywhere.
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
22 attorneys general file lawsuit to stop FCC's repeal of net neutrality rules; Mozilla, other net neutrality advocates also filed suits against FCC — The legal fight against the Federal Communications Commission's recent repeal of so-called net neutrality regulations began on Tuesday …
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ZDNet, The Mozilla Blog, Inquirer, New York State Attorney …, Recode, Neowin, Boing Boing, Silicon Republic, DSLreports, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Register, TechCrunch, CNET, Public Knowledge, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Bangor Daily News, Motherboard, MacRumors, and Mashable
Tweets: @agschneiderman, @clarkstacey, @senmarkey, and @agkarlracine
| Brian Boucher / artnet News: |
Google's Arts & Culture app becomes the number one free app on the iOS App Store after its face-matching feature that was added in December goes viral — The search behemoth's app was all the rage on social media this weekend. — Googling yourself took on a whole new meaning this weekend.
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MacRumors, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Chicago Tribune, The Next Web, Good Housekeeping, iPhone Hacks, Washington Post, CNET, Recode, Business Insider, BGR, Inverse, Smithsonian, Slate, Refinery29, The Mac Observer, iMore, CNNMoney, The Loop, Digital Photography Review, Gizmodo, kottke.org, Tom's Guide, Pocket-lint, Open Culture, Mashable, and CNBC
Tweets: @petewentz, @alyssa_milano, and @nyercartoons
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
YouTube says creators will need 4K hours of watch time in past 12 months and 1K subs to join Partner Program; Google Preferred videos to be reviewed by humans — YouTube is making its creator revenue-sharing program more restrictive and will start manually reviewing all videos …
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YouTube Creator Blog, Inside AdWords, The Guardian, USA Today, International Business Times, BBC, Forbes, GamesIndustry.biz, Search Engine Roundtable, New York Times, The Verge, The Next Web, Insanely Great Mac, RAPPLER, Digital Trends, MediaNama, Ubergizmo, Neowin, Recode, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Engadget, and Hollywood Reporter
Tweets: @jacknicas, @ericbeckerman, @barnacules, @awakenmilitiagg, @jason_kint, @talentsyfam, @chrismessina, and @georgepaskl
| Zeynep Tufekci / Wired: |
Free speech online has grown even as Facebook, Google, Twitter control more attention; most effective censorship now is meddling with trust, not muzzling speech — FOR MOST OF modern history, the easiest way to block the spread of an idea was to keep it from being mechanically disseminated.
Facebook: Zeynep Tufekci. Tweets: @zeynep, @anthony, @codinghorror, @brendannyhan, @shapshak, @noupside, @umairh, @arikaokrent, @derekpost, and @digiphile
| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Podcast network TWiT is suing Twitter, alleging breach of contract and trademark infringement in connection with the distribution of audio and video content — TWiT, officially known as This Week in Tech, is suing Twitter. The audio and video media platform alleges breach of written contract …
Tweets: @sgtmuffin and @mikeelgan
| Steven Johnson / New York Times: |
An in-depth look at the potential of decentralized blockchain tech that aims to fix some of the internet's fundamental structural problems — Yes, it's driven by greed — but the mania for cryptocurrency could wind up building something much more important than wealth.
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Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check. Tweets: @stevenbjohnson, @walterisaacson, @jamesgmorgan, @scottbelsky, @jayrosen_nyu, @nytimes, @nytimes, @fredwilson, @kevin2kelly, and @rebeccak46
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google launches Cloud AutoML, a service to build image recognition and other custom AI models for developers, including those with no ML expertise — Google today announced the alpha launch of AutoML Vision, a new service that helps developers — including those with no machine learning …
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The Keyword, GeekWire, VentureBeat, ZDNet, and Forbes
| Steven Johnson / Wired: |
Behind Cloudflare's decision to boot The Daily Stormer off its service, while it struggled to stay true to the principle of protecting free speech online — IN THE FALL of 2016, Keegan Hankes, an analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center, paid a visit to the neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer.| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Internal email shows Google has opened an office in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, the global hardware hub that is home to Tencent, Huawei, and ZTE — A month after announcing plans to open its first AI lab in China, Google is expanding again through a move into Shenzhen.
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Engadget, Tech in Asia, Financial Times, 9to5Google, Business Insider, and Seeking Alpha
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Kaspersky Lab says it's found an Android spying app, likely by Italian vendors, that relies on five exploits to gain root access and can steal WhatsApp messages — Skygofree is among the most powerful spy platforms ever created for Android. — Last year, researchers found …
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Securelist, BetaNews, Kaspersky Lab official blog, SiliconANGLE, Softpedia News, Android Beat, BGR India, Firstpost, The Next Web, Android Police, Forbes, The Hacker News, SecurityWeek, Inquirer, The Register, CSO, BleepingComputer.com, and ZDNet
Tweets: @kaspersky and @3ncr1pt3d
| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
Cryptocurrency values decline sharply, with Bitcoin down 25%+, briefly below $10K, Ethereum down as much as 30%, and Ripple down 40% at one point on Tuesday — - Ripple, the third-largest digital currency by market capitalization, briefly drops 46 percent below $1, according to CoinMarketCap.
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Telegraph, Bloomberg, SiliconANGLE, Virtual Mining Bitcoin News, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, and Ars Technica
Tweets: @neerajka, @mattrosoff, and @arrington
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