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Google brings AMP to email with the Gmail Developer Preview, to make emails more interactive with content like appointments, questionnaires, and more — For the past few years, we've worked to make mobile pages load faster through an open-source framework called Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP).| Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal: |
Google launches AMP stories developer preview for publishers today with Snapchat-like swipeable text, photos, videos, considers integrating stories into search — The format doesn't support advertising yet, which could slow its adoption among publishers — Alphabet Inc.'s GOOGL .79% Google unveiled …
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
IDC data shows Google sold 3.9M Pixel devices in 2017 — Less than a week's worth of iPhone sales — In the 16 months since its initial release in October 2016, Google's Pixel family of phones has earned plenty of acclaim and scrutiny, but not very many sales.
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| Dave Lee / BBC: |
UK government spent £600K on an AI tool that can algorithmically block extremist content, claims it's capable of detecting 94% of IS's online activity — The UK government has unveiled a tool it says can accurately detect jihadist content and block it from being viewed.
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| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Injong Rhee, Samsung Electronics' CTO, says he has left the company to lead Google's IoT business under cloud boss Diane Greene — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google this month hired Injong Rhee, who recently resigned as Samsung Electronics Co's chief technology officer … | Kyle Torpey / Forbes: |
Microsoft says it will embrace decentralized identity systems based on Bitcoin and other public blockchains through the Microsoft Authenticator app — In a new post today, Microsoft announced their embrace of public blockchains, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, for use in decentralized identity systems.
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Harvard, MIT, NYU among growing crop of US universities offering computer science ethics courses on AI, autonomous vehicles, privacy and civil rights in tech — PALO ALTO, Calif. — The medical profession has an ethic: First, do no harm. — Silicon Valley has an ethos: Build it first and ask for forgiveness later.
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Snapdragon 845 performance preview: small improvements to CPU, decent boost to web workloads, GPU sees 30% better performance, 30% improvement in power vs. 835 — In what has become an annual tradition for Qualcomm, the company has once again opened the doors of their San Diego headquarters …
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Microsoft says it's acquired education collaboration software platform Chalkup and will integrate some of its features into Teams for Education — Microsoft is beefing up its Slack-like collaboration software, Microsoft Teams, with the technology-know how and the founder from collaboration software startup Chalkup.| Hannah Levintova / Mother Jones: |
Video by Russian activist Alexei Navalny, alleging new link between Russia and Trump campaign, is subject of injunction, may lead to YouTube and Instagram block — An investigation into a deputy prime minister, escorts, and a yacht sends regulators scrambling.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook to allow publisher paywalls in its iOS app starting 3/1; users get five articles before being asked to pay, publishers get 100% subscription revenue — Apple is allowing Facebook to bend the subscription rules. Starting March 1st, news publishers will be able to use their paywalls inside Facebook's iOS app.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's status update box gets a new Lists feature for making and sharing text lists about anything, rolling out to some users now — Facebook's status update box is getting a new feature called Lists, which begins rolling out today. This is the first major update to the entry field since … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
IDC research director says Essential shipped 88,000 smartphones in the first six months after its May 2017 launch — Andy Rubin's Essential Phone faces a harsh reality in the high-end market — Essential, Android co-founder Andy Rubin's new smartphone venture, had a rough go of it last year trying …
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| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
ARM unveils Project Trillium, a new mobile AI chip family, with a ML chip design coming in mid-2018 and an object detection chip design coming in Q1 — Today's Arm announcement is a bit out of the norm for the company, as it's the first in a series of staggered releases of information.
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
San Francisco-based customer support software startup UJET raises $25M Series B led by GV with participation from Kleiner Perkins and others — UJET, a startup that makes software to improve customer support, said today that it's raised a $25 million Series B led by GV (formerly known as Google Ventures).| Doug Kramer / Cloudflare Blog: |
US court dismisses suit brought by “patent troll” Blackbird against Cloudflare, invalidating Blackbird's patent, noting abstract ideas are not patentable — As we have talked about repeatedly in this blog, we at Cloudflare are not fans of the behavior of patent trolls.| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Oracle to expand its autonomous technology across its PaaS offerings in app development, app and data integration, analytics, and system and identity management — The autonomous technology in the Oracle Autonomous Database will now be rolled out to application development, app and data integration …
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