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Ex-Apple employees say Siri was released prematurely, leading to development debates after launch, and that the Siri team was unaware of HomePod until 2015 — The Information has published an in-depth look at how Siri has transitioned from one of Apple's most promising technologies into a “major problem” for the company.
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| Jillian D'Onfro / CNBC: |
SEC charges Theranos, CEO Elizabeth Holmes, and former president Ramesh Balwani with defrauding investors for $700M+; Theranos and Holmes have settled — - The company will no longer allow ads about cryptocurrency-related content, including initial coin offerings (ICOs), wallets, and trading advice across any of its ad platforms.
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SEC charges Theranos, CEO Elizabeth Holmes, and former president Balwani with defrauding investors by raising $700M+ fraudulently; Theranos and Holmes settled — Holmes Stripped of Control of Company for Defrauding Investors — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Silicon …
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Google's new Maps platform for games gives developers access to real-time Google Maps data, an SDK for Unity, and a new API to use real-world locations in games — The first wave of games includes Jurassic World and The Walking Dead — There's been a wave of location-based mobile games … | Megan Farokhmanesh / The Verge: |
Wikimedia says it was unaware of YouTube's plans to use Wikipedia content next to conspiracy videos, amid concerns it could increase article vandalism — Well, this is awkward — At SXSW yesterday, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki announced that the platform would start adding information …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google has open sourced the semantic image segmentation model that powers the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL's portrait mode — Google's Pixel phone has one hell of a camera, and one of the reasons for this is AI. Google has used its machine learning talent to squeeze better shots and shooting modes out of a tiny smartphone lens.| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Lyft to develop and manufacture autonomous car systems with Canada's Magna International; Magna making $200M equity investment in Lyft, now valued at $11.7B — SAN FRANCISCO — The ride-hailing service Lyft has agreed to alliances with just about anyone working on driverless car technology.
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| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Sources: Twitter is working on a camera-first feature to rival Snap that combines location-based photos and videos with Twitter Moments around notable events — - Twitter is working on a camera-first feature to rival a Snap service that has been popular with advertisers.| Rory Cellan-Jones / BBC: |
Facebook bans far-right anti-Islamic group Britain First and removes the group's pages and those of its leaders for repeatedly violating its community standards — Facebook has removed the pages of the anti-Islamic group Britain First and its leaders. — The social media company …
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| Renae Merle / Washington Post: |
Former CIO of an Equifax unit, Jun Ying, faces criminal and civil charges from SEC over alleged insider trading on confidential info about 2017's data breach — Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged a former Equifax executive with insider trading, alleging that he profited …
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| Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land: |
Reddit says its iOS and Android apps account for 41% of time spent on all of its platforms and will introduce native in-feed ads to them in the coming weeks — The company says its iOS and Android apps are now the most popular way for users to access Reddit content on mobile.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google says it removed 3.2B “bad ads” in 2017, up from 1.7B in 2016, and blocked 320K publishers, 90K sites, and 700K mobile apps for content policy violations — As the world's largest search engine and a digital advertising behemoth, Google has a lot to answer for when it comes … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp commits to not sharing user data with Facebook until it complies with GDPR; UK's Information Commissioner's Office closes its investigation — Facebook, its popular messaging app WhatsApp, and the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) have reached a truce in their long-running investigation …
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| Bloomberg: |
French finance minister says France will take legal action against Apple and Google over “abusive commercial practices” taking advantage of French developers — Action follows investigation into application contracts — Finance minister says fines could be in ‘millions of euros’
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Josh Elman, who formerly worked on product at Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook, will join Robinhood as its VP of product while remaining a partner at Greylock — Zero-fee stock trading app Robinhood is getting some product firepower as it dives into cryptocurrency and weighs platform aspirations.
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Recode. Tweets: @robinhoodapp, @mdudas, @joshconstine, and @joshconstine. Thanks:@chrismessina
| Allison Linn / The AI Blog: |
Microsoft says it has trained AI that can match human performance in translating news from Chinese to English — A team of Microsoft researchers said Wednesday that they believe they have created the first machine translation system that can translate sentences of news articles from Chinese … | Matt Brian / Engadget: |
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ launched with 1.4GHz quad-core processor, dual-band WiFi, gigabit ethernet over USB 2.0, Bluetooth 4.2, and Power over Ethernet for $35 — Despite selling over 14 million of its low-cost DIY computing boards, the Raspberry Pi Foundation adheres to a slow release cycle.
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| Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal: |
Walmart to offer home delivery of groceries in 100 cities by year's end by partnering with delivery companies using contract workers, starting with Uber — Retailer to partner with delivery startups after Amazon, Kroger and others roll out similar services
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