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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Facebook will not unveil its smart speakers at F8 while it deals with data misuse scandal, but still plans to launch speakers later this year — Social network had hoped to show off devices at F8 in May — Company still plans to launch products later this year
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| New York Times: |
Documents reveal that a Palantir Technologies employee, in his personal capacity, suggested to Cambridge Analytica to use a mobile app to harvest Facebook data — As a start-up called Cambridge Analytica sought to harvest the Facebook data of tens of millions of Americans in summer 2014 …
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| Facebook: |
Facebook introduces new Privacy Shortcuts menu, simplified settings menu on mobile, and tools to find, download, and delete your Facebook data — Last week showed how much more work we need to do to enforce our policies and help people understand how Facebook works and the choices they have over their data.
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Google says it will acquire GIF platform Tenor, which is integrated into a variety of keyboards and messaging apps like Facebook Messenger — Google will be acquiring Tenor, which powers a variety of GIF keyboards on phones and messengers like Facebook Messenger, the companies announced today.
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The Keyword, Tenor, ZDNet, Ubergizmo, Yourstory.com, BetaNews, Firstpost, My Two Cents, Android Authority, CNBC, Forbes, VentureBeat, The Verge, Neowin, Search Engine Journal, SiliconANGLE, San Francisco Chronicle, Digital Trends, SlashGear, ValueWalk, Android Police, Droid Life, Thurrott.com, Bloomberg, 9to5Google, CNET, Axios, Mashable, Reuters, Android and Me, Android Central, Engadget, and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @mattlynley
| Ryne Hager / Android Police: |
Google starts blocking uncertified Android devices from using its core apps, will allow exceptions for custom ROMs — Google has always controlled which devices ship with its proprietary GApps—a package that includes such necessities as the Play Store and Google Play Services.| Chris Mellor / The Register: |
Pure Storage and Nvidia unveil AIRI, a four-petaflop platform using Nvidia's DGX-1 servers and Pure's FlashBlade storage system for large-scale AI initiatives — 0.5 PFLOPS FP32, 0.5 PB of effective flash storage — Pure Storage and Nvidia have produced a converged machine-learning system …
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| Lory Gil / iMore: |
Logitech's $49 Crayon stylus (available in June) and $99 keyboard case for new iPad don't support iPad Pro and can only be bought via Apple's Education Channel — Apple has made it much easier for kids to learn on iPad, and with help from Logitech, type and draw on it, too!| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google adds support for 39 more languages to Maps — Google today announced that Google Maps is getting support for 39 additional languages. — The newly supported languages are Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Burmese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian … | Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
On-demand shipping/delivery startup Shyp, which raised a total of ~$63M, is ending operations and laying off all its employees — The company that hoped to revolutionize shipping is ending operations today-a poster child for a whole era of venture-funded ideas that has come and gone.
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| Susan Decker / Bloomberg: |
A US appeals court revives Oracle's billion-dollar copyright claim against Google, saying Google's use of Java wasn't “fair use” — Google could owe Oracle Corp. billions of dollars after an appeals court said it didn't have the right to use the Oracle-owned Java programming code … | Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft launches open source tool for developers to create custom Linux distribution packages for Windows 10 — After starting with Ubuntu, Microsoft has added a number of Linux distributions to its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) Linux runtime environment.
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Windows Command Line Tools …, BleepingComputer.com, MSPoweruser, Liliputing, BetaNews, The Register, and On MSFT. Tweets: @shanselman
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
A deep look at JavaScript-based cryptocurrency mining service Coinhive, a cryptojacking tool used to steal processing power of users' devices for mining Monero — Multiple security firms recently identified cryptocurrency mining service Coinhive as the top malicious threat to Web users …
Tweets: @briankrebs, @briankrebs, and @marloegroup
| Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Uber says it will not renew its self-driving permit in California and that it has suspended testing in Pittsburgh, Toronto and San Francisco — Uber plans to end all self-driving-car testing in California, according to a letter from the state Department of Motor Vehicles to the company.
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| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Oscar Health raises $165M in a round led by Founders Fund with participation from Alphabet's Capital G and Verily; sources say funding brings valuation to $3.2B — - Oscar Health's valuation is now at more than $3 billion, sources say, after it raised another big round from Alphabet, Founders Fund and others.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
VR camera maker Lytro is shutting down, and former employees are going to Google — Futuristic “light field” camera maker Lytro is shutting down, according to a statement posted online. The company says that starting today, it will stop “taking on new productions and providing professional services … Sponsor Posts
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