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Microsoft splits Windows & Devices Group; Rajesh Jha to lead Experiences & Devices, Scott Guthrie to lead Cloud + AI Platform, Harry Shum to lead AI + Research — To: Microsoft - All Employees; All MS Store Employees FTE — Today, I'm announcing the formation of two new engineering teams …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Terry Myerson, VP of Windows and Devices Group at Microsoft, is leaving as part of a company-wide reorg; Surface chief Panos Panay becomes chief product officer — Microsoft's latest company reorg includes some major changes to its Windows and Devices organization, including the departure of its current leader, Terry Myerson.
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Facebook shuts down Partner Categories, says it will stop using data from third-party aggregators like Experian to supplement its own data for ad targeting — Facebook says it's going to stop using data from third-party data providers like Experian and Acxiom.
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| Channel 4 News: |
Despite claims of data being deleted, leaked cache from a Cambridge Analytica source details personality and psychological profiles of 136K people in Colorado — Facebook said it took steps to ensure harvested campaign data had been “destroyed”. But Channel 4 News has now discovered …
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| Michael Sheetz / CNBC: |
Trump goes after Amazon on Twitter amid reports of obsession, saying the firm pays “little or no taxes” and is putting “thousands of retailers out of business” — - President Donald Trump went after Amazon in a tweet, saying the online retailer pays “little or no taxes to state & local governments.”
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Snap cuts about 100 employees from its advertising team, the final step in a restructuring process set in motion in Q4 — The reductions this time center on its ad division — Snap Inc. is cutting another set of employees, focusing this time on the advertising side of the business …
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| New York Times: |
A look at how Atlanta is dealing with a ransomware attack, one of the most sustained and consequential cyberattacks ever mounted against a major American city — ATLANTA — The City of Atlanta's 8,000 employees got the word on Tuesday that they had been waiting for: It was O.K. to turn their computers on.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases iOS 11.3 with throttling controls, ARKit 1.5, Health Records, new Animoji, Business Chat for iMessage, more; watchOS 4.3 and tvOS 11.3 also out — Apple today released iOS 11.3, the twelfth official update to the iOS 11 operating system that first came out in September …
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| Bradley Chambers / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's education-focused events in 2012 and 2018 show that its vision does not fit with reality because of a lack of understanding of what teachers need — Making The Grade is a weekly series from Bradley Chambers covering Apple in education. Bradley has been managing Apple devices in an education environment since 2009.
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| Bernie Woodall / Reuters: |
Uber reaches settlement with family of autonomous vehicle accident victim killed in Tempe, Arizona — TEMPE, Ariz. (Reuters) - The family of the woman killed by an Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] self-driving vehicle in Arizona has reached a settlement with the ride services company …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft to add Stocks and Geography data types to Excel, powered by Bing's knowledge graph, allowing users to embed rich data in their spreadsheets — Excel is the workhorse of many industries and if you love your spreadsheets, the following news will likely make you unreasonably happy …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
For the first time, Facebook begins letting fact-checking partners review photos/videos and also lets them flag stories before being prompted — Facebook has begun letting partners fact check photos and videos beyond news articles, and proactively review stories before Facebook asks them.| Bloomberg: |
Apple says it will update its site for managing Apple IDs to let users download a copy of their data, complying with EU's GDPR, which goes into effect on May 25 — Broad new privacy rules coming amid Facebook data scandal — Apple releases operating system updates with privacy screen
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| Robin Kurzer / Marketing Land: |
LinkedIn rolls out native video ads in the news feed that auto-play on mute and lets businesses and publishers add video on their Company Pages — LinkedIn is offering businesses two outlets for using video on the platform. Companies can now run native video ad campaigns and include video within …
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| Randy Nelson / Sensor Tower Blog: |
Report: ARKit-only app downloads cross 13M in first six months, nearly half of them games; top apps include AR Dragon and measuring app CamToPlan Pro — iPhone and iPad users worldwide have installed more than 13 million augmented reality apps built expressly using Apple's ARKit framework since …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com: |
Researcher finds some VPN providers leak IP addresses via WebRTC bug that was discovered in 2015, but says audit is incomplete and other VPN's need testing — Around 20% of today's top VPN solutions are leaking the customer's IP address via a WebRTC bug known since January 2015 … | Windows Blog: |
Microsoft's new private audience option in Dev Center will allow developers to publish an app to Microsoft Store that'll be visible only to people they specify — One of the consistent themes that the Dev Center Team hears from the Windows developer community is that first impressions are important.
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