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Google unveils Chat, a set of features in default Android Messages app for an RCS-based carrier service to supplant SMS, as it pauses investment in Allo — A top-tier Android phone can cost upwards of a thousand dollars, and for that money, you'll get some amazing features.
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| Drew FitzGerald / Wall Street Journal: |
At antitrust trial, AT&T CEO announced AT&T Watch, a $15/month streaming TV bundle without sports; service is free for cellular customers, will debut in weeks — CEO unveils ‘skinny bundle’ service in testimony during antitrust case — AT&T Inc. T 0.13% plans to launch a …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple's efforts to lessen its reliance on Samsung as the sole OLED display supplier for iPhones in peril due to manufacturing problems at LG Display — Manufacturing problems at South Korea's LG Display could force Apple to rely solely on its competitor for high-end and costly smartphone screens
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| Reuters: |
German Supreme Court rules that ad blockers are legal, in favor of Adblock Plus, and throws out a case brought by Axel Springer — KARLSRUHE/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a case brought by Axel Springer seeking to ban a popular application …
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Tax forms filed by the nonprofit OpenAI provide insight into the enormous salaries and bonuses paid to AI specialists across the world — SAN FRANCISCO — One of the poorest-kept secrets in Silicon Valley has been the huge salaries and bonuses that experts in artificial intelligence can command.| Patrick Howell O'Neill / Cyberscoop: |
Twitter bans Kaspersky Lab from advertising on its network, pointing to DHS' September notice of vendor's ties to Russian intelligence services — (Norwegian University of Science and Technology / Kai T. Dragland / Flickr) — Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab has been banned …
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| Jeremy C. Owens / MarketWatch: |
Pivotal priced IPO at $15/share, in the middle of announced range of $14-$16, raising $555M and giving company a valuation of about $3.8B — Pivotal Software Inc. PVTL, +0.00% priced its initial public offering at $15 a share early Friday, raising $555 million at a valuation of about $3.8 billion based on shares outstanding.
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| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
A look at the different methods and technologies that Waymo and Tesla use to collect data from the billions of miles their self-driving vehicles have driven — Autonomous cars won't happen without tons of data. Tesla and Waymo have a big head start — There's a race happening right … | Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Sources: DOJ is investigating AT&T, Verizon, and GSMA for possible collusion in thwarting eSIM technology that would allow users to switch carriers more easily — WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has opened an antitrust investigation into potential coordination by AT&T …
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Profile of Mark Zuckerberg as told by those who knew him growing up in Dobbs Ferry, New York, and those who met him on his 2017 tour of the US — The world's largest social network needs fixing. Facebook's frontman needs to show he can do it — fast.| Megan Farokhmanesh / The Verge: |
As FOSTA became a law, Cloudflare kicked Switter, a community for sex workers, from its network, forcing the service to move to another CDN — Safe havens continue to dwindle post-FOSTA as Cloudflare boots the Mastodon instance — Around 3PM ET on April 17th, Switter — a social media space for sex workers — went offline.| Masha Borak / TechNode: |
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