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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Sources: Facebook appoints CPO Chris Cox to lead Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger apps; CTO Mike Schroepfer to oversee AR/VR, AI, blockchain, more — WhatsApp, Messenger and Facebook's core app are getting new leaders as part of a massive executive reorg.
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Sources: Facebook launching new team of fewer than 12 to explore blockchain tech, led by David Marcus and including Instagram's VPs of engineering and product — What is the blockchain? Facebook wants to find out, too. — What is the blockchain? And how should Facebook be using it?
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Wired, The Verge, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, CoinDesk, CNET, CNBC, and CNBC
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Preview of changes and features coming in Android P: focus on “Digital Well Being” including usage dashboard, visual tweaks, gestures, and deeper AI integration — How the new update could help you use your phone less — This year, Google is doing something different with Android.
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| Google AI Blog: |
Breakdown of how Google Duplex works, with several audio examples of how the assistant would interact over the phone, handling interruptions, elaborating, more — Posted by Yaniv Leviathan, Principal Engineer and Yossi Matias, Vice President, Engineering, Google
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
A look at Google's experimental Duplex tech, demoed at I/O, enabling Assistant to place voice calls for you, make restaurant and barber reservations, more — The conversation seems mundane. At least, at first. — In a building called the Partnerplex on Google's sprawling campus in Mountain View …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Photos adds more AI-suggested actions, including colorization tweaks, automatically converting images to PDF, and more; roll out starts this week — Google Photos already makes it easy for users to correct their photos with built-in editing tools and clever, A.I.-powered features …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google debuts Google Photos partner program that includes HP and TimeHop as well as an API to let developers build new functionality into their own apps — Along with the A.I.-powered changes coming to the Google Photos app, Google today also announced a new way for developers to work with Google Photos' service.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google adds Smart Compose feature to Gmail, which suggests phrases as you type and lets users autocomplete them by hitting tab, rolling out to all this month — Following a big revamp to Gmail last month, Google is adding a new machine learning feature this month.
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The Keyword, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, Pocket-lint, BetaNews, CNET, Engadget, MSPoweruser, XDA Developers, and Fortune
| Dani Deahl / The Verge: |
Google unveils redesigned Google News, based on its Material Design language, with aim of helping surface stories and supporting publications, rolling out today — Google is giving Google News a refresh that brings all its news products into one experience, the company announced at its annual developer's conference.
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The Keyword, 9to5Google, BetaNews, TechCrunch, PCWorld, VentureBeat, Droid Life, The Next Web, Engadget, iMore, Good e-Reader, Android Central, BGR, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, CNET, and Fast Company
Tweets: @daveyalba, @google, @cwarzel, @lanceulanoff, and @sundarpichai
| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Google announces a new generation for its TPU machine learning hardware — As the war for creating customized AI hardware heats up, Google is now rolling out its third generation of silicon, the Tensor Processor Unit 3.0. — Google joins pretty much every other major company in looking …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple's iOS 11.4, currently in beta, introduces USB Restricted Mode that disables Lightning port after a week of not entering passcode — The iOS 11.4 update, currently being beta tested, includes a USB Restricted Mode that introduces a week-long expiration date on access to the Lightning port …
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| Swapna Krishna / Engadget: |
Nintendo announces its $20/year online service for Switch, lets users back up game data to cloud, gives access to 20 NES games; no plans for a Virtual Console — The announcement of an online service for the Nintendo Switch yesterday raised more questions than answers, it seems.
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Kotaku, Nintendo.com, Ars Technica, ExtremeTech, 9to5Toys, Polygon, TechSpot, Siliconera, Liliputing, TouchArcade, CNET, SlashGear, The Next Web, and GamesIndustry.biz
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Google Maps to get AR directions and recommendation features through a “For you” tab, as well as new social features like voting on where to eat, coming summer — Plus, the ability to vote on restaurants with friends — Google showed off new features for Google Maps at I/O today … | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Google announces it's adding six new voices, both male and female, to Assistant and will add musician John Legend's later this year — Not to be outdone by recent upgrades to Alexa and Siri, Google today announced that it's adding not one, but six new voices to its Assistant offering.
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CNET, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, and MacRumors
| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Equifax finally fully discloses data breach impact in SEC filing: 145.5M SSNs, 99M addresses, 20M phone numbers, 17.6M driver's license numbers, more exposed — 17.6 million driver's license numbers, thousands of ID images stolen in breach. — On May 7, executives of Equifax submitted a …
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Tweets: @drewharwell and @conspirator0
| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Google announces update to Lens, rolling out end of May, focusing on shopping, text-reading, and language support; some handsets will offer Lens from camera app — WHEN GOOGLE FIRST announced Google Lens last year, it was described as a kind of search in reverse.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google announces that Chrome OS is getting native Linux app support; preview available on Pixelbook now and coming to more devices soon — Google today announced Chrome OS is getting Linux support. As a result, Chromebooks will soon be able to run Linux apps and execute Linux commands.
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The Next Web, Engadget, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, The Verge, ZDNet, and XDA Developers
| Elizabeth Segran / Fast Company: |
Instagram announces new tools for businesses including improved DMs and integrations for booking events with OpenTable, Fandango, Eventbrite, Yelp, others — If you spend as much time on Instagram as I do, you may have run into the following problem: You're scrolling through the app …
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| Aditi Roy / CNBC: |
Uber unveils its flying car concept that conducts vertical takeoffs and landings, has four rotors on wings, and flies 1,000-2,000 feet above ground — Uber has unveiled its “flying car” concept aircraft at its second annual Uber Elevate Summit, which showcases prototypes for its fleet of airborne taxis.
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| Washington Post: |
The White House will host a summit on AI on Thursday, convening executives from Amazon, Facebook, Google, Intel, and 34 other major US companies — The White House on Thursday plans to convene executives from Amazon, Facebook, Google, Intel and 34 other major U.S. companies as it seeks …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Facebook announces it will stop accepting foreign-funded ads relating to Ireland's referendum vote on abortion, which is later this month — Facebook has announced it has stopped accepting ads paid for by foreign entities that are related to a referendum vote in Ireland later this month …
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