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May 8, 2018, 6:35 PM

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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.
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?
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.
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
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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.

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