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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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| 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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| Andrew Martonik / Android Central: |
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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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| 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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| Dani Deahl / The Verge: |
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Walmart agrees to buy a majority stake of about 77% in Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart for $16B — - Walmart said on Wednesday that it would acquire an initial stake of roughly 77 percent in Flipkart. — The U.S. retailer will use a combination of newly issued debt and cash to finance the investment.| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Glassdoor to be acquired by Japanese HR giant Recruit Holdings for $1.2B, will remain a “distinct and separate part” of Recruit's HR technology business segment — Job review site Glassdoor has agreed to be acquired for $1.2 billion by Japanese HR giant Recruit Holdings Co.
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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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| 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.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Waymo to launch a self-driving car hailing service in Phoenix later this year, will partner with multiple companies to expand its autonomous cars to more cities — In a huge surprise, Google invited Waymo CEO John Krafcik on stage at its I/O 2018 developers conference.
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| Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Microsoft and Red Hat unveil OpenShift on Azure, a jointly managed hybrid cloud service for Kubernetes container management, out in preview in coming months — Microsoft and Red Hat expand their partnership around hybrid cloud, Kubernetes container management, and developer productivity.
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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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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Google debuts ARCore 1.2 with Sceneform SDK, Augmented Images, and Cloud Anchors, which enables collaboration between multiple ARCore device users via the cloud — At the 2018 Google I/O today, Daydream product manager Nathan Martz introduced ARCore 1.2, a new version of the company's …
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Tweets: @claybavor and @andrewprojdent
| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Windows Notepad to support Unix, Linux, and Mac line endings, available in latest Windows 10 Insider build; behavior can be disabled with registry key change — So happy for you, Microsoft, \r\n — Windows Notepad users, rejoice! Microsoft's text editing app, which has been shipping … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
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