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Sources: Apple plans to let users buy subscriptions to some third-party video services in its TV app, rather than individual apps, starting next year — - Strategy in development looks a lot like rival Amazon.com's — Apple Inc.'s plan to reinvent cable TV is starting to look a lot like the strategy of its rival Amazon.com Inc.
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| Jonathan Vanian / Fortune: |
Google to acquire Israel-based Velostrata, which helps companies move their internal infrastructure to the cloud and has raised ~$31.5M, according to PitchBook — Google plans to buy the small enterprise startup Velostrata as the search giant continues growing its cloud computing business.| Sijia Jiang / Reuters: |
ZTE filing says it has ceased “major operating activities” after US ban stopping US firms from supplying it tech and that it's working with US to reverse ban — HONG KONG (Reuters) - ZTE Corp's (0763.HK)(000063.SZ) main business operations have ceased due to a ban imposed by the U.S. government …
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| Peter Cao / 9to5Mac: |
Steam says its Steam Link and Steam Video services, which allows for streaming of games, are coming to iOS devices starting the week of May 21 — Steam announced today that it will be rolling out its Steam Link and Steam Video apps on the iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV soon.
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store.steampowered.com, Inquirer, Steam Database, IGN, PC Gamer, Android Police, The Next Web, Digital Trends, destructoid, The Mac Observer, iMore, Softpedia News, Gotta Be Mobile, VentureBeat, MSPoweruser, Liliputing, iDownloadBlog.com, Polygon, CNET, Gamasutra, Ars Technica, Kotaku, 9to5Google, The Verge, Variety, and MacRumors
| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Sources: Uber partnerships chief David Richter is leaving after more than four years, as Americas head of operations Andrew Macdonald takes on some duties — Uber's top dealmaker, David Richter, is leaving the company for personal reasons after more than four years, according to people briefed about the move.
Tweets: @amir
| Reuters: |
US drone program taps ten pilot projects to collect data to help make FAA rules for drone integration; Alphabet, Apple, and Microsoft among partners for pilots — WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The U.S. Transportation Department's 10 winning drone pilot projects aimed at spurring …
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| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Smoothness of Google's AI-based demonstrations at I/O and “Make Google Do It” campaign mask the reality: users will need to give up more information and agency — In the middle of its Tuesday morning I/O presentation, Google played an audio recording of what was essentially an AI-powered crank call.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Interview with Microsoft's Jon Friedman, now chief designer for Office 365, on its failed products: 2004 SPOT watches, KIN phone, Courier tablet, and more — Microsoft's had a variety of weird and wonderful consumer devices over the years that haven't gone so well.| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Researcher finds Signal messages delivered on Mac stay in Notification Center, even when set to self-destruct, complete with message content and sender's name — If you use the Signal desktop app, be careful with your notification settings. — When it comes to protecting your messages …
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Tweets: @alecmuffett, @kennwhite, @josephfcox, @benwerd, @lorenzofb, @josephfcox, @kateconger, @alecmuffett, and @josephfcox
| Ry Crist / CNET: |
Compatible smart locks can now offer voice unlocking through Amazon's native Alexa smart lock software, available now on Schlage Sense and Connect smart locks — Amazon's Alexa already lets users lock compatible smart locks with a voice command. Voice unlocking, however, is a trickier sell … | Shan Wang / Nieman Lab: |
A look at the redesigned Google News: a “For You” briefing including local sources, Newscasts similar to Twitter Moments, headlines, and “subscribe” buttons — Google announced a shiny new iteration of the Google News app on Tuesday as part of its I/O developer conference … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows 10 test build shows a new File Explorer dark mode and cloud clipboard for multi-device copying and pasting, coming to the public later this year — Insiders get to test the new changes today — Microsoft is testing a new build of Windows 10 today (17666) that includes some new features …
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| Reuters: |
Apple cancels $1B Irish data center because of delays in the approval process that have stalled the project for more than three years — DUBLIN (Reuters) - Apple ditched plans to build an 850 million euro ($1 billion) data center in Ireland because of delays in the approval process …
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9to5Mac, Independent.ie, Cult of Mac, The Irish Times, Fast Company, Irish Examiner, RTÉ, and Fortune
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
An inside look at how Waymo collaborates with researchers from Google Brain in using AI, deep learning, and neural nets for its driverless vehicles — The Google spinoff has a head start in AI, but can they maintain the lead? — Right now, a minivan with no one behind the steering wheel … | Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Multiple OSes including Windows, macOS, and Linux were affected by a serious security flaw caused by developers misinterpreting chipmakers' documentation — OS and hypervisor makers patch flaw that attackers could use to crash systems or read data from memory.
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US-CERT, iTnews, access.redhat.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, SecurityWeek, BleepingComputer.com, The Register, cve.mitre.org, and bit-tech.net. Tweets: @linuxjournal
| Corinne Ramey / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee, its own internal “Supreme Court” with 15 jurists, which adjudicates the most serious disputes arising on the site — Online committee called ArbCom tries to keep the peace at internet encyclopedia; 'I don't understand why passions run so high here.'| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google launches Tour Creator, a free tool that lets anyone make their own VR tours using Google's Street View imagery and their own 360-degree photos — Google today launched a new tool for teachers and their students called Tour Creator, which allows anyone to create their own VR tour using imagery …
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The Next Web, The Keyword, Neowin, VRFocus, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, CNET, Engadget, and CNET. Tweets: @googlearvr
| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Roku reports Q1 revenue of $136.6M, beating expectations and up from $100M a year ago, as net loss narrows to $6.9M; active accounts up 47% YoY to 20.8M — Meet the new Roku: The company best known for its streaming devices made more money with ads and licensing fees than with hardware sales …
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