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House Democrats release 3,519 Facebook ads from Russia-linked accounts, spanning 2015 to 2017, showing a coordinated campaign to sow distrust in US politics — - House Intelligence Committee Democrats publish 3,519 ads — Posts targeted specific groups to inflame civil discord
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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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Researchers say they can embed audio commands to Siri, Alexa, and Google's Assistant in music and spoken text in such a way that humans can't detect them — Researchers can now send secret audio instructions undetectable to the human ear to Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa and Google's Assistant.
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Medium abruptly ends feature that let publishers use the platform to collect revenue from their own subscriptions, affecting 21 publishers — “Could we have a better metaphor for the way Silicon Valley considers local journalism?" fumed the owner of one of these remaining publications.| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Google faces pushback after demoing its Duplex service, a voice-based assistant programmed to sound as human as possible, which many found uncanny — The most talked-about, futuristic product from Google's developer show isn't even finished yet — and Google hasn't agreed how to do it.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Report: Apple and Goldman Sachs to partner on Apple Pay branded credit card, coming as soon as early 2019, and on other financial services for Apple customers — The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple has tapped Goldman Sachs to create a new Apple Pay branded credit card.
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FCC says that the Obama-era net neutrality rules from 2015 will end on June 11; Senate to vote as early as next week on whether to reject the FCC repeal — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission said in a notice Thursday that 2015 landmark U.S. open internet rules will cease around June 10.
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Free stock trading app Robinhood raises $363M Series D led by DST Global at a $5.6B valuation — Robinhood, the free stock trading app, has raised $363 million in a new investment round valuing the company at $5.6 billion. — The Series D round, announced Thursday, makes Robinhood …
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Spotify announces a hateful content and conduct policy to distance itself from controversial artists and introduces AudioWatch tool to scan its back catalog — Spotify has announced a new hate content and hateful conduct policy as it looks to distance itself from controversial music artists … | Ben Brody / Bloomberg: |
White House science adviser Michael Kratsios tells over 40 companies at AI summit that the Trump administration plans a hands-off approach to AI regulation — The White House unveiled a hands-off regulatory approach to foster the development of artificial intelligence at a gathering of more than 40 companies in Washington Thursday.
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White House announces Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence, comprised of AI researchers in government, to advise on R&D priorities, partnerships, more — The new interagency group will coordinate artificial intelligence programs and research across government.| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
USA Today publisher Gannett to acquire search marketing company WordStream for $130M in cash plus up to $20M if certain goals are met — WordStream, the paid search software company that helps advertisers manage their PPC campaigns, has been acquired by the Gannett Company for $150 million.| 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.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Interviews with Google's Material Design team on its next stage which focuses on getting designers to incorporate its ideas while retaining their own designs — Material design is now open to interpretation — Material Design launched in 2014, and it was mostly thought of as a new design language …
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Canalys: smartphone shipments fell 6.3% YoY in Europe in Q1 2018; Samsung's and Apple's market shares dropped by 15% and 5.4% to 33.1% and 22.2% respectively — Palo Alto, Shanghai, Singapore and Reading (UK) - Wednesday, 9 May 2018 — Smartphone fatigue hit Europe in Q1 2018 …
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