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| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
YouTube to launch a paid version of YouTube Music next week, at $10/month; YouTube Red will be replaced by YouTube Premium, and it will cost extra — YouTube Music is launching Tuesday, and YouTube Red is going away. It's being replaced by YouTube Premium, and it will cost extra.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
YouTube will use Content ID data to display full music credits and link to the official videos of artists and songs — YouTube is to begin surfacing more song and artist information for videos that are hosted on the YouTube platform. — The Google-owned video-streaming giant has long offered … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Senate narrowly votes to block Ajit Pai's repeal of net neutrality rules; the resolution now heads to the House, where it faces long odds — Senate defies “armies of lobbyists,” but House may help FCC kill net neutrality. — The US Senate today voted to reverse the Federal Communications …
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| Andrew Rice / Wired: |
Profile of Ajit Pai, the FCC chairman who orchestrated net neutrality repeal and is a nerdy conservative ideologue reviled by some and cast as a hero by others — IN MARCH, AJIT Pai, the 45-year-old chair of the Federal Communications Commission, took to the internet—a community … | Jessica Conditt / Engadget: |
Hands-on with the Xbox Adaptive Controller, designed for video game players with disabilities, which will cost $99.99 and go on sale later this year — Microsoft stumbled into the accessibility market about three years ago, with the launch of the Xbox One Elite controller.
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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Hacker breaches servers of Securus, a firm enabling real-time warrantless cell location tracking for cops, and provides access to its clients' data to reporter — A hacker has provided Motherboard with the login details for a company that buys phone location data from major telecom companies and then sells it to law enforcement.
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Tweets: @josephfcox, @thememoryhole2, @intangiblecoins, @jason_koebler, and @josephfcox
| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Whistleblower Christopher Wylie says Cambridge Analytica ran voter suppression campaigns for Bannon, targeted African-Americans with “disengagement tactics” — Appearing before the Senate Judiciary committee today as part of the ongoing investigation of Cambridge Analytica …
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
PluralSight, which offers software development courses, prices IPO at $15/share, has raised $310.5M already and may raise up to $357M total by public debut — Pluralsight priced the shares in its IPO at $15 this afternoon, above its previously set target range of between $12 and $14 …
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| Graham Rapier / Business Insider: |
SEC created a satirical cryptocurrency site called HoweyCoins to warn investors about ICO scams, complete with a nine-page whitepaper and an expiring 15% bonus — - HoweyCoin, a satirical ICO website made the the US' top securities regulator, is a warning against scams.
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Tweets: @sec_news and @vitalikbuterin
| Chloe Aiello / CNBC: |
Former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan, who was fired last November following disclosure of Uber's 2016 data breach, is joining Cloudflare as its CSO — - He said he chose Cloudflare because the company matches his passion for “securing the whole internet.” — The announcement comes at a pivotal …
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| Alexander J Martin / Sky News: |
European Parliament president says Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg will give evidence to the European Parliament in person as early as next week — Mark Zuckerberg will appear before the EU Parliament in person to answer questions about Facebook's use of data. — The hearing will “hopefully” …
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| Melanie Ehrenkranz / Gizmodo: |
After passenger's murder, Didi no longer shows profile pictures or lets users rate and tag each others' appearances, removing tags like “long legs”, “beauties” — China's ride-sharing behemoth Didi is trying to make its platform safer for users after a 21-year-old woman …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple has quietly explored opening a campus in Northern Virginia, to accommodate 20,000 employees, as well as in North Carolina, according to multiple reports — For the last several months, Apple has been exploring locations for a new campus focusing on technical support, and according to new reports …
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Tweets: @cnbc, @adammklein, @jacknicas, @b_fung, and @mattgertz
| Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: |
Profile of Jürgen Schmidhuber, the controversial AI pioneer whose Swiss startup Nnaisense is working on developing an artificial general intelligence (AGI) — Jürgen Schmidhuber says he'll make machines smarter than us. His peers wish he'd just shut up.
Tweets: @roydanroy, @muellerfreitag, @valleyhack, @atbwebb, and @mark_riedl
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Cask Data, a startup that builds solutions to run big data analytics services based on Hadoop, joins Google Cloud; terms not disclosed; Cask had raised $40M — Google is pushing hard on its efforts to build out a deeper enterprise business around Google Cloud, which continues … | Kim-Mai Cutler / Logic Magazine: |
The history of venture capital, its importance to Silicon Valley as military funding abated in the '50s, and what's fueling and challenging its global growth — Venture capital is an integral part of Silicon Valley. But how does venture actually work? Why is it so important to the tech industry … | Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Hands-on with OnePlus 6, coming May 22: 19:9 ratio 6.28" AMOLED display and a small notch, starting at $529 for 6GB RAM/64GB model, $629 for 8GB RAM/256GB — It's been only six months since the launch of the OnePlus 5T, but today the company is pushing out a new device that both packs … | Lynn La / CNET: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter delays shutdown of legacy APIs to August 16, makes Account Activity API generally available, reduces free Premium Sandbox subscriptions allowed to 15 — Twitter is giving developers more time to adjust to its API platform overhaul, which has affected some apps' ability to continue operating in the same fashion.
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MacRumors, Daring Fireball, MacStories, The Verge, Twitter, Android Authority, Neowin, Engadget, Android Central, iLounge, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, and 512 Pixels
Tweets: @henshaw, @sirstendec, @mcnees, @joenrv, @twitterdev, @twitterdev, and @tomwarren
| Kelsey Graeber / BuildZoom: |
Analysis of building permits shows Facebook has filed $900M+ in construction permits for West Campus building projects, mostly used for office space, since 2015 — Since the grand opening of the Gehry-designed building named ‘MPK 20’ and de facto launch of Facebook's West Campus in March 2015 …
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