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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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| Jessica Conditt / Engadget: |
Hands-on with the $99.99 Xbox Adaptive Controller, designed for long-neglected video game players with disabilities, 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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| Apple: |
Apple's Everyone Can Code curriculum for Swift is expanding to schools serving blind and deaf students in the US — Apple is teaming up with leading educators for blind and deaf communities across the US to bring accessible coding to their schools. Beginning this fall …
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| Steven Scheer / Reuters: |
Intel's Mobileye has signed a deal to supply 8M cars with its self-driving chip tech, set to launch in 2021, to an undisclosed European automaker — JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Mobileye, Intel Corp's Israel-based autonomous driving unit, has signed a contract to supply eight million cars …
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| Yasmin Gagne / Fast Company: |
eBay launches Interests, personalized product recommendations that cut across shopping categories, using big data and a questionnaire — eBay, says Bradford Shellhamer, the company's head of engagement, wants to be the “heavy metal-loving, yogi, OSU fan's favorite store.” It also wants to be yours.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Instagram will now let users share posts from their own and public accounts to Stories as a sticker — The line between posts and stories is getting even thinner — The line between Instagram posts and stories is getting even thinner today. There's a new feature that will let users share posts …
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| 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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| Jessi Hempel / Wired: |
A look at the history of Facebook's Internet.org project, which it says has brought 100M online, from its 2013 debut to Free Basics — Five years ago Mark Zuckerberg debuted a bold, humanitarian vision of global internet. It didn't go as planned—forcing Facebook to reckon with the limits of its own ambition.
Tweets: @karengeier, @wired, @laurengoode, and @eringriffith
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Google declines to provide the names of hair salon and restaurant used in controversial Google Duplex demo, or say whether the calls were edited — Google made headlines by demonstrating an AI-powered voice assistant that made haircut and restaurant reservations, without betraying that it isn't human.
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| 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 …
Tweets: @alexisohanian
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Facebook announces a partnership with the Atlantic Council aimed at helping deter manipulation of the platform during elections around the world — Facebook today will announce a partnership with the Atlantic Council aimed at helping deter manipulation of the platform during elections around the world.| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
PluralSight, which offers software development courses, prices IPO at $15/share, raising $310M+ — Pluralsight priced the shares in its IPO at $15 this afternoon, above its previously set target range of between $12 and $14, and will raise as much as $357 million ahead of its public debut tomorrow morning.
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