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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis of 1,450 ICOs finds 271 have red flags including plagiarized white papers, fake execs, promised returns; investors poured $1B+ into these 271 offerings — A Wall Street Journal analysis of 1,450 cryptocurrency offerings reveals rampant plagiarism, identity theft and promises of improbable returns
Tweets: @amacker, @sestamm, @no_such_zone, @georgikantchev, and @bruno_j_navarro
| 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
| Bloomberg: |
Filing: WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum had 2.5M Facebook shares, worth $458M, vest on Tuesday; Koum still owns 4.6M restricted shares, which vest in Aug. and Nov. — Jan Koum may be leaving Facebook Inc. but that didn't stop him from getting stock awards this week worth $458 million.| 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: @wolfiechristl and @alexisohanian
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
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