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Sources: Trump personally pushed US Postmaster General Megan Brennan to double the rate the Postal Service charges Amazon and other companies — President Trump has personally pushed U.S. Postmaster General Megan Brennan to double the rate the Postal Service charges Amazon.com and other firms …
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| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Alleged owners of Mugshots.com, a site that publishes mugshots and demands payment for removal, arrested on extortion, money laundering, identity theft charges — Mugshots.com is a “business permeated with fraud,” California AG says. — Two alleged owners of Mugshots.com … | Rhett Jones / Gizmodo: |
Report: Snap CEO was inspired by Chinese apps for Snapchat redesign, wanted to make the app friendlier to older users, launched redesign despite staff concerns — Snap's stock price is now hovering around its lowest point ever since the company went public last year.
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| Kate Conger / Gizmodo: |
Google removed “Don't be evil” from the top of its code of conduct in late April or early May, Wayback Machine archives show, but kept one mention at the bottom — Google's unofficial motto has long been the simple phrase “don't be evil.” But that's over, according to the code …
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After reports that it is inflating streaming numbers for big stars and is late paying royalties, Tidal hires cybersecurity firm to investigate potential breach — Under-fire streaming platform TIDAL has announced that it has enlisted an “independent, third party cyber-security firm” …
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MacRumors, Variety, Cult of Mac, Gizmodo, Forbes, AppleInsider, KnowTechie, Engadget, PYMNTS.com, Fortune, RAIN News, CNET, CelebrityAccess, and The Verge. Tweets: @mgsiegler
| Lori Grunin / CNET: |
Report: Google is working on a standalone AR headset with camera sensors, microphones, and a customized Qualcomm QSC603 chip based on ARM Cortex-A75 — A project codenamed Google A65 is thought to be a standalone AR headset, and now we may have more details about it.| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Oculus Mobile Store adds support for free and paid downloadable content in beta for Oculus Go and Samsung Gear VR with Rift support coming soon — Post-release downloadable content has become so commonplace in games that today's digital stores need to support it.
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Oculus Developer Blog, Gamasutra, and Road to VR
| Wendy Lee / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Facebook has leased all the 43 floors of the Park Tower at Transbay in San Francisco, a week after some Instagram employees moved into nearby office space — Facebook on Friday signed a lease at 43-story Park Tower, making the social networking giant one of the city's largest tech tenants.
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| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Sources: Walmart has quietly launched Jetblack, members-only personal shopping and concierge service, now in beta in Manhattan — The initiative, led by Rent the Runway's co-founder Jenny Fleiss, is being tested in Manhattan. — Code Eight, a stealthy personal-shopping startup incubated inside … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Epic Games says it will release Fortnite on Android this summer — Epic Games' battle royale hit is getting a bunch of new mobile features and an Android release later this year — Epic Games' massively popular battle royale game Fortnite is coming to Android phones this summer …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Leaked screenshots show Facebook's influencer search engine for connecting marketers and creators to make branded content; Facebook confirms it is testing it — Facebook's next money-maker could be this tool for connecting marketers to social media creators so they can team up on sponsored-content Facebook ad campaigns.
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Tubefilter, The Next Web, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Android Police
Tweets: @randfish and @joshconstine
| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
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