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| Rani Molla / Recode: |
Mary Meeker's annual internet trends report: smartphone shipments stagnate as average selling price drops, e-commerce sales growth and time online rise, more — Here's a first look at the most highly anticipated slide deck in Silicon Valley. — It's that time of year again …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google's Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL coming in fall, will keep single rear camera; Pixel 3 XL has two front cameras and near edge-to-edge display with notch — - Company is said to talk with Foxconn as potential manufacturer — More predictive version of Android software coming next year| New York Times: |
Inside the debate at Google about the company's cooperation with the military on AI, after contract for Defense Department's project Maven became public — WASHINGTON — Fei-Fei Li is among the brightest stars in the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence, somehow managing to hold …
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| Katie Canales / Business Insider: |
Microsoft surpassed Alphabet's market value for the first time in three years by about $10B on Tuesday — - Microsoft's market value was $753 billion at end of day Tuesday, surpassing Google's parent company Alphabet in valuation for the first time in three years.
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Google's Project Fi adds support for three new handsets: LG G7 ThinQ, the newly announced LG V35 ThinQ, and Moto G6 — More choices at last — Google announced today that Project Fi users will soon have a few more device choices. Three new phones will work with Google's wireless service … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Evan Spiegel talks about Snapchat redesign, going public, and Facebook copying its key innovations at Code Conference — Snap's CEO weighs in on Facebook's long history of copying him — Evan Spiegel publicly addressed Facebook's longstanding practice of copying his company's products Tuesday …
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Amazon's Whole Foods expands 10% discount on some items for Prime members to 12 additional states including Colorado, Arkansas, Texas, and Northern California — Amazon today expanded its new 10 percent discounts on sale items and other special deals for Prime members at Whole Foods … | Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com: |
Ubiquitous code repository project Git patches two flaws, including one letting an attacker execute code on systems that recursively cloned a malicious Git repo — The developers behind Git and various companies providing Git repository hosting services have pushed out a fix to patch … | Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
Advertisers use smartphone location info to send personal injury lawyer ads during and after ER visits, target Planned Parenthood visitors with pro-life ads — Patients sitting in emergency rooms, chiropractors, and pain clinics in the Philadelphia area may start noticing the kind …
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| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott.com: |
AdDuplex report: Windows 10 April 2018 Update is installed on ~50% of Windows 10 PCs worldwide, significantly faster adoption than previous Windows 10 updates — An astonishing new report from AdDuplex shows that the Windows 10 April 2018 Update has rolled out at a historically fast rate.
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| Brady Dale / CoinDesk: |
Monster files for an ICO with the SEC that aims to raise $300M, plans to sell “monster money tokens” to build an e-commerce site for its products — Monster Products, Inc. has been losing money for years, but a $300 million initial coin offering (ICO) may be what it takes to turn the company around.| Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
HP Omen 15 laptop updated for better gaming with Nvidia Max-Q GPU and reduced screen bezel, to be released July 29 with prices starting at $979 — HP made a comeback with its refreshed Omen gaming laptop line last year, and now the company is updating the model with the most ubiquitous size ahead of E3.| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Oculus rolls out Oculus Venues, its platform for watching live sporting events, concerts, and other media in VR — Oculus wants VR to bring its users into magical worlds dreamed up by game developers, but the company also needs people to see the headset as a way to access the far corners of the real world alongside others.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Box reports Q1 revenue of $140.5M, up 20% YoY, vs. $139.7M est., and billings revenue of $116.7M, up 17% YoY, vs. $113.1M est., and an operating loss of $35.9M — Box investors came into Wednesday's quarterly report with high expectations after the stock's 32 percent rally this year.
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| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Plex redesigns iOS and Android apps, adds new personalization features and support for podcasts — Updates coming to iOS and Android today — Today Plex is releasing an entirely redesigned mobile experience on iOS and Android. The new apps offer improved navigation …
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| Patrick Howell O'Neill / Cyberscoop: |
US district judge dismisses Kaspersky Lab lawsuits objecting to the ban on US government using its products — (Mikhail Deynekin/Wikicommons) — Two lawsuits filed by the Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab were dismissed Wednesday, ending the Moscow-based company's attempt to lift the U.S. government's ban on its products.| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
GPU database developer SQream raises $26.4M Series B led by Alibaba Group, bringing total funding to ~$40M, as it deepens its focus on China — SQream, the GPU database developer, will deepen its focus on China after raising a $26.4 million Series B led by Alibaba Group.
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| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Google makes its AR Expeditions available on iOS and Android, with 800 VR and 100 AR experiences — I remember using a selfie stick to try out Google's educational vision of AR, and it was impressive. My son tried it in his school one day, and felt the same way.
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| Recode: |
Full video and transcript of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and CTO Mike Schroepfer at Code, on Cambridge Analytica, fake accounts, regulation, a paid model, more — “To this day, we still don't actually know what data Cambridge Analytica had.” … Kara Swisher: I don't think we have to say much.
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| Edmund Lee / Recode: |
James Murdoch says ~50% of Hulu's 20M subscribers opt for the $11.99/month ad-free plan, instead of the $7.99/month plan with commercials — But does he think Facebook could one day offer an ads-free version? Maybe not. — Hulu has three principal owners at the moment, including 21st Century Fox …
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MacRumors, Business Insider, FierceCable, and TechCrunch
| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon XR1, company's first dedicated platform/SoC for VR, AR, and mixed reality headsets, coming late 2018 — For the better part of the past few years now, Qualcomm has been making a serious and concentrated effort to establish themselves as the dominant player in the mobile VR space.| Robbie Gonzalez / Wired: |
Facebook will give researchers encrypted laptops to access Facebook's data and publish findings without pre-approval, in push to prevent abuse during elections — FACEBOOK IS KEEPING a close eye on misinformation in the lead-up to 2018's elections. Which elections, exactly?
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