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| 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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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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iMore, Engadget, 9to5Google, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Ubergizmo, Mashable, 9to5Mac, and Axios
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| 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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The Verge, 9to5Google, Engadget, Fast Company, Wired, Fortune, VentureBeat, and Axios
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| 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.| 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 … | 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.
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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 …
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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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| 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.
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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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| Terri Walter / Chartbeat Blog: |
Direct mobile traffic to publisher sites surpasses referral traffic from Facebook, including desktop and mobile, for the first time — We've gotten a number of questions from this post about how we define direct traffic, and just to clarify, Chartbeat's definition of direct traffic does not include dark social.
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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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AdDuplex, Ars Technica, Windows Central, Neowin, and On MSFT
| 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?
Tweets: @wired and @knightfdn
| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Google makes its AR Expeditions available on iOS and Android, with 800 VR and 100 AR experiences — Google AR Expeditions just arrived on iOS and Android — Selfie-stick AR has been touring schools, but now anyone can try.
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9to5Google, Engadget, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, and The Keyword
| 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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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Ava raises $30M Series B for its fertility-tracking bracelet — As the worlds of health and technology continue to knit closer together through advances in hardware and big data analytics, a startup called Ava, which has built a $199 wearable device and app to help women track their fertility cycles …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com: |
Google unveils Chrome 67 for Windows, Mac, and Linux with Generic Sensors API, WebXR Device API for building VR/AR experiences, WebAuthn protocol support, more — Google released earlier today Chrome 67, the latest stable release of its web browser. According to changelogs released with Chrome 67 …
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| Paul Elias / Associated Press: |
US judge sentences Toronto man to five years in prison and fines him $250K for using data stolen in giant Yahoo data breach to hack into private email accounts — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A young computer hacker who investigators say unwittingly worked for Russian spies was sentenced to five years …
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Engadget, U.S. Department of Justice, Ubergizmo, Silicon Republic, Reuters, and CNET
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| Rob LeFebvre / Engadget: |
Facebook begins rolling out polls for Messenger Stories, in a similar style to polls on Instagram Stories — Facebook announced quite a few changes and additions to its Messenger app at its recent F8 event, including a planned redesign and a way to buy Nike sneakers and other products in AR.
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| Benny Geteng / Post Courier: |
Papua New Guinea says it will ban Facebook for a month in the future in a bid to crack down on fake users and study how fake news and pornography spreads — FACEBOOK Users In The Country Can Expect A Month's Shutdown Access To The Site In PNG In Order For The Communications And Information Technology Department To Carry...
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Wired, Nieman Lab, Bloomberg, MIT Technology Review, Connected Rights, Naked Security, Inquirer, reddit.com, TechSpot, and Washington Post. Tweets: @boboleia
| 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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| Robert Hof / SiliconANGLE: |
Nvidia unveils HGX-2, a cloud computing platform for AI and high performance computing, which consists of 16 GPUs delivering 2 petaflops per second — Hoping to maintain the high ground in artificial intelligence and high-performance computing, Nvidia Corp. late Tuesday debuted …
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TechRadar.com, MIT Technology Review, NVIDIA Newsroom, Inquirer, VentureBeat, The Register, ZDNet, and Network World. Thanks:@robhof
| Amelia Heathman / London Evening Standard: |
Pleo, a European startup that uses smart payment cards and mobile app to help employees track company related expenses, raises $16M Series A led by Kinnevik — London's fintech scene shows no signs of slowing down when it comes to investments — Business expenses are one of the trickier things to manage in the workplace.
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