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May 31, 2018, 1:40 PM
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
What to expect at Apple's WWDC next week: focus on digital health, ARKit 2.0, small changes to iOS, deeper Mac-iOS integration, and no Mac or iPad hardware — - Company will outline software roadmap for the next year — Tech giant to more tightly integrate Mac, iPhone software
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Tweets: @iosaaron, @benbajarin, @louisdhauwe, @snazzyq, @jstoff, @markgurman, @stroughtonsmith, and @reneritchie
| Saheli Roy Choudhury / CNBC: |
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says the company is on track for a 2019 IPO; source says the company has not started interviewing banks — - Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told CNBC that the ride-hailing company is on track to go public in 2019. — The company is in a “good position” …
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Bloomberg, Business Insider, Recode, USA Today, Investor's Business Daily, Gizmodo, Silicon Republic, SiliconANGLE, and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @business
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says that the company is in discussions to have Waymo self-driving cars added to its network — “It's up to them.” — Speaking today at the Code Conference, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says that his company is in “discussions” to have Waymo self-driving cars added to its network.
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| Megan Farokhmanesh / The Verge: |
Pew Research study of US teen internet usage finds 85% say they use YouTube, 72% use Instagram, 69% use Snapchat, while only 51% say they use Facebook — And Facebook continues to fall, according to Pew Research Center — Teenagers are more interested than ever in YouTube, home to the world's growing influencer and vlogger base.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
SoftBank Vision Fund will invest $2.25B into GM's Cruise self-driving program, with plans to commercialize such vehicles next year — General Motors on Thursday announced that SoftBank Vision Fund will invest $2.25 billion into its self-driving program, with plans to commercialize such vehicles next year.
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GM Media News, SiliconANGLE, ABC News, The Verge, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Investor's Business Daily, Bloomberg, PE Hub Blog, and Fast Company. Tweets: @olivercameron
| Bradley Chambers / 9to5Mac: |
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says Apple has been rejecting its app updates globally since Russia banned Telegram in April — The popular messaging app, Telegram, hasn't seen an App Store update since late March. It now appears that ever since Russian authorities ruled that the app was illegal in the country …
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MacRumors, New York Times, Reuters, CNET, Engadget, Gizmodo, Business Insider, The Verge, Ars Technica, International Business Times, SlashGear, Neowin, Inquirer, Fortune, Boing Boing, TechSpot, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, Financial Times, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @durov
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Google launches Neighbourly, a Q&A app for sharing local community knowledge in India, available as a beta in Mumbai — Google is increasing its focus on India after it released a new social app that's aimed at building neighborhood communities within cities in the country.
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The Next Web, Official Google India Blog, The Verge, 9to5Google, Neowin, Android Police, CNET, and BGR India
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo announces deal with Fiat Chrysler to add 62K minivans to its upcoming robotaxi service and begins discussions on selling self-driving cars to people — Google spinoff orders 62,000 Chrysler Pacifica minivans — The size of Waymo's fleet of self-driving Chrysler Pacifica minivans just got radically bigger.
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CNBC, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Reuters, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal
| Wall Street Journal: |
Early data after GDPR shows Google and Facebook are drawing ad money by gathering users' consent for targeted ads at far higher rates than competing services — Digital ad giants are gathering individuals' consent for targeted ads at far higher rates than many competing online-ad services, early data show| Swapna Krishna / Engadget: |
Nonprofit USB Implementers Forum announces a new standard for Braille displays developed in cooperation with Microsoft, Apple, and others — Accessibility is an increasingly important issue when it comes to tech; while new technology can certainly make it easier for people with accessibility issues …
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USB-IF, The Next Web, The Verge, CNET, MacRumors, GeekWire, Gizmodo, Microsoft on the Issues, 9to5Mac, Neowin, On MSFT, and MSPoweruser
| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Xiaomi announces 6.21-inch Mi 8 Explorer Edition flagship with Snapdragon 845, 6GB RAM, 3D face scanner, transparent back, and dual-frequency GPS for ~$420 — Xiaomi may have already released the Mi Mix 2S earlier this year, but it's actually kept its true 2018 flagship, the Mi 8 …
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Tweets: @chengmingalpert, @jonrussell, and @ow
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Researcher discovers bug in Valve's platform, present for 10 years, that exposed all 125M users to exploitation until Valve fixed it in March 2018 — A security researcher found a serious vulnerability that allowed hackers to take control of a Steam user's computer.| Filip Piekniewski / Piekniewski's blog: |
Despite hype, there are some signs that interest around deep learning research has slowed inside big corporations, especially in the autonomous driving space — Deep learning has been at the forefront of the so called AI revolution for quite a few years now, and many people had believed …
Tweets: @ron_miller, @deeplearningldn, and @robinhanson
| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
To aid discovery of Alexa skills, Amazon says it's testing an interface that lets developers say what kind of questions their skill can answer — Amazon is introducing a feature that will allow Alexa to suggest voice apps without first being given a name. Instead, you will be able …
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| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
Toronto-based smart thermostat maker Ecobee adds additional $36M to its Series C round, bringing total funding for the round to $98M — - Ecobee, a Toronto-based smart thermostat company, has raised $47 million CAD (about $36 million USD) in funding, bringing its Series C round to about $127 million CAD total.
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Business Wire and CNET
| Bloomberg: |
SenseTime has raised $620M at a valuation of over $4.5B from Fidelity International, Silver Lake, others, after raising $600M in April at around $3B valuation — - Fidelity, Tiger lead another round for China's SenseTime — The outfit says the latest funding values it at $4.5 billion
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TechCrunch, SenseTime, Financial Times, Reuters, and South China Morning Post. Tweets: @digicapitalist
| Polina Marinova / Fortune: |
Q&A with Melinda Gates, who is investing in women-led and minority-focused venture firms through her investment and incubation company Pivotal Ventures — Melinda Gates needs no introduction. — She has been the co-chair of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for 18 years.
Tweets: @melindagates and @polina_marinova
| Shoko Oda / Bloomberg: |
Profile of NewsDigest, a popular news app in Japan, which employs no journalists and uses AI and social media monitoring to generate stories and spot fake news — - Japan millennial made newsroom using artificial intelligence — NewsDigest is one of most popular news apps in Japan| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
French startup Klaxoon, which builds SaaS tools to aid office efficiency and says it has 1M MAUs, raises $50M Series B led by Idinvest Partners — Klaxoon today announced a $50 million round of funding, which the French company hopes will allow it to capitalize on the rapid word-of-mouth growth it has seen over the past two years.| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Trilogy Education, which wants to build a bootcamp program for universities focused on teaching tech-related skills, raises $50M Series B — While coding bootcamps may be in the middle of a shakeout, technology companies around the world are still going to be struggling to fill slots … | Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
App Annie data on iOS App Store shows over 10K apps have individually generated over $1M since 2010, with 2,293 making $1M-$10M and 564 making $10M+ in 2017 — Ten years after Apple launched the App Store, the exclusive iOS software shop is continuing to grow at a rapid clip … | 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
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Tweets: @dcseifert, @androidcentral, and @xdadevelopers
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