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Facebook to shut down Trending and is testing new features like a breaking news label for publishers, a Today In section, and a News Video in Watch section — Facebook is shutting down its sometimes-problematic “trending” news section after four years. — This image provided by Facebook shows …
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Sources: Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene told employees that company will not renew its Project Maven AI contract with DoD; the current contract expires in 2019 — Google will not seek another contract for its controversial work providing artificial intelligence to the U.S. Department of Defense … | Dan Rys / Billboard: |
Spotify updates its hateful content and conduct policy, says it will no longer use the provision that led to removal of R. Kelly and XXXTentacion from playlists — Three weeks after Spotify announced a new policy regarding hate content and hateful conduct on its service …
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Sources: Apple is working on a new ad network for app promotion, in talks with Snap, Pinterest, others to distribute its search ads for apps — Increasing ad sales could help offset slowing iPhone growth, but effort would face stiff competition from Google and Facebook
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Sources: Microsoft has recently held talks to buy GitHub, which was valued at $2B in the latest financing round in 2015 — - Microsoft has recently held talks to buy GitHub, people close to the companies told Business Insider. — The companies have had on-and-off conversations over the years … | Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
Binance announces $1B fund of funds which will also invest directly in blockchain firms, with ride-hailing initiative backed by Didi cofounder as first project — Binance, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has announced it is launching a $1 billion “Social Impact Fund” … | The Information: |
Sources: Lyft has agreed to acquire Motivate, a startup behind services like Ford GoBike in SF and Citi Bike in NY, likely for $250M or more — Lyft has agreed to buy Motivate, which runs some of the biggest U.S. bike-share programs, according to two people briefed about the deal.
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| Jeremy Burge / Emojipedia: |
Unicode Consortium announces that 2018 emojis are coming on June 5, proposes adding flamingo, white heart, diving mask, Hindu temple, more to 2019 emoji — Unicode 11.0 arrives on June 5, 2018. This signals the date which companies can begin supporting the new emojis.
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Visa says it is experiencing a service disruption preventing some Visa transactions in Europe from being processed — Card giant confirms it is suffering an outage and is investigating the cause — Visa's payment network has crashed across the UK and Europe, sparking chaos as transactions are failing or being denied.
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| Jaikumar Vijayan / eWeek: |
Google says Pixel 2 encryption feature prevents even an attacker with highly-privileged access to the device from accessing data without the owner's cooperation — An encryption feature available with Google Pixel 2 smartphones ensures even an attacker with highly-privileged access to a mobile device won't be able to access data.
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft announces an update for Microsoft Launcher for Android that lets parents track kids' location, and MSN Kids, a new curated news website for children — Microsoft is launching an update to its Android launcher today that gives parents the ability to track their kids' location.
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Tweets: @microsoft and @joebelfiore
| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
Data analytics startup Domo files for an IPO, says it lost $176.6M in 2017, has $72M left in the bank, and needs access to more money by August — - Domo, a $2.28 billion data analytics startup, has filed to go public. — It's not profitable, according to the filings: In 2017 …
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