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Leaked 30-second video of macOS 10.14 shows Apple News app for Mac, a dark mode, and Xcode 10 — Developer Steve Troughton Smith today tweeted photos of macOS 10.14 with some very juicy details about Apple's upcoming operating system. The OS is very clearly sporting a fresh new dark theme …
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| Kate Conger / Gizmodo: |
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 …
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BBC, Fast Company, The Daily Caller, Mashable, The Register, Wired, Firstpost, Beyond Search, Ubergizmo, Motherboard, New York Times, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, Silicon Valley Business …, Android Police, CRN, Ars Technica, The Intercept, Mercury News, Business Insider, Engadget, CNBC, GeekWire, TechCrunch, The Hill, SlashGear, The Verge, The Next Web, Fedscoop, 9to5Google, MIT Technology Review, BuzzFeed, Washington Post, Android Central, CNET, Quartz, Axios, and New York Magazine
Tweets: @michaeld_kaplan, @drewharwell, @nxthompson, @nandodf, @ali_gharib, @mchorowitz, @katecrawford, @fchollet, @angry_googler, @theintercept, @theintercept, @kateconger, @trevortimm, and @hshaban. Thanks:@andrewcouts
| Patrick Lucas Austin / Gizmodo: |
California announces pilot programs for autonomous vehicles, allowing companies to offer passenger service with or without a trained driver; rides must be free — California has announced a new pilot program that will allow self-driving cars to start moving normal customers around, a first for the state.| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Google removes the tablet section from the official Android website; visiting the URL for the tablet page sends users back to the main Android site — Google has been doing an impressive job of pretending Android tablets don't exist for the last few years, and now it's done pretending.| Wall Street Journal: |
Behind AWS CEO Andy Jassy's strategy for expanding the cloud platform by building new features and services that sometimes compete with partners on the platform — The giant's cloud-computing business offers a look inside its model for expanding. Some partners praise the unit's chief …
Tweets: @spicergerard, @hkanji, and @wsjtech
| Reuters: |
Sources: Apple to debut tools at WWDC that let two iPhones share augmented reality data phone-to-phone without storing data in the cloud — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) next week will debut tools to let two iPhone users share augmented reality while limiting the personal data sent … | Cagan Koc / Bloomberg: |
Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan says that Uber's business in the country is “over” and that authorities will take necessary action against the firm — - Uber started in Istanbul's $1.5 billion taxi market in 2014 — San Francisco-based firm has come under fire from local taxis| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
CTRL-labs, makers of an armband that picks up brain signals to control devices, raises $28M from Lux Capital, GV, Vulcan Capital, Founders Fund, and Alexa Fund — Paul Allen's Vulcan Capital is among those raising an interested hand over a 3-year-old startup called CTRL-Labs … | Jane Lytvynenko / BuzzFeed: |
A look at how social networks are being used to illegally sell prescription medications despite Terms of Service that forbid the practice — Every social media website reviewed by BuzzFeed News was host to dealers of opioids and other prescription medicine.
Tweets: @aimee2day, @sgottliebfda, and @janelytv
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Telegram received its first update in two months after being locked out of App Store updates following a dispute with the Russian government and Apple — Telegram today received its first update in two months after an App Store update lockout caused by a dispute with the Russian government and Apple.
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The Verge, Michael Tsai, Engadget, International Business Times, Firstpost, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, SlashGear, Reuters, and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @durov
| Manish Singh / VentureBeat: |
Research: Hotstar has 69.4% of the Indian on-demand video streaming market, Amazon has 5% and Netflix has 1.4%; James Murdoch says Hotstar has 145MAUs — As Amazon and Netflix turn to the land of Bollywood in search of new users, they continue to face stiff competition from local giant Hotstar.| Ned Berke / Center for Cooperative Media: |
Facebook's plans to manage promoted political content: a machine learning classifier begins June 6 and will scan text and images for terms related to politics — Facebook announced on May 24 that any Facebook Page promoting political content on the platform will need to follow the platform's rules for …
Tweets: @nberke
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