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Facebook has had data-sharing partnerships with Huawei, Lenovo, Oppo, and TCL since at least 2010 and will wind down the Huawei deal by the end of the week — Facebook has data-sharing partnerships with at least four Chinese electronics companies, including a manufacturing giant …
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| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Interview with Apple's SVP of software engineering Craig Federighi on porting iOS apps to Mac, how the hardware will remain distinct, and more — NEAR THE END of yesterday's WWDC keynote, Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, acknowledged that people … | Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces Windows Collaboration Displays platform for Surface Hub-like displays and Windows 10 IoT Core Services with promised updates for next decade — At Computex 2018 in Taipei, Microsoft announced new Internet of Things (IoT) services and enterprise hardware during a keynote address.| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Microsoft had to acquire GitHub to attract developers because it lacks a mobile platform with enough users and its cloud strategy hinges on corporate customers — Yesterday saw three developer-related announcements, two from Apple, and one from Microsoft. The former came as part … | Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Instagram may soon allow posted videos to be up to an hour long, has talked with content creators and publishers about producing long-form videos — Feature to allow videos of up to an hour in length — Instagram, which allows users to post photos and brief glimpses … | Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
AMD announces Threadripper 2, a 32-core CPU for desktops based on 12nm process, coming later this year — One of the surprises from AMD's first year of the newest x86 Zen architecture was the launch of the Threadripper platform. Despite the mainstream Ryzen processors already taking …
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| Steven Aquino / TechCrunch: |
Apple's Live Listen is coming to AirPods with iOS 12 update, allowing iPhones to be used as a directional mic and audio relayed to a user's AirPods — Apple has one hardware-specific feature planned that wasn't announced at Monday's WWDC keynote. In iOS 12, users will be able to use Live Listen … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon announces four pre-tested white box PC form factors manufactured by Wistron, Compal, and Quanta as part of its Alexa for PCs ecosystem — Amazon is making it easier for PC manufacturers to integrate Alexa into PCs. The retailer today announced four new pre-tested …
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Behind the long-running dispute between Facebook and WhatsApp's founders about monetizing WhatsApp with ads, which led them to leave with $1.3B on the table — After a long dispute over how to produce more revenue with ads and data, the messaging app's creators are walking away leaving about $1.3 billion on the table
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook tests Lip Sync Live feature to compete with musical.ly and says users can now upload videos with copyrighted music — Facebook users will no longer have their uploaded videos with copyrighted background music taken down thanks to a slew of deals with all the major record labels plus many indies.
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The Next Web, Facebook, Fortune, International Business Times, Music Industry Blog, Ubergizmo, The Verge, Engadget, VideoInk, CNET, CNBC, Gizmodo, and BetaNews. Tweets: @joshelman. Thanks:@joshconstine
| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Israel-based DNA testing service MyHeritage discloses security breach, says account info for 92M+ users exposed, including email addresses and hashed passwords — On Monday MyHeritage announced a security researcher had uncovered tens of millions of account details for recent customers, including email addresses and hashed passwords.
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| Karen Freifeld / Reuters: |
Sources: ZTE signs preliminary agreement to lift US ban on buying from US suppliers; ZTE to pay $1B fine and have $400M held in escrow for future violations — (Reuters) - ZTE Corp (000063.SZ) has signed an agreement in principle that would lift a U.S. Commerce Department ban on buying from U.S. suppliers …
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SlashGear, XDA Developers, Android Authority, BGR, Android and Me, Gizchina.com, Android Police, Seeking Alpha, The Hill, Gizmochina, Android Central, and Android Beat. Tweets: @reutersbiz
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
SAP unveils SAP C/4HANA, a suite of cloud-based business products combining tech from its Hybris, Gigya, and CallidusCloud acquisitions into one CRM platform — Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a mature market with a clear market leader in Salesforce.
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| Pranav Dar / Analytics Vidhya: |
UC Berkeley open sources the world's largest autonomous driving dataset containing 100K video sequences across various US locations — - UC Berkeley has open sourced the world's largest and most diverse self-driving dataset — It contains 100,000 video sequences, each approximately 40 seconds long and in 720p quality
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| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com: |
Researchers disclose Zip Slip, a critical vulnerability that impacts many open source code libraries that handle archived files; thousands of projects affected — Security researchers have disclosed today details about a critical vulnerability impacting open source coding libraries that handle archived files.
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Snyk Blog, GitHub, SiliconANGLE, Security Affairs, GitHub, and The Hacker News
| Natalia Drozdiak / Bloomberg: |
Uber says it will roll out its on-demand electric bicycle service to Europe, starting in Berlin before the end of the summer — - Berlin to be first city in which bikes can be borrowed — Uber Technologies Inc. announced it would roll out its on-demand electric-bicycle service to Europe … | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Amazon bringing a French version of Alexa and Echo products to France starting next week; Echo and Echo Dot shipping next week, Echo Spot shipping next month — Amazon just got a step closer to world smart speaker domination. Starting today, users in France can pre-order the Echo, Echo Dot and Echo Spot.
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| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
AWS now fully supports Kubernetes with the general release of Amazon EKS, following other cloud vendors, after announcing the service last year at AWS re:Invent — Amazon Web Services was the last of the major cloud vendors to go all-in with the Kubernetes container-orchestration project …
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AWS News Blog, cloudcomputing-news.net, ZDNet, and The New Stack
| Megan Farokhmanesh / The Verge: |
Trans YouTuber Chase Ross says YouTube regularly demonetizes his LGBT videos and has run anti-LGBT ads on some; YouTube says sometimes its systems get it wrong — YouTube denies that the use of the words ‘trans’ or ‘transgender’ triggered instant demonetization — YouTube's track record with LGBT creators isn't great.Sponsor Posts
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