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Microsoft begins next phase of Project Natick by submerging a data center off Scotland's coast, where it is designed to work without maintenance for five years — Microsoft kicked off the second phase of its experimental underwater data center project Wednesday, submerging …
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| Paul Vigna / Wall Street Journal: |
Coinbase says it is acquiring securities dealer Keystone Capital in an effort to expand into the coin offerings market, pending regulatory approval — Cryptocurrency business plans to use Keystone assets to move into fast-growing market for coin offerings — Coinbase, one of the leading …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Instagram to launch Snapchat Discover-style video hub with scripted shows, music videos, and more; announcement tentatively slated for June 20 — Instagram is preparing to unveil a home for longer-form video — a YouTube competitor and its take on Snapchat Discover.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google releases Android P Beta 2, with final APIs and 157 new emoji, including red hair, a llama, and two new gender-neutral designs — Google today launched the second Android P beta with final APIs and 157 new emoji. If you're a developer, this is your third Android P preview … | Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Valve to allow all games on Steam unless they are “illegal” or “trolling”, is building tools to give users more control over what content they see on the store — After a few weeks of controversy — which included a pulled game about school shootings and confusion …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Cisco: Russian-tied VPNFilter malware targets far more routers and is more powerful than first reported, can attack connected PCs, downgrade HTTPS connections — Malware tied to Russia can attack connected computers and downgrade HTTPS. — Two weeks ago, officials in the private …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple rebrands iTunes Connect to App Store Connect and releases a new iOS app to help the process of uploading, submitting, and managing applications — Apple today has officially announced the rebrand of iTunes Connect. As we speculated earlier this week, Apple confirmed on its developer blog …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Sonos debuts Beam, a $399 compact soundbar coming later this year with five-microphone array and Alexa integration; Google Assistant, Airplay 2 support planned — A $399 Alexa-enabled soundbar for the streaming era — Walk into any of Sonos' downtown Santa Barbara, California, offices …
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Tweets: @sonossupport, @heatherkelly, @patrick_spence, @sonos, @laurengoode, @reckless, and @backlon
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Facebook partners with seven news orgs, including ABC News, CNN, and Fox News, to roll out a series of news shows on Facebook Watch this summer — After going through the fake-news wringer, Facebook is shelling out money on original news content. The strategy is partly aimed at driving …
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| Mark Sweney / The Guardian: |
Amazon buys rights to exclusively livestream 20 Premier League football matches per season for three seasons starting from 2019 — US online retailer will exclusively livestream 20 matches per season from 2019 — Amazon has broken Sky and BT's stranglehold on Premier League football … | Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Israeli medical imaging startup Zebra Medical Vision, which creates AI-based tools for radiologists, raises $30M Series C led by health tech fund aMoon Ventures — Zebra Medical Vision, an Israeli medical imaging startup that uses machine and deep learning to build tools for radiologists …
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UK bank TSB faces renewed scrutiny from MPs after fallout from a botched IT upgrade hit 1.9M customers, 2,200 of whom saw fraudulent account access attempts — TSB bosses faced another bruising session in front of the Treasury select committee as they were quizzed about the continuing IT meltdown which hit 1.9m of its customers.
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