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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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| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Amazon announces Fire TV Cube, an Alexa-powered set-top box, available to preorder today and shipping June 21 for $119.99 — It's been almost four years since Amazon first introduced the Echo smart speaker and its virtual assistant Alexa. It's also been just over four years since …
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| CNBC: |
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says US has struck a deal with ZTE, including a $1B penalty and a US-chosen compliance team to be embedded at ZTE — - Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says the U.S. has struck a deal with Chinese telecom giant ZTE to end crippling American sanctions.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
TCL announces BlackBerry Key2 with 4.5-inch display, keyboard with customizable shortcut key, Snapdragon 660, and two 12MP rear cameras for $649 — Chinese electronics company TCL today announced the BlackBerry Key2, priced at $649 USD, $829 CAD, €649, and £579.| 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 …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Lyft redesigns its app for the first time in three years to emphasize shared rides and public transport, available to everyone by the end of June — ‘This is to put shared rides front and center’ — Lyft's app for riders is getting a fresh new look, with a greater emphasis put on shared rides and public transportation.
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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Sources: US lawmakers are scrutinizing Google's Android partnership with Huawei and plan to publicly criticize Google for it — Silicon Valley giant drawn into Washington's escalating digital cold war with Beijing — Members of Congress have begun scrutinizing Google's relationship … | David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Government survey finds internet use among US households with incomes below $25K per year increased to 62% in 2017, up from 57% in 2015 — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Internet use by Americans increased in 2017, fueled by a rise among people with lower incomes, a government report viewed on Wednesday by Reuters found.
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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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Tweets: @security_craig, @securitybeard, @karlbode, @nsweaves, and @ciscosecurity
| Brian Crecente / Variety: |
Interview with Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot on his belief that the next generation of consoles will be the last as game streaming renders them obsolete — Some believe that the dedicated game console is an increasing hindrance to the growth of the gaming population and the works created for them.
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Digital Trends, VG247, IGN, Ubergizmo, GamesIndustry.biz, Gamasutra, and MSPoweruser. Tweets: @iansherr
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Evernote spins off Yinxiang Biji, its Chinese unit launched in 2012, as an independent company in which it will be a minority shareholder — Here's a unique approach to Western companies doing business in China. Today, Evernote — the U.S. note-making service — span out its China-based unit … | 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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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Ride-hailing service Gett raises $80M led by existing investor VW at a ~$1.4B valuation, says it will be profitable by Q1 of next year — While Uber is growing its business with a net loss on its balance sheet, a smaller rival has confirmed a round of funding, and projects that it will be profitable by Q1 of next year.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Indonesian ride-hailing company Go-Jek has been offered $1B+ in new funding from existing investors to continue overseas expansion — - Investors including Tencent, Warburg offer additional capital — Funds could accelerate ride-hailing firm's overseas expansionSponsor Posts
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