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June 10, 2018, 6:05 PM

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Lucas Matney / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Studios creates a new venture The Initiative and buys game studios Undead Labs, Playground Games, Ninja Theory, and Compulsion Games  —  Microsoft kept the gaming announcements coming at its Xbox E3 press conference where it announced a series of four studio acquisitions meant …
Ian Sherr / CNET:
EA explains how tech advances and users' embrace of subscriptions will soon let it profitably stream games from the cloud to any device you can watch Netflix on  —  Kyle Fujita is sitting across the room from me playing Titanfall 2.  He's running around the popular game's futuristic world and readying himself to gun down enemies.
Laura Kate Dale / Kotaku UK:
Gethin Chamberlain / The Guardian:
After China Labor Watch probe, Amazon admits its own audit found many workers at a Foxconn factory that makes Kindles and Echos were hired and paid illegally  —  US tech giant admits audit of Foxconn factory in Hengyang found irregularities  —  Amazon has admitted that thousands of agency workers …
Rick Rojas / New York Times:
Newark opens high-quality feeds from city's surveillance cameras to the public, asks to report suspicious activity; some fear it may help stalkers and burglars  —  Surveillance cameras monitored by the police have become a ubiquitous presence in many cities.  In Newark, anyone with internet access is allowed to watch.
Mishaal Rahman / XDA Developers:
Leaked photos of Google Pixel 3 XL show glass back and display notch, dual front-facing camera sensors, single rear camera, 4GB of RAM, Snapdragon 845 SoC  —  Late last night, XDA Senior Member meraz9000 blindsided us with real-life pictures of a Google Pixel 3 XL prototype.
Andrada Fiscutean / ZDNet:
A behind the scenes look at Russian search giant Yandex's efforts to bring self-driving technology to Moscow's chaotic, snow filled roads  —  Yandex, Russia's Google, is optimizing its self-driving tech for bad weather and human drivers who bend the rules.  —  Video: Yandex's autonomous car hits Moscow's streets.
Zen Soo / South China Morning Post:
A look at the ways Alibaba and JD.com are investing billions to upgrade their logistics infrastructure for faster package delivery and more convenient pickup  —  China's courier industry has boomed with the rise of e-commerce - investment in new logistics technology is aimed at reducing delivery times even further
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Nathaniel Meyersohn / CNNMoney:
Survey: 17% of business school graduates in the US are working in tech, compared to 12% in finance; in 2008, 20% worked in finance while 12% worked in tech  —  5 stunning stats on Amazon  —  Ten years after the financial crisis, Silicon Valley has replaced Wall Street as the place to be.

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