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June 11, 2018, 12:40 AM

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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 …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft gaming chief Phil Spencer says the company is building a game streaming network “to unlock console-quality gaming on any device”  —  Microsoft has been teasing it's working on game streaming from the cloud recently, but today at E3 the company made it official.
Bloomberg:
NTSB's preliminary report on fatal Tesla Model X crash in March: Autopilot was being used, and the car sped up and steered left seconds before impact  —  - NTSB releases first preliminary report on March 23 crash  — Investigators probing Tesla's semi-autonomous driving system
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.
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.
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.
Gethin Chamberlain / The Guardian:
After China Labor Watch probe, Amazon admits its own audit found many workers were hired and paid illegally at a Foxconn factory that makes Kindles and Echos  —  US tech giant admits audit of Foxconn factory in Hengyang found irregularities  —  Amazon has admitted that thousands of agency workers …
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.

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