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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 …
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Digital Trends, VentureBeat, Engadget, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, CNET, GeekWire, Polygon, MSPoweruser, This Is Xbox, The Verge, Windows Central, PC Gamer, Ars Technica, and IGN
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| 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.
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Engadget, VentureBeat, CNET, SiliconANGLE, Windows Central, Brad Sams, VentureBeat, PC Gamer, and Polygon
Tweets: @ludwigk and @tomwarren
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Elon Musk tweets that a major update to the Tesla Autopilot software slated for August will “begin to enable full self-driving features” — Tesla's next major software update ‘version 9.’ is now set for a release in August and it will include the first 'full self-driving features … | 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
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National Transportation …, ZDNet, EE Times, Toronto Star, CNNMoney, CleanTechnica, Consumer Reports, NPR, and CBS San Francisco
Tweets: @meharris, @danahull, and @junkoyoshida
| 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.
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Android Authority, Firstpost, SlashGear, Thurrott.com, 9to5Google, The Verge, Engadget, CNET, BGR, Ars Technica, iPhone Hacks, Inquirer, 9to5Google, CNET, SlashGear, International Business Times, Business Insider, International Business Times, Android Authority, Android Beat, and Droid Life. Tweets: @johnsboyd
| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Jarek Duda, inventor of ANS video compression concept, says Google wants to patent his invention; Google says it is patenting specific application of the theory — When Jarek Duda invented an important new compression technique called asymmetric numeral systems (ANS) a few years ago … | 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.
Tweets: @marshallk, @biancawylie, @marshallk, @tomstandage, @kimzetter, @barryfriedman1, @meganfrancis, @jswatz, and @nytimes
| 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 …
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TechCrunch, China Labor Watch, Engadget, Gizmodo, Fortune, CNBC, Good e-Reader, Ubergizmo, TechSpot, The Guardian, and reddit.com
Tweets: @angelanissel, @techworkersco, @ibjiyongi, @lawsofrule, and @craigmod
| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Interview with FCC chairman Ajit Pai, who says FTC will weed out anti-competitive conduct moving forward, on the eve of the end of US' net neutrality rules — Two pivotal developments this week could dramatically expand the power and footprint of major telecom companies … | Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Berlin-based insurance startup Coya, backed by Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, raises $30M Series A for a license in Germany that will open the whole EU market — Coya, a Berlin-based insurance startup, has raised $30 million in new cash as investors around the world continue to see opportunities in modernizing the insurance industry.
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Mode, a startup with a new approach to software-defined wide area networks, emerges from stealth and announces a total of $24M in funding led by GV and NEA — Mode, a San Francisco-based startup, came out of stealth today with a new approach to software-defined wide area networks …
Tweets: @gvteam
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