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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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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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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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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 … | 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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| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Profile of Susquehanna, one of the first major Wall Street institutional investors to create a Bitcoin trading desk, as it looks to expand to more crypto assets — SAN FRANCISCO — While a number of large financial institutions have discussed trading Bitcoin, one firm has already begun doing it.
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| 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
| Matt Reynolds / WIRED UK: |
UK-based digital bank Monzo launches an integration with IFTTT, letting users connect their account with hundreds of apps and services — Monzo has launched an integration with If This Then That, letting people connect their bank accounts to hundreds of apps and services| 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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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 …
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