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Twitter will soon begin curating dedicated pages for events, with tweets, videos, and more, that will be promoted across notifications, Explore tab, and more — Twitter wants to create more of those experiences where it seems like everyone is following the same thing together.
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Twitter says it's redesigning Moments by introducing vertical scrolling and adding multiple timelines for some US Moments — People come to Twitter to see and discuss what matters to them — from breaking news to the day's events and memes. This is because whatever is happening in the world …
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| Rachel Kaser / The Next Web: |
Twitter will soon offer users in US personalized news updates, alerting them to events or breaking news based on their interests, like the accounts they follow — Twitter today announced an upcoming addition to its suite of mobile notifications. Namely, it will soon offer users personalized news updates … | Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Researchers say campaign of price manipulation using Tether via Bitfinex may have accounted for at least half of the increase in the price of Bitcoin last year — SAN FRANCISCO — A concentrated campaign of price manipulation may have accounted for at least half of the increase in the price … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces a redesign for its Office suite, including desktop apps and Office.com, rolling out over the coming months — A simplified ribbon leads the way for a billion users — Microsoft is bringing its Fluent Design system from Windows 10 over to its Office apps to simplify them for the billion people that use Office.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Roundup of what to expect from upcoming Microsoft hardware: heavily redesigned Surface Pro 6 in mid-2019, updated budget Surface later this year, and more — A bunch of new Microsoft hardware codenames and information are circulating. Here's what could be in the works and when new devices may arrive.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook will require businesses using its Custom Audiences ad tool declare whether contact information was gained with user consent starting July 2 — Facebook is hoping to avoid another privacy scandal by adding new accountability and transparency requirements for businesses that use …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Epic Games says Fortnite now has 125M registered players under a year after launch; last week, Epic investor Tencent said 40M play the game once a month or more — That's a lot — Developer Epic Games announced today that Fortnite has grown to 125 million registered players in less than a year.| Yoko Kubota / Wall Street Journal: |
Records and sources say China will begin using electronic identification system to track cars nationwide on July 1; compliance will be compulsory from Jan. 2019 — National plan to electronically scan autos adds to the ways Beijing can monitor its citizens, also including video cameras and facial recognition technology| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
Fired employee alleges in a lawsuit that Clarifai, an AI startup working on Project Maven, was hacked from Russia and did not promptly report it to the Pentagon — LAST SUMMER, A sign appeared on the door to a stuffy, windowless room at the office of Manhattan artificial intelligence startup Clarifai.| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Sources detail how Amazon is using AI to make crucial decisions, such as choosing inventory and managing retail operations, replacing white-collar workers — Amazon.com Inc. has long used robots to help humans move merchandise around its warehouses. Now automation is transforming Amazon's white-collar workforce, too.
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| Chloe Aiello / CNBC: |
Home-flipping startup Opendoor raises $325M Series E at a $2B+ valuation led by General Atlantic and Access Technology Ventures — Opendoor, a start-up that buys and sells homes online, has just pulled in $325 million to expand its team, add more cities and move deeper into residential real estate.
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Didi Chuxing says drivers cannot pick up passengers of the opposite sex in the early morning or late evening, after murder of female rider earlier this year — BEIJING (Reuters) - China's biggest ride-sharing company Didi Chuxing said on Wednesday its car-pooling service drivers can only pick … | Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Samsung announces Q Fund, aimed at investing in early stage AI startups; the fund has already invested in Covariant AI and robotics startup Vicarious AI — Samsung's team designed to seek out innovative, forward-thinking technology today announced the launch of the Q Fund …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Oracle debuts Internet Intelligence Map, a free real-time visualization of internet threats, so hijacks, submarine cable breaks, and more can easily be spotted — Distributed denial of service attacks. Malware. State-imposed internet blackouts. It's hard to keep abreast of every bad actor …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Dutch payments company Adyen opens on Amsterdam's Euronext exchange, up 67% at €400 per share on debut, giving it a market cap of €13.69B — After raising €1.1 billion in its initial offering and pricing its shares at €240 each last night, Adyen, the Dutch payments company, went public today with a bang.
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| Jason Guerrasio / Business Insider: |
MoviePass says it surpassed 3M subscribers and expects to hit 5M by the end of the year as growth slows — - MoviePass announced it has passed the 3 million paid subscribers mark. — However, growth for the movie ticket subscription service is slowing.
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| Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
Garmin launches Vivoactive 3 Music smartwatch with space for ~500 songs, 7-day battery life, and improved sleep tracking, for $299 — Garmin's Vivoactive 3 held one of the top stops in my list of last year's best wearables. With its sleek design, comprehensive fitness capabilities …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Adblock Plus's parent company Eyeo launches Trusted News, a browser extension for Chrome, that helps users identify fake news — eyeo, the company behind the popular browser-based ad block product Adblock Plus, is no stranger to controversy. Which is just as well given its new “passion project” …
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VentureBeat, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, Fast Company, BetaNews, and gHacks Technology News. Tweets: @eyeo
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Tableau says it has acquired AI startup Empirical Systems, born from MIT's Probabilistic Computing Project, which analyzes modular data, such as spreadsheets — When Tableau was founded back in 2003, not many people were thinking about artificial intelligence to drive analytics and visualization …
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Yahoo! Finance, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, Seattle Business Journal, and GeekWire
| Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Over 70 internet experts and pioneers pen letter opposing proposed EU copyright provision to require internet platforms filter content, before next week's vote — As Europe's latest copyright proposal heads to a critical vote on June 20-21, more than 70 Internet and computing luminaries …
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