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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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| 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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Thurrott.com, The Verge, Digital Trends, Engadget, The Next Web, Laptop Mag, The Register, MSPoweruser, On MSFT, ValueWalk, SlashGear, Softpedia News, Business Insider, Mashable, and Ars Technica. Tweets: @maryjofoley
| 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 … | 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.| 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.| Nick Pino / TechRadar.com: |
Netflix says it has entered into a partnership with Telltale Games to bring simple episodic games to its platform, starting with Minecraft: Story Mode — EXCLUSIVE: Telltale's Minecraft: Story Mode outed as first streamable game — Netflix and Telltale Games have entered into a deal … | 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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| 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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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Coinbase opens its crypto index fund, first announced in March, to accredited US investors for investments between $250K and $20M — Fresh from revealing plans to add Ethereum Classic to its exchange, crypto giant Coinbase today announced that its cryptocurrency index fund …
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| 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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| 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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SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, Yahoo! Finance, GeekWire, and Seattle Business Journal
| Gordon Mah Ung / PCWorld: |
Intel has confirmed that its first discrete GPUs are coming as soon as 2020 for data center and gaming PCs — Intel wants to compete with AMD's Radeon and Nvidia's GeForce products — Intel has officially confirmed that its first discrete graphics chip will land as soon as 2020.
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Tweets: @intelnews, @ogawa_tter, and @patrickmoorhead
| 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.| 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 … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Sweden's Truecaller acquires Indian mobile payments startup Chillr, which had raised $7.5M from Sequoia Capital and Blume Ventures — Sweden's Truecaller started out life as a service that screens calls and messages to weed out spammers. In recent times the company has switched its focus to India …
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Tweets: @truecaller and @robin_a_p
| Andrew Wong / CNBC: |
Toyota says it will invest $1B in Southeast Asian ride-hailing service Grab, and a Toyota executive will be appointed to Grab's board of directors — Japan's Toyota Motor will invest $1 billion into Southeast Asian ride-sharing app Grab, the Singapore-based company said Wednesday.
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Engadget, TOYOTA Global Newsroom, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, South China Morning Post, Automotive News …, Telematics News, Ubergizmo, ZDNet, Bloomberg, Axios, Financial Times, Associated Press, The Business Times, Tech in Asia, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Reuters
Tweets: @jonrussell, @jonrussell, and @jonrussell
| 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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Engadget, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, BetaNews, gHacks Technology News, and Fast Company. Tweets: @eyeo
| 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.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Musical.ly to pull its standalone live streaming app Live.ly, launched in 2016, and roll its features into the main app — Musical.ly is merging the functionality from its two-year old live streaming platform Live.ly into its main app, and has disabled Live.ly's standalone app as part of the transition process.
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