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Intel CEO Brian Krzanich to step down following an investigation into a consensual relationship with an Intel employee; Bob Swan to step in as interim CEO — Intel's Brian Krzanich is out as CEO and chairman of the board following an investigation into a “consensual relationship with an Intel employee,” the company announced Thursday.| Lawrence Hurley / Reuters: |
SCOTUS rules that states have broad authority to force online retailers to collect sales taxes — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - States have broad authority to force online retailers to collect potentially billions of dollars worth of sales taxes, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google launches an updated Google Account, with refreshed design, hints on how to improve security, and better search, today on Android and later on iOS and web — Google has announced a handful of updates to its security and privacy dashboard to help users “more easily navigate” … | Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: |
Google begins rolling out Assistant's Continued Conversation, a feature to avoid saying “Hey Google” repeatedly in a conversation, to Home users in the US — Users will be able to ask repeated follow-up questions without the need to say ‘OK Google.’| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is facing technical hurdles making the AirPower wireless charger, which runs a stripped-down version of iOS, but aims to launch it by September — - Engineers hoped for June launch; company aims for September — Several new Apple products have been delayed in recent years| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Amazon Fire TV Cube review: controls more than just TV, supports 4K HDR, picks up commands even while video or music is playing, but the remote lacks features — Alexa turns out to be a good match for your living room — For the past few years, Amazon has had two of the most popular living room products … | Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
AT&T unveils 31 TV networks offered in its WatchTV streaming service, which is launching next week for $15/month and is also included in two wireless plans — AT&T announced the launch of its new internet service Watch TV Thursday, revealing both the TV networks included in the service … | Marrian Zhou / CNET: |
Microsoft says it does not have any plans for VR or mixed reality support for Xbox consoles — Microsoft's plans to include virtual reality in Xbox game consoles are virtually over. — The software giant told GamesIndustry.biz it isn't working on VR support for its popular Xbox console … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter acquires San Francisco-based Smyte, which offers tools to protect user accounts and stop online abuse, harassment, and spam — Twitter this morning announced it has agreed to buy San Francisco-based technology company Smyte, which describes itself as “trust and safety as a service.”| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Sources: influential Google engineers refusing to work on an “air gap”, needed for military contracts, led to wider resistance to military contracts at Google — Earlier this year, a group of influential software engineers in Google's cloud division surprised their superiors … | Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Twitter has made a somewhat miraculous comeback in the past two years, with rising revenue and MAUs, due to a focus on news, premium video, and luck — A bird emerges from the ashes. — Two years ago, people were writing eulogies for Twitter. — Rudderless and without product direction … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Car consortium that includes Apple, Samsung, BMW, and others announces Digital Key Release 1.0, a standard for NFC-enabled digital car keys for mobile devices — The Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC), an organization that includes Apple, today announced the publication of a new Digital Key … | Tessa Lyons / Facebook: |
Facebook announces updates in effort to fight false news: using more machine learning, expanding fact-checking partnerships, using Claim Review framework, more — Over the last year and half, we have been committed to fighting false news through a combination of technology and human review … | Felix Gillette / Bloomberg: |
Interviews with Nintendo executives and game creators as the company is about to turn 130, buoyed by the success of the Switch — With the Switch, the 130-year-old gaming giant has once again turned reports of its demise into Nintendo Mania. — For anyone who's ever marveled at Nintendo's vivid … | Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
As debate about deep learning's limits heats up, research groups, startups, and computer scientists are seeking other concepts to make AI more flexible — For the past five years, the hottest thing in artificial intelligence has been a branch known as deep learning.| Polina Marinova / Fortune: |
Sources: nonprofit financial platform Stellar in talks to buy Chain, a startup building blockchain tech for the finance industry, for $500M in Stellar's Lumens — Stellar is in talks to acquire Chain, the San Francisco-based startup building blockchain technology for the financial industry, according to people familiar with the deal.| Supraja Srinivasan / The Economic Times: |
Indian food delivery service Swiggy raises $210M round led by DST Global and Naspers, sources say at a $1.2B+ valuation, bringing its total raised to $466M+ — The additional capital will be used by Swiggy to ramp up its supply chain network and expand to new markets| Marguerite Reardon / CNET: |
California lawmakers advance a net neutrality bill implementing some protections but not a proposed zero-rating ban that went beyond the FCC's 2015 regulations — California will not be the poster child for the nation's strongest set of net neutrality protections, as lawmakers … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
VIPKID, which links native English speakers with online learners, raises $500M Series D+ reportedly at a $3B+ valuation, says it has 40K teachers, 300K students — The online language school market is continuing to heat up, and a startup that connects English teachers with an audience … | Katherine Krueger / Splinter: |
Twitter temporarily suspended some accounts that simply linked to a Splinter post that shared a phone number for White House adviser Stephen Miller — This morning, Splinter published the personal cell phone number of White House adviser Stephen Miller, an official so monstrous … | Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
On-demand scooter startup Lime plans to launch in Paris on July 22, its first international market, before expanding to 25 markets across Europe by year's end — The electric scooter rental craze that is sweeping the US is coming to Europe. Silicon Valley-based Lime is launching its scooters … | John Herrman / New York Times: |
A look at how eBay's seller ratings approach can be credited or blamed for shaping the internet and influencing tech giants like Facebook and Uber — There was a time when eBay was practically synonymous with buying and selling things online. Now it's surprisingly easy to forget that it exists …
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