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| 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 …
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| Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
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.
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| 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” …
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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Twitter has made a somewhat miraculous comeback in the past two years, with rising revenue and MAUs, due to luck and a focus on news and premium video — A bird emerges from the ashes. — Two years ago, people were writing eulogies for Twitter. — Rudderless and without product direction …
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| 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
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| 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 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 …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft launches the mobile version of its Bing Visual Search, a Google Lens-like image recognition tool, on iOS and Android — A keyboard isn't necessarily the fastest way to find cat pictures — or furniture, for that matter. Today, Microsoft's Bing launched a mobile version …
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| 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.”
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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: stock trading app Robinhood in early talks to offer banking services like savings accounts for its more than 4M customers — Robinhood Markets Inc. has more than 4 million U.S. consumers using its free stock-trading platform. Now, it's in talks to offer them other banking services …
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| Alexandra Samuel / The Verge: |
How the economy of Blaine, WA, a town Canadians from Vancouver region visit to pick up their Amazon.com US packages, is being threatened by Amazon.ca's growth — Canada's front porch — Roll off the highway into Blaine, Washington, and the first thing you'll notice is Edaleen Dairy … | 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 … | 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 …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
PayPal to buy Simility, a specialist in AI-based fraud and risk management, for $120M in cash; Simility had raised about $25M and was last valued at $52.75M — Payment provider PayPal continues apace with its acquisitions streak to bring more modern tools into its platform to serve its 237 million customers.
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| YouTube Blog: |
YouTube announces $4.99/mo Channel Memberships for eligible channels with 100K+ subscribers, Teespring merchandising, and Premieres to debut pre-recorded videos — I just stepped off the stage at VidCon, a conference created from scratch by Hank and John Green in 2010 that brings together fans …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google updates Measure, its app for measuring things that was previously a Project Tango exclusive, to work with any Android phone running ARCore — Before ARCore, Google's augmented reality efforts were based around Project Tango and devices that required specialized cameras and sensors.| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Uber says its drivers have earned $600M+ in tips since it added tipping to its app a year ago; tipping grew 30% after introducing mid-trip tips in May — Since finally launching in-app tipping for drivers last year, Uber has facilitated more than $600 million worth of payments in tips to its drivers.| 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.
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