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Amazon expands its checkout-free Amazon Go retail concept with a second, larger store, also in Seattle, which it says will open in fall 2018 — Amazon is expanding its checkout-free Amazon Go retail concept with another location in the company's backyard, GeekWire has learned.
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The Verge, Engadget, Fast Company, Digital Trends, Pocket-lint, Fortune, TechSpot, and CNET. Thanks:@kslosh
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Sources: Uber and Careem are in preliminary talks to combine their Middle Eastern ride hailing services — - Uber seeks majority stake in Middle Eastern rival, sources say — Careem is raising money at a reported $1.5 billion valuation — Uber Technologies Inc. and Careem Networks FZ … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
The California Supreme Court rules that Yelp can't be forced to remove negative reviews from users, overturning a lower court's decision against the company — Businesses can't sue Yelp to get defamatory reviews removed, California's Supreme Court has ruled.
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Yelp, New York Times, Engadget, Silicon Valley Business …, Associated Press, The Next Web, The Mac Observer, Hit & Run, The Hill, Fortune, Technology & …, and CNET
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| Nikhil Pahwa / MediaNama: |
A look at changes WhatsApp can make to curb misinformation after violence in India, including making messages private by default and forwarding only by consent — With over 200 million users in India, WhatsApp has a massive Fake News and misinformation problem.
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The Next Web, BuzzFeed, ThePrint, SiliconANGLE, Firstpost, MediaNama, CNN, NDTV.com, SludgeFeed, and Washington Post
Tweets: @theromit and @saliltripathi
| Sankalp Phartiyal / Reuters: |
India's IT ministry asks WhatsApp to curb spread of false messages, saying the service “cannot evade accountability” for misinformation that has led to killings — MUMBAI (Reuters) - India has asked Facebook Inc-owned WhatsApp messenger to take steps to prevent the circulation …
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Quartz, pib.nic.in, India Today, MediaNama, The Indian Express, The Register, and BloombergQuint
Tweets: @shivaroor and @madmanweb
| Rhett Jones / Gizmodo: |
On Tuesday, Wikipedia Italy set all of its pages to redirect to a statement protesting a July 5 EU Parliament initial vote on changes to copyright law — Last month, members of European Parliament voted to move forward with a sweeping overhaul of the European Union's copyright laws that critics …
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BBC, Silicon Republic, Personanondata, The Register, The Local, Plagiarism Today, RT, YouTube, DW.COM, Indivigital, and Prague Monitor
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
US provides ZTE temporary authorization through August 1 to continue supporting equipment and consumer devices already deployed — So it can update phones and other equipment — The US Commerce Department has temporarily lifted a portion of the ban on ZTE that all-but shut down the company almost three months ago.
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Bloomberg, US Department of Commerce, CNET, Reuters, SiliconANGLE, Fortune, Gizmodo, The Register, Engadget, BGR, The Hill, and Android Central. Tweets: @jessicastonetv
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A Chinese court temporarily bans Micron chip sales in the country, with patent ruling in favor of Taiwanese rival UMC; Micron says no injunction has been served — A Chinese court temporarily banned Micron Technology Inc. chip sales, cutting the U.S. company off from the world's largest …
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UMC, SiliconANGLE, bit-tech.net, Reuters, The Register, CNBC, TheStreet, Investor's Business Daily, CNBC, and CNBC. Tweets: @david_schor
| Jillian D'Onfro / CNBC: |
Google says Cloud COO Diane Bryant has left the company, less than a year after joining from Intel, where she had been for 32 years — Google Cloud chief operating officer Diane Bryant has left the company after less than a year. — “We are grateful for the contributions she made while at Google … | Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Facebook's political ads disclosure rules algorithm blocks ads for lawn-mowing, waxing salons, Walmart, and more that use the words “bush” and “Clinton” — Blaine Simons last month paid Facebook to run an ad for his lawn-mowing company, Al Mowit, in Rapid City, South Dakota.
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Digiday, USA Today, and The Hill
Tweets: @sarahfrier, @cczona, @jekeep, @issielapowsky, @ericgeller, @xayelet, @cwarzel, @starsandstripes, and @deaneckles
| New York Times: |
Amid the boom in AI, Silicon Valley's tech giants have taken their talent hunt for engineers and researchers to Cambridge, UK — A boom in artificial intelligence research has drawn the tech industry's biggest companies and their checkbooks to the storied English city.
Tweets: @nytimes and @professorshaw
| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Ex-Microsoft COO Kevin Turner named CEO of Core Scientific, a blockchain and AI startup co-founded by ex-Myspace CTO; SEC filing shows company is raising $40M — Former Microsoft COO Kevin Turner has taken the helm of Core Scientific, a stealthy new blockchain and artificial intelligence startup led … Sponsor Posts
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