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Apple confirms it's combining machine learning, artificial intelligence, and Siri teams under John Giannandrea, who was hired from Google earlier this year — Apple is creating a new AI/ML team that brings together its Core ML and Siri teams under one leader in John Giannandrea.
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| Panos Panay / Windows Blog: |
Microsoft unveils 10" $399+ Surface Go tablet with USB-C, MicroSD slot, and Pentium Gold CPU; pre-order July 10, available August 2, LTE model later this year — Many of us play different roles throughout the day, moving from work or school to home and everywhere in between.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Google Pay rolls out support for peer-to-peer payments and mobile ticketing — Google is making several updates to Google Pay, its recently-rebranded service for all its different payments tools. Most of these updates were announced earlier this year, but now, Google says they're actually going live in the app.
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Facebook is testing augmented reality ads from a select group of partners in the News Feed — Facebook is giving advertisers new ways to show off their products, including with augmented reality. — At its F8 developer conference earlier this year, Facebook announced that it was working …
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| Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed: |
Netflix launches Smart Downloads feature to automatically retrieve your next episode for offline viewing on Android, will launch on iOS later this year — Netflix is automating downloads of series so you can binge-watch shows off-line without even pressing a button.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
YouTube begins rolling out incognito mode, which hides search and viewing history, for Android users — Earlier this year, both YouTube and YouTube Music began hinting at an “Incognito mode” — similar to Google Chrome's — that disables your watch and search history.| Karissa Bell / Mashable: |
Snapchat launches Lens Explorer, available in its iOS app, to help you easily find lenses created by other users — Attention selfie addicts, we have some good news: you might never run out of Snapchat lenses again. — On Tuesday the app is launching Lens Explorer, a new feature that makes …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Instagram adds the questions sticker, a new way to poll your friends — Increasing engagement at all costs — In October, Instagram added a polling feature to its ephemeral stories. Today, the company is introducing a new twist on polling with the questions sticker … | The Keyword: |
Google expands use of machine learning for advertisers by launching Local and Smart shopping campaigns, Maximize lift for YouTube, and Responsive search ads — The ways people get things done are constantly changing, from finding the closest coffee shop to organizing family photos.| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Slack announces improvements to search, including a new UI, filters, personalized search, and more — For years, organizations have been pouring essential knowledge into Slack. Getting it back out again wasn't all that easy—until now. — Five years ago, Slack was an unknown business … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Researchers say connecting an iPhone to a compatible USB accessory can prevent the USB Restricted Mode lock after one hour in iOS 11.4.1 — Plugging in certain Apple accessories will reset the one-hour counter for USB Restricted Mode — Apple released iOS 11.4.1 this morning …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researcher says stolen code-signing certificates from router and camera-maker D-Link were used to sign the Plead password-stealing malware — This isn't the IP camera software you think it is. — Criminals recently stole code-signing certificates from router and camera maker D-Link …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Postmates expands to another 100+ cities in the US, adding coverage for 50M more people and bringing the total cities covered in US and Mexico to 385 — As rumors circle that delivery startups might consider merging to bulk up against larger competitors like Amazon or Uber …
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| Jagmeet Singh / NDTV Gadgets 360: |
To combat the spread of fake news on its app, WhatsApp is rolling out “Forwarded” label to indicate when messages have been forwarded to users — WhatsApp has started rolling out a feature that will indicate to users which messages they receive were forwarded by as is the sender.
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Toast, provider of cloud software for restaurant management, raises $115M Series D at $1.4B valuation led by T. Rowe Price with Tiger Global participating — The Toast Go handheld device is one recent addition that's helped Toast score a $1.4 billion valuation from investors.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
AT&T acquires threat intelligence company AlienVault, which has raised $120M since its founding in 2007 — AT&T has announced plans to acquire cybersecurity company AlienVault. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. — Founded in 2007, AlienVault offers a number of tools for detecting …
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Tweets: @lehtior2 and @alienvault
| YouTube Blog: |
YouTube overhauls how it handles breaking news, adding previews of articles from credible sources, showing info from third parties, testing local news in TV app — The work of trusted journalistic organizations is as critical as ever, especially when it comes to seeking information about current events online.
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Ars Technica, Adweek, IGN, CNNMoney, The Daily Caller, Silicon Republic, Firstpost, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Variety, MediaNama, VideoInk, Fortune, Mashable, The Keyword, CNBC, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Search Engine Journal, CNET, The Next Web, Engadget, Tubefilter, Android and Me, 9to5Google, Business Insider, and Boing Boing. Tweets: @susanwojcicki
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