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Alphabet reports Q2 revenue of $32.7B, up 26% YoY, and net income of $3.2B including EU fine; excluding the fine, net income was $8.3B; stock up 3%+ after hours — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - July 23, 2018 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2018.
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| Brad Sams / Thurrott.com: |
Sources: Microsoft working on two new Xbox consoles, one of them a lower-powered streaming box for upcoming game streaming service referred to as Scarlett Cloud — Back at E3, Microsoft mentioned that they were working on a next-generation console. At that time, I noted that this new console …
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| Rebecca Smith / Wall Street Journal: |
DHS officials say “hundreds of victims”, not a few dozen, have been impacted by Russian hackers infiltrating control room networks of US electric utilities — Blackouts could have been caused after the networks of trusted vendors were easily penetrated| Scott Moritz / Bloomberg: |
Source: Verizon is seeking to partner with Google or Apple to provide a TV service when it launches 5G to homes in LA and Sacramento later this year — - First wireless broadband service with video launches this year — Live, online TV to be part of showcase for superfast network
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Google says none of its 85,000+ employees have been successfully phished since early 2017, when it required use of physical Security Keys in place of passwords — Google has not had any of its 85,000+ employees successfully phished on their work-related accounts since early 2017 …
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Google partners with blockchain startup Digital Asset to let Google Cloud developers build blockchain apps using DAML, the startup's smart contract language — Google is increasingly betting that blockchain technology, which creates a permanent ledger across multiple computers …
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| Ry Crist / CNET: |
Amazon adds audio equalizer controls for Echo devices in Alexa app, as well as via English voice commands in US, and opens the EQ functionality to third parties — Audiophiles love to nitpick over the way their music sounds, but until now, you haven't been able to do that with any of Amazon's Echo smart speakers.| Ry Crist / CNET: |
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| Venkat Ananth / The Economic Times: |
How WhatsApp is trying to use machine learning and metadata to detect organized spammers and fake users as it battles against fake news — On Friday, when WhatsApp announced that it would pilot a ‘five media-based forwards limit’ in India, the government came up with an unequivocal reminder.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
UK sets out plan for full fiber broadband coverage by 2033 and 5G mobile network coverage for the majority of the population by 2025 — The UK government has set out a package of measures it's hoping will futureproof domestic networks and boost international competitiveness by supporting …
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| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Jeff Bezos-backed cloud simulation startup Rescale raises $32M Series B led by Keen Venture Partners, SineWave Ventures, and Initialized Capital — Rescale Inc., a startup harnessing the public cloud for scientific simulations and other complex workloads, today announced that it has raised $32 million in fresh funding.
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| Lucia Moses / Digiday: |
Publishers like NPR, Al Jazeera, and Bloomberg Media add editorial resources to smart speaker efforts but monetization remains unclear — Home voice assistants or smart speakers are still in their infancy as a consumer and revenue proposition, but publishers are stepping up their efforts … | Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: |
City of Nanjing launches $1.48B blockchain investment fund to foster the token economy and public projects in China, and help blockchain firms move to the city — Nanjing, the capital of China's Jiangsu province, has launched a 10 billion yuan ($1.48 billion) blockchain investment fund …
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