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Stephanie Condon / ZDNet:
G Suite adds Grammar Suggestions in Google Docs, voice commands to Hangouts Meet hardware customers, and its Smart Reply feature to Hangouts Chat  —  At the Google Cloud Next conference, Google debuted several new capabilities for the productivity suite, which now has more than 4 million customers.
Fei-Fei Li / The Keyword:
Google announces new Cloud AutoML offerings: Vision, Natural Language, and Translation, available in beta, also announces Contact Center AI available in alpha  —  AI has evolved dramatically in the last two decades.  Technologies like image recognition and machine translation are now a part of everyday life for millions.
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google Cloud announces Cloud Services Platform, an integrated set of cloud services that can be deployed both in the cloud and on premises
Dan Ackerman / CNET:
Apple issues a fix for 2018 MacBook Pro CPU throttling/thermal management issues via macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 Supplemental Update  —  Apple has been catching heat over the performance of its new MacBook Pro laptops, but the company hopes a new software update will cool off outraged power users.
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
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
eBay to add support for Apple Pay, beginning rollout this fall in US, and partners with Square Capital on seller financing  —  Ebay announced this morning it will begin accepting Apple Pay on its marketplace starting this fall, and has also teamed up with Square Capital on seller financing.
Stephen Shankland / CNET:
Chrome 68, rolling out today, shows a “not secure” warning for any HTTP website; in October the warning's color will change to red  —  Three and a half years ago, Google predicted the day would come when Chrome would warn us all of the security risks of using the web's seminal HTTP technology …
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
EU fines Asus €63.5M, Philips €29.8M, Pioneer €10.1M, and Denon & Marantz €7.7M for online price fixing  —  The European Union's antitrust authorities have issued a series of penalties, fining consumer electronics companies Asus, Denon & Marantz …
Alex Heath / Cheddar:
Head of Snap's Spectacles division, Mark Randall, tells staff he's leaving to start his own company, marking the second leadership change for the product  —  The head of Snapchat's Spectacles division, Mark Randall, has left the company.  —  Randall, who was Snap Inc.'s vice president of hardware …
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Reuters:
Verizon beats estimates in Q2 with net income of $4.12B and total revenue of $32.20B, adds 398K net postpaid subscribers  —  (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) reported a 5.4 percent rise in quarterly revenue on Tuesday, as it attracted more postpaid subscribers with unlimited data plans.
Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch:
Uber says it hit 10B completed trips across rides and deliveries on June 10, roughly a year after reaching 5B trips  —  Last month, Uber hit 10 billion completed trips across rides and deliveries, the company announced today.  This comes about one year after Uber hit five billion trips.

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The Wrap:
The FCC votes to repeal the national broadcast ownership cap and replace it with a case-by-case review, approving the measure by a 2-1 margin

Upmanyu Trivedi / Bloomberg:
The UK Competition and Markets Authority clears Paramount's takeover of WBD, saying “after the merger, Paramount will continue to face sufficient competition”

Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
WBD reports Q2 revenue down 11% YoY to $8.72B, below $9.21B est., net income down 91%, ad revenue down 22%, content revenue down 26%, streaming revenue up 10%

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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
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
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