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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.
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The Keyword, Thurrott.com, TechCrunch, Computerworld, G Suite Updates Blog, SlashGear, Light Reading, Engadget, VentureBeat, Forbes, TechCrunch, GeekWire, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @caro_milanesi, @mhbergen, and @javieralberty
| 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.
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The Register, SiliconANGLE, Google Cloud, BGR, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, fast.ai, and The Verge
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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Tweets: @stshank, @tyler_treat, @mylesborins, @ron_miller, @dewitt, @geekwire, and @vambenepe
| 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.
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| 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 …
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The Keyword, The Verge, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, WIRED UK, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Troy Hunt, WordPress Tavern, The Register, Neowin, The Mac Observer, XDA Developers, Cloudflare Blog, BleepingComputer, KnowTechie, Inquirer, Lifehacker, Gizmodo, BBC, and ZDNet
Tweets: @chromiumdev, @firt, and @mattburgess1
| 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.
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Bloomberg, eBay Newsroom, Engadget, eBay Newsroom, Ubergizmo, VentureBeat, Neowin, Mashable, iPhone Hacks, and MacRumors. Tweets: @ebaynewsroom. Thanks:@spencerjmac
| 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
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Engadget, CircleID, Federal Computer Week, CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Reuters, Ubergizmo, Fortune, TechSpot, theconversation.com, darkREADING, The Register, BBC, CNET, and Mashable. Tweets: @christinawilkie
| Cate Cadell / Reuters: |
Facebook set up subsidiary in China with registered capital of $30M; when asked, it said they are interested in setting up an innovation hub to support startups — BEIJING (Reuters) - Facebook has set up a subsidiary in China with registered capital of $30 million, according …
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Washington Post, New York Times, Engadget, The Verge, CNBC, Slate, The Hill, MIT Technology Review, Mashable, Associated Press, and Fortune
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Steam is rolling out Steam Chat, its new text and voice features that compete with gaming chat app Discord, to all users — In a bid to keep Discord from dominating the social space around PC gaming — Steam has begun rolling out its new text and voice features, as well as its updated friends list, to all users beginning today.
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Steam Community, Thurrott.com, TechCrunch, CNET, Softpedia News, PC Gamer, and Blue's News
| BuzzFeed News: |
Facebook CSO Alex Stamos told peers in memo about his departure to “intentionally not collect data where possible” and be willing to pick sides on moral issues — In March, days after confirming his plans to leave the company, Facebook's highest-ranking security official implored …
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CNET, Business Insider, Mashable, CNBC, Fortune, and The Verge
Tweets: @hannahkuchler, @rmac18, and @karaswisher
| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
BitTorrent confirms it has been acquired by blockchain startup Tron; filings suggest about $126M in cash was paid for the company — File sharing veteran BitTorrent has finally confirmed that it has a new owner: “We are excited to announce that Tron has officially closed its acquisition of BitTorrent … | Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer: |
Encryption bug found in many Bluetooth implementations and OS drivers, affecting vendors including Apple, Broadcom, Intel, Qualcomm; some fixes are on way — A cryptographic bug affects the Bluetooth implementations and operating system drivers of Apple, Broadcom, Intel, Qualcomm, and possibly other hardware vendors.
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The Hacker News, MacRumors, Bluetooth Technology Website, Forbes, Intel, ZDNet, The Mac Observer, CNET, and WeLiveSecurity
| 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 …
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EU Press Room, The Next Web, The Verge, CNET, Pocketnow, Mashable, Engadget, Bloomberg, Reuters, PYMNTS.com, and Inquirer
Tweets: @eu_commission, @antonioroblesml, and @eu_competition
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Uber begins putting self-driving cars back on public roads in Pittsburgh, but only in non-autonomous mode and driven manually by humans — Uber is putting its autonomous vehicles back on Pittsburgh's city streets, four months after a fatal accident involving one of its self-driving cars prompted …
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UberATG, Business Insider, Engadget, Recode, VentureBeat, The Verge, TechSpot, and Ars Technica
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Washington AG says Facebook signed legal agreement to change ad platform so third parties can't discriminate based on ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation — The agreement with Washington state forces Facebook to make nationwide changes — Facebook has signed a new … | Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Pinterest's head of engineering Li Fan leaves for scooter startup Lime — Pinterest's head of engineering Li Fan is leaving the company to become head of engineering of scooter company Lime. — “I joined Pinterest because I saw a rare opportunity to bring together my passions for engineering …
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Crunchbase News, Silicon Valley Business …, USA Today, and PYMNTS.com. Tweets: @cheddar. Thanks:@mattrosoff
| Klint Finley / Wired: |
A look at how retailers and consumer brands use bots to scrape prices and other information from rivals' websites, amid efforts to detect and block them — COMPANIES ARE WAGING an invisible data war online. And your phone might be an unwitting soldier. — Retailers from Amazon and Walmart …
Tweets: @akamai
| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Sources: freelancing startup Upwork has confidentially filed to go public — Everyday people can now share in the stock market gains (and the losses, too!) of Silicon Valley companies. — Startups that have long grown as private companies are sprinting to the booming, safe stock market of 2018 — and now it's Upwork's turn.
Tweets: @teddyschleifer
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Source: two ex-Uber execs run Moving Capital, a private AngelList syndicate with ~100 Uber alums investing in two-sided marketplace and transportation startups — Two former Uber executives are quietly operating an investor syndicate to invest in startups led by their former colleagues, Axios has learned.Sponsor Posts
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