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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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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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| 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
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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 …
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| 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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| 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.| 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 … | 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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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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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 … | Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
GM launches a peer-to-peer car sharing service Peer Cars in Chicago, Detroit, and Ann Arbor, allowing owners to rent out their GM cars via its Maven platform — General Motors is launching a new service in Chicago, Detroit and Ann Arbor, Michigan that will let owners rent …
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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 … Sponsor Posts
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