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Trump accuses Google of rigging its search results to suppress positive news about him and tweets the situation “will be addressed” — President Trump's first tweet of the day, sent at 5:24am local time, has accused Google of rigging search results against conservatives.
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Following Trump's tweets about alleged prejudice, Google releases statement saying it doesn't “bias our results toward any political ideology” — - Trump says in a tweet that Google's search engine had “rigged” news story search results to show mostly “bad” stories about him and other conservatives.
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| Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept: |
14 organizations including Amnesty International, EFF, and Committee to Protect Journalists tell Google to cancel its censored Chinese search engine project — Leading human rights groups are calling on Google to cancel its plan to launch a censored version of its search engine in China …
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| Rachel King / Fortune: |
Instagram introduces features for public figures: extra user details in profiles and account verification; 2FA apps will be supported in the coming weeks — Facebook often finds itself as the target these days when it comes to problems with security and privacy on social media.
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| Ryan Felton / Jalopnik: |
Report: Waymo's autonomous vans struggle to smoothly perform rather mundane driving tasks, often slowing or stopping at odd times, risking fender benders — If the autonomous revolution ever arrives, it's almost certain that self-driving cars will drive with an over-abundance of caution …
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel debuts Core U and Y series chips, which were codenamed Whiskey and Amber Lake, saying they improve battery life and connectivity with integrated Wi-Fi — Intel is rolling out six new processors in the new Whiskey Lake U-series and Amber Lake Y-series.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Yahoo's Oath has been pitching advertisers on a service that analyzes its 200M+ Yahoo Mail, AOL Mail inboxes; source says practice began 10+ years ago — Web giant analyzes more than 200 million inboxes for clues about what products people might buy—a practice much of Silicon Valley has declared off-limits
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Sources: Amazon is planning to launch a free, ad-supported video service for its ~48M Fire TV streaming video device users that is being developed by IMDB — Amazon.com is planning to launch a free, advertising-supported video service for the estimated 48 million people who use … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft to add AI-powered audio and video transcription, file recommendations, and content-sharing tools to OneDrive for Business and SharePoint later in 2018 — Microsoft is adding automated audio and video transcription, file recommendations and new content-sharing options to its OneDrive …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Bose announces a $400 smart speaker and two soundbars, for $550 and $800, all with Alexa voice support, coming in October — One of them has a screen for showing you album art — Bose has just announced a $300 home smart speaker and two soundbars that will be available in October.
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it removed a further 486 accounts for engaging in “coordinated manipulation”, following the removal of 284 last week — Following last week's suspension of 284 accounts for “engaging in coordinated manipulation,” Twitter announced today that it's kicked …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Very Good Security, a service which stores and handles sensitive data for businesses, raises $8.5M Series A led by a16z — “You can't hack what isn't there,” Very Good Security co-founder Mahmoud Abdelkader tells me. His startup assumes the liability of storing sensitive data for other companies … | Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Oculus launches educational pilot programs in Taiwan, Japan, and Seattle, distributing Rift and Go headsets to libraries, museums, and schools — Immersive virtual reality experiences can make learning a lot more fun for students and for anyone visiting places like museums.| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Google updates its Duo video chat app with support for iPads and Android tablets, two years after launching the service — Google's video chat app, Duo, has finally made its way to tablets. With its latest update, the app is able to work on both iPads and Android tablets.
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Robinhood announces it's rolling out commission-free trading of American Depositary Receipts, adding 250+ stocks of global companies like Tencent and Nintendo — Invest in over 250 global companies like Tencent, Nintendo, or Adidas, commission-free — Many of you have expressed interest … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Box Q2: revenues of $148.2M, up 20.6% YoY, 11 deals worth $500K+, up from 8 in year-ago quarter, and 87K+ business customers, up from 85K+ in year-ago quarter — - Box beat expectations for its fiscal second quarter, and guidance was within or near the range of analysts' expectations.| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Google Go search app for emerging markets can now read out website content in any of its 28 supported languages — The search giant announced changes to its Tez payment service, and it has also introduced a subtle AI-powered feature for its Google Go search app: website reading.
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TechCrunch, The Keyword, Android Authority, VentureBeat, Official Google India Blog, Gizbot, @businessline, Engadget, Android Police, The Verge, Nextgov, Android Beat, NoCamels, Thurrott.com, and Neowin. Tweets: @jasuja
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