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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Senator Warren's proposal would create massive new problems, have significant unintended consequences, and not address the issues she is concerned about — Senator Elizabeth Warren deserves credit: I have been writing about antitrust, particularly in the context of Aggregation Theory …
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| Cristiano Lima / Politico: |
Facebook pulled ads from Sen. Warren's campaign calling for the breakup of Facebook and other tech giants, citing policy violations, but is now restoring them — Facebook removed several ads placed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign that called for the breakup of Facebook and other tech giants.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Hands-on with twttr, Twitter's new prototype app, with more detail on the app's color-coded replies, hidden engagements, and more — Yesterday, Twitter rolled out its much-anticipated prototype application to the first group of testers. We've now gotten our hands on the app … | Saqib Shah / Engadget: |
Mozilla's free encrypted file sharing service Firefox Send is now available to all Firefox users and has its own Send Android app in beta — Mozilla has made privacy Firefox's calling card, while lambasting companies it believes don't meet the bar on security.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Amazon pledges to keep Eero's network data private as its acquisition of the company officially closes — Eero will be run independently inside Amazon — Amazon's deal to acquire mesh Wi-Fi router company Eero has officially closed, expanding the retail giant's stable of consumer hardware offerings.
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| New York Times: |
After two Boeing 737 Max 8s crash in six months, leading many to ground them, Boeing says it will update their flight control software in the coming weeks — • The European Union suspended “all flight operations” of the Boeing 737 Max model that has crashed twice in the past six months.
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| Parmy Olson / Forbes: |
Microsoft's Seeing AI app, which narrates what's in front of the camera for sight-impaired users, now lets users “touch” objects' edges via haptic feedback — My neighbor Katina does not fit the description of an early adopter of technology. — She is a 75-year-old sculptor …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Gboard on Pixel phones now uses an on-device neural network for speech recognition of American English to remove network latency and spottiness — On-device machine learning algorithms afford plenty of advantages, namely low latency and availability — because processing is performed locally …
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| Gaurav Shukla / NDTV Gadgets 360: |
YouTube Music, YouTube Music Premium, and YouTube Premium launch in India, joining Google Play Music and Google Play Movies as well as Spotify — YouTube Music (ad-supported), YouTube Music Premium (ad-free), YouTube Premium (ad-free) have been launched in India.
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The Next Web, Official Google India Blog, VentureBeat, Entrackr, Billboard, Android Police, Android Authority, and Firstpost. Thanks:@harry_jerry
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Truepill raises $13.4M Series A led by Alexis Ohanion's Initialized Capital to expand its platform that lets businesses deliver medication to customers — Y Combinator alum Truepill today announced that it has raised $13.4 million in a series A funding round led by Reddit cofounder Alexis …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy S10 review: despite being stuck awkwardly in between the S10 Plus and S10E, it's a great phone with an excellent display and performance — The standard S10 model is almost as excellent as the S10 Plus, but not quite — Samsung's Galaxy S10 lineup of phones is perhaps … | Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Ripple launches a $100M fund, overseen by Forte, to encourage integration of blockchain into games, such as in-game marketplaces, with grants to developers — The cryptocurrency company Ripple on Tuesday announced an ambitious project to integrate blockchain technology into video games.
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VentureBeat, PR Newswire, CoinDesk, SiliconANGLE, Cointelegraph, Ethereum World News, NewsBTC, GamesIndustry.biz, CryptoNinjas, The Block, and Crowdfund Insider. Thanks:@jeffjohnroberts
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Chrome 73 for desktops starts rolling out with Mac Dark Mode support and begins testing Auto Picture-in-Picture for “installed” Progressive Web Apps — The latest release of Google Chrome is rolling out today for Mac, Windows, and Linux. On desktops, Chrome 73 introduces …
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| Kim Zetter / Motherboard: |
Researchers find a severe flaw in the new Swiss online voting system, slated to roll out this year, which they say would allow someone to alter votes undetected — Researchers have found a severe issue in the new Swiss internet voting system that they say would let someone alter votes undetected.
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| Byrne Hobart: |
The Bay Area is no longer the best place to start tech companies, as rising housing costs push workers to join established companies with market salaries — California is hard to beat. There are richer places with worse weather, there are (a few) nicer climates with worse economies …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber settles two years-old lawsuits over driver classification for $20M, a boon to the company as it prepares to go public — The ride-hail company gets to continue not paying for traditional benefits like paid sick time and workers' compensation — The fight over the classification …
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| USA Today: |
A look at the emergence of Atlanta as the nation's black tech capital, where about 25% of tech workers were reported to be African American in 2016 — ATLANTA — Over an iPad and a cup of tea, Marcus Blackwell Jr. is talking up his mobile app that uses music to help kids learn math.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify Premium now offers a subscription to Hulu's ad-supported plan for free, in a deal available to new and existing users in the US until June 10 — Hulu and Spotify today announced an expansion of their partnership on discounted streaming bundles, which lowers the price of Hulu's ad-supported service to, well... nothing.
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