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| Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: |
Spotify files an anti-trust complaint against Apple with the European Commission, claiming App Store rules limit choice and stifle competition — Spotify is filing a complaint against Apple with the European Commission, accusing the latter company of anticompetitive behaviour in the way it manages …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's video service will feature mostly content from partners at launch, with the first slew of its own shows coming later in the year — - IPhone maker is said to push for HBO, Showtime and Starz deals — Magazine bundle, Apple Pay upgrades are also coming this month
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt, VentureBeat, MacRumors, TechCrunch, Engadget, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, Fortune, BGR, iPhone Hacks, and MacDailyNews
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| Nick Bastone / Business Insider: |
Sources: Google has moved dozens of employees out of its laptop and tablet division, scaling back the size of its in-house hardware group — - Google appears to be trimming the size of its laptop and tablet hardware group, telling dozens of engineers and program managers to find other roles … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft demos its Project xCloud game streaming service with Forza Horizon 4 streaming to an Android phone, ahead of Google's “future of gaming” event — Entering public trials later this year — Microsoft has provided a live demonstration of its upcoming Project xCloud game streaming service.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Verizon's 5G service to launch on April 11 in Chicago and Minneapolis and cost $85-$105 for its unlimited plans — The first phone available will be the Moto Z3 with the 5G Moto Mod — Verizon's 5G network is coming. After months of vague statements, the carrier has finally announced … | Olivia Solon / NBC News: |
IBM and other companies are using Creative Commons Flickr photos to train facial recognition software without the consent of people in the photos — People's faces are being used without their permission, in order to power technology that could eventually be used to surveil them, legal experts say.
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MIT Technology Review, Axios, BBC, The Next Web, Inquirer, The Verge, Mashable, Geek News Central, CNET, Fortune, and Lifehacker
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| Bloomberg: |
Former Gigafactory security manager Sean Gouthro describes a campaign by Elon Musk and Tesla to intimidate alleged leaker Martin Tripp — It started with a Twitter meltdown and ended with a fake mass shooter. A former security manager says the company also spied and spread misinformation.| Mayank Parmar / Windows Latest: |
Windows 10 can now automatically uninstall problematic updates that can cause boot up failures — If your computer runs into Windows problems and automatic recovery attempts are unsuccessful, Windows 10 will now automatically remove the botched updates. — In a new support document …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Twitter now launches a Snapchat style camera when users swipe left on their timeline, designed to promote photos, videos, and live footage — Twitter is rolling out the redesign to its camera feature TechCrunch reported on a month ago that's designed to let you capture photos, videos …
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Engadget, The Verge, 9to5Mac, SlashGear, iPhone Hacks, KnowTechie, iDownloadBlog.com, and MacStories
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google's Lookout app, which can help blind/visually impaired users identify objects, text, and people around them, is now available for Pixel phones in the US — One of the more impressive announcements that Google made at I/O 2018 was “Lookout.” This app helps the visually impaired …
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The Keyword, Android Police, Geek.com, Mashable, Engadget, The Nokia Blog, and Neowin
| 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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Google AI Blog, TechSpot, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Firstpost, XDA Developers, Engadget, The Verge, Phandroid, Digital Trends, PYMNTS.com, SiliconANGLE, and The Nokia Blog
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| 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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| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
Discord, a chat app first designed for gamers, has become popular among influencers, YouTubers, and others by letting them create customized private communities — Over the past few months, seemingly all the pet- and animal-themed Instagram accounts I follow have begun interspersing their videos with pleas.
Tweets: @taylorlorenz, @blakeir, @greylockvc, @mattdpearce, @gregisenberg, @theatltech, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, and @taylorlorenz
| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
TPG Growth places Bill McGlashan, a managing partner who championed social responsibility, on leave after DOJ charges him in the college admissions scandal — “The way the world works these days is unbelievable.” — One of Silicon Valley's most prominent private equity investors …
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TechCrunch, Business Insider, Hollywood Reporter, CNN, and New York Times
Tweets: @ericnewcomer, @anandwrites, @rezendi, @anandwrites, @cyantist, @anandwrites, @miriamgottfried, @ericnewcomer, @mollywood, and @matthewstoller
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Hands-on with Twitter's new prototype app twttr, its color-coded replies, hidden engagements, and more, with comparisons to Twitter's public iOS app — Yesterday, Twitter rolled out its much-anticipated prototype application to the first group of testers. We've now gotten our hands … | 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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Official Google India Blog, Livemint, 9to5Google, The Next Web, Music Ally, Neowin, XDA Developers, MediaNama, Bloomberg, The Economic Times, Entrackr, Billboard, and VentureBeat. Thanks:@harry_jerry
| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Alphabet's Jigsaw releases Tune, a Chrome extension that filters out “toxic” comments on Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Disqus using its Perspective AI — The comments sections of websites bring out the best and worst of the internet — engaging insights are often found right next to enraging insults.
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Jigsaw, Engadget, 9to5Google, SlashGear, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Fast Company, and Android Authority
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Google quietly adds DuckDuckGo and other privacy-focused search engines as an option for Chrome users in more than 60 markets — In an update to the chromium engine, which underpins Google's popular Chrome browser, the search giant has quietly updated the lists of default search engines … | Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
ACLU releases documents showing ICE lets thousands of employees access a controversial licence plate database with little oversight — The ACLU published the emails today — Immigration and Customs Enforcement allows thousands of employees to access a controversial license plate database …
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Washington Post, TechCrunch, Wired, and BuzzFeed News
Tweets: @wired, @matt_cagle, @matt_cagle, @aclu, @geoffreyfowler, @matt_cagle, and @tonyromm
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
SalesHero, a platform that combines robotic process automation with AI, raises $14.5M Series A led by Atomico, rebrands itself as Automation Hero — SalesHero, a platform that meshes robotic process automation (RPA) with artificial intelligence (AI) to help businesses automate repetitive …
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TechCrunch and Tech.eu
| 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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Dallas Morning News, Motherboard, Slate, BBC, eWeek, USA Today, Fortune, Bloomberg, Gothamist, TechCrunch, CoinSpeaker, and Washington Post
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