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800+ Googlers sign a petition demanding Google remove Kay Coles James, president of the conservative Heritage Foundation, from its external AI advisory board — ‘They think that some of our colleagues either do not or should not exist’ — When Google announced an external advisory board …
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| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Mark Zuckerberg, in a conversation with Axel Springer's CEO, floats a “news tab to surface more high quality news”, says Facebook could pay publishers — The Facebook CEO floated a “news tab to surface more high-quality news,” and said he's willing to write checks to support it.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Gmail launches email scheduling and brings Smart Compose to all Android phones with subject suggestions and personalized greetings — Despite Google's long-standing love affair with April Fools' fakery, fifteen years ago today the internet giant was deadly serious when it launched what would become one of its biggest products: Gmail.
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Tweets: @ow, @sundarpichai, and @laurenberson
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Valve confirms its Index VR headset with integrated headphones and new controllers will ship on June 15, plans full reveal for May 1 — You won't have to wait until May to learn more about Valve's Index VR headset. Valve briefly posted (and promptly removed) unfinished pages for the Index …
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| Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair: |
Sources: Apple tried hard to sign up The New York Times and WaPo to Apple News+, was flexible on some terms but wanted the papers' entire content offerings — The Times and Post resisted Eddy Cue's hard sell ("We'll make you the most-read newspaper in the world.")
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Source: Slack plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange in June or July, taking the same path as Spotify for its direct listing — The workplace messaging company Slack Technologies Inc. plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange in June or July, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Lyft shares close down 11.85% on second day of trading, after its stock jumped 8.7% on the day of IPO — SAN FRANCISCO — Lyft's debut on the stock market is off to a bumpy start. — The ride-hailing company went public in a blaze of glory on Friday, as its stock jumped 8.7 percent … | Reuters: |
Sources: as part of UAE's Project Raven, at least nine ex-NSA staffers helped hack phones of Al Jazeera's chairman, a BBC Arabic host, and other journalists — A group of American hackers who once worked for U.S. intelligence agencies helped the United Arab Emirates spy on a BBC host …
| Klint Finley / Wired: |
Cloudflare says users can now join waitlist for its mobile-only VPN service Warp via its 1.1.1.1 app, says it has plans to offer a faster, paid version of Warp — VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORKS (VPNs) can help protect your internet traffic from prying eyes. VPN services route your email … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researcher: ~13,500 iSCSI storage clusters left exposed online without a password, opening backdoors to enterprise disk storage arrays and people's NAS devices — New attack vector opens backdoor inside enterprise disk storage arrays and people's NAS devices.| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Intel Capital says it's invested $117M in 14 startups, the majority of which create products and services related to AI — Intel Capital today announced an investment of $117 million in 14 startups doing things like making AI inference faster, helping manufacturers deploy AI systems …
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VentureBeat, PR Newswire, FinSMEs, and SiliconANGLE
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Facebook asks for public input via questionnaire and free-form questions about Oversight Board, which is to be its “supreme court” for content policy decisions — In November, Facebook announced its plans to create an external content oversight board that would serve as something of a …
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Ming-Chi Kuo reaffirms all three new iPhones in 2019 will have bilateral wireless charging, says 5.8" model's battery size will jump 20-25%, the 6.5" by 10-15% — Apple's 2019 iPhones are going to have a two-way wireless charging feature that will allow the iPhone to charge other devices like the AirPods … Sponsor Posts
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