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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Anthos, Google's Cloud Services Platform for managing hybrid clouds that span on-premise data centers and Google Cloud, comes out of beta, runs on AWS and Azure — Google's Cloud Services Platform for managing hybrid clouds that span on-premise data centers and the Google cloud, is coming out of beta today.
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Google Cloud Blog, SiliconANGLE, The Register, InfoWorld, BrianMadden.com, Forbes, Channel Futures, Light Reading, GeekWire, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, ZDNet, and Business Insider
Tweets: @techmilind, @gcpcloud, @uhoelzle, and @janakiramm
| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on open source, AWS, working with the military, expanding Google Cloud's sales teams, and more — Coverage of Google's sold-out annual cloud conference in San Francisco, as the search giant looks to extend its reach and build its momentum in the cloud.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google Cloud partners with seven open-source projects, including Elastic, Redis Labs, and MongoDB, to offer fully managed services on GCP in the coming months — At Google Cloud Next 2019 today, Google signed strategic partnerships with seven “leading open source-centric companies” …
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Google Cloud Blog, 9to5Google, Google Cloud Blog, TechCrunch, The New Stack, Google Cloud Blog, GeekWire, Redis Labs, SiliconANGLE, BetaNews, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @uhoelzle, @gcpcloud, @nehanarkhede, @fredericl, @gcloudpartners, @kennwhite, @sundarpichai, @googlecloud, and @pauldix
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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Tweets: @janakiramm, @shiraovide, and @patrickmoorhead
| BuzzFeed News: |
Sources: Larry Page and Sergey Brin have yet to make an appearance at Google's weekly “TGIF” town halls in 2019, their longest absence since at least 1999 — Following leaks and employee revolts, the absences raise questions about the future of transparency at Google| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Facebook says it will use AI to stop notifying users to reach out to deceased friends, rolls out a “tribute” section dedicated to posts made posthumously — Algorithmic features have sent suggestions to wish happy birthday to those who've died — Facebook has promised …
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Facebook, Wired, Digital Trends, The Verge, Fortune, VentureBeat, Telegraph, MSPoweruser, CNET, Engadget, and The Mac Observer
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Apple has reportedly hired Arthur van Hoff, a founding executive of the Disney-backed VR startup Jaunt, as a senior architect — Apple just made a significant hire in the virtual reality (VR) space: The iPhone maker has hired serial entrepreneur Arthur van Hoff, a founding executive of the Disney-backed VR startup Jaunt.| Jake Evans / ABC: |
Alphabet's Project Wing gets approval in Canberra, Australia to launch a commercial drone delivery service, will initially deliver from a dozen local businesses — Google has launched a world-first commercial air delivery business in Canberra's north, delivering gelato and golfing equipment by drone directly to homes.
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Tweets: @nisummers, @fastcompany, @theteamatx, and @jcobevans
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Qualcomm unveils Cloud AI 100, a chip slated to ship next year for AI inference at the edge, estimating peak performance to be over 3X that of Snapdragon 855 — Qualcomm kicked off its annual AI Day conference in San Francisco with a bang. It took the wraps off of three new system …
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| Rob Price / Business Insider: |
Pirates are using Facebook's Watch Party group video-streaming feature to host movie marathons and TV watch parties, sometimes for thousands of viewers — - Facebook's new group-video-watching feature, Watch Party, is proving wildly popular with pirates. It's designed to let Facebook users watch …
Tweets: @robaeprice, @profcarroll, @robaeprice, @robaeprice, @robaeprice, and @robaeprice
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: 31.6-inch Apple display with mini-LED backlight will launch in Q2 or Q3 2019; new iPad and MacBook with mini-LED displays will launch by 2020 or early 2021 — TF Securities' Ming-Chi Kuo has released a report which lays out Apple's product interest in mini-LED technology.
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DigiTimes, CNBC, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Forbes, MacRumors, Thurrott, MSPoweruser, KnowTechie, InvestorPlace, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, Redmond Pie, MacDailyNews, Digital Trends, Gotta Be Mobile, TechSpot, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, Mashable, The Mac Observer, Inquirer, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @marcoarment and @bzamayo
| Diane Bartz / Reuters: |
Bipartisan bill introduced by Senators Mark Warner and Deb Fischer to ban online companies with 100M+ MAUs from designing addictive products for kids under 13 — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senators Mark Warner, a Democrat, and Deb Fischer, a Republican, are introducing a bill on Tuesday …
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Tweets: @lizjosullivan, @axios, @ericazucco, @drewconway, @simoncarless, @senatorfischer, @ryanschram, @rachaelhodder, @nwsltrme, @reuters, @ashk4n, @dmccabe, @ceciliakang, and @cnet
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Walmart expands its rollout of store tech in US, including more vending machine-like Pickup Towers for online orders and robots that scrub floors and scan items — Walmart is doubling down on its technology innovations in its brick-and-mortar stores in an effort to better compete with Amazon.
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news.walmart.com, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, USA Today, and InvestorPlace
Tweets: @walmartinc, @kantrowitz, @walmartinc, @walmartinc, and @walmartinc
| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
YouTube says it will begin developing choose-your-own-adventure-style shows under a new unit, following the success of Netflix's “Bandersnatch” and others — - Video site is steering program dollars into new technology — Company to announce new slate of shows next month in New York
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Gizmodo, CNET, 9to5Google, The Verge, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, Engadget, and Variety. Tweets: @lucas_shaw
| Zheping Huang / South China Morning Post: |
China's economic planning body has proposed new rules that would ban all local cryptocurrency mining farms; the rules are under public consultation until May 7 — Bitcoin, the world's most traded cryptocurrency, is now at around US$5,200, its highest level in four months China's plan …
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Gizmodo, BBC, Bloomberg, CoinDesk, Wired, NewsBTC, Reuters, Bitcoin Magazine, Crypto Briefing, NullTX, TechSpot, Motherboard, Modern Consensus, MIT Technology Review, CryptoSlate, New York Times, Mashable, Trustnodes, Bitcoinist.com, CryptoGlobe, The Next Web, Cointelegraph, and TechNode
Tweets: @matigreenspan, @lisaabramowicz1, @el33th4xor, @nouriel, @coindesk, @pingroma, and @jasoncaston
| Nick Heath / TechRepublic: |
Stack Overflow's annual survey, taken by 90K+ developers this year, finds Python to be the fastest-growing major programming language, with Rust the most-loved — The annual Stack Overflow survey is one of the most comprehensive snapshots of how programmers work.
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| K.G Orphanides / WIRED UK: |
Investigation finds games approved for kids on the Play Store with shooting and gore; Google removed 16 games after press inquiry — Scores of games in Google's Play Store that are rated safe for kids are packed with guns, gore and panda mutilation - but little is being done to stem the flow of inappropriate and dangerous content
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GamesIndustry.biz, Telegraph, and Komando.com
Tweets: @mattburgess1, @mattburgess1, and @kezamacdonald
| Dominic Casciani / BBC: |
UK student arrested over 4 years ago is sentenced to 6+ years for a blackmail scheme that involved buying ads on porn sites that installed ransomware if clicked — A student who made hundreds of thousands of pounds blackmailing pornography website users with cyber attacks has been jailed.
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ZDNet, Sky News, Engadget, Press Association, Fox News, Inquirer, The Register, Gizmodo, BleepingComputer, Mashable, Dark Reading, and Boing Boing
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
G Suite now lets Dropbox users work with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides directly inside the file sharing service, following a similar Box integration — More than a year after announcing a series of cross-platform integrations, Google and Dropbox have finally given a first glimpse …
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Work in Progress, The Verge, Engadget, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Android Police, 9to5Google, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, and iPhone in Canada Blog
| Manish Singh / VentureBeat: |
Opera for desktop now includes a cryptocurrency wallet, after its Android app got one in December; wallet keys and transactions are synced between PC and mobile — Opera has updated its eponymous web browser for the desktop with a crypto-makeover and a number of additional features.
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Opera Desktop, The Next Web, CNET, CoinDesk, TechRadar.com, Windows Central, ZDNet, BetaNews, Memeburn, and Cointelegraph. Tweets: @opera
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Facebook is using AI to map population density around the world and is releasing new maps covering the majority of Africa — The work has humanitarian applications, but it could also benefit Facebook's commercial interests — Facebook has always been a company with global ambition …
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TechCrunch, Facebook AI Blog, MIT Technology Review, Digital Trends, Engadget, and VentureBeat. Tweets: @facebookai
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