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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces Fluid Framework, a new web-based modular platform for document creation, available to developers later this year — Today marks the start of Build, Microsoft's annual developer conference, and this morning's keynote address was predictably newsy.
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Microsoft 365 Blog, Windows Command Line Tools …, TechCrunch, The Verge, InfoWorld, OnMSFT.com, GeekWire, PCWorld, Engadget, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, Engadget, and Wired
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft announces ElectionGuard, an open source platform for securely handling voting data, available this summer with a pilot during the 2020 elections — When it comes to voting, we've come a long way from dropping pebbles into an amphora, but still not nearly far enough …
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Microsoft on the Issues, Microsoft on the Issues, BetaNews, Axios, VentureBeat, CyberScoop, Digital Trends, OnMSFT.com, Associated Press, Dark Reading, GeekWire, ZDNet, Galois, Inc., Windows Central, Firstpost Tech, TechSpot, WinBuzzer, and Microsoft
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
IntelliCode, Microsoft's tool for AI-assisted coding that was trained on GitHub projects with 100+ stars, is now generally available — IntelliCode, Microsoft's tool for AI-assisted coding, is now generally available. It supports C# and XAML in Visual Studio and Java, JavaScript, TypeScript and Python in Visual Studio Code.
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| Chris Hoffman / How-To Geek: |
Microsoft debuts WSL 2, featuring “dramatic” performance increases, support for Docker, and shipping with a Linux kernel, to be updated through Windows Update — Microsoft today announced Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2—that's WSL 2. It will feature “dramatic file system …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Interviews with Microsoft executives shed light on the company's decision to rebuild its Edge browser with Google's Chromium, after Edge's flaws became clear — Microsoft's Edge web browser, released in 2015, hadn't made much progress by the summer of 2017.
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Tweets: @tomwarren and @jordannovet
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says its Chromium-based Edge browser will have an IE mode, privacy tools, and Collections when it launches — New privacy and collections features are coming to Edge — Microsoft is unveiling a number of new features for its upcoming Edge Chromium browser today.
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Tweets: @reckless, @carnage4life, @thekitze, @tomwarren, and @thelarkinn
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: at WWDC, Apple will unveil iOS 13 with updated Maps, Reminders, and Messages apps, watchOS 6 with Calculator, Voice Memos, App Store, and more — Apple Inc. is planning to unleash a slew of new apps, features and development tools at its annual software conference next month.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Tim Cook says Apple buys a company every two to three weeks on average and has acquired about 20 to 25 companies in the past six months — KEY POINTS — In an interview with CNBC's Becky Quck, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company has acquired approximately 20 to 25 companies in the past six months.| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
Facebook says it has opened a “war room” in Dublin to monitor EU elections, ahead of voting later in May, with about 40 employees — The social network took the wraps off a special operations center in Dublin ahead of this month's European Union voting.
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| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Google to update Android Auto in the summer to make it more intuitive with features like a dynamic, persistent bar for navigating apps, and a default dark mode — A bunch of little changes that should make Android Auto easier to use — Android Auto is getting a little refresh …
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| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: |
Alexa keeps recordings of conversations triggered by its wake word but doesn't allow a user to opt out of the collecting of recordings, unlike Google Assistant — When Alexa runs your home, Amazon tracks you in more ways than you might want. — Would you let a stranger eavesdrop in your home and keep the recordings?
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| @twittereng: |
Starting today Twitter lets you add images, GIFs, and videos to quote tweets — Exciting news: Today we are launching the ability to Retweet with GIF, photos, and video! We find solutions to many challenges as we build for a global, vocal audience. Here is a glimpse into our process as we worked on this feature. https://twitter.com/...
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook updates its video guidelines to promote original content, loyal and engaged viewership — Facebook today announced a series of changes to the way it ranks videos on its social network, which determines how widely they're distributed. According to the updated guidelines …
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Facebook, Facebook, SlashGear, Marketing Land, Variety, Tubefilter, Adweek, and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @poolhouseagency
| Peter Kafka / Vox: |
Sources: Amazon in talks with big US publishers about paying them to expand internationally so it can reach more shoppers with its affiliate business — Big US publishers already make money from Amazon's “affiliate” business. Amazon wants them to make more, and may pay them upfront.| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Pregnant Amazon workers were fired after informing managers of their pregnancies, a review of seven lawsuits shows; six of the cases were settled out of court — A warehouse worker told her manager she was pregnant. Less than two months later, she was fired. Several lawsuits against Amazon show a similar pattern.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Word Online is getting a new feature called Ideas, an AI-powered editor that suggests ways to make your writing more concise and readable — If you write in Microsoft Word Online, you'll soon have an AI-powered editor at your side. As the company announced today …
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Bipartisan letter from two senators urges FTC to swiftly conclude its probe of Facebook, says $3-5B would be a “bargain” and calls for penalties of executives — Two top Senate lawmakers on Monday expressed frustration with a federal probe into Facebook's privacy practices …
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Reuters, blumenthal.senate.gov, CNET, Forbes, CloudWedge, and Axios
Tweets: @matthewstoller, @matthewstoller, and @matthewstoller
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Indian grocery delivery startup BigBasket raises $150M Series F at $1B+ valuation; source says Alibaba takes a ~30% stake, more than other investors — India has a new unicorn after BigBasket, a startup that delivers groceries and perishables across the country, raised $150 million for its fight …
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