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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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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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| 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.| 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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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces a slew of offerings for developers including Windows Terminal, available in preview, XAML Islands, and React Native for Windows — At its Build 2019 developers conference today, Microsoft announced a slew of offerings for Windows developers, including Windows Terminal …
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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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| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Microsoft says it plans to open source its Q# compiler and simulators, part of its quantum development kit, to aid researchers — Much has been made of Microsoft's reinvention as an open-source company, and it will continue to live up to that billing Monday at Microsoft Build as the world prepares for quantum computing.
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| 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.
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| Munsif Vengattil / Reuters: |
Sources detail Facebook's efforts to label photos, private posts, more to improve its AI, employing hundreds in Hyderabad, India, alone, raising privacy issues — HYDERABAD, India/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Over the past year, a team of as many as 260 contract workers in Hyderabad …
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| Rochelle Toplensky / Financial Times: |
Sources: after considering Spotify's complaint about App Store fees, the EU has decided to launch an antitrust probe into Apple's conduct — The EU will launch a formal antitrust investigation into Apple in the next few weeks after Spotify accused the iPhone maker of “tilting the playing field to disadvantage competitors”.
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| 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.| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Equity management platform Carta raises $300M Series E led by a16z at a $1.7B valuation, says it works with 11,000+ companies and 143 VC firms — Carta, a seven-year-old, San Francisco-based startup, is the newest unicorn in tech. The company, which helps private and public companies …
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| 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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| Oliver Burkeman / The Guardian: |
A critical examination of social media's role in driving the online news economy and how that is harming democratic politics as well as people's well-being — Is engagement with current affairs key to being a good citizen? Or could an endless torrent of notifications be harming democracy as well as our wellbeing?| Reuters: |
Sources: Sequoia Capital China plans to cut as much as 20% of its 70-person investment staff, as the country's tech growth slows — HONG KONG (Reuters) - Sequoia Capital China, widely viewed as a bellwether for Chinese tech investment, is set to lay off as much as 20 percent of investment staff … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
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