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Google I/O keynote live stream — Learn about the latest product and platform innovations at Google.
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Google Lens coming to Google Search; some search results to include 3D models for an AR view of what you searched for; Lens translation coming to low-end phones — Imagine you're thinking about chairs, and you Google up some to try out in your living room.
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Live blog of Google I/O keynote, where new hardware is expected, including a larger Google Home Hub and a line of Pixel 3A phones, alongside Android 10 Q — And maybe a few surprises, too — Google's annual developer keynote is here and thanks to a lot of leaks, we have a fairly good idea of what to expect.
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Android Police, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, CNN, Gizmodo, and TechRadar.com
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Symantec: a Chinese state-sponsored hacker group co-opted and repurposed NSA hacking tools to attack US allies and private companies in Europe and Asia in 2016 — Chinese intelligence agents acquired National Security Agency hacking tools and repurposed them in 2016 to attack American allies …
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Symantec, Ars Technica, Wired, ZDNet, The Hill, Axios, IT PRO, Forbes, Slashdot, SecurityWeek, The Hacker News, Security Affairs, and CyberScoop
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| Ju-min Park / Reuters: |
Samsung says it cannot confirm the shipping date for Galaxy Fold and will cancel pre-orders, unless told not to, if they do not ship by May 31 — SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday it cannot confirm the shipping date for its foldable device Galaxy Fold yet and apologized …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Cruise Automation, GM's self-driving division, raises $1.15B at a $19B valuation from investors including SoftBank, Honda, and T. Rowe Price Associates — Post-money valuation is now $19 billion — Cruise Automation, the self-driving division of General Motors, announced on Tuesday …
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Current and former employees discuss how Apple's stores changed under Angela Ahrendts' reign, with challenges around customer service festering — Web Smith's recent experience at his local Apple store in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio, has been an exercise in frustration.
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MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, and Cult of Mac. Tweets: @damanr
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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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Tweets: @bradsmi, @yanivgraph, @hartintercivic, @darpa, @msftissues, @bmcclendon, @aaronmblevin, @ericgeller, @kimzetter, @edbott, @n1nj4, @shpatar, and @github. Thanks:@fredericl
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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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Tweets: @kantrowitz, @twitter, @twitterdesign, @reckless, @hilaryphuffman, @pkedrosky, and @mattnavarra
| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Google says its next-gen Assistant is 10X faster and includes more app-specific functionality, coming to Pixel phones later this year — After three years, the voice-activated helper gets its biggest update yet. And it shows just how much Google already knows about you.
Tweets: @google, @larrymagid, @julianchokkattu, @stshank, @edbaig, @outonalumb, @lanceulanoff, and @stshank. Thanks:@akwired
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
US Department of Energy says AMD and Cray will build the world's fastest supercomputer, dubbed Frontier, by 2021, with 1.5 exaflops of processing power — Dubbed Frontier, the supercomputer expected to go online in 2021 with 1.5 exaflops of processing power
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| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
As Europe clamps down on online hate speech and misinformation, concerns grow that these efforts will harm free expression and stifle dissent — LONDON — In Spain, activists were convicted for social media posts that violated an expanded antiterrorism law.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
With today's WordPress 5.2 release, the CMS for ~34% of all websites finally gets cryptographically-signed updates and a modern cryptographic software library — WordPress 5.2 released with support for cryptographically-signed updates, a modern cryptographic library.| Vice: |
More than 100 Riot Games employees walked out on Monday to protest the company's use of forced arbitration to settle sexual harassment lawsuits — ‘League of Legends’ developers walkout to protest the company's use of forced arbitration to settle sexual harassment lawsuits.
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Riot Games, The Verge, Los Angeles Times, Kotaku, Washington Post, Softpedia News, Destructoid, Engadget, Dot Esports, and Boing Boing
Tweets: @tha_rami, @jason_koebler, @jasonschreier, @jason_koebler, @rowankaiser, @nicalexiac, @beckhallstedt, and @teamcoworker
| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
How Epic Games and ILM tried to recreate the Apollo 11 moon landing using HoloLens 2 for a demo that failed to run during Microsoft's Build 2019 keynote — The story of a tech demo 20 years in the making that fell apart in mere minutes. — How Epic & ILM's John Knoll Tried to Recreate …
Tweets: @leolaporte, @counternotions, @tomverhoeff, @jank0, @jank0, @matvelloso, and @fxshaw
| Washingtonian: |
A parent's first-hand account about how content found on Reddit, 4chan, and YouTube helped their 13-year-old become infatuated with the alt-right — A Washington family's nightmare year. — When my son Sam,* who was then 14, asked me to take him to the Mother of All Rallies on the Mall in September 2017 …
Tweets: @vcav, @lrozen, @emilynussbaum, @willsommer, @moneyries, @sonofdadandmom, and @neontaster
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Israeli B2B ride-hailing service Gett raises $200M in a mix of debt and equity at a $1.5B valuation, aims for an IPO by Q1 of 2020 — As Uber gears up for an IPO, one of its smaller rivals has raised some money as it prepares to take its own turn on the public market.| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Satya Nadella and other Microsoft execs talk about the future of AI, the company's approach to open platforms, and how the era of the “talented jerk” is over — MICROSOFT HASN'T ALWAYS had a reputation for being “open,” but CEO Satya Nadella and the rest of his executive team …
Tweets: @laurengoode, @laurengoode, @laurengoode, @laurengoode, @laurengoode, @laurengoode, @pipms, @peggyj, @laurengoode, and @davegershgorn
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Tweets: @thekitze, @justinfagnani, @thelarkinn, and @reckless
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