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| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
Facebook says its AI bot Pluribus, developed in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon, is the first such bot to beat top pros at six-player No-Limit Texas Hold 'Em — The 32-year-old is the only person to have won four World Poker Tour titles and has earned more than $7 million at tournaments.
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| The Keyword: |
Google admits one of its language reviewers leaked confidential Dutch audio data and says it is investigating the issue — We're focused on building products that work for everyone, and as part of this, we invest significant resources to ensure that our speech technology works for a wide variety of languages, accents and dialects.
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| The Information: |
Sources: Bird lost about $100M in the first quarter, with revenue shrinking to about $15M, and the company told people that it has about $100M in cash left — The wintertime was bleak for Bird. In this year's first quarter, the electric scooter operator lost nearly $100 million …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitter was down globally for just over an hour today as the White House “social media summit” kicked off — When in doubt, ban yourself — Twitter appeared to be down for a large number of users across the United States on Thursday. The company confirmed the issue to The Verge …
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| Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News: |
Facebook is starting to show users which marketing and data companies have your data, how an ad was targeted, and how to opt-out — The new tool tells you how an ad was targeted and which third-party agency or data broker was used. It also links to pages to opt out.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube unveils new ways for creators to make money, including Super Stickers for chats in livestreams and premieres and paid levels for Channel Memberships — YouTube is rolling out more ways for its creators to engage fans and generate revenue, the company announced today the VidCon event in Anaheim, California.| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple says it has temporarily disabled the Apple Watch Walkie Talkie app, due to a vulnerability that could allow iPhone eavesdropping, while it works on a fix — Apple has disabled the Apple Watch Walkie Talkie app due to an unspecified vulnerability that could allow a person to listen …
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Tweets: @reckless, @iryantldr, and @tomwarren
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon says it will spend $700M to retrain 100K, or about a third, of its US employees by 2025, acknowledging the impact of technology and automation on jobs — Amazon is embarking on a $700 million effort to retrain its U.S. workforce, in a high-profile acknowledgment of the impact …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says its Slack competitor, Teams, now has 13M+ daily active users and 19M+ weekly active users; in a filing in April, Slack said it has 10M DAUs — Microsoft's first set of user numbers — Microsoft is finally revealing exactly how many people are using its Slack competitor Microsoft Teams.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it will test a feature to let users hide replies to their tweets starting next week in Canada — Twitter users are getting more control over which comments are visible in the conversations they start. — The company has been testing and talking about this feature since earlier this year …
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| The Daily Beast: |
WH doesn't seem to have invited anyone banned from major social media platforms to the “social media summit”, organized to lament alleged bias behind such bans — No one who is invited to the summit has actually been banned from social platforms.
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CNN. Tweets: @ashleyfeinberg, @willsommer, @oneunderscore__, @pbump, @katierogers, @cwarzel, @markknoller, and @juliadavisnews
| BBC: |
France passes a 3% digital services tax on sales in France for large internet companies with over €25M in French revenues; the law affects about 30 companies — France has approved a digital services tax despite threats of retaliation by the US, which argues that it unfairly targets American tech giants.| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
RiskIQ: Magecart hacking group have found a way to scan for unsecured AWS S3 buckets, collecting 17,000 potential sites, some among the top 2,000 biggest sites — YOU MAY NOT recognize the name Magecart, but you've seen its impact. A set of sophisticated hacking groups …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
In Q2, IDC estimates global PC shipments grew 4.7% to 64.9M units; Gartner estimates 1.5% growth to 63M units; both say Windows 10 refresh contributed to gain — The PC market rebounded slightly in Q2, according to research firms Gartner and IDC. After six years of quarterly PC shipment declines … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Now-deleted FCC images appear to confirm the forthcoming Samsung Galaxy Note 10, expected to be unveiled in August, won't have a 3.5mm headphone jack — After years of resisting the trend, Samsung is ditching the 3.5mm jack — Samsung's long history of including a 3.5mm headphone jack …
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XDA Developers, Droid Life, CNET, Pocket-lint, CNBC, MSPoweruser, and DISPLAYBLOG
Tweets: @kifleswing and @kifleswing
| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Sources: Amazon Music Unlimited's subscribers grew ~70% in the past year, compared to ~25% for Spotify; in April Amazon had 32M+ music subscribers in total — Amazon is adding subscribers to its music-streaming service at a faster rate than rivals such as Spotify, Apple and Google …
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iMore, AppleInsider, Thurrott, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, MSPoweruser, TechSpot, and Music Ally
Tweets: @financialtimes and @shaunrowland
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google announces it is rolling out redesigned News results for Search on desktop, making publishers' names more prominent, adding a carousel, and more — Google Search on the desktop web has seen a slew of visual refreshes in recent weeks. The latest is a substantial redesign of the News tab … | Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo: |
Google is testing Shoelace, a hyper-local social networking iOS and Android app, based on shared interests around events and activities, starting in NYC — Google has never made a successful social network, but you have to give the company some credit for never giving up.
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Tweets: @pierce, @sushubh, @whatthebit, and @eugenewei
| Gulveen Aulakh / The Economic Times: |
Sources: Apple's Wistron contractor in India has begun exporting 70%-80% of iPhone 6s and iPhone 7 units assembled to European markets — Industry watchers believe Apple is treating India more as a production hub than a significant market. — NEW DELHI: Apple has started to export iPhones … | Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Nielsen says it will start surveying podcast listeners about their consumption habits, including genre preferences and how long they listen to shows — More data on listeners — Nielsen, a company best known for tracking TV shows' popularity, is getting into the podcast data collection business.
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PR Newswire, Marketing Land, and Engadget
Tweets: @ashleyrcarman, @zachthemack, @ischafer, and @mikemchargue
| Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept: |
A US nonprofit org founded by Google and IBM is working with a company helping China's government secretly monitor phone and internet activity of 200M people — An American organization founded by tech giants Google and IBM is working with a company that is helping China's authoritarian …
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