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Sources: Apple hired two executives who worked on satellites at Google, held talks with Boeing about investment or partnership in Boeing's satellite venture — The iPhone maker has recruited a pair of top Google satellite executives for a new hardware team, according to people familiar with the matter.
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| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
Russian hacker Roman Seleznev sentenced to 27 years for theft, sale of 2M+ CC numbers resulting in $170M+ in losses, the longest hacking-related sentence in US — Federal prosecutors have yet to capture or convict the foreign computer criminals believed to be behind the hackings of big retailers like Target and Neiman Marcus.| Daniel Rubino / Windows Central: |
Leaked document shows recommended minimum specs for Windows 10 Cloud OS devices: quad-core Celeron or better CPU, 4GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, 40 WHr+ battery — A new low-cost Surface device and Windows 10 Cloud OS combo could do some serious damage to Google's Chromebook ambitions in U.S. schools.
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| Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed: |
Waymo filing: during deposition this week, Uber engineer “was forced to admit” that Uber was working on a second, more Waymo-like Lidar and hid it from court — An Uber self-driving Volvo drives in Pittsburgh Friday, March 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Groq, a stealth startup founded by Google Tensor Processing Unit project engineers and Chamath Palihapitiya, has raised $10.3M — Google has slowly been pulling back the curtain on homegrown silicon that could define the future of machine learning and artificial intelligence.
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Electronics Weekly, SlashGear, Axios, and Investor's Business Daily. Tweets: @semil. Thanks:@mattrosoff
| Jessica Davies / Digiday: |
The Guardian confirms it has stopped publishing its articles to Apple News and Facebook Instant Articles — Publishers aren't happy with the deal platforms are cutting them. Now, the Guardian has dropped both Facebook's fast-loading Instant Article format and removed its content from Apple News.
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| Alexandra Vaidos / Softpedia News: |
IHS estimates Samsung's Galaxy S8, which retails starting at $720, costs $307.50 to manufacture, $43.34 more than it cost to make the Galaxy S7 last year — The Galaxy S8 bill of materials reaches $301.60 — Samsung's Galaxy S8 is more expensive than last year's Galaxy S7 …
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| Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table: |
As MakeSpace announces $30M Series C, a look at the logistics tech underlying the on-demand storage service — Just over a year ago I wrote about how MakeSpace had raised $17.5 million in capital to build out its operations in 4 cities: New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington D.C …
| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Machine learning data management startup SafeGraph raises $16M Series A from IDG Ventures and 100+ high-profile individual investors — San Francisco-based machine learning data management startup SafeGraph Inc. has raised a $16 million funding round led by IDG Ventures USA but including …
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SafeGraph, FinSMEs, silicontap.com, and socalTECH.com
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Samsung and Google partner to make Google Play Music the default music service on new Samsung phones and tablets worldwide, starting with Galaxy S8 and S8+ — Samsung and Google today announced a new partnership that will make Google Play Music the default music player and music service including …
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Engadget, Fone Arena, Google, Ubergizmo, Forbes, CNET, Ars Technica, TechSpot, International Business Times, The Next Web, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, CNET, and Android Central
| Agam Shah / PCWorld: |
Qualcomm CEO: first Windows 10 PC with Snapdragon 835 is scheduled for Q4 2017 — But don't expect a flood of Windows 10 PCs based on ARM chips — If you want a Windows 10 PC that doesn't have an x86 chip from Intel or AMD, your wish will be granted in the fourth quarter.
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ZDNet, Tech Times, Engadget, The Verge, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Inquirer, Seeking Alpha, On MSFT, and Neowin
| Ben Fox Rubin / CNET: |
Verizon delays Bixby Amazon shopping feature in Samsung Galaxy S8 — A new camera feature on the Galaxy S8 that recognizes bar codes and products was delayed on Verizon phones. — The Samsung Galaxy S8 launched today, but Verizon customers won't be getting the phone's full experience just yet.
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Engadget, The Verge, Ubergizmo, PhoneDog.com, 9to5Google, Android Central, GeekWire, and Fortune. Thanks:@benfoxrubin
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