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Google allows users to report offensive autocomplete suggestions and Featured Snippets, will show more authoritative content for obscure and infrequent queries — Google knows it has a search quality problem. It's been plagued since November with concerns about fake news …
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| Julia Boorstin / CNBC: |
Twitter beats Q1 estimates with $548M revenue and 328M MAUs, up 9M QoQ and 7M more than expected, says DAUs up 14% YoY; stock up 11% in premarket trading — In a surprise after several quarters of disappointing results, Twitter on Wednesday reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue.
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo to offer free rides in its self-driving minivans to residents of Phoenix, Arizona as part of an “early rider program”, available to users today — Major milestone for the Google spin-off — Starting today, residents of the greater Phoenix metropolitan area can sign up to go for a ride in a self-driving minivan.
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| Vindu Goel / New York Times: |
Filing shows Yahoo's Marissa Mayer is set to make about $186M from Verizon deal based on current stock value, from options, restricted units, and shares — SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo shareholders will vote June 8 on whether to sell the company's internet businesses to Verizon Communications for $4.48 billion.
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| Michal Lev-Ram / Fortune: |
Palantir to pay $1.7M in back wages and other relief to settle Department of Labor suit claiming it had discriminated against Asian job applicants — Palantir Technologies, the Palo Alto-based data analytics company, has settled an administrative lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Labor last fall.| Gabriela Vatu / Softpedia News: |
FalseGuide botnet malware, hidden in over 40 fake game companion guides, may have infected ~2M Android devices; apps have been removed from Google Play — Dozens of infected apps went under Google's radar — About 600,000 Android users have mistakenly installed malware on their devices straight …
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Check Point Blog, BetaNews, ZDNet, and International Business Times
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook tests displaying links to fact-checks beside stories inside Related Articles widget — Facebook wants you to think about whether a headline is true and see other perspectives on the topic before you even read the article. In its next step against fake news, Facebook today begins testing …
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Facebook, BetaNews, Tech2, The Information, Adweek, Fortune, Mashable, The Next Web, Marketing Land, CNET, MacRumors, Recode, Engadget, and The Verge. Tweets: @willoremus
| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Inside Zuckerberg's and Facebook's evolving approach to misinformation and filter bubbles, now that the issues have been more openly acknowledged — Mark Zuckerberg now acknowledges the dangerous side of the social revolution he helped to start. But is the most powerful tool for connection …
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Refinery29, Gizmodo, Mashable, CNET, The Daily Caller, and mikeallen
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| Samuel Gibbs / The Guardian: |
Thai man broadcasts killing his 11-month-old child with Facebook Live; the two clips, garnering 112K and 258K views, were taken down after 24 hours — Distressing footage of murder of 11-month old in Thailand was accessible to Facebook users for approximately 24 hours before being taken down
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Reuters, Washington Post, BuzzFeed, Fox News, SiliconBeat, BBC, USA Today, The Sun, bangkokpost.com, Bangkok, Mirror.co.uk, Agence France-Presse, and Breitbart. Tweets: @charlesarthur
| Kate Conger / TechCrunch: |
In setback for Uber, court denies Levandowski's request to use Fifth Amendment to prevent full disclosure of documents concerning Uber's purchase of Otto — Anthony Levandowski, the engineer at the center of the legal battle between Google and Uber over driverless-car technology, has suffered a setback.
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Business Insider, Recode, and Ars Technica
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Instagram now has 700M monthly active users, adding 100M new users in just over four months — It took the company just four months to add 100 million new accounts. — Instagram is growing faster than it ever has before. — The photo and video app, which is owned by Facebook …
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TechCrunch, Business Insider, The Verge, Instagram Blog, and Financial Times
Tweets: @joshconstine, @delrey, and @sarahfrier
| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
AV provider Webroot mistakenly flagged Windows system files as malware, bricking millions of managed PCs worldwide; company is working on a fix — Windows' system files were flagged as malicious, and Facebook was marked as a phishing site. — Tough day for anyone running Webroot antivirus.
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