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| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Sources: Amazon and Apple close to an agreement to launch Amazon video app on Apple TV; Amazon employees expect the app in Q3 — Jeff Bezos and Tim Cook bury the hatchet. — Amazon and Apple may have reached a truce. — The tech giants, who are increasingly competing for customers' time …
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| AFTVnews: |
Possible image of redesigned Echo with a built-in touchscreen found on Amazon's servers — Here is the first look at what Amazon's upcoming Echo with a built-in touchscreen looks like. I was able to locate this unfortunately low resolution image on Amazon's servers in a similar manner …
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| Corbin Davenport / Android Police: |
IDC: worldwide tablet shipments declined 8.5% over the past year, Q1 is the tenth straight quarter in decline — Remember when everyone thought tablets would replace PCs, at least for average consumers? Yeah, that didn't happen. In fact, the opposite is happening.
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Facebook says it is closing Oculus VR film studio, canceling all ongoing projects, will invest in VR content produced by outside partners — Oculus Story Studio, the award-winning studio behind virtual reality (VR) short films like “Dear Angelica” and “Henry,” is being shut down, Facebook announced Thursday afternoon.
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| Bloomberg: |
YouTube producing a half-dozen original series this year; source says it will spend $100M+ for 40+ ad-supported original shows and movies next year — Online service sees opportunity to lure big national sponsors — Paid Red service gets budgets matching HBO, Showtime programs
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Justice Department opens criminal probe into Uber's use of Greyball software to evade regulators — The U.S. Department of Justice has begun a criminal investigation into Uber Technologies Inc's use of a software tool that helped its drivers evade local transportation regulators, two sources familiar with the situation said.
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Tweets: @mikeisaac, @prestonjbyrne, and @fedcourtjunkie
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| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces a new event on May 23 in Shanghai, confirms new hardware is coming; in a tweet Panos Panay hints at Surface update — Microsoft is holding an event this month, the company announced tonight, at which it says it will “show the world what's next.”
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Tweets: @panos_panay, @tomwarren, @bdsams, @maryjofoley, and @maryjofoley
| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Google: |
G Data report: 350 new malware instances are discovered on Android every hour, 750K+ found in Q1; most of the malware is discovered in third-party app stores — Security company G Data says that a new piece of Android malware is discovered every 10 seconds.| Recode: |
Interview with FCC Chairman Ajit Pai on his approach to regulation, net neutrality, investment in broadband infrastructure, media ownership rules, and mergers — Net neutrality, antitrust, infrastructure, mergers — it's all here. — On this special bonus episode of Recode Decode …
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| Google Research Blog: |
Google details how it uses deep learning and Street View imagery to update Maps, and publishes TensorFlow model for real-world image text extraction to GitHub — Posted by Julian Ibarz, Staff Software Engineer, Google Brain Team and Sujoy Banerjee, Product Manager, Ground Truth Team
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AndroidHeadlines.com, Gizmodo India, AndroidHeadlines.com, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, Mashable, Android Police, Engadget, and Social Media Today. Tweets: @reza_zadeh
| Aaron Pressman / Fortune: |
CDC says 50.8% of US households use only cellphones, overtaking landlines as main service for the first time — It's official: For the first time, a majority of American homes have only wireless telephones. — The trend to drop landlines has been growing over the last decade alongside …
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Tweets: @hunterwalk and @ron_miller
| Brian Fagioli / BetaNews: |
Google releases DIY open source Raspberry Pi voice kit hardware, which will be included for free with the next issue of MagPi Magazine — Google has long been focused on artificial intelligence. Its Google Now and voice assistance projects have used AI to better the lives of users.
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