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An inside look at how Apple's “spaceship” Apple Park campus came to be, commissioned as one of Steve Jobs' last projects as CEO, with capacity for 12K employees — On June 7, 2011, a local businessman addressed a meeting of the Cupertino City Council.
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Source: Google will announce its voice-based AI Assistant is coming to iPhones and that it's integrating Assistant into GE home appliances at Google I/O — The Alphabet unit plans to expand its voice-based assistant beyond its own hardware at this week's I/O conference
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
HTC launches 5.5" U11 flagship with Quad HD display, Snapdragon 835, pressure-sensitive edge, no 3.5mm jack, available unlocked for preorder for $649 — The HTC U11 will be available from Sprint next month — HTC is announcing its newest smartphone today, the U11 flagship.
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| David Cardinal / DxOMark: |
DxOMark gives the HTC U11 camera a score of 90, the highest ever, which is a point above Google Pixel and two points above Samsung Galaxy S8 — Mobile Review — Overview — With an overall DxOMark Mobile score of 90, the HTC U11 is the highest-rated smartphone camera we have ever tested.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram adds Snapchat-style face filters, an eraser tool for drawings, and hashtags for Stories — Today Instagram Stories adds a more subtle and mature but error-prone copycat of Snapchat's beloved augmented reality selfie filters. The eight initial “face filters” …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Amazon launches 4K Alexa-powered Fire TVs with voice remote, available for preorder now, starting at $449 for the 43" model, $899 for 65" — Amazon's war with Roku enters its next phase — Like Roku before it, Amazon is working with TV makers to release smart televisions … | Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
Sources: Uber board director Ryan Graves and CTO Thuan Pham may come under scrutiny in the sexual harassment investigation and could be fired — Several sources suspect that board member and executive Ryan Graves and CTO Thuan Pham will be fired. — Uber's investigation …
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DocuSign says recent malware phishing attacks targeting its users were the result of a breach of a “non-core” system and that only email addresses were accessed — DocuSign, a major provider of electronic signature technology, acknowledged today that a series …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook updates live streaming policy to ban videos using static images and polls with inanimate material — Facebook is banning misleading uses of its Live video format. The company tells TechCrunch that it's adding a section to its Live API Facebook Platform Policy that reads …
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| Michael J. Coren / Quartz: |
AngelList announces “Angel Funds”, which it has been testing since 2014, letting select users raise “funds” of around $500K-$1M to invest in multiple startups — AngelList, a startup-funding website, announced today it was launching Angel Funds to let “founders back founders.”| Alexander J Martin / Sky News: |
UK's National Data Guardian says Google's DeepMind received 1.6M NHS patients' data on an “inappropriate legal basis” — Google's artificial intelligence arm received the personally identifying medical records of 1.6 million patients on an “inappropriate legal basis” …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google I/O 2017 preview: new capabilities for Assistant and Home, more details about Android O, updates on Daydream and Project Tango, more — Google I/O begins on May 17th, 2017 at 10AM PT / 1PM ET with CEO Sundar Pichai taking the stage for the keynote. Held at the Shoreline Amphitheater …
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