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Sources: Apple will update its laptop lineup at WWDC, planning MacBook Pro with Kaby Lake and faster chips for MacBook and MacBook Air — Refreshed MacBooks could win back disappointed loyalists — Announcement expected at developers conference in June — Apple Inc. plans to announce …
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| Tim Peterson / Marketing Land: |
Facebook admits another ad measurement mistake, its tenth since September of 2016, refunds advertisers, saying the error affected just 0.04% of impressions — The mistake — mischarged clicks on video carousel ads by smartphone web users — is the first that directly affected advertisers' wallets.
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Amazon announces that Alexa skills will soon be able to push notifications to Alexa enabled devices for users who have opted in — “The weather is great this morning; you should take a run,” is something that Amazon's Alexa will never say to you ... unless you've added a fitness skill and opted-in to notifications.
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
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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| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
DJI launches smart TV app with aerial content and 4k video for Samsung's Tizen TVs and Apple TV — Just a few months after GoPro threatens to close its entertainment doors, DJI is ready to step in. The drone-cum-camera company has just announced that it's launching a Smart TV app that'll stream plenty …
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| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Bragi announces two new earbuds, the $329 Dash Pro, and a custom-fit version for $499, updates its OS to include real-time language translation — While also adding real-time language translation and a professional custom fit option — Bragi has announced a new version of the Dash …
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Apple launches Today at Apple website as it expands its in-store course line-up with classes in art, design, music, photography, more — Last month, Apple announced its plans to offer an expanded set of educational sessions at its stores, which will now feature more in-depth training …
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| Mark Scott / New York Times: |
Facebook fined €150K by French watchdog for failing to protect user data from advertisers as part of wider European probe but wasn't ordered to change practices — Facebook suffered a setback on Tuesday over how it uses the reams of information it collects about users worldwide … | Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Third-party apps providing mail, contacts, and calendar services will need app-specific passwords for iCloud access beginning June 15 — App-specific passwords are set to become a mandatory requirement for third-party apps that access iCloud user data, according to an Apple Support email sent out today.
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| Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: |
Samsung says it has sold 5M Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus devices since April 21 — Samsung Electronics has sold 5 million Galaxy S8s globally less than a month after launching, a figure that will likely be further boosted next month as availability expands. — Samsung Electronics …
| John Mannes / TechCrunch: |
Partnership on AI adds Intel, Salesforce, SAP, others as it formalizes Grand Challenges, which provide incentives to tackle big issues with social ramifications — Intel, Salesforce, eBay, Sony, SAP, McKinsey & Company, Zalando and Cogitai are joining the Partnership on AI …
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| Sam Levin / The Guardian: |
Review shows Facebook's anti-fake news initiatives as ineffective, with many articles disputed by fact-checkers being labeled “disputed” too late or not at all — hen Facebook's new fact-checking system labeled a Newport Buzz article as possible “fake news”, warning users against sharing it, something unexpected happened.| Gordon Mah Ung / PCWorld: |
AMD unveils Threadripper, a 16-core, 32-thread CPU for desktops, coming summer 2017 — It's called Threadripper, and it will be the first consumer-focused chip with 16 cores and 32 threads of computing power. Yes, you read that right: 16 cores and 32 threads of computing power …
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| Kellex / Droid Life: |
Verizon cancels its LG Watch Sport variant, which had just launched in February — Within the past few days, those who had pre-ordered the LG Watch Sport from Verizon received cancellation emails. That seemed odd, obviously, since the watch has been available for months …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Slack adds screen sharing to its Mac and Windows apps two years after acquiring Screenhero — For when a screen shot just won't cut it, Slack's paid users can nowshare live video of their screens during video calls. The addition of the feature comes a slow two years after Slack bought Screenhero …
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Instagram is testing location-based stories that bring together publicly available posts from the area — Instagram wants to let you see everything going on somewhere right now. TechCrunch has discovered that Instagram is testing a new Location Stories feature that compiles publicly shared …
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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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