|
May 17, 2017, 1:25 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Bloomberg: |
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 …
More:
SiliconANGLE, AppleInsider, Technology Personalized, The Verge, Motley Fool, SlashGear, Engadget, BGR, Ubergizmo, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, TechConnect, Ars Technica, Insanely Great Mac, International Business Times, Laptop Mag, iDownloadBlog.com, TechCrunch, Neowin, Pocket-lint, iPhone Hacks, INSIDER, iMore, CNET, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, MAC blog, and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @dannysullivan, @mattlynley, @mcwm, @johnpaczkowski, @fromedome, @markgurman, @loudmouthjulia, and @detroitborg
| John Koetsier / Forbes: |
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.
More:
TechCrunch, Amazon Developer Services, CNET, Engadget, CNBC, The Next Web, Droid Life, Voicebot, Tech Narratives, Android Police, VentureBeat, GeekWire, Mashable, and Fortune
Tweets: @chrismessina, @benbajarin, and @alexadevs
| 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.
More:
Facebook, Wall Street Journal, CNNMoney, Reuters, International Business Times, Adweek, Axios, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @shiraovide and @jimrutenberg
| 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 …
More:
MobileSyrup, CNET, Axios, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Android Police, MobileSyrup, and PC Magazine
| Bloomberg: |
More:
SiliconBeat, Recode, BGR, The Verge, Mashable, AppAdvice.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, Search Engine Land, CNET, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Fortune, Computerworld, and INSIDER. Tweets: @markgurman
| 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 …
More:
TechCrunch, Engadget, Wareable, SlashGear, Mashable, Wired, Digital Trends, 9to5Mac, and MacRumors
| 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 … | 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.
More:
BuzzFeed, Quartz, Silicon Valley Business …, Digital Trends, The Guardian, iPhone in Canada Blog, Fortune, Cult of Mac, iMore, Mashable, Gizmodo, grubstreet, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Business Insider, The Verge, MacStories, MacDailyNews, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @jakobrosin, @aaronykng, @oliviasolon, @joannastern, @johnpaczkowski, @mcwm, @_am1t, @ryantate, and @neilcybart
| 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.
More:
9to5Mac, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, The Mac Observer, iMore, Fortune, AppAdvice.com, iPhone Hacks, iLounge, and Cult of Mac
| 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 …
More:
9to5Google, Android Authority, Android Police, PhoneDog.com, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, Engadget, Neowin, Android Beat, Phandroid, and The Verge
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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 …
More:
Mashable, Cult of Mac, Adweek, MSPoweruser, and PCWorld
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
More:
Digital Trends, Android Central, Instagram, Tech Times, Search Engine Land, Forbes, Recode, Quartz, Pocket-lint, TalkAndroid.com, Softpedia News, Gizmodo, SlashGear, International Business Times, AppAdvice.com, iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac, Windows Central, Droid Life, iDownloadBlog.com, Adweek, PhoneDog.com, New York Magazine, MacRumors, Engadget, Gotta Be Mobile, CNET, MacStories, The FADER, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Police, Los Angeles Times, The Next Web, GeekWire, The Verge, 9to5Mac, 9to5Google, NBC Bay Area, and iMore
| 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 … | 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.| 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 … | 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 … | Biz Stone / Medium: |
Twitter cofounder Biz Stone says he's returning to the company to guide company culture, more — I worked at Twitter for about six years. In that time, the service grew from zero people to hundreds of millions of people. Jack was the original CEO and when he returned I was very happy.
More:
VatorNews, The Verge, CNNMoney, The Next Web, USA Today, Tech Times, Tech Narratives, Vanity Fair, The Hill, Business Insider, VentureBeat, Marketing Land, Recode, CNET, New York Magazine, Hacker Noon, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, Adweek, Variety, Seeking Alpha, SiliconBeat, Axios, Mashable, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @biz, @karaswisher, @kadhimshubber, @jack, @nickbilton, @anthonynoto, @cnbcnow, @inafried, @adambain, and @sarahfrier
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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 …
More:
9to5Mac, MacRumors, Recode, 9to5Mac, Mashable, USA Today, 9to5Mac, iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacDailyNews, Daring Fireball, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider, and AppAdvice.com
| 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.| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
More:
ZDNet, Digital Trends, Newser, TechCrunch, Forbes, TechSpot, SlashGear, TalkAndroid.com, and Android Authority. Tweets: @shiraovide
Sponsor Posts
Meta:
Open Source AI: Available to all, not just the few — Meta's open source AI enables small businesses, start-ups, students, researchers and more to download and build with our models at no cost.
Open Source AI: Available to all, not just the few — Meta's open source AI enables small businesses, start-ups, students, researchers and more to download and build with our models at no cost.
Zoho:
The crossroads of AI and SaaS — Enabling businesses of all sizes to build products in-house and disqualifying SaaS tools that are not AI-powered. In a span of just two years, AI has made a name for itself as the key driver for innovation.
The crossroads of AI and SaaS — Enabling businesses of all sizes to build products in-house and disqualifying SaaS tools that are not AI-powered. In a span of just two years, AI has made a name for itself as the key driver for innovation.
Genesys:
Executive Insights: The Era of Contact Center AI Copilots — How AI copilots are transforming customer experience and agent performance.
Executive Insights: The Era of Contact Center AI Copilots — How AI copilots are transforming customer experience and agent performance.
Tribe AI:
Build AI products that matter — Tribe AI helps organizations rapidly deploy AI solutions that have real business impact. We bring together world class AI talent and tooling to drive differentiated results.
Build AI products that matter — Tribe AI helps organizations rapidly deploy AI solutions that have real business impact. We bring together world class AI talent and tooling to drive differentiated results.Who's Hiring In Tech?
Techmeme Ride Home:
Fri. 12/20 - Gemini Flash Thinking
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe via
Apple Podcasts,
Spotify, or
RSS.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 1:25 AM ET, May 17, 2017.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
New York Times:Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Jack Dunn / Variety:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Gordon Mah Ung / PCWorld: |
More:
pcgamer and Windows Central
| Mark Scott / New York Times: |
| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
More:
SiliconANGLE
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
More:
SiliconANGLE, Business Wire, USA Today, and Financial Times
| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
More:
ZDNet, TechCrunch, ITworld.com, NASDAQ.com, and GeekWire
Earlier Picks
| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
More:
Google Cloud Platform Blog, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @vambenepe and @googlecloud
| Lucian Constantin / PCWorld: |
More:
SiliconANGLE, Engadget, New York Times, CNET, USA Today, The Hacker News, SecurityWeek, emptywheel, Telegraph, and Washington Post
Tweets: @3ncr1pt3d, @jank0, @gossithedog, @ericgeller, and @ashk4n
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
More:
PE Hub Blog, SiliconANGLE, silicontap.com, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, and TheStreet. Tweets: @ingridlunden