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FCC votes to begin rolling back Obama-era rules governing net neutrality for ISPs — The long-anticipated rollback of net neutrality rules has officially begun. The FCC voted along party lines on Thursday to formally consider Chairman Ajit Pai's plan to scrap the legal foundation for the rules … | Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Uber officially launches Uber Freight, an on-demand service that pairs truck drivers with firms that need cargo shipped across US, driver signups now open — Available on iOS and Android — After getting a peek from Travis Kalanick earlier this month, Uber today officially launched Uber Freight …
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Medium launches audio versions of stories, narrated by actors or post writers, for subscribers, with 50+ available now, and more coming — Medium is hoping to sweeten the pot in order to get you to become a paying member. The publishing platform provider said that members will now be provided … | Justin Diaz / AndroidHeadlines.com: |
Google unveils voice chat system and shared room feature for YouTube VR in Daydream update coming later in 2017 — Google is adding a shared rooms feature to YouTube VR as part of an update to the app as well as an update to the Daydream platform in general.| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google: |
Google announces Payment API, Assistant payments, targeted Android Pay loyalty offers & more — As part of its Google I/O announcements this week, Google announced its latest new payments features today, including new targeted offers coming to Android Pay, a new Google API that will enable fast checkouts … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Spotify acquires French machine-learning music recommendation startup Niland — - Spotify bought a French AI start-up called Niland that has a unique approach to music recommendations. — It's in a race with Apple and Pandora to use AI and other methods to give music customers the best music-discovery experience.| Zack Kanter / TechCrunch: |
How Amazon is eliminating internal inefficiencies and avoiding technological stagnation by exposing its internal operations to external competition — I co-founded a software startup in December. Each month, I send out an update to our investors to keep them updated on our progress.
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Google to update Daydream VR platform later this year with 2D function panel overlay, Chrome, screen capture, Google Cast support, and more — Google's Daydream VR platform is getting its first major software revamp later this year, nudging the interface toward being a more full-featured operating system.| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
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| Nathan McAlone / Business Insider: |
Facebook signs non-exclusive deal with MLB to offer live broadcasts of 20 Friday night games this season, with the first stream coming this week — Facebook just announced that it has reached a deal with Major League Baseball to broadcast 20 games live on Facebook this season, part of the tech giant's big push into premium video.| Robert-Jan Bartunek / Reuters: |
EU antitrust regulators fine Facebook $122.4M for giving misleading information during WhatsApp vetting period in 2014; Facebook says errors were unintentional — European Union antitrust regulators on Thursday said they would fine Facebook 110 million euros ($122.4 million) …
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Telegram 4.0 update brings support for chatbot payments, video messages, and Telescope, a video hosting platform — Messaging app Telegram has dropped a major update today that sees its service gain support for chatbot payments. It has also added short video messages and new design options for its Instant View reading mode.
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Salesforce beats expectations with Q1 revenue of $2.39B up 25% YoY, says unbilled deferred revenue is up 26% YoY to $9.6B — Company raises fiscal year and current quarter sales forecast — Revenue and profit in the first quarter topped estimates — Salesforce.com Inc. … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google says there are 2B pages and 900K domains using AMP; pages now load twice as fast — As Google looks for ways to keep people using its own mobile search to discover content — in competition with apps and other services like Facebook's Instant Articles — the company is announcing some updates to AMP … | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Google releases the first beta of Android O — It's already been available for a few months as a developer preview, but now the rest of us can finally get our hands on an upcoming version of Android. Android O Beta starts shipping today, if you point your browser over to android.com/beta.
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