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Avis signs deal to manage the self-driving minivans of Alphabet's Waymo in Phoenix; Waymo CEO says Avis' Zipcar network was part of the partnership's appeal — Rental car firm will service Waymo vehicles in Phoenix — Zipcar owner could give Waymo much needed access to network
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Amazon Echo Show review: Alexa takes great advantage of the low-resolution touchscreen, speaker quality is better than Echo; device is a good value at $230 — Siri may have ushered in the era of the digital assistant, but Amazon's Echo (with Alexa) really took that concept and put it in our homes.
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Apple leases small fleet of cars from Hertz to test self-driving tech, according to documents from California's DMV; Hertz stock jumps 13%+ — Apple Lexus SUVs leased from Hertz's Donlen, documents show — Alphabet's Waymo has signed a similar deal with Avis
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Impressive first glimpses of simple ARKit apps, like a virtual measuring tape, suggest Apple is closer to delivering AR to masses than Google's Tango — Google's Tango is about the future whereas Apple's ARKit is about the present — Apple has often been accused of acting like it invented things …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
iOS 11 preview, as its public beta goes live today: genuine complexity has been added for productivity's sake, along with an ambitious number of new features — As simple as possible, but no simpler — iOS 11 is the most ambitious software update from Apple in a very, very long time.
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Uptime, YouTube's experimental app for watching videos with friends, has quietly opened to all and gotten a design refresh since its launch in March — YouTube's experimental app Uptime, which lets you watch videos with friends while reacting and commenting, has now opened up to all users.| Twitter: |
Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, YouTube form Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, building on EU Internet Forum, Shared Industry Hash Database initiatives — Today, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube are announcing the formation of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism … | Aoife White / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google to face EU antitrust fine, expected top previous $1.2B record, as soon as Tuesday, for unfairly promoting its own shopping search service — EU has accused Google of unfairly promoting shopping search — Fine, expected to be a record, could be followed by others
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| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Facebook adds animated reactions, more masks, filters, and effects to Messenger's video chat — Facebook Messenger has had video chat capabilities for a couple of years now, and last December, it finally added group chat capabilities. Today, the company is unveiling even more features …
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| Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Debian Linux dev reveals Intel Skylake and Kaby Lake processors have hyper-threading bug, which can lead to erratic system behavior including data loss, freezes — The latest Intel chips have a nasty bug that causes unpredictable system behavior. — Do you have an Intel Skylake and Kaby Lake processor under your computer's hood?
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Source: Amazon built language translation tech to use internally, plans to open it to devs, who could use it to offer sites and apps in multiple languages — - Amazon has built translation technology to use internally, and now it's looking to let third parties access it.| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
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