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| Rani Molla / Recode: |
Mary Meeker's annual internet trends report: smartphone shipments stagnate as average selling price drops, e-commerce sales growth and time online rise, more — Here's a first look at the most highly anticipated slide deck in Silicon Valley. — It's that time of year again …
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| New York Times: |
Inside the debate at Google about the company's cooperation with the military on AI, after contract for Defense Department's project Maven became public — WASHINGTON — Fei-Fei Li is among the brightest stars in the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence, somehow managing to hold …
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The Verge, VentureBeat, CNET, 9to5Google, New York Magazine, The Outline, Engadget, TechSpot, Fortune, Fast Company, Wired, and Axios
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Evan Spiegel talks about Snapchat redesign, going public, and Facebook copying its key innovations at Code Conference — Snap's CEO weighs in on Facebook's long history of copying him — Evan Spiegel publicly addressed Facebook's longstanding practice of copying his company's products Tuesday …
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Google's Project Fi adds support for three new handsets: LG G7 ThinQ, the newly announced LG V35 ThinQ, and Moto G6 — More choices at last — Google announced today that Project Fi users will soon have a few more device choices. Three new phones will work with Google's wireless service … | Katie Canales / Business Insider: |
Microsoft surpassed Alphabet's market value for the first time in three years by about $10B on Tuesday — - Microsoft's market value was $753 billion at end of day Tuesday, surpassing Google's parent company Alphabet in valuation for the first time in three years.
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Amazon's Whole Foods expands 10% discount on some items for Prime members to 12 additional states including Colorado, Arkansas, Texas, and Northern California — Amazon today expanded its new 10 percent discounts on sale items and other special deals for Prime members at Whole Foods …
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| Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
Advertisers use smartphone location info to send personal injury lawyer ads during and after ER visits, target Planned Parenthood visitors with pro-life ads — Patients sitting in emergency rooms, chiropractors, and pain clinics in the Philadelphia area may start noticing the kind …
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| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott.com: |
AdDuplex report: Windows 10 April 2018 Update is installed on ~50% of Windows 10 PCs worldwide, significantly faster adoption than previous Windows 10 updates — An astonishing new report from AdDuplex shows that the Windows 10 April 2018 Update has rolled out at a historically fast rate.
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| Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
HP Omen 15 laptop updated for better gaming with Nvidia Max-Q GPU and reduced screen bezel, to be released July 29 with prices starting at $979 — HP made a comeback with its refreshed Omen gaming laptop line last year, and now the company is updating the model with the most ubiquitous size ahead of E3.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google is working on new Pixel smartphones slated for fall, called Pixel 3 and 3 XL, with the latter featuring a nearly edge-to-edge display and notch — - Company is said to talk with Foxconn as potential manufacturer — More predictive version of Android software coming next year
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| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Plex redesigns iOS and Android apps, adds new personalization features and support for podcasts — Updates coming to iOS and Android today — Today Plex is releasing an entirely redesigned mobile experience on iOS and Android. The new apps offer improved navigation …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com: |
Ubiquitous code repository project Git patches two flaws, including one letting an attacker execute code on systems that recursively cloned a malicious Git repo — The developers behind Git and various companies providing Git repository hosting services have pushed out a fix to patch … | Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Oculus rolls out Oculus Venues, its platform for watching live sporting events, concerts, and other media in VR — Oculus wants VR to bring its users into magical worlds dreamed up by game developers, but the company also needs people to see the headset as a way to access the far corners of the real world alongside others.| Patrick Howell O'Neill / Cyberscoop: |
US district judge dismisses Kaspersky Lab lawsuits objecting to the ban on US government using its products — (Mikhail Deynekin/Wikicommons) — Two lawsuits filed by the Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab were dismissed Wednesday, ending the Moscow-based company's attempt to lift the U.S. government's ban on its products.| Recode: |
Full video and transcript of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and CTO Mike Schroepfer at Code, on Cambridge Analytica, fake accounts, regulation, a paid model, more — “To this day, we still don't actually know what data Cambridge Analytica had.” … Kara Swisher: I don't think we have to say much.
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| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Google makes its AR Expeditions available on iOS and Android, with 800 VR and 100 AR experiences — I remember using a selfie stick to try out Google's educational vision of AR, and it was impressive. My son tried it in his school one day, and felt the same way.
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Engadget, TechCrunch, Android Authority, The Keyword, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, and 9to5Google
| Robbie Gonzalez / Wired: |
Facebook will give researchers encrypted laptops to access Facebook's data and publish findings without pre-approval, in push to prevent abuse during elections — FACEBOOK IS KEEPING a close eye on misinformation in the lead-up to 2018's elections. Which elections, exactly?
Tweets: @wired and @knightfdn
| Terri Walter / Chartbeat Blog: |
Direct mobile traffic to publisher sites surpasses referral traffic from Facebook, including desktop and mobile, for the first time — New data shows that for the first time, mobile direct-to-site traffic has surpassed Facebook. Could this mean that mobile does not equal social after all?
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Beyond Search, Digiday, and Nieman Lab
Tweets: @agolis, @vivian, @a_kaliner, @simonowens, @digiday, @randfish, @digiday, and @steverubel
| Edmund Lee / Recode: |
James Murdoch says ~50% of Hulu's 20M subscribers opt for the $11.99/month ad-free plan, instead of the $7.99/month plan with commercials — But does he think Facebook could one day offer an ads-free version? Maybe not. — Hulu has three principal owners at the moment, including 21st Century Fox …
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Business Insider, FierceCable, MacRumors, and TechCrunch
| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon XR1, company's first dedicated platform/SoC for VR, AR, and mixed reality headsets, coming late 2018 — For the better part of the past few years now, Qualcomm has been making a serious and concentrated effort to establish themselves as the dominant player in the mobile VR space.| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
GIF and sticker platform Emogi raises $12.6M to expand its SDK for keyboards and more — It looks like the capital continues to flow into startups looking to provide some easy way for users to share GIFs, with another startup called Emogi announcing today that it's raised $12.6 million in a new financing round.
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PR Newswire, Technology Startups News, and PE Hub Blog
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
PayPal study: the US has the highest gender disparity for game and esports livestreamers getting paid, with 47% of women receiving no payment vs. 24% of men — Esports and game videos are driving explosive growth in livestreams, according to study by game research firm SuperData Research and payment company PayPal.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Ava raises $30M Series B for its fertility-tracking bracelet — As the worlds of health and technology continue to knit closer together through advances in hardware and big data analytics, a startup called Ava, which has built a $199 wearable device and app to help women track their fertility cycles …
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