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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Leaked 30-second video of macOS 10.14 shows Apple News app for Mac, a dark mode, and Xcode 10 — Developer Steve Troughton Smith today tweeted photos of macOS 10.14 with some very juicy details about Apple's upcoming operating system. The OS is very clearly sporting a fresh new dark theme …
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| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
The tablet section on the official Android website has been restored; Google SVP Hiroshi Lockheimer says removal was the result of a bug during a site update — Google has been doing an impressive job of pretending Android tablets don't exist for the last few years, and now it's done pretending.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Behind AWS CEO Andy Jassy's strategy for expanding the cloud platform by building new features and services that sometimes compete with partners on the platform — The giant's cloud-computing business offers a look inside its model for expanding. Some partners praise the unit's chief …
Tweets: @mdudas, @spicergerard, @hkanji, and @wsjtech
| Kate Conger / Gizmodo: |
Sources: Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene told employees that company will not renew its Project Maven AI contract with DoD; the current contract expires in 2019 — Google will not seek another contract for its controversial work providing artificial intelligence to the U.S. Department of Defense …
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Tweets: @michaeld_kaplan, @pinboard, @drewharwell, @nxthompson, @nandodf, @ali_gharib, @mchorowitz, @katecrawford, @fchollet, @angry_googler, @theintercept, @theintercept, @kateconger, @trevortimm, and @hshaban. Thanks:@andrewcouts
| Patrick Lucas Austin / Gizmodo: |
California announces pilot programs for autonomous vehicles, allowing companies to offer passenger service with or without a trained driver; rides must be free — California has announced a new pilot program that will allow self-driving cars to start moving normal customers around, a first for the state.| Cagan Koc / Bloomberg: |
Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan says that Uber's business in the country is “over” and that authorities will take necessary action against the firm — - Uber started in Istanbul's $1.5 billion taxi market in 2014 — San Francisco-based firm has come under fire from local taxis| Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco: |
Optimistic investors bid up Bitcoin ahead of introduction of futures, but new derivatives enabled pessimists to bet against Bitcoin, bringing the price down — Galina Hale, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Marianna Kudlyak, and Patrick Shultz From Bitcoin's inception in 2009 through mid-2017, its price remained under $4,000.
| Jane Lytvynenko / BuzzFeed: |
A look at how social networks are being used to illegally sell prescription medications despite Terms of Service that forbid the practice — Every social media website reviewed by BuzzFeed News was host to dealers of opioids and other prescription medicine.
Tweets: @aimee2day, @sgottliebfda, and @janelytv
| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
CTRL-labs, makers of an armband that picks up brain signals to control devices, raises $28M from Lux Capital, GV, Vulcan Capital, Founders Fund, and Alexa Fund — Paul Allen's Vulcan Capital is among those raising an interested hand over a 3-year-old startup called CTRL-Labs … | Reuters: |
Sources: Apple to debut tools at WWDC that let two iPhones share augmented reality data phone-to-phone without storing data in the cloud — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) next week will debut tools to let two iPhone users share augmented reality while limiting the personal data sent … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Telegram received its first update in two months after being locked out of App Store updates following a dispute with the Russian government and Apple — Telegram today received its first update in two months after an App Store update lockout caused by a dispute with the Russian government and Apple.
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Digital Trends, The Verge, Engadget, International Business Times, Firstpost, Michael Tsai, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, SlashGear, Reuters, and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @durov
| Manish Singh / VentureBeat: |
Research: Hotstar has 69.4% of the Indian on-demand video streaming market, Amazon has 5% and Netflix has 1.4%; James Murdoch says Hotstar has 145MAUs — As Amazon and Netflix turn to the land of Bollywood in search of new users, they continue to face stiff competition from local giant Hotstar.Sponsor Posts
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