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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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| 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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| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Google removes the tablet section from the official Android website; visiting the URL for the tablet page sends users back to the main Android site — 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.| 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 … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Samsung will announce Galaxy Note 9 on August 9 at an “Unpacked” event in New York — - Device upgrades to focus on camera system, faster processor — Apple also plans larger iPhone model for later in the year — Samsung Electronics Co. plans to highlight … | 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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| 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.| Chloe Aiello / CNBC: |
Sources: Microsoft has recently held talks to buy GitHub, which was valued at $2B in the latest financing round in 2015 — - The talks have come amid GitHub's struggle to replace CEO and founder Chris Wanstrath, who stepped down 10 months ago. — GitHub was last valued at $2 billion in 2015 …
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| 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.| Ned Berke / Center for Cooperative Media: |
Facebook's plans to manage promoted political content: a machine learning classifier begins June 6 and will scan text and images for terms related to politics — Facebook announced on May 24 that any Facebook Page promoting political content on the platform will need to follow the platform's rules for … | Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Former Google business head Nikesh Arora has been named CEO and chairman of Palo Alto Networks, replacing Mark McLaughlin, who will become vice chairman — The security company is on the upswing of late. — Nikesh Arora, the former chief business officer at Google, has been named CEO …
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| Yimian Wu / China Money Network: |
Xiaohongshu, a social recommendation app for cross-border shopping, raises $300M Series D at a $3B valuation led by Alibaba, with Tencent Holdings participating — Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has led a US$300 million series D round in Xiaohongshu, a social recommendation app …
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