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SEC's William Hinman, head of Division of Corporate Finance who oversees cryptocurrencies, says Bitcoin and Ether are not securities but many ICOs are — The SEC's point man on cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings (ICOs) says that bitcoin and ether are not securities but that many …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft begins rolling out Redstone 5 preview of Windows 10 to Insiders with SwiftKey support on desktop, new gaming features, and more — Testers can try it out today — Microsoft is planning to bring its SwiftKey keyboard to Windows 10 later this year.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Helped by AI, Microsoft says the Windows 10 April 2018 Update is now on 250M devices, the fastest version of Windows 10 to reach the milestone — Like other tech giants, Microsoft wants everyone to know that the company is heavily investing in AI. The latest example in this quest …
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Elliot Schrage, Facebook's VP of Communications and Public Policy and a key player in company's response to data scandal is leaving after a decade at the firm — The longtime exec has been criticized recently for the social networking giant's rocky responses to a series of controversies.
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Snapchat launches Snap Kit developer platform, letting other apps use Snap's login, Bitmoji avatars, public Stories, and Snap Map content — Developers join the Stories war — Today Snapchat finally gets a true developer platform, confirming TechCrunch's scoop from last month about Snap Kit.| Anna Irrera / Reuters: |
Ripple's chief cryptographer says banks are not ready to use blockchain to process cross-border payments due to scalability and privacy issues — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Banks are unlikely to use distributed ledgers to process cross-border payments for now because of scalability and privacy issues …
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Google refreshes its Ad Settings tool and Why this ad? feature to help users control information that is used to target ads and understand the ads that appear — Facing growing questions about how personal data is used to target advertising, Google today announced a series of updates …
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Samsung announces second generation Chromebook Plus with 12.2-inch touchscreen, 2-in-1 form factor, Intel CPU, 32GB storage, and more for $500 — Chromebooks — laptops running on Google's browser-based Chrome OS — are generally designed for affordability, making the term “premium Chromebook” something of an oxymoron.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google says App Maker, its tool for quickly building and deploying business apps on the web, is now generally available as part of G Suite — It's been a year and a half since Google announced App Maker, its online tool for quickly building and deploying business apps on the web.
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Google says its Tasks app will become part of the core G Suite service on June 28 — Google has revealed that its Tasks app will graduate to become a G Suite core service on June 28. — Google Tasks, if you recall, has existed in something of an odd place for years …
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OnePlus CEO Pete Lau says over 1M people bought the OnePlus 6 in its first 22 days on sale, up from 1M in three months for previous flagships — - OnePlus sold 1 million units of its latest smartphone, the OnePlus 6, in less than a month. — It's a small number compared to Apple …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Lidar startup Luminar says Volvo is making a “substantial” investment in the company and buying its lidar sensors — Luminar will supply lidar sensors to the Swedish auto giant — Lidar startup Luminar is on a bit of a hot streak. After announcing a major deal with Toyota … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Amazon starts shipping its $249 DeepLens AI camera to developers in the US — Back at its re:Invent conference in November, AWS announced its $249 DeepLens, a camera that's specifically geared toward developers who want to build and prototype vision-centric machine learning models.
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European Commission names 52 experts, including researchers from Google and IBM, to its High Level Group on AI, an advisory body to draft AI ethics guidelines — The European Commission on Thursday named 52 experts to its High Level Group on Artificial Intelligence, an advisory body tasked … | Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
Apple says an upcoming software update will disable Lightning port data transfer after an hour of inactivity, closing a loophole that lets police crack iPhones — SAN FRANCISCO — Apple has long positioned the iPhone as a secure device that only its owner can open.
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| Eli Hodapp / TouchArcade: |
Two weeks after Apple's rejection, Valve removes game purchasing option from its beta Steam Link app for iOS, paving the way for potential approval — Late last month we were lucky enough to be included in a TestFlight beta of Valve's upcoming Steam Link app, and I posted a hands-on preview …
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Inside Facebook's complicated relationship with academics: retaining the right to veto or edit papers, limits on access to data, and offers of research funding — The professor was incredulous. David Craig had been studying the rise of entertainment on social media for several years …
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