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Apple confirms it's combining machine learning, artificial intelligence, and Siri teams under John Giannandrea, who was hired from Google earlier this year — Apple is creating a new AI/ML team that brings together its Core ML and Siri teams under one leader in John Giannandrea.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Court filing: former Apple employee Xiaolang Zhang has been charged by the FBI with the alleged theft of trade secrets related to Apple's autonomous car efforts — The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation this week charged former Apple employee Xiaolang Zhang with theft of trade secrets …
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Facebook is testing AR ads in US News Feeds beginning with a select group of partners this summer and plans to roll them out more broadly over the year — Facebook is giving advertisers new ways to show off their products, including with augmented reality.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Google Pay rolls out support for peer-to-peer payments and mobile ticketing — Google is making several updates to Google Pay, its recently-rebranded service for all its different payments tools. Most of these updates were announced earlier this year, but now, Google says they're actually going live in the app.| Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed: |
Netflix launches Smart Downloads feature to automatically retrieve your next episode for offline viewing on Android, will launch on iOS later this year — Netflix is automating downloads of series so you can binge-watch shows off-line without even pressing a button.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
YouTube begins rolling out incognito mode, which hides search and viewing history, for Android users — Earlier this year, both YouTube and YouTube Music began hinting at an “Incognito mode” — similar to Google Chrome's — that disables your watch and search history.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Instagram adds the questions sticker, a new way to poll your friends — Increasing engagement at all costs — In October, Instagram added a polling feature to its ephemeral stories. Today, the company is introducing a new twist on polling with the questions sticker … | Jagmeet Singh / NDTV Gadgets 360: |
To combat the spread of fake news on its app, WhatsApp is rolling out “Forwarded” label to indicate when messages have been forwarded to users — WhatsApp has started rolling out a feature that will indicate to users which messages they receive were forwarded by as is the sender.
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UK watchdog gives Facebook a preliminary fine of about $664,000, the maximum allowed, for letting Cambridge Analytica access data about millions of people — Facebook is staring down its first fine for allowing Cambridge Analytica to improperly access data about millions of people …
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| Karissa Bell / Mashable: |
Snapchat launches Lens Explorer, available in its iOS app, to help you easily find lenses created by other users — Attention selfie addicts, we have some good news: you might never run out of Snapchat lenses again. — On Tuesday the app is launching Lens Explorer, a new feature that makes …
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Slack announces improvements to search, including a new UI, filters, personalized search, and more — For years, organizations have been pouring essential knowledge into Slack. Getting it back out again wasn't all that easy—until now. — Five years ago, Slack was an unknown business …
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Slack, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, ZDNet, TechCrunch, Engadget, and GeekWire. Thanks:@samueljevans
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Google expands use of machine learning for advertisers by launching Local and Smart shopping campaigns, Maximize lift for YouTube, and Responsive search ads — The ways people get things done are constantly changing, from finding the closest coffee shop to organizing family photos.| Panos Panay / Windows Blog: |
Microsoft unveils 10" $399+ Surface Go tablet with USB-C, MicroSD slot, and Pentium Gold CPU; pre-order July 10, available August 2, LTE model later this year — Many of us play different roles throughout the day, moving from work or school to home and everywhere in between.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Postmates expands to another 100+ cities in the US, adding coverage for 50M more people, bringing the total number of cities covered in the US and Mexico to 385 — As rumors circle that delivery startups might consider merging to bulk up against larger competitors like Amazon or Uber …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researcher says stolen code-signing certificates from router and camera-maker D-Link were used to sign the Plead password-stealing malware — This isn't the IP camera software you think it is. — Criminals recently stole code-signing certificates from router and camera maker D-Link …
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