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Microsoft announces Minecraft Earth, a real-world AR version of Minecraft, available in closed beta on iOS and Android this summer — Alex Kipman, Microsoft's HoloLens and Kinect creator, is always enthusiastic about the future of computing. As he stands in front of me inside …
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Spotify starts testing Car Thing, a voice-controlled smart assistant device for cars, with some Premium users in US — To learn how people consume audio in their car — Spotify will begin publicly testing its first hardware today: a voice-controlled smart assistant for cars …
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Profile of Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer, who admits AI alone may not be enough to deal with toxic content and chokes up when discussing the issue — Facebook has heralded artificial intelligence as a solution to its toxic content problems. Mike Schroepfer, its chief technology officer, says it won't solve everything.
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| Arjun Panchadar / Reuters: |
Hewlett Packard Enterprise to buy supercomputer maker Cray in a deal valued at $1.3B, or $35 per share, which represents a premium of 17.4% to Cray's last close — (Reuters) - Supercomputer manufacturer Cray Inc said on Friday it would be bought by Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co in a deal valued at about $1.30 billion, net of cash.
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| Jonathan Hillman / Axios: |
Trump's actions against Huawei limit its 5G tech in US, but Huawei continues to build or improve ~100 undersea cables; ~380 cables carry most international data — President Trump's executive order and the Commerce Department's “Entity List” create new challenges for Huawei's 5G wireless technology …
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Sheryl Sandberg: there is concern in US “with the size and power of Chinese companies, and the realization that those companies are not going to be broken up” — KEY POINTS — Sandberg said breaking up Facebook does not address the underlying issues people have with tech companies.| Bradley Tusk / Financial Times: |
Key value of Uber was its relentless focus on innovation and promise to change the world, which the board forgot when replacing Kalanick, focusing on stability — When Uber hired Dara Khosrowshahi in 2017, the company board was solving the wrong problem. — The ride-hailing app …
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Sources: DoorDash is finalizing a major round that would value the food delivery app at $10B-$12B, just three months after it raised at a $7B valuation — DoorDash is finalizing a fundraising round likely to value the U.S. food delivery app between $10 billion to $12 billion after the investment … | Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon say they've stopped selling customer geo-location data to third parties, according to letters they all sent the FCC — Reports emerged a year ago that all the major cellular carriers in the U.S. were selling location data to third party companies …
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| Chloe Taylor / CNBC: |
Deliveroo announces that Amazon is leading a $575M funding round for the UK-based food delivery service, bringing the total raised to $1.53B — KEY POINTS — Deliveroo is a British company that allows users to order food deliveries from nearby restaurants using an app.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Alphabet's Wing says it will start drone deliveries in Helsinki, Finland, in the coming weeks with a gourmet supermarket and a restaurant as launch partners — Alphabet X Labs graduate Wing announced late last year that it'd soon begin piloting autonomous deliveries in Helsinki, Finland … | Dennis Schaal / Skift: |
Amazon launches flight bookings in India for a variety of carriers, offers Amazon Prime customers up to 2,000 rupees ($28.50) cash back on bookings — A shoe just dropped. Amazon is stepping into travel again. It may offer travel products in all sizes once it really gets going.| Dan Woods / The Register: |
Sources shed light on Amazon's Away Team model inside AWS, where one team's service may be implemented by another team who needs the enhanced capability — Cloud giant's structure, staff practices revealed — Deep dive Companies inside and out of Silicon Valley have found their own ways …
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| Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi / Reuters: |
Filing: Facebook has set up a new company in Switzerland, Libra Networks, that will focus on payments, financing, identity management, blockchain, and more — ZURICH (Reuters) - Facebook has set up a new financial technology company in Switzerland focusing on blockchain and payments …
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DOJ says that it has indicted 10 members of the criminal network that used the GozNym malware to attempt to steal an estimated $100M from 41,000+ victims — Law enforcement officials from the U.S. and some European allies say they have broken up a criminal network that used banking malware … | Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Zipline raises $190M at a $1.2B valuation, will expand its drone delivery service for medical supplies to US, starting in N. Carolina, where it got FAA approval — KEY POINTS — The company delivers medical supplies, including blood, rabies vaccines and antivenom, to thousands of hard-to-reach health clinics in Rwanda and Ghana.
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Health at Scale, which wants to match patients to the right treatments from the right providers at the right time using AI, raises $16M Series A — Health at Scale, a startup with founders who have both medical and engineering expertise, wants to bring machine learning to bear …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft and Sony announce a strategic partnership to explore development of future cloud solutions in Microsoft Azure for game and content-streaming services — An unusual partnership — Microsoft and Sony are announcing an unusual partnership today, allowing the two rivals to partner on cloud-based gaming services.| Nicolas Kristen / Global Editors Network: |
Q&A with Google News creator Krishna Bharat on the impact of AI on journalism, the future of assisted interviews, and AI's contribution to democratic processes — In recent years, the threats posed by AI to democracies through hacking, manipulation, and disinformation campaigns have garnered public attention.| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
After exploding bear repellent sent 20+ workers to the hospital, Amazon is building special warehouses for hazardous items, with first set to open this summer — JUST BEFORE 8AM one Wednesday last December, a can of bear repellent exploded in an Amazon warehouse in New Jersey, sending two dozen workers to the hospital.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
MultiVu, which is developing compact 3D image camera that uses a single sensor and AI for applications like 3D Face Authentication, raises a $7M seed round — MultiVu, a Tel Aviv-based startup that is developing a new 3D imaging solution that only relies on a single sensor and some deep learning smarts …
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| Meng Jing / South China Morning Post: |
Alibaba says fake product listings were down 67% on its platforms in 2018 after deployment of anti-counterfeiting system analyzing sentiment in user comments — E-commerce giant reports 67 per cent year-on-year decline in suspected fake product listings on its platforms … | Robin Emmott / Reuters: |
EU agrees on a new sanctions mechanism for hackers, with ability to target them anywhere in the world, freeze their assets in the bloc, and ban them from entry — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union will directly penalize computer hackers after governments agreed on Friday a new mechanism …
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| Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Google agreed to refund advertisers that paid for ads displayed in an ad fraud scheme discovered in 2017, following lawsuit over back-payments — Google has agreed to refund advertisers for ads purchased through its ad marketplaces that ran on websites with fraudulent traffic … Sponsor Posts
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