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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 to start testing Car Thing, a voice-controlled smart assistant device that connects to your car and phone over bluetooth, with some Premium users in US — To learn how people consume audio in their car — Spotify will begin publicly testing its first hardware today …
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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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| 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.
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| 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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| 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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| 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.| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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 …
Tweets: @timfoster, @simonw, and @cote
| 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.
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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 … | 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.
Tweets: @erprose and @kimbatronic
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Health at Scale, which wants to use AI to match patients to the right treatments from the right providers at the right time, 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.| Michael Hytha / Bloomberg: |
CDN provider Fastly closes up 50% on its first day of trading after raising $180M in its IPO and is now valued at about $2.2B — Software provider Fastly Inc. closed its trading debut Friday up 50% after raising $180 million in its U.S. initial public offering.
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| Sean Lyngaas / CyberScoop: |
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 … Sponsor Posts
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