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Sources: DOJ is preparing an antitrust investigation into Google's practices related to search and other businesses — The Justice Department is preparing an antitrust investigation into Google's practices related to search and other business, sources say.
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Sources: DOJ began work on a possible Google antitrust investigation after brokering a deal with FTC, which considered and opted not to pursue the case in 2013 — A possible probe could open a new chapter in the tech giant's troubles with regulators around the world who contend that the company is too large| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
What to expect from WWDC 2019: new Mac Pro, iOS 13 with Dark Mode and updates to core apps, macOS 10.15 with Marzipan apps, and 31.6-inch 6K pro display — Apple's big Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote is happening on Monday, June 3rd, and this year looks to be more consequential than most.
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
DeepMind researchers detail how they designed autonomous agents that exhibited humanlike behavior when playing a first-person multiplayer game mode in Quake III — Chess and Go were child's play. Now A.I. is winning at capture the flag. Will such skills translate to the real world?
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By having an estimated one billion active device users, Apple has a self-sufficient level of ecosystem strength to thrive despite slowing user growth — Apple's ecosystem is massive. Approximately a billion people are using more than 1.4 billion Apple devices.
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| Jeffrey Mervis / Science: |
IEEE bans Huawei staff from journal article peer-reviews since papers may contain non-public Huawei ban-related info, keeps Huawei's other membership privileges — A major scientific society has banned employees of Huawei, the Chinese communications giant, from reviewing submissions …
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A self-described Reddit “karma whore” shares how he learned to make Reddit posts go viral and reflects on his years-long unfulfilling journey to 8M+ karma — My years-long journey to the top of Reddit's karma leaderboards has only made me feel more alone.
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| Alex Kantrowitz / Tech Giant Update: |
Camera app VSCO, which has an ad-free social feed and makes its money on subscriptions, says 2M+ people paid $20 in 2018 for its premium service — The camera app VSCO is unlike its social counterparts. Though it has a feed similar to Facebook's News Feed and Twitter's Timeline …
| Christine Fisher / Engadget: |
Report: Apple to limit third-party tracking in apps for kids starting next week — As tech companies grapple with safety and privacy concerns, Apple will reportedly limit third-party tracking in kids apps starting next week. While the company hasn't announced the change, a source told The Wall Street Journal that it's in the works.
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| Amy Maxmen / Nature: |
As anonymized phone records of millions of people in low-income countries are used in big data projects for saving lives, critics worry about potential misuse — Researchers have analysed anonymized phone records of tens of millions of people in low-income countries.
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| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
MediaTek claims its 7nm chipset is the world's first SoC with an integrated 5G modem, will ship in devices in 2020 using Arm's Cortex-A77 CPU and Mali-G77 GPU — Today MedaTek is making quite an unusual announcement: The company is the first to announce a SoC with an integrated 5G modem.
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Profile of Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram who, sources say, argued for removing fake news and demoting Breitbart in News Feed in 2017 and early 2018 — KEY POINTS — In succeeding Instagram CEO and co-founder Kevin Systrom, Adam Mosseri has to balance his staff's desire for autonomy with the greater needs of Facebook.
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