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Sources: Google Home, Google's voice-activated Amazon Echo competitor, will be unveiled at I/O and ship this fall — SAN FRANCISCO — Google will introduce its much-anticipated entry into the voice-activated home device market on Wednesday, according to people who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
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| Jessica Guynn / USA Today: |
Report: Google introducing software tools at I/O to help developers build chat bots that run in messaging apps, in strategy similar to Microsoft's — SAN FRANCISCO — Google is creating tools for software developers to build chat bots that run inside messaging apps such as Facebook Messenger … | Lance Whitney / CNET: |
T-Mobile adds NBC, Spotify, Google Play Music, Tidal, other streaming services to Binge On — Customers of T-Mobile can now stream more than 80 video services without chewing up their cellular data. — by , Lance Whitney — T-Mobile is bent on retaining subscribers and winning …
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| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon's Lab126 hardware unit is working on an Alexa-powered device featuring a tablet-like computer screen, known internally as “Knight” — The retailer is pushing to incorporate its robotic voice assistant in daily tasks like opening garage doors| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
BitTorrent debuts Live multichannel video streaming app for Apple TV, comes to mobile and OS X in June — BitTorrent today launched BitTorrent Live, a multichannel video streaming app for Apple TV. Think of it as the company's take on live TV, with initial coverage spanning five areas: news, sports, music, tech, and youth culture.| Jose Pagliery / CNNMoney: |
Tor developer Isis Agora Lovecruft moves to Germany amid uncertainty about potential FBI subpoena — In its mission to hunt criminals, the FBI has been keen to hack Tor, the Internet browser that hides your true location. — The FBI's attempts to break into Tor are starting to manifest in strange ways.| Mark Harris / Backchannel: |
Otto, founded by ex-Google engineers, exits stealth to sell self-driving kits for retrofitting semi-trailers — A group of ex-Google engineers have just launched Otto, an autonomous trucking startup — Otto's first vehicle is twice as long and six times as heavy as Google's cute prototype car …
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| Shaun Walker / Guardian: |
Russian FindFace app compares photos to profile pictures on social network Vkontakte and works out identities with 70% reliability — FindFace compares photos to profile pictures on social network Vkontakte and works out identities with 70% reliability — If the founders of a new face recognition app …
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| Joe Durbin / UploadVR: |
Disney releases free VR app on Steam, puts its VR movie offerings in a single location; app works with Oculus Rift and HTC Vive — Disney seems to be on a mission to take over the world. — The gargantuan media juggernaut currently owns such high profile properties as ABC, ESPN, Marvel, and Lucasfilm.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sources: iTunes 12.4, released on Monday, addresses widely reported music deletion issue — Apple rolled out a new version of iTunes this week which introduced an updated design, including modified navigation and the return of the left sidebar. However, under the hood …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Sketchfab now supports all VR headsets for its 3D model sharing platform — You saw it coming, right? 3D model repository Sketchfab just added support for all major virtual reality headsets out there. You can now view your pretty 3D models in your VR headset.
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| Adam Satariano / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft's UK CEO says Britain should remain in the EU, cites membership as a reason for economic investment in the country — U.K. CEO says EU membership important for future investment — Company employs 5,000 people in the U.K. since opening in 1982
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft and SAP expand partnership: Office 365 integrations, HANA on Azure — Microsoft is announcing today that it has deepened its partnership with fellow enterprise software vendor SAP. The HANA in-memory database from SAP will become available on top of Microsoft's Azure public cloud on top of machines packed densely with RAM.| New York Times: |
China is quietly requiring foreign tech companies to submit their products to security reviews — HONG KONG — Chinese authorities are quietly scrutinizing technology products sold in China by Apple and other big foreign companies, focusing on whether they pose potential security threats … | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Fire TV gets new Alexa voice features, including app launching and restaurant searches — Amazon is giving TV viewers a few more, not-crazy reasons to talk back to their TVs. After bringing the functionality to various properties, opening it to third-party hardware and letting developers get a crack at it …
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Business Wire, TechnoBuffalo, GeekWire, BetaNews, Android Authority, Digital Trends, Liliputing, The Verge and VentureBeat. Tweets: @brianroemmele
| Liana B. Baker / Reuters: |
Pandora faces pressure to sell itself from Corvex Management, a hedge fund run by Keith Meister, which has disclosed it owns 9.9% stake in the company — Corvex Management LP disclosed on Monday that it owns 9.9 percent of Pandora Media Inc and urged the internet music streaming company … | Lucas Mearian / Computerworld: |
HP is now taking orders for its first 3D printer, the Jet Fusion 3D, which starts at $130K and HP says is 10X faster than rivals; orders will ship in late 2016 — ORLANDO — Hewlett-Packard today began taking orders for its first 3D printer, the HP Jet Fusion printer, which it said will be …
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| Mark Bergen / Recode: |
Google brings shopping ads to image searches to fend off Amazon — The search giant is adding new offline perks for retailers, too. — As people use mobile phones more to shop, Google is doing more and more to make sure it's not cut out of the process. Its latest move …
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Knight Foundation, Columbia University launch First Amendment Institute, a $60M project to help in legal fights over online privacy and free speech — Project will support litigation, research and education on threats to freedom of speech and the press, and help shape First Amendment law in digital media
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Nest adds new integrations with August, LIFX, Belkin WeMo, Misfit, SkyBell, others — Nest products just got a whole lot more powerful thanks to a suite of integrations with third-party products, software, and services. Starting today, Nest devices can link up to products from August, LIFX, Misfit, WeMo, and others.
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