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Google launches AMP stories developer preview for publishers today with Snapchat-like swipeable text, photos, videos, considers integrating stories into search — The format doesn't support advertising yet, which could slow its adoption among publishers — Alphabet Inc.'s GOOGL .79% Google unveiled …
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| Aakash Sahney / The Keyword: |
Google brings AMP to email with the Gmail Developer Preview, to make emails more interactive with content like appointments, questionnaires, and more — For the past few years, we've worked to make mobile pages load faster through an open-source framework called Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP).| Dave Lee / BBC: |
UK government spent £600K on an AI tool that can algorithmically block extremist content, claims it's capable of detecting 94% of IS's online activity — The UK government has unveiled a tool it says can accurately detect jihadist content and block it from being viewed.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
IDC data shows Google sold 3.9M Pixel devices in 2017 — Less than a week's worth of iPhone sales — In the 16 months since its initial release in October 2016, Google's Pixel family of phones has earned plenty of acclaim and scrutiny, but not very many sales.
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| Kyle Torpey / Forbes: |
Microsoft says it will embrace decentralized identity systems based on Bitcoin and other public blockchains through the Microsoft Authenticator app — In a new post today, Microsoft announced their embrace of public blockchains, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, for use in decentralized identity systems.
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| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Injong Rhee, Samsung Electronics' CTO, says he has left the company to lead Google's IoT business under cloud boss Diane Greene — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google this month hired Injong Rhee, who recently resigned as Samsung Electronics Co's chief technology officer … | AnandTech: |
Snapdragon 845 performance preview: small improvements to CPU, decent boost to web workloads, GPU sees 30% better performance, 30% improvement in power vs. 835 — In what has become an annual tradition for Qualcomm, the company has once again opened the doors of their San Diego headquarters …
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Harvard, MIT, NYU among growing crop of US universities offering computer science ethics courses on AI, autonomous vehicles, privacy and civil rights in tech — PALO ALTO, Calif. — The medical profession has an ethic: First, do no harm. — Silicon Valley has an ethos: Build it first and ask for forgiveness later.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's status update box gets a new Lists feature for making and sharing text lists about anything, rolling out to some users now — Facebook's status update box is getting a new feature called Lists, which begins rolling out today. This is the first major update to the entry field since … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook to allow publisher paywalls in its iOS app starting 3/1; users get five articles before being asked to pay, publishers get 100% subscription revenue — Apple is allowing Facebook to bend the subscription rules. Starting March 1st, news publishers will be able to use their paywalls inside Facebook's iOS app.
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Tweets: @joshconstine, @joshconstine, and @sarahfrier
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
IDC research director says Essential shipped 88,000 smartphones in the first six months after its May 2017 launch — Andy Rubin's Essential Phone faces a harsh reality in the high-end market — Essential, Android co-founder Andy Rubin's new smartphone venture, had a rough go of it last year trying …
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Tweets: @fjeronimo and @counternotions
| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
San Francisco-based customer support software startup UJET raises $25M Series B led by GV with participation from Kleiner Perkins and others — UJET, a startup that makes software to improve customer support, said today that it's raised a $25 million Series B led by GV (formerly known as Google Ventures).
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Oracle to expand its autonomous technology across its PaaS offerings in app development, app and data integration, analytics, and system and identity management — The autonomous technology in the Oracle Autonomous Database will now be rolled out to application development, app and data integration …
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CIO.com, The New Stack, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Digital Journal, The Register, PR Newswire, ZDNet, and Forbes
| Egill Bjarnason / Associated Press: |
Iceland is expected to use more energy “mining” bitcoin and other digital currencies this year than it uses to power its homes, says a local energy expert — KEFLAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Iceland is expected to use more energy “mining” bitcoins and other virtual currencies this year than it uses to power its homes.
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Fortune, BBC, Silicon Republic, CoinSpeaker, Inquirer, Ars Technica, and CoinDesk
Tweets: @ericholthaus and @gossithedog
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Snap opens its Marketing API, which lets third-parties deliver ads on behalf of others, to all developers, after a limited launch in 2016 — Snap is opening its Marketing API for all developers to use, the company announced today. — Snapchat first opened its API to a limited number …
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