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Sources: Trump personally pushed US Postmaster General Megan Brennan to double the rate the Postal Service charges Amazon and other companies, but was rebuffed — President Trump has personally pushed U.S. Postmaster General Megan Brennan to double the rate the Postal Service charges Amazon.com …
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| Rhett Jones / Gizmodo: |
Report: Snap CEO was inspired by Chinese apps for Snapchat redesign, wanted to make the app friendlier to older users, launched redesign despite staff concerns — Snap's stock price is now hovering around its lowest point ever since the company went public last year.
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| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Alleged owners of Mugshots.com, a site that publishes mugshots and demands payment for removal, arrested on extortion, money laundering, identity theft charges — Mugshots.com is a “business permeated with fraud,” California AG says. — Two alleged owners of Mugshots.com …
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| Kate Conger / Gizmodo: |
Google removed “Don't be evil” from the top of its code of conduct in late April or early May, Wayback Machine archives show, but kept one mention at the bottom — Google's unofficial motto has long been the simple phrase “don't be evil.” But that's over, according to the code …
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9to5Google, Business Insider, and The Daily Beast
| Music Business Worldwide: |
After reports that it is inflating streaming numbers for big stars and is late paying royalties, Tidal hires cybersecurity firm to investigate potential breach — Under-fire streaming platform TIDAL has announced that it has enlisted an “independent, third party cyber-security firm” …
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MacRumors, Variety, Cult of Mac, Gizmodo, Forbes, KnowTechie, AppleInsider, PYMNTS.com, Engadget, Fortune, CNET, RAIN News, The Verge, and CelebrityAccess. Tweets: @mgsiegler
| Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: |
Interviews with pioneers of AI and PM Justin Trudeau about the history of neural networks and how the Canadian government brought the AI researchers together — Over the past five years, artificial intelligence has gone from perennial vaporware to one of the technology industry's brightest hopes.
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Associated Press, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, and Patently Apple
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| Lori Grunin / CNET: |
Report: Google is working on a standalone AR headset with camera sensors, microphones, and a customized Qualcomm QSC603 chip based on ARM Cortex-A75 — A project codenamed Google A65 is thought to be a standalone AR headset, and now we may have more details about it.| Wendy Lee / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Facebook has leased all the 43 floors of the Park Tower at Transbay in San Francisco, a week after some Instagram employees moved into nearby office space — Facebook on Friday signed a lease at 43-story Park Tower, making the social networking giant one of the city's largest tech tenants.
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TechCrunch and Bloomberg
| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Oculus Mobile Store adds support for free and paid downloadable content in beta for Oculus Go and Samsung Gear VR with Rift support coming soon — Post-release downloadable content has become so commonplace in games that today's digital stores need to support it.
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Oculus Developer Blog, Gamasutra, and Road to VR
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Epic Games says it will release Fortnite on Android this summer — Epic Games' battle royale hit is getting a bunch of new mobile features and an Android release later this year — Epic Games' massively popular battle royale game Fortnite is coming to Android phones this summer …
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Epic Games' Fortnite, 9to5Google, BetaNews, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, Ubergizmo, Firstpost, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Twinfinite, Engadget, Gotta Be Mobile, Android Authority, Android Police, TechCrunch, Droid Life, Polygon, XDA Developers, 9to5Mac, SlashGear, Kotaku, Android and Me, and Fortune
| Graham Fahy / Reuters: |
Apple transferred €1.5B into an escrow account set up by Irish government, the first tranche of the €13B in back taxes Apple may be liable for after EU ruling — DUBLIN (Reuters) - Apple has paid 1.5 billion euros ($1.18 billion) into an escrow account set up by the Irish government …
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TechCrunch, Engadget, 9to5Mac, and iPhone in Canada Blog
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Leaked screenshots show Facebook's influencer search engine for connecting marketers and creators to make branded content; Facebook confirms it is testing it — Facebook's next money-maker could be this tool for connecting marketers to social media creators so they can team up on sponsored-content Facebook ad campaigns.
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Social Media Today, Tubefilter, The Next Web, and iPhone in Canada Blog
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