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May 28, 2018, 7:15 PM

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Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google brings ARCore to China, where Play Store isn't available, through a partnership with the Xiaomi App Store on the Mi Mix 2S smartphone  —  After launching this February, Google's platform for mobile augmented reality hit version 1.2 and received a number of new features at I/O 2018.
More: Engadget
Richard Gao / Android Police:
Pandora matches Spotify and Apple Music with new $14.99/month Premium Family Plan for up to six members  —  Pandora isn't nearly as popular as it once was, but it still has a fairly sizable userbase.  The company has just quietly introduced a new family plan, aptly dubbed 'Premium Family …
Samuel Axon / Ars Technica:
Dell XPS 15 2-in-1 review: Intel's Kaby Lake-G, with integrated AMD graphics, makes for a slim, light, and powerful laptop, but fan noise is frequent and loud  —  A chipset that combines Intel's CPU with AMD's GPU makes the XPS 15 thinner.  —  This new Dell XPS 15 2-in-1 is the first convertible …
More: PCMag
Sijia Jiang / Reuters:
Tencent pulls ~$4.7M investment in WeChat-based media company Chaping after criticism in state media over the startup's handling of copyright issues  —  HONG KONG (Reuters) - Tencent Holdings, which owns China's top social media app WeChat, has scrapped an investment of up to 30 million yuan …
Daniel Miessler:
An analysis of possible attack scenarios on smart speakers shows that fears of Amazon Echo devices being hacked to record owners' conversations are overblown  —  Why smart speaker attack scenarios are not worth worrying about  —  I have a 1,001 friends in InfoSec who I hear things like this from on a regular basis:

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