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Sonos debuts Beam, a $399 compact soundbar coming later this year with five-microphone array and Alexa integration; Google Assistant, Airplay 2 support planned — A $399 Alexa-enabled soundbar for the streaming era — Walk into any of Sonos' downtown Santa Barbara, California, offices …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google releases Android P Developer Preview 3 with final APIs and 157 new emoji including red hair, a llama, and two new gender-neutral designs — Google today launched the second Android P beta with final APIs and 157 new emoji. If you're a developer, this is your third Android P preview … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Cisco: Russian-tied VPNFilter malware targets far more routers and is more powerful than first reported, can attack connected PCs, downgrade HTTPS connections — Malware tied to Russia can attack connected computers and downgrade HTTPS. — Two weeks ago, officials in the private …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Facebook partners with seven news orgs, including ABC News, CNN, and Fox News, to roll out a series of news shows on Facebook Watch this summer — After going through the fake-news wringer, Facebook is shelling out money on original news content. The strategy is partly aimed at driving …
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Comcast's Xfinity landline phone service experienced widespread outages across the US on Wednesday; Comcast says service is restored for most customers — Affecting businesses and even 911 calls — Comcast's Xfinity phone service is apparently suffering a massive outage today …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces Windows Collaboration Displays platform for Surface Hub-like displays and Windows 10 IoT Core Services with promised updates for next decade — At Computex 2018 in Taipei, Microsoft announced new Internet of Things (IoT) services and enterprise hardware during a keynote address.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook begins monetizing Craigslist-competitor Marketplace, 20 months after its launch, rolling out ability for users to promote their listings in News Feed — 20 months after launching its Craigslist competitor Marketplace and relentlessly promoting it with placement in the main navigation bar …
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| Robert Ferris / CNBC: |
General Motors says its hands-free Super Cruise driver assistance system is coming to all Cadillacs by 2020 — - Cadillac will introduce its advanced driver-assistance system on all its vehicles beginning in 2020. — Currently on the marquee sedan, the CT6, the system allows drivers …
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| Steven Loeb / VatorNews: |
Cloud file storage startup Qumulo raises $93M Series D led by BlackRock Private Equity Partners — The company has now raised over $230 million as it plans to expand further into Europe — Financial trends and news by Steven Loeb — There's a ton of data being created in everything we do now.
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Microsoft had to acquire GitHub to attract developers because it lacks a mobile platform with enough users, and its cloud strategy hinges on corporate customers — Yesterday saw three developer-related announcements, two from Apple, and one from Microsoft.| Bloomberg: |
Circle says it's in preliminary talks to obtain a federal banking license and is pursuing registration as a brokerage and trading venue with the SEC — - Crypto venue says it met with OCC to explore banking functions — Venture is still at least months away from seeking a charter
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| Natalia Drozdiak / Bloomberg: |
Uber says it will roll out its on-demand electric bicycle service to Europe, starting in Berlin before the end of the summer — - Berlin to be first city in which bikes can be borrowed — Uber Technologies Inc. announced it would roll out its on-demand electric-bicycle service to Europe …
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| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
SEC chief says agency won't bend securities laws to cater to cryptocurrencies or ICOs and reaffirms that tokens used in ICO fundraising are securities — - The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman made it clear Wednesday that the agency won't be bending the rules …
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Motorola unveils modular 6.01-inch Moto Z3 Play with Snapdragon 636, 4GB RAM, dual cameras, and a 3,000mAh battery, arriving this summer for $499 — Photography by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge — Motorola unveiled its Moto Z3 Play today, giving its battery-friendly smartphone line …
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AMD announces Threadripper 2, a CPU for desktops with up to 32-cores based on 12nm process, coming later this year — One of the surprises from AMD's first year of the newest x86 Zen architecture was the launch of the Threadripper platform. Despite the mainstream Ryzen processors already taking …
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