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Microsoft begins next phase of Project Natick by submerging a data center off Scotland's coast, where it is designed to work without maintenance for five years — Microsoft kicked off the second phase of its experimental underwater data center project Wednesday, submerging …
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Valve to allow all games on Steam unless they are “illegal” or “trolling”, is building tools to give users more control over what content they see on the store — After a few weeks of controversy — which included a pulled game about school shootings and confusion …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google releases Android P Beta 2, 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 … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
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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| Paul Vigna / Wall Street Journal: |
Coinbase says it is acquiring securities dealer Keystone Capital in an effort to expand into the coin offerings market, pending regulatory approval — Cryptocurrency business plans to use Keystone assets to move into fast-growing market for coin offerings — Coinbase, one of the leading …
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| 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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Tweets: @security_craig, @securitybeard, @karlbode, @nsweaves, and @ciscosecurity
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple rebrands iTunes Connect to App Store Connect and releases a new iOS app to help the process of uploading, submitting, and managing applications — Apple today has officially announced the rebrand of iTunes Connect. As we speculated earlier this week, Apple confirmed on its developer blog …
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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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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Instagram to launch Snapchat Discover-style video hub with scripted shows, music videos, and more; announcement tentatively slated for June 20 — Instagram is preparing to unveil a home for longer-form video — a YouTube competitor and its take on Snapchat Discover.
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Engadget, 9to5Google, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, Search Engine Journal, Fortune, Refinery29, Axios, Adweek, and Digital Photography Review
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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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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
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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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple will add a Movement Disorder API to ResearchKit to give Apple Watches running watchOS 5 the ability to passively monitor for Parkinson's disease symptoms — Apple is adding a new “Movement Disorder API” to its open-source ResearchKit framework that will allow Apple Watch to continuously monitor Parkinson's disease symptoms.
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
SAP makes its SAP Cloud Platform Blockchain service generally available; the service is built on top of SAP HANA, supports Hyperledger Fabric and MultiChain — SAP is steadfast that blockchain will be a big deal in the enterprise, business processes and IT.
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SAP News Center, eWeek, TechCrunch, and SiliconANGLE
| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Order-ahead meal app Ritual, which lets others add to a food order for a more social ordering experience, raises $70M Series C led by Georgian Partners — While DoorDash, Postmates and other apps are looking to reimagine what the food delivery experience looks like, Ray Reddy says he wants …
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