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Google Stadia details: pre-order now, coming in Nov. with $130 Founder's Edition, subscription costs $10/month not including extra games, and free tier in 2020 — Today, Google has revealed the key details that were conspicuously missing from its March announcement of the new Stadia game streaming service.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Google to buy data analytics startup Looker for $2.6B in cash, Google Cloud's first major acquisition under new CEO Thomas Kurian — KEY POINTS — The acquisition of Looker is the first major acquisition under former Oracle executive Thomas Kurian — Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: WarnerMedia abandons plan for a three-tiered streaming service, will likely package HBO, Cinemax, and the Warner Bros. library together for $16-$17/mo — New package is expected to include HBO, Cinemax and Warner Bros. content for barely more than HBO's current streaming service
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| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
How YouTube gaming commentators use anger to gain views on their videos, which researchers and some YouTubers say are amplified by YouTube's recommendations — How to make a successful video on one of the internet's most popular sites: — Step 1: Find something to be angry about.
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| Samantha Cole / VICE: |
Ring is using a video captured by one of its doorbell cameras of a woman, whom cops suspect is a petty thief, in Facebook ads that ask users to identify her — Ring, Amazon's doorbell company, posted a video of a woman suspected of a crime and asked users to call the cops with information.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Facebook to release a white paper explaining its cryptocurrency's basics on June 18, ahead of a formal launch in 2020 — Facebook is finally ready to reveal details about its cryptocurrency codenamed Libra. It's currently scheduled for a June 18th release of a white paper explaining …
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| Steven Zheng / The Block: |
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| Financial Times: |
A close look at Russia's plan for a “sovereign internet”, which aims to use deep packet inspection for censorship and a backup domain name system — Thousands of protesters had gathered outside government headquarters in Magas, the capital of the heavily Muslim republic of Ingushetia in Russia's north Caucasus.| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
FCC votes unanimously to let carriers block robocalls by default and advances proposed rule for carriers to adopt SHAKEN/STIR caller ID system — The FCC voted to give cell providers explicit permission to do stop the madness — The FCC voted unanimously today to allow carriers …
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| Katie Paul / Reuters: |
Facebook is no longer allowing pre-installation of its Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram apps on new Huawei phones — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc is no longer allowing pre-installation of its apps on Huawei phones, the latest blow for the Chinese tech giant as it struggles to keep … | New York Times: |
US election laws, which prohibit companies from providing candidates services at a discount, are hampering cybersecurity work, a weakness for 2020 campaigns — One year out from the 2020 elections, presidential candidates face legal roadblocks to acquiring the tools and assistance necessary …
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Tweets: @karolcummins, @pinboard, @nicoleperlroth, @securedemocracy, @nytimes, @nicoleperlroth, and @jessbrandt
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Barack and Michelle Obama's company, Higher Ground Productions, strikes a multiyear deal with Spotify to produce exclusive podcasts for the platform — NY Digital Editor @https://twitter.com/xpangler FOLLOW — YouTube Says It's Reviewing Harassment Policies, After It Condoned Sustained Attacks on Gay Latino Journalist
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| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Microsoft has pulled its facial recognition database, MS Celeb, which contained 10M+ images of ~100K individuals scraped under the Creative Commons license — Microsoft has quietly pulled from the internet its database of 10m faces, which has been used to train facial recognition systems around the world …
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