Tay chatbot briefly returns to Twitter, makes duplicate and offensive posts; Microsoft says its re-activation was mistake during testing
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Foxconn to pay $3.5B for a 66% controlling stake in Sharp
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Livestream of Microsoft's Build 2016 keynote from San Francisco
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Live blog of Microsoft's Build 2016 keynote
Live from Microsoft's Build 2016 event — 1:28:32 PM PDT But while you wait you can read our thoughts on what to expect from Microsoft Build 2016. 1:27:31 PM PDT Hey! You're a bit early, the event ...
Sources: Spotify raises $1B in convertible debt, led by TPG and Dragoneer
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Apple's 29W USB-C power adapter charges an iPad Pro to 80% in just 1.5 hours, compared to 3.5 hours with the included 12W adaptor
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KLM passengers will soon be able to check in, get flight updates, make travel changes, and more in Facebook Messenger
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Filing shows Google CEO Sundar Pichai received $99.8M in restricted stock and $652,500 salary during first year
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Task management app Asana raises $50M Series C at a $600M valuation led by YC's Sam Altman, other investors include Mark Zuckerberg, Tony Hsieh, Founders Fund
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Square's new platform lets sellers build customized apps on top of its payment service
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71% of people want the dark web shut down, according to global survey of 24K respondents
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Fullscreen to launch streaming service April 26, featuring 800 hours of content, including programming from YouTube stars and older TV series for $5 per month
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Google announces Fiber Phone, a $10/month Google Voice-like home telephone service with unlimited local and nationwide calling, coming to Fiber cities
here's how it works (GOOG) Brian Fung / Washington Post : Google Fiber is officially adding phone service for $10 a month Jason Cipriani / Fortune : Google Fiber Completes Triple Play By Adding Phone ...
Acer launches 14-inch Chromebook with an all-aluminum chassis and 12 hours of battery life for $299.99
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Twitter now lets users add descriptive text to images in its mobile apps to improve accessibility
even if you're not blind Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Twitter makes its service more accessible to the visually impaired Selena Larson / The Daily Dot : Twitter finally adds photo captioning for the vis...
Depository Trust & Clearing Corp to begin testing Digital Asset Holdings' blockchain technology in the $2.6 trillion “repo” short-term lending market
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Instagram increases video length limit for users from 15 seconds up to 60 seconds
Snapchat is maturing by playing catch up. Jessica Vomiero / MobileSyrup.com : You can now post 60-second videos to Instagram Brian Deagon / Investor's Business Daily : Facebook Stretches Video Power O...
Microsoft is bringing modding and programmable “command blocks” to Minecraft for phones and tablets
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npm no longer allowing developers to automatically unpublish packages over 24 hours old
Agdubs / The npm Blog :
Waze rolling out excessive-speed alerts in 16 countries excluding US, UK, Canada, and Australia, will be available globally “soon”
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Tidal claims 3M paying global subs, with 1.35M on the hi-fidelity $20/month tier, and Kanye West's last album surpassed 250M streams within 10 days of debut
Dan Rys / Billboard :
Sony to launch 4K movie streaming service, Ultra, on April 4; titles to sell for $30 and won't be available for rental
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Genius adds “report abuse” button and says the web annotation tool does not enable abuse, in response to controversy and letter from US Rep. Katherine Clark
Noah Kulwin / Re/code :
The story of kingpin Paul Le Roux, who started E4M, the software that originally served as the basis for TrueCrypt
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Hopper raises $16M in growth funding round for its airfare app, partners with American Airlines to sell tickets in-app
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
APK teardown reveals Google plans to end support for its physical Wallet card June 30
Cody Toombs / Android Police :
Fidelity marks down its stakes in startups: Cloudera by 38%, Dropbox by 20%, Zenefits by 25%
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