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Police Have Been Filing Court Orders to Obtain Google Location Data — Start Up Your Day Roundup
Plus: A new app is beating out Uber in the Middle East.
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Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Microsoft Back EU Hate Speech Rules
EU governments have been trying in recent months to get social platforms to crack down on rising online racism following the refugee crisis and terror attacks, with some even threatening action against the companies.
By Reuters
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Microsoft Bans Stupid Passwords
As long as we use alphanumeric passwords, people will always try to safeguard personal data with codes like '123456' or 'password.'
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Microsoft and Facebook Are Laying an Internet Cable Across the Atlantic — Start Up Your Day Roundup
Plus: Taco Bell is wrapping its chalupas with fried chicken.
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Microsoft and Facebook Partner to Build Transatlantic Subsea Cable
The cable is initially designed to carry 160 terabits of data per second, the companies said.
By Reuters
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Microsoft Is Reportedly Releasing an Xbox TV Next Month — Start Up Your Day Roundup
Plus: Check out someone's Snapchat all the way from Mt. Everest.
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Microsoft Retreats in Smartphone Battle, Laying Off More Than a Thousand
The U.S. company said it would shed up to 1,850 jobs, most of them in Finland, and write down $950 million from the business.
By Reuters
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Apple May Unveil a New Macbook Pro This Fall — Start Up Your Day Roundup
Plus: Facebook apologizes after initially rejecting a photo of a plus-sized model.
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With Hololens, Microsoft Aims to Avoid Google’s Mistakes
'You don't want to over hype it and get people very disappointed, and that's what happened with Google Glass,' said investor Tipatat Chennavasin.
By Reuters
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Microsoft to Crack Down on Content Promoting Extremist Acts
'The events of the past few months are a strong reminder that the Internet can be used for the worst reasons imaginable,' Microsoft said in its post.
By Reuters
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McDonald’s Japan Is Making French Fries With Gold — Start Up Your Day Roundup
Plus: Microsoft made a magic mirror that can read emotions.
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The 5 Books Bill Gates Wants You to Read This Summer
The billionaire Microsoft co-founder says these cerebral reads kept him awake at night, but 'in a good way.'
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Microsoft Sells Feature Phone Biz as Nokia Returns to Mobile
Microsoft, however, says it intends to continue developing Windows 10 Mobile and support to Lumia phones and devices.
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Apple Shows Us It’s Hard to Be Innovative When You’re on Top. But Does it Really Matter?
The iPhone maker is no longer the scrappy upstart it was in the early 2000s. Now, it's the most valuable company in the world.
By Nina Zipkin
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Why Microsoft Just Bought 10 Million Strands of DNA
It's all about the future of storage.
By David Meyer
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Microsoft and Google Withdraw All Regulatory Complaints Against Each Other
This comes after the companies agreed to dismiss all patent infringement litigations against each other, settling 18 cases in the U.S. and Germany.
By Reuters
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Microsoft Sues U.S. Government Over Data Requests
The lawsuit argues that the government is violating the U.S. Constitution by preventing Microsoft from notifying thousands of customers about government requests for their emails and other documents.
By Reuters
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Microsoft Offers First Major Endorsement of New EU-U.S. Data Privacy Pact
The company's endorsement of the Privacy Shield comes amidst criticism of it by privacy groups for failing to address concerns about U.S. surveillance practices.
By Reuters
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What Advice Entrepreneurs Really Want (and Don’t Ignore)
A walk through a recent Entrepreneur event gave an insight on the only categories business owners listen to.
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Toyota, Microsoft Launch Connected Cars Joint Venture
The $5.5 million investment is yet another sign that connected cars are the way of the future.
By Tom Brant
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Microsoft and NASA Team Up to Take You on a Tour of Mars
Visitors to Kennedy Space Center will be able to take a mixed reality tour of the planet this summer.
By Nina Zipkin
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In Microsoft’s Future, You’ll Get Most of Your Tasks Done by Talking to Your Phone
For Satya Nadella, using 'the power of human language' to communicate with machines will be as profound as the development of the Internet and the use of touchscreens on mobile devices.
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Bill Gates Goes Viral After Tweeting Dance Move
The Microsoft founder performed 'The Dab' with students.
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With Microsoft Tech, You Can Talk to a Hologram of a Co-worker or Friend…or Your Mom
The 'Holoportation' demo brings us closer to the communication method featured in 'Star Wars.'
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Microsoft Apologizes for Chatbot’s Racist, Sexist Tweets
The company says that the program's tweets 'do not represent who we are or what we stand for, nor how we designed Tay.'
By Reuters
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Microsoft Potentially Backing Bids From Yahoo’s Would-Be Buyers
Yahoo launched an auction of its core business in February.
By Reuters
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Trolls Turned Microsoft’s Chatbot into a Sex-Crazed Racist — Start Up Your Day Roundup
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