Why Google is more like Microsoft than ever, plus three plans to improve news and two plans to bring self-driving cars to Phoenix and the Netherlands.

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The battle against fake news continues, Waymo starts free self-driving car service in Phoenix and Europe tries to ban region blocking.

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Is Uber fighting fraud or tracking your device? Another lesson in how you pay for free services anyway, and Veronica’s “Bot Take” on Twitter spam bots.

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A flying car, Apple’s app flap with Uber, and Synthesize anyone’s voice.

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A flying car takes it’s first ride, That cross-platform standard for browser ad-blocking seems to be real, and Jenn Cutter helps us evaluate Twitch’s new ways of paying streamers.

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Google Music becomes default on Samsung, Windows 10 and Office go to twice-yearly releases, Twitch opens up money-making to more streamers.

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Google, the biggest ad company on the planet, wants to block ads in its Chrome browser, plus a squeezable phone and using sound to dry your clothes.

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Chrome might get an ad blocker, Facebook wants to read your brain, and Microsoft replaces Wunderlist.

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China’s Baidu’s move to capture the self-driving car market, Alphabet’s move to use data to discover ways to stop people getting sick, plus our picks for to-do management.

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Facebook’s announcements from F8, Microsoft offers password-free login, Baidu opens up autonomous car platform.

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