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Mobile Minutes: Corporate paranoia; Microsoft AI; EU online media subscriptions; Airbnb critiques Trump

Of all the lasting effects of Edward Snowden’s leaks, there’s one photo that leaves a particularly strong mark. In it, U.S. federal employees in T-shirts and blue jeans are seen intercepting network equipment from Cisco Systems Inc. at a shipping facility. The feds in the photo, their faces obscured, were reprogramming the machines to spy on people’s activities.
Read more at Bloomberg

Microsoft AI’s next leap forward: Helping you play video games
The software giant wants app makers to use its artificial intelligence. The hope is the more they build it into apps we all use, the smarter it’ll become.
Read more at CNET