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| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
After years of undermining the economics of culture, the internet is helping fund old and new art forms, often through subscriptions via platforms like Patreon — One secret to longevity as a pundit is to issue predictions that can't be easily checked. So here's one for the time capsule …
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Business services giant Dun & Bradstreet's 52GB database exposed, containing 33M+ government and corporate employee records — Exclusive: The database contains more than 33 million records, including government departments and large corporate clients, which gets sold onto marketers.
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| Jordan Golson / The Verge: |
Nvidia partners with Bosch to sell its AI-powered driver-assistant platform to automakers — Nvidia has announced a new partnership with Bosch to sell its Drive PX 2 driver-assist platform to automakers. In effect, the deal gives Nvidia a go-to-market strategy for its self-driving hardware and software platform.
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| Lisa Baertlein / Reuters: |
McDonald's begins testing mobile ordering app in US ahead of global rollout later this year, tracking customers' location to match with food prep time — McDonald's Corp this month will begin testing its long-awaited U.S. mobile ordering app with the goal of avoiding the kinds of service hiccups …
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| Shelby Carpenter / Forbes: |
Bike-sharing startup LimeBike raises $12M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, plans to launch in the Bay Area early April — When Andreessen-Horowitz partner Jeff Jordan goes from his Portola Valley home to San Francisco, he avoids driving as much as possible.
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| Akin Oyedele / Business Insider: |
GoPro says it will cut 270 jobs, about 17% of its staff, to achieve profitability, revises Q1 guidance to upper end of $190M-$210M; stock up over 8% after-hours — GoPro announced Wednesday that it was cutting 270 jobs to reduce its operating expenses and achieve profitability.| Robert Hof / SiliconANGLE: |
Oracle reports $9.2B in Q3 revenue, with SaaS and PaaS revenues up 73% to $1B and total cloud revenues up 62% to $1.2B — Rapid growth in cloud computing revenues helped lift Oracle Corp.'s fortunes in its third fiscal quarter reported today, as its profits easily beat forecasts on a 2 percent rise in revenues.
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| Pete Pachal / Mashable: |
Google debuts Family Link in limited beta for Android, letting parents supervise web access, Gmail account creation, app downloading, more for kids under 13 — Google has its eye on your kids. — The tech giant is opening up its many online services to kids under 13 with a new tool called Family Link …
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
FBI says Yahoo hack likely began with a spear phishing email to a “semi-privileged” Yahoo employee — Unwitting sysadmin or other employee was conned out of credentials, FBI theorizes. — SAN FRANCISCO—The indictment unsealed Wednesday by US authorities against two agents … | Steve Kovach / Business Insider: |
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Teen quiz app Wishbone compromised, exposing names of users, 2.2M email addresses, and 287K phone numbers after hackers took contents of unprotected database — A popular social networking app that allows users to create and vote on simple two-choice quizzes lost millions of users records …
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| Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
AMD announces it will launch four Ryzen 5 processors on April 11, from 4 core, 8-thread for $169 to 6-core, 12-thread for $249 — As part of our initial Ryzen 7 review, AMD also teased the presence of two more elements to the Ryzen lineup, specifically Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 3 …
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ZDNet, CNET, AMD, Tech Times, SlashGear, VentureBeat, SegmentNext, Ars Technica, and Forbes. Tweets: @iancutress. Thanks:@iancutress
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 preorders start tomorrow at Best Buy, Amazon, and Samsung's site, will be available in stores on March 24 for $599.99 — The Galaxy Tab S3, Samsung's latest flagship Android tablet, will be available next week. Pre-orders start tomorrow at Best Buy, Amazon …
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