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Inside today's decision by Twitter to change the default profile picture from an egg to a human silhouette — An icon that came to represent Twitter's dark side is giving way to one designed not to turn anyone off, without looking like something you'd want to stick with.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon say they don't sell customers' personal web browsing history, in response to cancellation of new FCC privacy rules — Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon published blog posts this morning responding to the backlash they've been receiving since Congress voted to revoke …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Roundup of April Fools' Day gags by tech companies — Topsy-turvy day — April 1st — a day colloquially known as “April Fools' Day” or “the worst holiday ever” — isn't even until tomorrow, but because the month of April starts on a Saturday this year, all the #brands are already …
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Medium, MacRumors, The Official Roku Blog, Android Police, BuzzFeed, The Verge, Newsroom, Google Cloud Platform Blog, Kik, The Next Web, CNET, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, Axios, NBC Bay Area, TechConnect, TechnoBuffalo, CNBC, Digital Trends, AndroidHeadlines.com, USA Today, Marketing Land, Android Central, 9to5Google, Android Authority, BGR, Google, The Tech Portal, and Pocketnow
Tweets: @mkbhd, @majornelson, @boredelonmusk, @taylorlorenz, @fmanjoo, @digiphile, and @chrismessina
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat starts rolling out search for public Stories to users in select US cities; public Stories from all users could stay visible for up to several months — Snapchat is shifting from a social network limited to content shared by people you follow to an ephemeral, real-time database of what's going on now everywhere.| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft is shutting down CodePlex, its service for hosting repositories of open source software, on December 15 due to the dominance of GitHub — Microsoft today announced that it's shutting down CodePlex, its service for hosting repositories of open source software.
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Brian Harry's blog, Ars Technica, Neowin, BetaNews, MSPoweruser, InfoQ, The Tech Portal, gHacks Technology News, The Register, Business Insider, and The GitHub Blog
Tweets: @chrismessina, @anildash, and @peteskomoroch
| Agam Shah / PCWorld: |
Memory standards organization JEDEC says DDR5 DRAM specification will be finalized next year and be twice as fast as DDR4 — More DDR memory is on the way, despite many predictions that its time would soon be up. — Development of specifications for the new DDR5 DRAM has started …
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Uber executive and Otto founder Anthony Levandowski invokes fifth amendment, seeking to avoid potential charges in Waymo's case against Uber — SAN FRANCISCO — An Uber executive accused of stealing driverless car technology from his former employers at Google is exercising his Fifth Amendment right …
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| Tony Romm / Recode: |
Sources say Trump's Office of Science and Technology Policy is sidelined and understaffed as office's director and other key leadership postions remain unfilled — As he cuts federal research and targets immigration, Trump has neglected and marginalized the White House's own team of experts.
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New York Times, Tech Narratives, Nextgov, Washington Post, and Vanity Fair. Tweets: @karaswisher. Thanks:@tonyromm
| Allegra Frank / Polygon: |
Gaming hardware and peripheral company Mad Catz shuts down and files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy after months of financial woes — Troubled hardware maker used up its ninth life — Mad Catz, Inc. has filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy in the United States. As of March 30, the company has shut … | Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Cloudera files to raise $200M in IPO; the company lost $187M on $261M in revenue for the year ending January 31 — Big data software company Cloudera today submitted its S-1 filing to go public on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CLDR. — Joint underwriters on the deal include …
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U.S. Securities …, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, CRN, Axios, Silicon Valley Business …, Fortune, Financial Times, and CNBC
Tweets: @robertmclaws and @rolfewinkler
| J.R. Wu / Reuters: |
Foxconn sees 30% rise in quarterly profit YOY, despite its first revenue decline in its 26 years as a public company — Taiwan's Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker and a key Apple Inc supplier, on Friday reported 30 percent growth in fourth quarter net profit from a year ago, defying expectations for a decline.| TechCrunch: |
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