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Qualcomm sues iPhone manufacturers Compal, Foxconn, Pegatron, and Wistron for failing to pay royalties, broadening its legal battle with Apple — Qualcomm sued the companies that make iPhones for Apple for failing to pay royalties on the chip maker's technology, broadening its legal battle with the world's most valuable company.
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Apple has begun initial production of a small number of iPhone SE handsets in Bangalore, and will begin shipping it to Indian customers this month — An Apple manufacturer has completed a trial run of the first-ever iPhones assembled in India, in an important step in the U.S. tech giant's push into the fast-growing South Asian market.
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Sources: Apple will update its laptop lineup at WWDC, planning MacBook Pro with Kaby Lake and faster chips for MacBook and MacBook Air — Refreshed MacBooks could win back disappointed loyalists — Announcement expected at developers conference in June — Apple Inc. plans to announce …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers say EternalBlue, the NSA exploit used in WannaCry, was used in an earlier and possibly larger-scale hack, to install Adylkuzz cryptocurrency miner — Campaign that flew under the radar used hacked computers to mine Monero currency. — On Friday, ransomware called WannaCry …
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| Gordon Mah Ung / PCWorld: |
AMD unveils Threadripper, a 16-core, 32-thread CPU for desktops, coming summer 2017 — It's called Threadripper, and it will be the first consumer-focused chip with 16 cores and 32 threads of computing power. Yes, you read that right: 16 cores and 32 threads of computing power …
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DJI launches smart TV app with aerial content and 4k video for Samsung's Tizen TVs and Apple TV — Just a few months after GoPro threatens to close its entertainment doors, DJI is ready to step in. The drone-cum-camera company has just announced that it's launching a Smart TV app that'll stream plenty …
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Apple launches Today at Apple website as it expands its in-store course line-up with classes in art, design, music, photography, more — Last month, Apple announced its plans to offer an expanded set of educational sessions at its stores, which will now feature more in-depth training …
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| Tim Peterson / Marketing Land: |
Facebook admits another ad measurement mistake, its tenth since September of 2016, refunds advertisers, saying the error affected just 0.04% of impressions — The mistake — mischarged clicks on video carousel ads by smartphone web users — is the first that directly affected advertisers' wallets.
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| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Bragi announces two new earbuds, the $329 Dash Pro, and a custom-fit version for $499, updates its OS to include real-time language translation — While also adding real-time language translation and a professional custom fit option — Bragi has announced a new version of the Dash …
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Wikileaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning is released from Fort Leavenworth military prison in Kansas, having served 7 years of a 35-year sentence — US soldier Chelsea Manning has been released from prison after serving seven years for leaking hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables and military files to Wikileaks.
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| Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: |
Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike raises $100M round led by existing investor Accel, at a pre-money valuation close to $1B, bringing total raised to $256M — SAN FRANCISCO — Cybersecurity has been in the news seemingly nonstop, including the hacking of the Democratic National Committee …
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Facebook fined €150K by French watchdog for failing to protect user data from advertisers as part of wider European probe but wasn't ordered to change practices — Facebook suffered a setback on Tuesday over how it uses the reams of information it collects about users worldwide … | John Koetsier / Forbes: |
Amazon announces that Alexa skills will soon be able to push notifications to Alexa enabled devices for users who have opted in — “The weather is great this morning; you should take a run,” is something that Amazon's Alexa will never say to you ... unless you've added a fitness skill and opted-in to notifications.
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