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Sources: in the US, Apple Music subs are growing ~5% a month, may overtake Spotify this summer, which is growing at ~2% a month; Apple says Music has 36M subs — Apple's U.S. subscriber-account base has been growing about 5% a month, versus No. 1 Spotify's 2% clip| Brad Sams / Thurrott.com: |
Microsoft to stop offering the lightweight Windows 10 S as a separate SKU, will offer “S Mode” in all Windows 10 versions instead — When Microsoft announced Windows 10 S, it was immediately clear that this SKU didn't fit well into Microsoft's lineup.| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Amazon could disrupt US healthcare by converting a standardized healthcare interface for its employees into a marketplace for individuals and other employers — It's pretty rare for the same company to feature in two consecutive Weekly Articles; yesterday's announcement …
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| Anna Hensel / VentureBeat: |
Report: warehouse and storage jobs increase 30% two years after a county hosts an Amazon fulfillment center, but overall jobs see no increase; Amazon disagrees — How great an effect a tech company has when it moves into a new town comes down to one thing: jobs.| Alana Semuels / The Atlantic: |
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| Danny Palmer / ZDNet: |
Researchers detail Smominru, a Monero cryptocurrency mining botnet using NSA's EternalBlue exploit to enslave 500K+ computers, mostly targeting Windows servers — The Smominru miner has infected at least half a million machines — mostly consisting of Windows servers — and spreads using the EternalBlue exploit.
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| Nellie Bowles / New York Times: |
Dozens of people, rich from blockchain startups and cryptocurrency, try to build “Sol”, a Puerto Rican city where money is virtual and contracts are public — SAN JUAN, P.R. — They call what they are building Puertopia. But then someone told them, apparently in all seriousness …
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Mammoth Media, the company behind chat fiction app Yarn and polling app Wishbone, raises $13M Series A led by Greylock — Mammoth Media has raised a $13 million Series A funding to create what it calls “entertainment experiences for the mobile-first generation.”| Emily Chang / Bloomberg: |
How sexist undercurrents, from a widely-used Playboy image to personality tests favoring men, turned Silicon Valley into a brotopia despite early women pioneers — Lena Söderberg started out as just another Playboy centerfold. The 21-year-old Swedish model left her native Stockholm …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Zero-day vulnerability in the current version of Flash is being actively exploited in the wild; Adobe plans to patch it next week — Adobe plans to have a fix for the critical flaw next week. — An increasingly sophisticated hacking group is exploiting a zero-day vulnerability … | New York Times: |
Alibaba and Tencent, who have tested online medical advice and drug tracking systems, are now experimenting with AI to fix China's broken healthcare system — BEIJING — Amazon and two other American titans are trying to shake up health care by experimenting with their own employees' coverage.| Brad Stone / Bloomberg: |
How Amazon may prevent Alexa ads from activating Echo devices: acoustic fingerprint comparison and inaudible sound signals — Amazon.com Inc. is advertising its Alexa-powered speakers in the big game on Sunday. It's an amusing 90 seconds that features celebrities like Gordon Ramsay …
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Amazon Blog, Android Central, Neowin, Engadget, The Verge, International Business Times, SlashGear, and Deadline
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| Harish Jonnalagadda / Android Central: |
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