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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple announces media event at a Chicago high school at 10am CT on March 27, focused on “creative new ideas for teachers and students” — Apple today invited the media to an event on Tuesday, March 27 at Lane Tech College Prep High School in Chicago.
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Tweets: @reckless, @patrickmoorhead, @bzamayo, and @caseynewton
| Abner Li / 9to5Mac: |
Google Lens starts rolling out to Google Photos for iOS — Last month, Google announced that Lens — its set of visual search and analysis tools — is coming to iOS. First introduced at last year's Google I/O developer conference, it will be rolling out over the coming weeks to all users using Google Photos.| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Lyft confirms it has been testing subscriptions for rides for the past few months, starting at $199 for 30 rides a month — 30 rides for $199 a month. Or is it $300? — Lyft is testing monthly subscription plans for high-frequency users, a sign that the company is shifting toward a Netflix or Spotify model for transportation.
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Tweets: @marshallk, @trengriffin, and @sharatibken
| Molly McHugh / The Ringer: |
Digg announces that it will shut down Digg Reader, its barebones RSS reader, on March 26 — A requiem for a haven from algorithms and trending topics — On Wednesday, Digg announced that it will be shutting down Digg Reader on March 26. The RSS reader, for me and likely many others …
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Liliputing, TechCrunch, Android Community, Buggy App, Mashable, The Next Web, BetaNews, and Digg
Tweets: @mathewi, @myoung, and @film_girl
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Paul Jacobs, former Qualcomm executive chairman and son of the founder, informed the company board that he is considering bid to take Qualcomm private — James Fontanella-Khan in New Orleans, Tom Braithwaite in San Francisco and Arash Massoudi in Helsinki March 15, 2018
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Tweets: @benbajarin, @magicsilicon, @shiraovide, and @m_c_klein
| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Facebook apologizes and says it is investigating why its search box autocomplete suggested sexual videos, child abuse content, and other strange results — Searches starting ‘video of’ returned autocomplete suggestions of sexual videos and child abuse content
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Tweets: @ashleymayer, @kevinroose, @frank_schaeffer, @mgsiegler, and @kevinroose
| Daniel Oberhaus / Motherboard: |
Plattsburgh, NY imposes an 18-month moratorium on bitcoin mining for new commercial operations, after residents complained of increased electricity bills — Plattsburgh, New York has imposed an 18-month moratorium on Bitcoin mining to prevent miners from using all the city's cheap electricity.
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Computerworld, The Verge, Engadget, Digital Trends, Bloomberg, GeekWire, ExtremeTech, Business Insider, Resource, Cointelegraph.com News, CNBC, Gizmodo, TechSpot, Mashable, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @jason_koebler and @katelunau
| Sam Levin / The Guardian: |
In class action lawsuit filed against Uber, Uber argues that the 9 women who allege sexual assault by drivers have no right to sue and must privately arbitrate — Court records reveal company says women must settle through arbitration, a move critics say stops the public from learning of rapes| Ellen K. Pao / Project Include: |
Ellen Pao says she is leaving Kapor Capital and Kapor Center to work full-time on Project Include, a non-profit focused on promoting diversity in tech — Now watch what we'll be able to do. — It's time to step up. We now all acknowledge and understand the need for lasting change.
Tweets: @projectinclude, @hutchamachutch, @laura, @sw, and @ericajoy
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it is testing a change to Windows 10 that will open links clicked within Windows Mail in Edge, even if Edge is not the default browser — A desperate move to grab browser share — Microsoft is testing a new change to its future version of Windows 10 which will probably annoy anyone using the operating system.
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Windows Central, Thurrott.com, On MSFT, MSPoweruser, and Neowin
Tweets: @tomwarren, @thurrott, @martinsfp, @dsilverman, @backlon, @thurrott, and @ow
| Alex Wilhelm / Crunchbase News: |
Cloud security startup Zscaler closes at $33 per share on its first day of trading, up 106%, after raising $192M in its IPO; Zscaler is now valued at ~$3.9B — There's demand for new tech shares if your name is Zscaler, a company that sported a billion-dollar-plus valuation before it went public today.
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TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Silicon Valley Business …, MarketWatch, MarketWatch, TechCrunch, CNBC, and NASDAQ.com
Tweets: @danprimack, @ingridlunden, and @ingridlunden
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Crypto wallet startup Abra increases cryptocurrencies it supports from two to 20, to include Bitcoin Cash, Dash, Golem, Ethereum Classic, Dogecoin, more — Crypto wallet startup Abra is expanding the number of cryptocurrencies it supports to 20 from just two - bitcoin and ethereum - currently.
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TechCrunch, Abra, Bitcoin Network, News …, and CryptoNinjas
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