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April 25, 2018, 11:15 AM

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Vlad Savov / The Verge:
Google begins rolling out a visual and security revamp of Gmail with confidential mode, snoozing, nudging for time-sensitive emails, 2FA per message, IRM, more  —  Snoozing, nudging, hover actions, and a new sidebar — it's a mobile app on the web!  —  The world's most popular email service is getting a big overhaul today.
Mat Honan / BuzzFeed:
Amazon launches a $79 Echo Dot Kids Edition with kid-friendly Alexa and one year of FreeTime Unlimited, a bundle of curated content with a Parent Dashboard  —  Rose Wong for BuzzFeed News; Allyson Laquian / BuzzFeed News  —  There's a new version of Alexa, Amazon's digital assistant, that's designed just for kids.
Selina Wang / Bloomberg:
Twitter beats Q1 estimates with revenue of $665M, up 21% YoY, vs. $605.9M est., and says DAUs up 10% YoY; MAUs up 3% YoY to 336M vs. 334.2M est.; stock up 4%+  —  Revenue increases 21 percent, the biggest jump in two years  —  Monthly active users rise by 3 percent to 336 million
Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
Sources: Microsoft is working on a new edition of Windows 10, codenamed Lean, that is 2GB smaller than the normal edition, aimed at devices with 16GB storage  —  Windows 10 Lean is Windows 10 on a diet.  Featuring a much smaller footprint, Windows 10 Lean is designed for devices with 16GB …
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Researchers discover flaw in Vingcard's Vision locks, used in 140K hotels in 160 counties, that lets them create master key using $300 reader and old key card  —  IN 2003, FINNISH security researcher Tomi Tuominen was attending a security conference in Berlin when a friend's laptop …
Kellen / Droid Life:
Source: Google Play Music will be replaced by YouTube's upcoming music streaming service, with Play Music users forced to use the new service by the end of 2018  —  When Google finally launches its rumored YouTube Remix platform this year, one of its other services will be put to rest.
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Opera launches Touch, a mobile browser designed for one-handed use, and Flow to keep the mobile browser in sync with an updated desktop browser  —  Opera is releasing a new Android web browser today with a couple of clever interface choices meant to make it easier to use than other mobile browsers.
Ryan Whitwam / Android Police:
Google is changing its pistol emoji into a squirt gun in Android P, following Apple, Twitter, and Samsung  —  A few years ago, Apple was the first big emoji designer to stop rendering the “pistol” emoji as a real gun.  It went from a revolver to a green squirt gun, and other companies have just started coming around.
Russell Brandom / The Verge:
Attackers successfully rerouted DNS requests for myetherwallet.com, showing visitors an unsigned SSL cert and apparently taking $13K+ in Ethereum in two hours  —  At midnight ET last night, MyEtherWallet users started noticing something odd.  Connecting to the service …
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Apple releases iOS 11.3.1 with fix for bug that caused iPhones with third-party display replacements to be unresponsive  —  Apple has released a new software update for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. iOS 11.3.1 is likely a bug fix update to the iOS 11.3 software update released last month.
Aliya Ram / Financial Times:
Sources: SoftBank to move $20B+ of investments in ride-hailing services like Uber, Ola, Grab, and Didi Chuxing into the Vision Fund within months  —  Japan's SoftBank is planning to swap more than $20bn of investments in some of the world's largest ride hailing groups including Uber, Ola …
Bloomberg:
China's Sinovation Ventures, co-founded by Google, Microsoft veteran Lee Kai-Fu, raises $500M to invest in Chinese AI startups as prices become more “rational”  —  Ex-Google China chief raised $500 million for AI investments  —  His comments underscore concerns about stretched valuations
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Instagram begins rolling out a data download tool, similar to Facebook's Download Your Information feature, ahead of new GDPR privacy law rollout next month  —  Two weeks ago TechCrunch called on Instagram to build an equivalent to Facebook's “Download Your Information feature so if you wanted …

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