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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.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google debuts Tasks, a dedicated to-do app for iOS and Android that lets users add tasks from Google Calendar and Gmail — In addition to a leak late last month, the Gmail on the web revamp confirmed the existence of Google Tasks. Today, Google's new and unified to-do solution is available …
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| 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 — There's a new version of Alexa, Amazon's digital assistant, that's designed just for kids. The Amazon Echo Dot Kids Edition …
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| 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
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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| Tom Jackman / Washington Post: |
Federal appeals court upholds a 15-month prison sentence for e-waste recycler Eric Lundgren for making Windows restore disks — A California man who built a sizable business out of recycling electronic waste is headed to federal prison for 15 months after a federal appeals court in Miami rejected …
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| 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.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Tim Cook to meet Trump at the White House Wednesday, in a meeting closed to the press, amid US-China trade tensions that could affect Apple's business in Asia — Cook attended Tuesday's state dinner for France's Macron — Apple CEO has urged China and U.S. to settle trade differences
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| 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 …
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Tweets: @coindesk, @francisckrs, and @russellbrandom
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: US DOJ is investigating whether Huawei violated US sanctions related to Iran, amid broader concerns about the company from the US government — Probe raises the stakes for Huawei, which faces a series of moves by Washington to diminish its already-limited business dealings in the U.S.
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Facebook VP Kevin Martin replaces Erin Egan as the company's head of policy in the US on an interim basis; Erin Egan will remain as chief privacy officer — WASHINGTON — Facebook on Tuesday replaced its head of policy in the United States, Erin Egan, as the social network scrambles to respond … | Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Snap confirms it's testing a redesign that puts user-generated Stories back alongside content from celebrities and others in Discover page — User Stories are headed to the Discover page as part of a new test, which raises a number of questions about Snap's recent redesign.
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| 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.
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| 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 … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snap announces Snappables, AR single and multiplayer mini games that sit alongside Lenses, launching globally this week with new games released weekly — Snapchat wants to let you play its augmented reality Lenses, not just play dress-up. Today it launched Snappables — AR games that use your touch … | Ina Fried / Axios: |
Oath, which owns Yahoo and AOL, is changing its terms of service to force users to give up their class action lawsuit rights in the US — Verizon's Oath unit, which includes Yahoo, AOL and other media properties, is making a change that requires users to give up their right to be part of class action lawsuits.| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
MobileCoin, from Signal's Marlinspike, raises $30M in BTC and ether in round led by Binance Labs, to make a cryptocurrency for resource-constrained environments — A new privacy-centric cryptocurrency project with some big names on board just raised a round worth noting.
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| Bloomberg: |
Xiaomi says it will limit profit margin from its hardware business, including smartphones, to no more than 5% “forever”, ahead of widely expected IPO — Company to restrict hardware margin to 5 percent or less — Lei Jun envisions Xiaomi's profit model as IPO filing nears| 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 valuationsSponsor Posts
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