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Instagram debuts IGTV, a hub for high-profile creators, and says it will begin letting users upload videos up to an hour long, up from previous one-minute limit — Instagram is ready to compete head on with YouTube. Today at a flashy event in San Francisco, the company announced …
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| Marrian Zhou / CNET: |
Microsoft says it does not have any plans for VR or mixed reality support for Xbox consoles — Microsoft's plans to include virtual reality in Xbox game consoles are virtually over. — The software giant told GamesIndustry.biz it isn't working on VR support for its popular Xbox console …
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| Polina Marinova / Fortune: |
Sources: nonprofit financial platform Stellar in talks to buy Chain, a startup building blockchain tech for the finance industry, for $500M in Stellar's Lumens — Stellar is in talks to acquire Chain, the San Francisco-based startup building blockchain technology for the financial industry, according to people familiar with the deal.
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Car consortium that includes Apple, Samsung, BMW, and others announces Digital Key Release 1.0, a standard for NFC-enabled digital car keys for mobile devices — The Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC), an organization that includes Apple, today announced the publication of a new Digital Key …
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Microsoft to acquire Bonsai, which had raised $13.6M and helps add AI capabilities to firms' systems; Bonsai's 42 staff to join Microsoft's AI and Research unit — Microsoft is adding more firepower to its artificial intelligence arm. The tech giant has agreed to acquire Bonsai …
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| Katherine Krueger / Splinter: |
Twitter temporarily suspended some accounts that simply linked to a Splinter post that shared a phone number for White House adviser Stephen Miller — This morning, Splinter published the personal cell phone number of White House adviser Stephen Miller, an official so monstrous …
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| Robert Ferris / CNBC: |
Tesla sues former employee Martin Tripp for allegedly exporting gigabytes of confidential data, after Musk sent memo saying an ex-staffer committed sabotage — - Tesla is suing former process engineer Martin Tripp for allegedly illegally exporting data and making false claims to reporters.
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| Marguerite Reardon / CNET: |
California lawmakers advance a net neutrality bill implementing some protections but not a proposed zero-rating ban that went beyond the FCC's 2015 regulations — California will not be the poster child for the nation's strongest set of net neutrality protections, as lawmakers … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook begins letting Group admins test a feature that charges members $4.99 to $29.99 per month for access to exclusive sub-groups — Facebook is starting to let Group admins charge $4.99 to $29.99 per month for access to special sub-Groups full of exclusive posts.
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| Jack Morse / Mashable: |
Over a hundred pages' worth of complaints from Coinbase customers to a California regulator and the SEC show a firm that was ill-equipped for its own success — Life savings lost. Desperate cries for help. Allegations of fraud. — In the six years since its founding … | Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg: |
Match Group, which runs dating services including Tinder and OKCupid, says it's bought a controlling stake in rival app Hinge, after first investing last year — - The company first invested in Hinge in September 2017 — As Facebook looks to enter industry, Match builds its brands
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| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Tech companies are increasingly shaping the future of US cities through investments, promise of jobs, and more, as cities strain under a multitude of challenges — I'm not saying America's cities are turning into dystopian technocapitalist hellscapes in which corporations operate every essential service and pull every civic string.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
German startup Silexica, which optimises how disparate applications work together on autonomous cars, raises $18M Series B led by EQT Ventures — As we inch closer to building increasingly autonomous cars, the complexities that these vehicles will present as programmable hardware are increasing …
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| Brannon Dorsey: |
How DNS rebinding attacks can be used to discover and communicate with devices on local networks, including Google Home, RokuTV, and Sonos WiFi speakers — The home WiFi network is a sacred place; your own local neighborhood of cyberspace. There we connect our phones, laptops, and “smart” …
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| Patricia Zengerle / Reuters: |
Bipartisan group of US lawmakers sends Google a letter questioning why it stopped Project Maven collaboration but continues to work with China's Huawei — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of Republican and Democratic U.S. lawmakers asked Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google on Wednesday to reconsider …
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| Rani Molla / Recode: |
Dealogic data: US tech companies have issued $13.4B in convertible bonds in 2018 so far, up from $9B in 2017, as they seek to avoid dilution and issuing stock — Twitter is the latest in a long line of tech companies issuing record amounts of convertible bonds.| Stephanie Chan / VentureBeat: |
Sensor Tower data: Epic Games' Fortnite has generated $100M revenue on iOS in its first 90 days on the platform — Epic Games' hit game Fortnite has hit yet another milestone on mobile. Since its iOS launch in mid-March, it has generated $100 million in revenue on those devices in 90 days, according to market analyst Sensor Tower.| Lev Facher / STAT: |
Facebook says users searching for opioids or seeking out addiction treatment will be redirected to a federal crisis helpline — W — ASHINGTON — Facebook users attempting to purchase opioids or seeking out addiction treatment will be instead be redirected to information about a federal crisis help line … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon expands its Prime Wardrobe service, which lets users try between three and eight items, to all US users — Prime Wardrobe, Amazon's “try before you buy” shopping service first announced last summer, is officially out of beta and open to all Prime members in the U.S. as of today.
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