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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google unveils Stadia, its game streaming service for Chrome, Android, and TVs that will support cross platform play and 4K at 60FPS with HDR, launching in 2019 — With Project Stream in October, Google's rumored work on a game streaming service was all but confirmed.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Google has partnered with AMD to power Stadia, using a custom GPU for its data centers that delivers 10.7 teraflops, far more than the Xbox One X's 6 teraflops — Stream games to your PC, tablet, TV, or phone — Google is launching its Stadia cloud gaming service at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco.
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9to5Google, The Verge, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Yahoo Finance, The Verge, IGN, Polygon, and Polygon. Tweets: @reckless
| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Google unveils its controller for Stadia, which connects directly to the data center and looks like Sony's Dual Shock, but says you can use your own controllers — Earlier this month, a patent surfaced that revealed a possible design for a forthcoming Google game controller.
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Engadget, Axios, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, Android Police, The Verge, Engadget, Android Police, IGN, Polygon, and Polygon. Tweets: @thurrott
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple updates iMac lineup with Intel's 8th-gen and 9th-gen Core CPUs and AMD's Radeon Pro Vega GPUs; 21.5" starts at $1,299, 27" 5K at $1,799, available today — Nearly two years have passed since Apple last refreshed the iMac, but updates are finally here for both 4K and 5K models.
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Tweets: @imyke, @whatthebit, and @dcseifert
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
In iMac Pro's build-to-order options Apple now includes a $5,200 option for 256GB RAM and Radeon Pro Vega 64X graphics with 16GB dedicated video memory for $700 — Apple has quietly updated the iMac Pro build-to-order options to include new Radeon Pro Vega 64X graphics and a 256 GB RAM option.
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| Emma Sandler / Digiday: |
Instagram adds in-app shopping to let users buy from 20 beauty and fashion brands including Kylie Cosmetics, Nike, and Huda Beauty — Shopping on Instagram is about to change forever. — On March 19, the social platform announced in a blog post it was launching a beta shopping program …
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| Chris Sonderby / Facebook: |
Facebook says original Christchurch attack video was viewed <200 times during live broadcast; first user report came in 12 minutes after live broadcast ended — Our hearts go out to the victims, their families and the community affected by the horrific terrorist attacks in Christchurch.
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Tweets: @fbnewsroom, @mattnavarra, @lizzadwoskin, @fbnewsroom, @erinscafe, @nycsouthpaw, @sarahfrier, @g_parker, and @harikunzru
| Charlie Warzel / New York Times: |
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Facebook settles with ACLU over allegedly discriminatory ads for employment, housing, and credit, paying ~$5M and making changes to prevent discrimination — The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), has reached a historic settlement with Facebook over advertising practices that allegedly discriminated against minorities.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft Teams says it is now used by 500,000 organizations, including 91 of the Fortune 100, and promises eight new features, three available today — Microsoft Teams, which launched worldwide in March 2017, turns two years old this week. To celebrate, Microsoft is sharing some news …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A look at an iPhone prototype board from 2006-2007, when the device was codenamed “M68” and “Purple 2” within Apple — “This is a day I've been looking forward to for two and half years,” said Steve Jobs, Apple's late CEO, as he introduced the original iPhone on January 9th, 2007.
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MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechSpot, and Cult of Mac
Tweets: @tomwarren, @stroughtonsmith, and @tfadell
| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Reed Hastings confirms that Netflix won't be offering its content through Apple's upcoming video service — In other news: Turns out Netflix is not a tech company, Hastings says. — Apple is planning a big announcement to unveil its new video strategy next week, and there is a long list of unknowns about Apple's plans.
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Bloomberg, Reuters, Financial Times, VentureBeat, Light Reading, Variety, MacRumors, Deadline, InvestorPlace, Telecoms.com, CNBC, Tubefilter, Firstpost, and The Hill
Tweets: @pkafka, @chronotope, @jbflint, @jank0, and @shiraovide
| Kaiser Health News: |
Report: US has spent $36B digitizing health records, which has risked patient safety with thousands of reports of deaths and injuries tied to software glitches — The U.S. government claimed that turning American medical charts into electronic records would make health care better, safer, and cheaper.
Tweets: @erictopol, @rosenthalhealth, @ldrogen, @sarahkliff, @seemacms, @nbsaphiermd, and @lindsaycohen
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Amid a noticeable uptick in Mirai botnet activity, a Palo Alto Networks report says a new Mirai malware variant targets signage TVs and presentation systems — Security researchers spot new Mirai botnet with an enhanced arsenal of IoT exploits. — Security researchers have spotted … | Bijan Stephen / The Verge: |
Kickstarter staff announce their intention to unionize, potentially becoming the first major US tech company with union representation — The company's staff plans to unionize with the Office and Professional Employees International Union — The staff of Kickstarter announced plans to unionize today.| Juliegrace Brufke / The Hill: |
Rep. Devin Nunes is suing Twitter and some of its users for defamation, alleging Twitter is shadow banning conservatives, seeks $250M+ in damages — House Intelligence Committee ranking member and former chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) is suing Twitter and a number of its users for more than $250 million.
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Fox News, Techdirt, The Daily Beast, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @realdonaldtrump, @bradheath, @stevesi, @timobrien, @realdonaldtrump, @susan_hennessey, @therickwilson, @markagee, @bradheath, and @seanmdav
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Starting June 19, Twitter will require any app that has 100K+ calls/day for certain APIs to submit their app for review and will force B2B devs to pay — To prevent its own Cambridge Analytica and make sure it's getting paid for its data, Twitter will audit developers using its APIs.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Patreon will offer creators three new plans beginning in May, with fees ranging from 5-12%, but existing creators can keep their current pricing model — Patreon, a subscription and donation platform that lets YouTubers and other creators earn money for their online content …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Firefox 66 arrives with autoplaying blocked by default, the ability to search through open tabs, and smoother scrolling, even when there are slowly loading ads — Mozilla today launched Firefox 66 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The release includes autoplaying content (audio and video) …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Mojo Vision, an under-the-radar AR startup that hasn't publicly revealed what it's building, raises $58M Series B from Google's Gradient Ventures and others — Mojo Vision, an under-the-radar augmented reality (AR) startup that has yet to reveal exactly what it's building …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Norsk Hydro, one of the world's largest producers of aluminum, has shut down several metal extrusion plants as it deals with a ransomware attack — UPDATE: Cyber-attack identified as LockerGoga ransomware infection. — Norsk Hydro, one of the world's largest aluminium producers …
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Reuters, Motherboard, The Register, TechCrunch, and Dark Reading
Tweets: @weldpond, @campuscodi, and @campuscodi
| Axios: |
Arlan Hamilton's diversity-minded investment fund Backstage Capital falls through, after two “anchor investors” pulled out and other deals failed to materialize — Arlan Hamilton seems to be everywhere. Keynote interviews at conferences like SXSW and the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
CEO of Exactis talks about the fallout after the marketing company exposed 230M personal records on a public server, says he plans to focus on another startup — STEVE HARDIGREE HADN'T even gotten to the office yet, and his day was already a waking nightmare.
Tweets: @a_greenberg
| TechCrunch: |
A roundup of the 85+ companies that launched at Y Combinator's Winter 2019 Demo Day 1, including medical, AI, on-demand, e-commerce, and robotics startups — Y Combinator's incubator classes have gotten huge. — With over 200 companies, the Winter 2019 class is by far YC's largest yet.| David N. Cicilline / New York Times: |
Chairman of House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law explains why the FTC, undergoing a “credibility crisis”, should probe Facebook — Why I am calling on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Facebook for violating antitrust laws.
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TechCrunch, The Verge, The Hill, and Charged
Tweets: @k_jeanpierre, @johnpaczkowski, @counternotions, @tonyromm, and @kadhimshubber
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