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Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on open source, AWS, working with the military, expanding Google Cloud's sales teams, and more — New Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian has a lot of work to do. — The company that basically invented the concept of hyperscale distributed computing … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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Sources: Uber to sell ~$10B worth of stock at $90B-$100B valuation in IPO, will make S-1 public Thursday, begin roadshow late April, and start trading early May — (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc has decided it will seek to sell around $10 billion worth of stock in its initial public offering … | Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Oppo announces Reno flagship with Snapdragon 855, 6.6-inch FHD+ AMOLED display, pop-up camera, three rear-cameras with 10x hybrid zoom, starting at ~$600 — If you thought the leak from two weeks ago had given the game away for Oppo's new Reno smartphone series, don't worry, as the real deal has more to offer.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
FireEye uncovers second critical infrastructure site affected with dangerous Triton malware, which is linked to a Russian government-backed research institute — Use of game-changing Triton malware to target safety systems isn't an isolated incident. — Sixteen months ago … | Diane Bartz / Reuters: |
Bipartisan bill introduced by Senators Mark Warner and Deb Fischer bans “dark pattern” tricks to collect user data, addictive products for kids under 13, more — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senators Mark Warner, a Democrat, and Deb Fischer, a Republican, are introducing a bill … | Rob Price / Business Insider: |
Pirates are using Facebook's Watch Party group video-streaming feature to host movie marathons and TV watch parties, sometimes for thousands of viewers — - Facebook's new group-video-watching feature, Watch Party, is proving wildly popular with pirates. It's designed to let Facebook users watch … | Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Regulators should stop blindly regulating “the internet” and realize that every part of the stack is different, and only one part is suffering market failure — This week, when the U.K.'s Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and the Secretary of State … | David Kushner / Wired: |
Book excerpt: a brief history of internet porn, which developed many early innovations in internet marketing, such as pop-up ads and subscriptions — “Almighty God, Lord of all life, we praise You for the advancements in computerized communications that we enjoy in our time.| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Amazon Kindle (2019) review: the cheapest Kindle now has backlight but is not waterproof, has a low-resolution display, and a recessed screen — Just buy a Paperwhite — In a vacuum, Amazon's latest entry-level Kindle is a solid update: there's finally a built-in light … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: ahead of its expected IPO in June or July, shares of Slack on private markets are selling for prices valuing it at ~$16B, 2X+ its last funding round — In the next few months, anyone will be able to buy stock in Slack Technologies Inc. In the meantime, wealthy investors … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Walmart expands its rollout of store tech in US, including more vending machine-like Pickup Towers for online orders and robots that scrub floors and scan items — Walmart is doubling down on its technology innovations in its brick-and-mortar stores in an effort to better compete with Amazon.| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Facebook says it will use AI to stop notifying users to reach out to deceased friends, rolls out a “tribute” section dedicated to posts made posthumously — Algorithmic features have sent suggestions to wish happy birthday to those who've died — Facebook has promised … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Movo, which provides last-mile mobility via rentable electric scooters, raises €20M Series A led by insurance firm Mutua Madrileña and Seaya Ventures — Madrid-based micromobility startup Movo has closed a €20 million (~$22.5M) Series A funding round to accelerate international expansion.| eMarketer: |
eMarketer predicts Snapchat's monthly US users will decline by 2.8% to 77.5M in 2019, capturing 37.9% of US social media users, down from nearly 40% in 2018 — Instagram will benefit, adding nearly 19 million users by 2023 — Following its unpopular redesign, Snapchat has been struggling to gain users in the US.| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Huawei P30 Pro review: best low-light camera with the best zoom, fast performance, and a really long-lasting battery, but has buggy and unappealing software — China's camera champion could have been a better phone — Before I came across Huawei's P30 Pro, I was confident in telling everyone … | Nick Heath / TechRepublic: |
Stack Overflow's annual survey, taken by 90K+ developers this year, finds Python to be the fastest-growing major programming language, with Rust the most-loved — The annual Stack Overflow survey is one of the most comprehensive snapshots of how programmers work.| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
LG G8 ThinQ review: has bigger battery, more RAM, and feels nice to hold, but it might not receive timely OS updates and some features like Hand ID are gimmicky — It checks a lot of boxes, except the ones that really matter — If you're looking for a new phone in 2019 that has a bunch of features … | Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Udacity lays of 20% of its staff, or 75 employees, and restructures its operations to help bring costs in line with revenue — Udacity, the $1 billion online education startup, has laid off about 20 percent of its workforce and is restructuring its operations as the company's co-founder Sebastian Thrun seeks … | Seth Fiegerman / CNN: |
Pinterest's slow approach to growth has let it build a distinct brand and avoid harsh scrutiny, while allowing other platforms to overshadow it in the press — New York (CNN Business)The team at Pinterest was nervous. — For most of its early history, the digital scrapbooking service had grown unimaginably fast.| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
CleverTap, which helps companies track and improve engagement with users, raises $26M led by Sequoia India at a $150M-$160M valuation — CleverTap, an India-based startup that helps companies track and improve engagement with users, has pulled in $26 million in new funding thanks to a round led by Sequoia India.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Qualcomm unveils Cloud AI 100, a chip slated to ship next year for AI inference at the edge, estimating peak performance to be over 3X that of Snapdragon 855 — Qualcomm kicked off its annual AI Day conference in San Francisco with a bang. It took the wraps off of three new system …
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