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| CNBC: |
Qualcomm and Apple settle all worldwide litigation between the two companies, as Apple makes a payment to Qualcomm; Qualcomm's stock closes up 23% — - Apple and Qualcomm have settled a royalty and patent dispute that went to trial this week in San Diego, California.
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| Intel Newsroom: |
Intel says it is exiting the 5G smartphone modem business — Intel Corporation today announced its intention to exit the 5G smartphone modem business and complete an assessment of the opportunities for 4G and 5G modems in PCs, internet of things devices and other data-centric devices.
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| Wired: |
Interviews with 65 current and former employees on the meltdown inside Facebook over the last 15 months as the Cambridge Analytica scandal unfolded — Scandals. Backstabbing. Resignations. Record profits. Time Bombs. In early 2018, Mark Zuckerberg set out to fix Facebook.
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Business Insider, The Verge, and Boing Boing
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: DOJ staffers have told T-Mobile and Sprint that their planned merger is unlikely to be approved as currently structured — DOJ staff told wireless rivals deal is unlikely to be approved as structured, according to people familiar with the matter — Justice Department staffers …
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| BuzzFeed News: |
Overview of high-profile male executives in tech who were accused of sexual misconduct and are now getting second chances — Silicon Valley says it's committed to improving diversity, but high-profile male executives accused of sexual misconduct are getting second chances. Some advocates are wondering why.
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| NBC News: |
About 4,000 pages of leaked Facebook documents from 2011-2015 shed light on its approach to sharing and selling data, giving more access to friendly companies — Facebook's leaders seriously discussed selling access to user data — and privacy was an afterthought.
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| Twitter: |
Twitter to test option to hide a tweet's replies in June, suspends 3x more abusive accounts reported within 24 hours than last year, relies less on user reports — We want people to feel safe on Twitter. Last year, we shared that building a Twitter free of abuse, spam and other things …
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| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Microsoft announces Xbox One S All-Digital Edition, a disc-free Xbox One S launching May 7 for $249 with a 1TB HDD and three games; preorders open now — Microsoft is preparing to sell a new Xbox unlike any it's offered before. The gadget is missing a disc drive.
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| Reuters: |
Google has removed the popular video app TikTok from its Play Store in India to comply with a state court's directive — NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Google has blocked access to the hugely popular video app TikTok in India to comply with a state court's directive to prohibit its downloads … | Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Netflix reports Q1 revenue surpassed $4.52B, up 22% YoY, vs $4.50B est.; net subscriptions grew 9.6M, up 16% YoY, with 1.74M in the US and 7.86M internationally — - The company reported $4.52 billion, vs. $4.50 billion expected, per Refinitiv consensus estimate.| Sahil Chinoy / New York Times: |
Using 9 hours' worth of footage of a park in NYC from public cameras and Amazon Rekognition, NYT detected 2,750 faces, matching many to real identities, for $60 — Most people pass through some type of public space in their daily routine — sidewalks, roads, train stations.
Tweets: @nytopinion, @nachristakis, @alexisohanian, @privacyproject, @profcarroll, and @privacyproject
| Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: Apple is planning a desktop extension feature for macOS 10.15 that allows users to send any window of any app to an external display, including an iPad — It's undeniable that one of the best characteristics of every Apple product is its display. Apple ships computers …
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Ars Technica, The Mac Observer, iDownloadBlog.com, Neowin, iPhone Hacks, MacRumors, and Apple Must
Tweets: @filipepina, @hallstephenj, @ow, @viticci, and @sammyguichelaar
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Report: Sony says it made rules that limit sexual content in its games globally; sources: the effect of sexual material on Sony's brand in the US worried execs — Many have suspected that Sony was implementing strict rules on sexual content in PS4 games, and those hunches have just been validated.
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Wall Street Journal, CNET, Business Insider, Siliconera, Kotaku, Gamasutra, and GamesIndustry.biz
Tweets: @wsj and @mochi_wsj
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Mozilla executives reflect on how Google web products would often break in Firefox but not Chrome and on other issues perceived as anti-competitive tactics — Former and current Mozilla engineers are reaching their boiling points. — A former high-ranking Mozilla executive has accused Google …
Tweets: @johnath, @skstock, @youngbloodjoe, @aral, and @encthenet
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Now-patched security flaw in EA's Origin client for Windows, used by tens of millions of gamers to buy and download games, exposed PCs to remote code execution — Electronic Arts has fixed a vulnerability in its online gaming platform Origin after security researchers found they could trick … | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
With the release of macOS 10.14.4, the MacBook Air (2018) was updated with a display brightness of up to 400 nits, compared to up to 300 nits previously — As noted on Reddit, Apple has updated its tech specs for the 2018 MacBook Air to indicate that the notebook now has a display brightness …
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| Peter Rubin / Wired: |
Sony says its next-gen PlayStation console will be backward-compatible, support 8K graphics with ray tracing, and have an SSD, but won't be released this year — MARK CERNY WOULD like to get one thing out of the way right now: The videogame console that Sony has spent the past four years building is no mere upgrade.
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Tweets: @lisasu, @notpatrick, @zhugeex, @pressstartkofi, @leojtravis10, and @serkantoto
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google announces support for Signed Exchanges in Chrome, which will show the original, correct URL for a page in the address bar for AMP pages — It's only supported on Chrome right now — When you click a link on your phone with a little lightning bolt next to it in Google search, you're getting something in the AMP format.
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Google Webmaster Central Blog, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, and The Cloudflare Blog. Tweets: @backlon
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google Pay adds Gmail importing for automatically adding movie tickets, loyalty cards, coupons, airline boarding passes, and more from your inbox — Back in February, it was spotted that Google was testing out a new feature for Google Pay which would import data from Gmail automatically.
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| Brady Dale / CoinDesk: |
Report: blockchain startup incubator ConsenSys' pitch deck forecasts $100M burn rate for 2019, says it had $21M in revenue in 2018, projecting $52.3M in 2019 — ConsenSys believes it can become a valuable company, provided it can get through the next year.Sponsor Posts
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