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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Zuckerberg opens F8 reiterating Facebook's new focus on a “privacy-focused communications platform” prioritizing end-to-end encryption and interoperability — Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is doubling down on privacy. — At F8, the social network's annual developer conference …
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| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Facebook says users will be able to send chat messages across Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp in the future — There were rumors that Facebook was going to make its messaging products interoperable, but now it appears they're about to be a reality. At F8, Messenger's head … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Dating launches in 14 more countries, will come to US in 2019, adds Secret Crush feature to let users select up to 9 friends for Tinder-like matching — Facebook built Dating to be privacy-safe, hoping to avoid the awkwardness of friends or family checking out your romance profile.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Instagram is launching a camera redesign to make it easier to make high quality posts without importing media, adds dedicated shopping tags for creators — Turning Instagram into a more robust commerce platform — Instagram is announcing a couple of new features today that are designed …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Sources: Andreessen Horowitz has closed on two new funds, a $750M early-stage fund and a $2B later-stage fund, putting its total fundraising haul at nearly $10B — Andreessen Horowitz has closed on two new funds, Axios has learned. — The big picture: Last year we previewed the venture giant's …
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Apple reports Q2 revenue of $58B, down 5% YoY, with international sales accounting for 61% of Q2 revenue, record services revenue of $11.5B — Services Revenue Reaches New All-Time High of $11.5 Billion — Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2019 second quarter ended March 30, 2019.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Hackers are actively exploiting a recently-patched zero-day vulnerability in Oracle WebLogic server to install ransomware, with no end-user interaction required — High-severity hole in Oracle WebLogic under active exploit for 9 days. Patch now. — Attackers have been actively exploiting …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
IDC: 310.8M smartphones were shipped in Q1, down 6.6% YoY; Samsung was the top vendor with 23.1% marketshare, followed by Huawei with 19% and Apple with 11.7% — The battle for second rages on. — While Samsung held the top smartphone spot all four quarters last year …
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Alphabet says Eric Schmidt and Diane Greene will not seek re-election to Alphabet's board; Schmidt will continue his role as a technical adviser to Alphabet — Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced it has appointed Robin L. Washington to its Board of Directors.
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Facebook relaunches Oculus for Business, coming this fall, with a new software suite and UX customized for business use cases, adds support for the Oculus Quest — At F8, Facebook announced a launch date for the Oculus Quest and Rift S, as well as completely new enterprise-grade Oculus for Business software.
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| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
Around 20 security experts have united with Securepairs.org to support right-to-repair legislation with expert witnesses at hearings across the US — TWO YEARS AGO, as Nebraska was considering a “right to repair” bill designed to make it easier for consumers to fix their own gadgets, an Apple lobbyist made a frightening prediction.
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| Hugh Handeyside / ACLU: |
ACLU says info uncovered through its lawsuit show CBP and ICE have “near-unfettered” authority to search and seize travelers' electronic devices at the border — In September 2017, we, along with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, sued the federal government for its warrantless … | Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: |
In an experiment, the NYT bought and displayed ads targeting 16 profile attributes to reveal what advertisers think they know about users seeing targeted ads — Nearly every ad you see online is tailored just for you. These digital ads are powered by vast, hidden datasets that allow advertisers …
Tweets: @privacyproject, @hacks4pancakes, @stuartathompson, @privacyproject, @nytopinion, @justinhendrix, and @cwarzel
| Matthew Cantor / The Guardian: |
Study: if Facebook continues to grow at its current rate, it could have 4.9B deceased members by 2100, raising questions about what happens to their data — Deceased may outnumber the living if current growth rates continue, raising questions about what happens to our data
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Tweets: @uniofoxford and @fivethirtyeight
| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
In a letter to creators, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says YouTube wants to have half of the videos in its trending tab come from YouTube creators — YouTube wants to have half of the featured videos in its trending tab come from streams originating on the company's own site going forward …
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| Seth Colaner / VentureBeat: |
Amazon says Amazon Managed Blockchain, its AWS service that helps companies quickly create their own scalable blockchain networks, is now generally available — Amazon is in the blockchain business in a big way. Its Amazon Managed Blockchain is a fully managed service designed …
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Business Wire, Computerworld, AWS News Blog, TechCrunch, CoinGeek, Cointelegraph, The Next Web, CoinDesk, Messari Crypto, and SiliconANGLE. Tweets: @jpuppet
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google says it is adding Tiles, swipeable widgets with useful information, to Wear OS over the next month — The new feature is rolling out over the next month — Google has spent the last year refining its Wear OS smartwatch software to make everything feel simpler, more intuitive, and easier to use.
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| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Rappi, an on-demand delivery startup operating in Latin America, has raised up to $1B from SoftBank, the largest ever round for a Latin American tech startup — Rappi represents a new era for Latin American technology startups. — Based in Bogotá, Colombia, the on-demand delivery startup …
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Google employees plan to hold a “sit-in” on May 1 to protest the alleged retaliation against staff from management over previous activism — Google workers are staging a sit-in Wednesday to protest alleged retaliation from management toward employee organizers at the company.
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| Dave Lee / BBC: |
Code for America created an algorithm that identified 8K+ cannabis-related convictions eligible for expungement, cutting the process from months to minutes — This month, a judge in California cleared thousands of criminal records with one stroke of his pen.
Tweets: @kittenhotep, @heransays, @bengoldacre, and @chris_kuang
| Eugene Kim / CNBC: |
Amazon confirms it provides an online freight service that matches truck drivers with shippers; sources say the service has been in testing since last year — KEY POINTS — Amazon has been testing a new online service that matches truck drivers with shippers since last year … | Angelica Mari / ZDNet: |
Technisys, which provides a digital banking software platform, raises $50M Series C led by Riverwood Capital — The company raised $50 million in funding to enhance its digital banking products and woo the banking sector in the US and Europe. — Software firm Technisys has raised …
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| Hock Meng Tay / DealStreetAsia: |
Report: in Q1 2019, funding for Chinese fintech startups dropped 87.6% YoY to $192.1M, India became Asia's top fintech funding hub with $285.6M raised — At a time when risk capital investors are increasingly evincing interest in India's sunrise fintech sector, they are tightening …
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