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Sources: Facebook is planning to launch its own cryptocurrency and a digital payments system in about a dozen countries by Q1 2020 — Facebook is finalising plans to launch its own crypto-currency next year. — It is planning to set up a digital payments system in about a dozen countries by the first quarter of 2020.
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MacBook Pro keyboard tweaks include a membrane from a new nylon-like material that may better repel dust and minor changes to key switches that register presses — Teardown of the 2019 MacBook Pro 15" with Touch Bar, performed on May 22, 2019.
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SpaceX successfully launches first batch of 60 Starlink satellites of nearly 11,000 planned into a low orbit above Earth to provide global internet connectivity — After two postponements, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket executed a mission that dealt out 60 Starlink broadband data satellites into low Earth orbit.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft: xCloud game streaming service, in testing among its employees now, can stream 3,500+ Xbox games without developers making any changes to their titles — Still no date for public trials — Microsoft is revealing some of the more finer details about its upcoming xCloud game streaming service today.
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| Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Palantir's 2018 revenue grew ~40% YoY to ~$1B, as losses fell to ~$30M; Palantir wants to show two consecutive years of growth before expected 2020 IPO — Palantir is among the world's most richly valued and most powerful tech startups, after spending 15 years on the private markets …
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Source: Snap is in talks to license catalogs of Sony Music, Universal Music, and Warner Music, which will allow Snapchat users to include songs in their posts — Snap wants to up Snapchat's music game. — The company has been in negotiations with music companies including the big three …
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Hacker breaches Perceptics, which makes license plate readers for cities and the US government, dumps internal files on the dark web; Perceptics confirms breach — Perceptics confirms intrusion and theft, stays quiet on details — Exclusive The maker of vehicle license plate readers used extensively … | Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
A distorted video of Speaker Pelosi, in which her speech is made to appear slurred, has 2M+ views on Facebook; YouTube says it has removed uploads of the video — Distorted videos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), altered to make her sound as if she's drunkenly slurring her words …
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| Zhang Shidong / South China Morning Post: |
China's biggest chip maker SMIC says it has notified NYSE of its intention to apply on June 3 to delist from the exchange after 15 years — The sudden move comes as Washington steps up efforts to cut off its technology from China The sudden move comes as Washington steps up efforts to cut off … | Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Source: Amazon is working on a wearable voice-activated health and wellness device that works with a mobile app and can recognize human emotions — - Described as a health product, it would work with a mobile app — Machines that can understand emotions are a sci-fi staple
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Chinese travel platform Mafengwo, which offers editorial content, bookings, and travel merchandise, raises $250M Series E led by Tencent Holdings — Mafengwo, a Chinese travel website, announced today it has raised a $250 million Series E led by Tencent Holdings. — Subscribe to the Crunchbase Daily
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Google adds group video calls for up to eight people to its Duo video calling app for iOS and Android users worldwide — Google's Duo video call app today introduced group video calls for up to 8 people for iOS and Android users worldwide. At launch, Duo group video calls will not be available …
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The Keyword, KnowTechie, The Mac Observer, The Verge, Phandroid, SlashGear, and Neowin. Tweets: @juberti
| Aislinn Keely / The Block: |
AT&T says customers can now pay their mobile bills in cryptocurrency via BitPay — Cryptocurrency is taking another step towards the mainstream as mobile carrier AT&T announced it would accept payments in crypto today, according to a release from the company.
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| Eric Avena / Microsoft Security: |
Microsoft's Windows Defender Application Guard extensions, which open untrusted web pages in a virtual container, now generally available for Chrome and Firefox — - Windows platform security team — The hardware-based isolation technology on Windows 10 that allows Microsoft Edge …
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SecurityScorecard report analyzing US political party cyber defenses finds DNC has made improvements following 2016 hacks but still lags behind RNC — Personal data leaks, poor protection of logins, and other gaps still leave major parties vulnerable. — In a study of US and European … | Randy Nelson / Sensor Tower Blog: |
Sensor Tower: Valve's Steam Link reaches 2M+ installs on Android and iOS, with 330K+ downloads on iOS in its first week, 71% of which were from China and Japan — A year after it was initially rejected for release on the App Store, Valve's Steam Link app, which enables computer gamers using …
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Automattic acquires Prospress, the company behind WooCommerce Subscriptions and other automated tools; the 20-person Prospress team will join Automattic — Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Longreads, Simplenote and a bunch of other cool things, is acquiring a small startup called Prospress.
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WooCommerce, WordPress Tavern, Post Status, PYMNTS.com, Matt Mullenweg, and Prospress. Tweets: @mark_forrester
| Ilya Khrennikov / Bloomberg: |
Yandex launches a new delivery service that lets users tell a restaurant what to cook, even if not on the menu, initially available in Moscow and St. Petersburg — - Yandex expanded to food delivery after 2017 deal with Uber — App tells a restaurant what to cook even if not on the menu| Will Sommer / The Daily Beast: |
Twitter permanently bans Brian and Ed Krassenstein, who frequently shared anti-Trump sentiments, alleging they ran fake accounts and purchased fake interactions — Ed and Brian Krassenstein are banned for life after ‘operating multiple fake accounts and purchasing account interactions,’ a Twitter spokesman said.
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