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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Zoom is acquiring Keybase, a 25-person startup, to add end-to-end encryption to video calls, the first acquisition in the company's nine-year history — - Zoom is acquiring Keybase, a 25-person start-up in New York, to add end-to-end encryption to video calls.
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Zoom Blog, keybase.io, TechCrunch, The Verge, Computerworld, Vox, Forbes, BetaNews, Associated Press, 9to5Mac, ZDNet, GlobeNewswire, TechRadar.com, Silicon Valley Business …, Engadget, The Daily Dot, and SecurityWeek
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| Isabelle Kirkwood / BetaKit: |
Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs says it will no longer pursue its smart city project at Quayside in Toronto due to “unprecedented economic uncertainty” — Sidewalk Labs has announced it will no longer pursue its project at Quayside in Toronto. The company noted the decision was due to the current …
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Sidewalk Talk, Globe and Mail, Business Insider, BBC, The Verge, TechCrunch, waterfrontoronto.ca, Fortune, and Engadget
| Matt Brian / Engadget: |
UK broadband provider Virgin Media and telecom operator O2 announce a £31B merger in an effort to take on BT, Sky, and Vodafone in the country — The rumors were true: UK broadband provider Virgin Media and telecoms operator O2 are to merge, their parent companies confirmed today.
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Apple MacBook Pro 13-inch review: nice display, lovely keyboard, and great performance, but models with 10th-gen Intel CPUs are pricey and it can get hot — I had a feeling I'd be reviewing a new 13-inch MacBook Pro sooner rather than later. When Apple refreshed the MacBook Air back in March …
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The Verge, Six Colors, Mashable, TechCrunch, Daring Fireball, 9to5Mac, CNBC, Laptop Mag, Macworld, TechCrunch, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, and Tom's Guide
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Uber leads a $170M investment in Lime, with Bain Capital Ventures, Alphabet, and GV participating, and will transfer its Jump scooter division to Lime — - Uber is leading a $170 million investment round in Lime, the companies announced Thursday. — Uber will transfer its own electric bike …
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The Information, li.me, TechCrunch, The Guardian, Financial Times, The Verge, VentureBeat, Observer, Engadget, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @g_rapier, @andyjayhawk, @limebike, @fabianladda, @ow, @stevekovach, and @ryan_browne_
| Brittany A. Roston / SlashGear: |
Smart home company Wink to require users pay a $4.99 monthly subscription fee starting May 13, or device automations and accessibility via app will be disabled — Smart home company Wink has made a surprising and heavily criticized announcement: it will soon charge a monthly subscription fee.
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Wink Blog, 9to5Mac, TechHive, Android Police, iMore, AppleInsider, Engadget, TechSpot, 9to5Toys, VentureBeat, CNET, and The Overspill
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| Apple: |
Apple awards $10M from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund to COPAN Diagnostics, a leader in COVID-19 sample collection kit production — Cupertino, California — Apple today announced it is awarding $10 million from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund to COPAN Diagnostics, a market leader …
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MacRumors, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Daring Fireball, Computerworld, CNET, Fox Business, Neowin, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, Engadget, and Silicon Valley Business …. Tweets: @tim_cook
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google updates its Lens app for iOS and Android to let users copy and paste some handwritten text to Chrome, read text aloud, and provide information on words — If you handwriting is neat enough — Google has added a very useful feature to Google Lens, its multipurpose object recognition tool.| New York Times: |
Israeli security company says hackers linked to the Chinese military have used Aria-body, a cyberattack tool, on governments and firms in Australia and SE Asia — An Israeli security company said the hacking software, called Aria-body, had been deployed against governments and state-owned companies in Australia and Southeast Asia.
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Forbes, Check Point Research, CNBC, BleepingComputer, TechRepublic, Threatpost, and The Hacker News
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| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
In a letter, Democratic senators ask Amazon if it retaliated against whistle-blowers by firing four employees who raised health concerns about warehouses — Democratic senators sent a letter to the company asking for more details after it fired four employees who raised health concerns about its warehouses.| Strategy Analytics: |
Strategy Analytics: global smartwatch shipments grew 20% YoY to 14M in Q1 with Apple Watch maintaining 55% marketshare and Samsung in second place with 15% — BOSTON—(BUSINESS WIRE)— According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global smartwatch shipments grew 20 percent annually …
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| David Kaye / Just Security: |
Facebook's efforts are laudable, but the Oversight Board does not end debates over online speech or legitimize content moderation choices by other platforms — With the Naming of Oversight Board Members, What Kind of Institution Will This Become? — With Facebook's unveiling of the first 20 …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Epic Games says Fortnite has 350M registered players, up from 250M in March 2019; in April, players logged 3.2B hours in the game — More than 3.2 billion hours played in April alone — Epic's Fortnite has more than 350 million registered players, the game developer announced on Wednesday.
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| Jules Wang / Android Police: |
Google Authenticator now lets users transfer accounts between devices — The Google Authenticator app has undergone its first facelift since 2017, making the jump from version 5 to 5.10. But the visual makeover — including a much-needed adaptation to newer phones' aspect ratios … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nintendo reports FY 2019 net profit of $2.43B, up 33.5% YoY, on sales of $12.31B, up 9% YoY; to date, 55.7M Nintendo Switch and Lite consoles have been sold — Nintendo reported that its full-year sales for the fiscal year ended March 31 were $12.31 billion, up 9% from $11.30 billion a year earlier.
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Mashable, Reuters, TechCrunch, Thurrott, Nintendo Life, Engadget, South China Morning Post, Bloomberg, Polygon, GameSpot, Gamasutra, Financial Times, VentureBeat, Engadget, The Verge, and USgamer.net
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| Maria Jose Valero / Bloomberg: |
Shopify and Pinterest partner to let Shopify merchants upload their catalogs to Pinterest and turn products into shoppable Product Pins — Shopify merchants in the U.S. and Canada are now able to share their products to about 350 million Pinterest users, the companies announced Thursday.| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
AMD launches Ryzen Pro 4000 series of mobile business processors, with better security features and improvements to battery life and performance — AMD promises new security features and big performance gains — AMD has announced its Ryzen Pro 4000 series of mobile business processors.
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Tom's Hardware, Windows Central, PCWorld, Laptop Mag, and ZDNet
| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Internal document reveals Twitch is looking to fund a slate of original, unscripted series that would be live and interactive on dating, sports, music, and more — - Amazon unit will bankroll slate of unscripted series this year — Use of Twitch has exploded during the coronavirus pandemic
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The Verge, KnowTechie, The Streamable, and Engadget
Tweets: @newsynick, @mhbergen, @lucas_shaw, @zck, and @lucas_shaw
| Brady Dale / CoinDesk: |
Square reports $528M in Q1 revenue from its Cash App, with $306M coming from Bitcoin transactions, exceeding the app's fiat revenue of $222M for the first time — Bitcoin has flippened USD on Square's Cash App, sort of. — As reported in the publicly traded fintech company's …
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Cointelegraph, Cointelegraph, The Daily Hodl, and The Next Web
Tweets: @brianroemmele, @ourielohayon, @arjunblj, @xrpcryptowolf, and @mariashen
| Emily Bary / MarketWatch: |
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Square, ZDNet, BitcoinExchangeGuide, PYMNTS.com, and coinspeaker.com
Tweets: @zackvoell, @zackvoell, @nobsbitcoin, and @tytaninc
| Owen Churchill / South China Morning Post: |
Citizen Lab: WeChat screens overseas users for sensitive content, which it then bars from being viewed by Chinese accounts — Research group Citizen Lab finds WeChat screens overseas users for sensitive content, which it then bars from being received by Chinese accounts Findings are likely … | Reuters: |
Sources: US Department of Commerce is close to signing off on a rule allowing US companies to work with Huawei on setting 5G network standards — (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Commerce is close to signing off on a new rule that would allow U.S. companies to work with China's Huawei Technologies …
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CNET, PYMNTS.com, and TechRadar.com
Tweets: @ewong, @boycotthegemony, @joshchin, and @kennedycsis
| Ruti Levy / Haaretz: |
Sources: Microsoft to buy Israel-based CyberX, which develops security products for IoT and industrial systems, for $165M; CyberX has raised $48M to date — The U.S. software giant is expected to pay $165 million for the internet of things cybersecurity platform company
Tweets: @karolcummins
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