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Microsoft unveils Microsoft Mesh, a mixed-reality platform on Azure, and demos a meeting service to let users join virtual rooms using devices like HoloLens 2 — Mesh is Microsoft's vision for the future of mixed reality — Last week, Microsoft's Alex Kipman, the inventor of Kinect and HoloLens …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft to add end-to-end encryption for one-to-one calls, channel sharing, and webinar and presentation features to Teams — Microsoft has a bunch of new Teams features coming and is introducing a new category of Teams Intelligent Speaker devices at Ignite this week.
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The Verge, TechCrunch, Windows Central, Softpedia News, iPhone in Canada Blog, Forbes, BleepingComputer, Windows Central, Petri, and MSPoweruser. Tweets: @stshank
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft launches Azure Percept, a hardware and software platform to implement its Azure AI services for use cases, including object detection, at the edge — Microsoft today announced Azure Percept, its new hardware and software platform for bringing more of its Azure AI services to the edge.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft debuts Power Fx, a new open source low-code language that takes its cues from Excel formulas and will become a standard for Microsoft's Power Platform — Microsoft today announced Power Fx, a new low-code language that takes its cues from Excel formulas.
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| Mila Jasper / Nextgov: |
A report from the National Security Commission on AI, which is chaired by Eric Schmidt, finds that the US is not fully prepared for AI competition with China — Retaining any edge will take White House leadership and a substantial investment, according to the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence.
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| Patrick Howell O'Neill / MIT Technology Review: |
Researchers point out that Apple's walled garden approach on iOS makes it virtually impossible to detect the presence of malware on iPhones, which does exist — The iPhone's locked-down approach to security is spreading, but advanced hackers have found that higher barriers are great for avoiding capture.
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Instacart raises $265M in a round valuing the company at $39B, after raising $200M at a $17.7B valuation in October — - Instacart is valued at $39 billion in a new funding round. — It's the second time the company's valuation has doubled since the start of the Covid pandemic.
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| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
Twitter to label tweets with misleading information about COVID vaccines and debut a strike system that can lead to permanent account suspension after 5 strikes — Twitter announced Monday that it will label tweets with potentially misleading information about COVID-19 vaccines …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
TikTok launches a Safety Advisory Council for Europe to help it with content moderation, bringing external experts in fields like child safety and extremism — TikTok is bringing in external experts in Europe in fields such as child safety, young people's mental health and extremism to form …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
eMarketer: Spotify is on track to reach US monthly podcast listenership of 28.2M by the end of this year and surpass Apple's Podcasts for the first time — Investors have been waiting for Spotify's multimillion-dollar bet on podcasting to pay off, in terms of increased paid subscriptions or improved revenues.| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
A look at web proxy service Infatica, part of a growing industry of firms offering to buy browser extensions or pay their developers to include some extra code — A company that rents out access to more than 10 million Web browsers so that clients can hide their true Internet addresses …
Tweets: @garwarner and @briankrebs
| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Flipboard expands its local news coverage to more than 1,000 cities and towns in the US and Canada — In the COVID-19 era, local news matters more than ever—but it can be tough to track down. The magazine-style reading app hopes to help. — In January 2020, Flipboard … | Vjeran Pavic / The Verge: |
DJI launches a $1,299 first person view drone bundle, which includes FPV Goggles V2 with crisp 810p resolution, controller, and a drone with ~20-min flight time — Cinematic first-person view or FPV drones have been a growing trend in the drone industry for a few years.
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Tweets: @kylebrussell, @backlon, and @nafisa1
| Hannah Beech / New York Times: |
Myanmar's repressive military uses Israeli drones, despite a ban on sales of such tech to Myanmar, as well as Swedish iPhone cracking software, Western spyware — The generals who staged a coup last month use surveillance drones, iPhone cracking devices and hacking software … | Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the remote work issues companies are facing, including who should shoulder tax costs and whether to cut salaries of staff leaving high-cost cities — Facebook considered tracking its employees. Lyft is making some workers move before April. Here's how big companies are wrestling with thorny work-from-home issues.
Tweets: @wsj, @sassermodestino, and @greg_shill
| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Microsoft debuts Temporary Access Pass to help sign up for services without using passwords, says ~200M users have enabled passwordless login for its services — Microsoft is updating its widely used cloud computing technology to make it easier for millions of us to dump our passwords.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Beam Dental, a digital dental insurer that uses AI to reward members for good dental hygiene, raises $80M Series E led by Mercato Partners — Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — Beam Dental, a Columbus, Ohio-based dental benefits provider …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Payments infrastructure startup Xendit, the first Indonesian company to go through Y Combinator's accelerator program, raises $64.6M Series B led by Accel — The fintech was the first Indonesian company to go through Y Combinator's accelerator program — Fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic … | Bloomberg: |
Interviews with 16 Amazon workers offer an inside look at the unionization vote in Bessemer, Al, where $15/hour is double the minimum wage for entry-level jobs — On a rainy Saturday afternoon in early February, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union held a rally in a grassy lot …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Square says Square Financial Services, its industrial bank, has started operations after getting FDIC approval last year — Known for its innovations in the payments sector, Square is now officially a bank. — Nearly one year after receiving conditional approval, Square said Monday afternoon …
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Tweets: @jack, @fromvalue, @paul_essen, @cjc, @polycarpboss, @redcoatchicago, @jackiereses, and @sarthakgh
| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Cisco Webex gets free, real-time translation from English into 100+ languages, available in preview this month and generally in May — Targeted at organizations with global workforces, the new feature will help Webex users overcome language barriers — Cisco on Tuesday announced free-real …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Czech on-demand grocery delivery startup Rohlik raises $230M led by Partech, sources say at a valuation of ~$600M — Food delivery — whether it's ready-made orders from restaurants, meal kits or groceries — has been one of the most-used services in this last year of living under the cloud … | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: iPhone 13 to have smaller notch, larger battery, no USB-C; 120Hz display on the Pro; iPhone mini to return; he has “no visibility” of power button Touch ID — Reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is out with a new investor note today focused on what to expect …
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