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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Signal says it has added support for privacy-focused cryptocurrency MobileCoin to let users send and receive money, starting in the UK on iOS and Android — The encrypted messaging app is integrating support for MobileCoin in a bid to keep up with the features offered by its more mainstream rivals.
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Signal Blog, GitHub, The Verge, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, PCMag, The Block, Decrypt, CoinDesk, 9to5Mac, Android Central, and SlashGear
| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Clubhouse is in talks to raise funding from investors in a round valuing the business at about $4B, following its reported valuation of ~$1B in January — Clubhouse, the buzzy audio-based social network, is in talks to raise funding from investors in a round valuing the business … | Jeff John Roberts / Decrypt: |
Ahead of its April 14 direct listing, Coinbase reports a record quarter, with estimated profits of $730M-$800M in Q1 on revenue of ~$1.8B and 56M verified users — Coinbase announced its 2021 first quarter earnings on Tuesday, revealing that the crypto giant made a profit of between $730 million …
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| James T. Areddy / Wall Street Journal: |
China is pitching the digital yuan as a way to soften the power of US sanctions, which are increasingly being used against Chinese companies and individuals — A cyber yuan stands to give Beijing power to track spending in real time, plus money that isn't linked to the dollar-dominated global financial system| BuzzFeed News: |
Source shares data on 1,803 US taxpayer-funded orgs using Clearview AI; many cops used its facial recognition without higher-ups knowing or after a local ban — A controversial facial recognition tool designed for policing has been quietly deployed across the country with little to no public oversight.
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| Pranob Mehrotra / XDA Developers: |
New software update for the Google Pixel lineup reportedly dramatically boosts Pixel 5's GPU performance, which had been poor for a Snapdragon 765G-based phone — The latest software update for the Google Pixel lineup recently started rolling out to users.
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Android Open Source Project, Ars Technica, Gizchina, Phandroid, Lifehacker, Android Headlines, Pocketnow, Tom's Guide, BGR, SlashGear, 9to5Google, MUO, PCMag, Android Authority, and Engadget
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| Bloomberg: |
Companies that make $1 display driver chips can't keep up with surging demand, causing serious production problems for products with LCD displays like laptops — - Without a display driver chip, you can't build your product — CEO says he can't “see the light at the end of tunnel yet.”
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| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
Review of Intel's Ice Lake Xeon Scalable CPUs, its first server chip design using a 10nm process, which sees large increases in performance for many workloads — The launch of Intel's Ice Lake Xeon Scalable processors has been in the wings for a number of years.
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Tweets: @intelnews, @intelnews, @iancutress, @stshank, @intelnews, and @iancutress. Thanks:@anandtech
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
TikTok says creators will soon be able to add automatic captions to videos in US English and Japanese with support for other languages “in the coming months” — Launching in American English and Japanese first — TikTok creators will soon be able to add automatically-generated captions …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
YouTube says that 18 out of every 10K views in Q4 2020 were of videos that violate its policies, down from 72 out of every 10K views in Q4 2017 — ‘Violative View Rate’ fell steeply after 2017 — YouTube wants the world to know that it's doing a better job than ever of enforcing its own moderation rules.
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| Atul Bhattarai / Rest of World: |
A look at the rise and fall of India's missed call industry, which was transformed by Twitter-owned ZipDial that serviced 5M missed calls a day at its peak — In the age of expensive data, missed calls became more than just a cheap way to communicate. But in India, technology moves faster than you'd think.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Upsolver, which offers low-code SQL tools for cloud data analytics, raises $25M Series B, adds free tools for smaller workloads and says revenue tripled in 2020 — Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — Upsolver, a no-code startup …
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| Bloomberg: |
EU says a number of institutions, including the European Commission, were hit by a significant cyberattack last week, although no data breach has been detected — A range of European Union institutions including the European Commission were hit by a significant cyber-attack last week.
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Tech.eu, PYMNTS.com, CyberScoop, and BleepingComputer
Tweets: @technology, @albertonardelli, and @angeljimenez
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google open sources Lyra in beta, an audio codec that uses ML to create high-quality voice calls for low-bandwidth networks or archiving large amounts of speech — Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — Google today open-sourced Lyra in beta … | Washington Post: |
Rhett Lindsey, a former Facebook recruiter, and other Black employees involved in hiring, describe a problematic hiring process that hinders diversity goals — The recruiter quit after 11 months, adding fuel to claims that it discriminates against Black applicants
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Insider. Tweets: @keaux_, @kimcrayton1, @reedalbergotti, @keithboykin, @lizzadwoskin, @jesselehrich, @jamesclayton5, @quinnypig, and @cristymsilva
| Aamir Siddiqui / XDA Developers: |
Google announces the Android Open Source Project now supports Rust for developing the OS itself, providing more memory safety guarantees than C and C++ — Android as a complete OS solution involves a lot of moving parts. Very broadly speaking, these parts are the app ecosystem and then the OS itself.
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Google Online Security Blog and 9to5Google
Tweets: @ericflo, @mishaalrahman, and @xdadevelopers
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple launches an app for enterprises to test devices that work with Apple's Find My network, ahead of its expected launch of its own new AirTags accessory — Apple has launched a new app, Find My Certification Asst., designed for use by MFi (Made for iPhone) Licensees …
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Gizmodo, Engadget, MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Trusted Reviews, iDownloadBlog.com, and MACお宝 …
Tweets: @paulsweeney, @brianroemmele, and @kfury
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
E3 will take place as a free virtual conference on June 12-15 and organizers say an in-person event will happen in LA in 2022 — The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) announced plans for a “reimagined” all-virtual E3 2021, set to take place June 12-15, 2021, featuring news and game reveals.
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E3 Expo, The Verge, PC Gamer, Kotaku, Gamasutra, VRFocus, MUO, MCV/DEVELOP, CNET, Wccftech, GameRevolution, Digital Trends, Polygon, OnMSFT.com, VentureBeat, GameSpot, Washington Post, PCMag, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Game Rant, Tom's Hardware, dexerto.com, Trusted Reviews, TechRadar, Neowin, and Destructoid
Tweets: @nintendorumor and @nintendeal
| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Foxconn Q1 revenue jumps 44% YoY to $47B based on robust demand for Apple's new 5G devices and other gadgets — - Consumers continue to buy devices to stay connected at home — Company warns component shortage will affect 10% of shipments — IPhone assembler Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.'s …
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AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, and Cult of Mac
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