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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Coinbase shares open at $381 in its Nasdaq debut, valuing the company at around $99.6B; Nasdaq listed shares at $250 — - Coinbase's market cap exceeded $100 billion after its debut on the Nasdaq Wednesday morning. — Nasdaq provided a reference price late Tuesday of $250 …
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Tweets: @felixsalmon, @coinbase, @balajis, @brian_armstrong, @fehrsam, @fehrsam, @hshaban, @kr00ney, @fehrsam, @hannolustig, @thestalwart, @pmarca, @felixsalmon, @levynews, @levynews, @caseynewton, @jeffjohnroberts, @ericnewcomer, @adamdraper, @ericnewcomer, @cnbctechcheck, @ericbolling, @eringriffith, @arca, @paulg, @cdixon, @tomgara, and @paulg
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Kuo: 2022 iPhone lineup will feature two 6.1" and two 6.7" devices, no mini-sized 5.4"; high end models will have 48MP camera and 8K video capability — The upcoming 2022 iPhone lineup will feature two 6.1-inch devices and two 6.7-inch devices, with no mini-sized 5.4-inch iPhone …
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AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, CNET, MacRumors, Gizmodo, SiliconANGLE, Softpedia News, Macworld, Mashable, Redmond Pie, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, KnowTechie, Pocketnow, iPhone in Canada Blog, Micky, iMore, BGR, GSMArena.com, TechRadar, Pocket-lint, and BGR India. Tweets: @alexhern
| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
Kuo: 2023 iPhones will feature an under-display Face ID system alongside a new periscope telephoto lens — Apple plans to include an under-display Face ID system starting with its 2023 iPhones, removing the need to house the facial recognition system in a notch, according to well-respected analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
The DOJ says the FBI performed a court-approved operation to “copy and remove malicious web shells” on hundreds of hacked Exchange servers across the US — The FBI obtained court approval to access vulnerable computers across the United States. — Joseph Cox| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
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Microsoft Security …, Sophos News, Microsoft Tech Community, ZDNet, CRN, Department of Homeland …, CyberScoop, Threatpost, WinBuzzer, SlashGear, Kaspersky official blog, and HealthITSecurity
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| Washington Post: |
Sources: Australian company Azimuth unlocked San Bernardino shooter's iPhone for FBI, using a flaw in Mozilla's open source code used for lightning accessories — Azimuth unlocked the iPhone at the center of an epic legal battle between the FBI and Apple. Now, Apple is suing the company co-founded …
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Engadget, VICE, iPhone Hacks, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, and 9to5Mac
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Ireland's Data Protection Commission says it is investigating Facebook's data leak that recently resulted in personal info of 533M accounts being posted online — Facebook's lead data supervisor in the European Union has opened an investigation into whether the tech giant violated data protection rules vis …
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Data Protection Commission, The Irish Times, The Hill, Engadget, Insider, CNET, Bloomberg, CNBC, Android Central, and Politico
Tweets: @carolecadwalla, @nicktoumpelis, @zackwhittaker, @adrianweckler, @dpcireland, @gcluley, and @jason_kint
| Mishaal Rahman / XDA Developers: |
Leaked Android 12 build gives a look at upcoming features, including quick settings, volume panel UI, location permissions, and clipboard access notification — It's been nearly 2 months since Google released the first Android 12 developer preview, and we're expecting the third developer preview to drop at any moment.
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XDA Developers, Softpedia News, iPhone Hacks, Redmond Pie, Android Authority, Tom's Guide, Android Central, TechRadar, MacRumors, and PhoneArena
Tweets: @gautam_thapar, @caseynewton, @mishaalrahman, and @mishaalrahman
| New York Times: |
Hundreds of executives and companies, including Alphabet, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon, sign a statement opposing “any discriminatory legislation” around voting — Amazon, Google, G.M. and Starbucks were among those joining the biggest show of solidarity by businesses over legislation in numerous states.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google announces Assistant updates, including helping find misplaced iPhones, even those in silent mode, and improvements to online food ordering checkout — Google today announced a handful of new Assistant features, while making others more widely available.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Parallels releases Desktop 16.5 with native Apple Silicon support, letting users run Windows 10 ARM Insider Preview on M1 Macs, and touts improved performance — M1 Mac users now have a new way to virtualize Windows on their machines. Parallels has officially released Parallels Desktop 16.5 today …
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| Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist: |
Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage situations, raising fears of unwanted surveillance — The NYPD's robot dog is once again stirring privacy concerns and cyberpunk prophesies of some New Yorkers, after the four-legged machine …
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| Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: |
A glossary to help decode the language used by Google and Facebook to reassure the public about AI responsibility without inviting deeper scrutiny — 50-ish words you can use to show that you care without incriminating yourself. — AI researchers often say good machine learning is really more art than science.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram says it is running a global test to let users turn off Like counts on their own or others' posts; Facebook says it will also run a similar test — Instagram today will begin a new test around hiding Like counts on users' posts, following its experiments in this area which first began in 2019.| William Gallagher / AppleInsider: |
University of Washington researchers partner with Apple to study how Apple Watch may be used to predict respiratory illnesses such as COVID-19 or flu — Researchers at the University of Washington have partnered with Apple to study how Apple Watch may be used to predict illnesses such as coronavirus, or flu.| David Sali / Ottawa Business Journal: |
Internal memo: three high-ranking Shopify executives, the chief technology officer, chief talent officer, and chief legal officer, are leaving in June — Three of Shopify's highest-ranking executives are leaving the Ottawa-based e-commerce giant, OBJ has learned.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Amazon unveils second-gen Echo Buds with a 20% smaller design and enhanced noise cancellation for $120 or $140 with a wireless charging case — The second-gen Echo Buds are 20 percent smaller and priced very aggressively — Amazon is today introducing its second-generation pair of Echo Buds.
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Tweets: @chriswelch, @dcseifert, @backlon, and @backlon
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Customers describe unhappiness with Apple contractor Phobio's handling of trade-ins, with quotes for devices slashed for alleged “defects” after being sent in — When Daniel McGloin decided to trade in his mid-2017 Apple MacBook in February of this year, he thought he was getting a pretty good deal.| Kollen Post / The Block: |
US Senate confirms Gary Gensler as chairman of the SEC; Gensler oversaw the CFTC under Obama and taught classes at MIT on digital assets and blockchain — The U.S. Senate has officially confirmed Gary Gensler as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
The debate over retiring engineering terms like “slave” and “blacklist” has led to nearly a year of back and forth discussion at Internet Engineering Task Force — Nearly a year after the Internet Engineering Task Force took up a plan to replace words that could be considered racist, the debate is still raging.
Tweets: @meghanemorris, @bdeskin, @mnot, and @haggertyvilla
| Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: |
Scale AI, which helps companies manage data for AI applications, raises $325M at a $7.3B valuation, up from a $3.5B valuation in December 2020 — Subscribe to Eye on A.I. for expert weekly analysis on the intersection of artificial intelligence and industry, delivered free to your inbox.| Charlie Warzel / Galaxy Brain: |
Twitter's Trending Topics, designed to surface significant news, invariably leads to context collapse, where disparate audiences are lecturing past each other — Adventures in context collapse. — 1 hr ago … We Need To Get Rid Of Twitter Trending Topics
Tweets: @ambernoelle, @alexbrucesmith, @trevinwax, @ezraklein, @karenmcgrane, and @ezraklein
| Paul Resnikoff / Digital Music News: |
Spotify has now removed 42 episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, offering no explanations for the removals — Spotify is continuing to remove episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience as part of their $100 million exclusive relationship, with more nixed shows discovered this week.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Sony unveils 6.5" Xperia 1 III and 6.1" Xperia 5 III flagships with variable telephoto lenses, Snapdragon 888, three 12MP rear cameras, and 4,500mAH battery — Another camera-focused iteration of Sony's flagship Android phone — Sony is announcing two new phones today, the Xperia 1 III and the Xperia 5 III.
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Tweets: @backlon, @sondesix, @backlon, @zuby_tech, @backlon, @whathifi, and @dcseifert
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Indian startup Zeta, which helps banks launch fintech products, raises ~$250M Series D led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, valuing the startup at ~$1.3B — Bangalore-based fintech startup Zeta has clinched the much sought-after unicorn status after finalizing a new financing round led … | Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Sunday, which helps restaurants improve their checkout flow, raises $24M seed at a $140M post-money valuation led by Coatue — Meet Sunday, a new startup that is going to attract some headlines as it has raised a $24 million seed round at a $140 million post-money valuation.| Richa Naidu / Reuters: |
How Walmart's Marketplace, which grew from six third-party sellers in 2014 to ~70K in 2020, is competing with Amazon, as some worry Walmart's system is stressed — CHICAGO (Reuters) - Between 2009 and 2014, Walmart's Marketplace business, where outside merchants hawk everything from baby blankets … | Wall Street Journal: |
Federal regulators say hospitals and health insurers can't use code that hides healthcare pricing data from web searches — The guidance regarding insurers' required posting of healthcare prices came after The Wall Street Journal revealed hospitals used such coding on their price pages
Tweets: @jayhancock1 and @wsj
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