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| Michael Grothaus / Fast Company: |
Apple executives detail privacy and anti-stalking protections built into AirTags and insist they are designed just to track items, not people or pets — Apple's “Spring Loaded” event on Tuesday offered a bonanza of new hardware announcements, including some unexpected ones.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Apple AirTag hands-on: works very well with a thoughtfully designed system, beautiful with a plastic body that serves as a speaker, but get scuffed easily — They work super well, and they're one more thing keeping you on the iPhone — I was starting to get really worried that I wouldn't find my friend.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 to include upgrades to notifications, Lock Screen, and iMessage, a redesigned iPad Home Screen, and more privacy protections — - New privacy tools, updates to iMessage app also planned — Company to show software updates at June developer conference
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| Steve Kovach / CNBC: |
Report: Apple is working on upgrades to iMessage with the eventual goal of making it more like a social network, to better compete with WhatsApp — - Apple is working on enhancements to iMessage that will help it compete with the more robust social networking features in Facebook's products, Bloomberg reported on Thursday.
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Laptop Mag and Gizchina
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Consumer Reports says it was “easily” able to trick Tesla's Autopilot system to operate without anyone in the driver's seat — Consumer Reports says, ‘Under no circumstance should anyone try this’ — Consumer Reports said Thursday it was “easily” able to trick Tesla's Autopilot system …
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| BuzzFeed News: |
An internal Facebook report found it failed to take appropriate action against Stop the Steal groups before Capitol riot, saying it should “do better next time” — Last month, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in front of a House of Representatives committee that his company …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple plans to expand its ad business and add a second ad slot in the App Store search page even as it introduces privacy rules crippling ads by rivals — New privacy rules deal a huge blow to how the mobile advertising industry works — Apple will expand its advertising business …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q1 revenue of $18.6B, flat YoY, vs. $17.90B est., Data Center Group revenue of $5.56B, down from $6.99B YoY, and PC unit volumes were up 38% YoY — - Intel's first-quarter earnings are the first with CEO Pat Gelsinger at the helm. — He's already announced a turnaround …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Signal's CEO says he analyzed a Cellebrite device, used to extract data from phones, that fell off a truck, and it is full of easily exploitable security flaws — One of the biggest encrypted chat apps in the world just showed how a device used to decrypt messages can be hacked and tampered with.
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| Greg Stohr / Bloomberg: |
SCOTUS slashes FTC's power to seek monetary awards in court, banning a tool that it used to fine tech and other companies engaged in unfair business practices — - Ruling eliminates tool agency had used to collect billions — Unanimous decision is a triumph for business trade groups
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Near Media, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Washington Post, Politico, PYMNTS.com, and Associated Press
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| Andy Robinson / VGC: |
Sony confirms it is testing PlayStation Plus Video Pass, which lets PS Plus subscribers access over 20 movie and TV shows from Sony Pictures, in Poland — POLISH USERS HAVE ACCESS TO VIDEO CONTENT FROM TODAY; NO NEWS ON OTHER MARKETS YET — Sony Interactive Entertainment …
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Video Games Chronicle, Gizmodo, SlashGear, MUO, KnowTechie, GamingBolt, Engadget, Game Rant, Stevivor, Digital Trends, and The Verge
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| Bloomberg: |
Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Intel, and Alphabet had a combined $100B+ in overseas pretax income in FY 2020, making them targets of Biden's new tax plans — - Biden plan takes aim at popular tech tax-code maneuvers — Book income tax would have cost Apple alone $3.8 bln in 2020
Tweets: @ron_miller and @alistairmbarr
| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Two senators are circulating a draft amendment that exempts 15K self-driving vehicles per manufacturer annually from human driver safety standards, up from 2.5K — WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two U.S. senators are working to attach legislation to allow automakers to deploy tens of thousands … | Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Snap Q1: revenue of $770M, up 66% YoY, DAUs up 22% YoY to 280M, and free cash flow hit $126M, its first quarter of free positive cash flow as a public company — - Snap's stock rose in after-hours trading on Thursday after the company reported its first-quarter results despite beating Wall …
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| José Adorno / 9to5Mac: |
Report: iPhone 12 models accounted for 61% of US iPhone sales in Q1 2021; iPhone 12 mini was the lowest selling iPhone of the quarter, behind iPhone SE and XR — As Apple prepares to report its earnings results for the second quarter of the 2021 fiscal year next week, a new report … | Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
AfterShip, which lets online sellers track packages across different carriers, raises $66M Series B led by Tiger Global, following a $1M Series A in 2014 — AfterShip launched in 2012 to help online sellers track packages across different carriers, but since then it has built a suite … | Nic Fildes / Financial Times: |
Canada-based Alphawave IP, which develops chip technology for faster data flow through networks, is aiming to raise $500M+ via a London IPO at a $4.5B valuation — Chip designer says listing in UK trumped both US and Canada despite Deliveroo's turbulent debut
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Telegraph, Globe and Mail, MarketWatch, CityAM, Verdict, This is Money, The Logic, Bloomberg, CNBC, Reuters, and Sifted
Tweets: @seansilcoff, @chrispmayo, @christpatsi, @financialtimes, @ygebrekiros, @robertscammell, @maijapalmer, and @sam_l_shead
| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Chris Poole, founder of 4chan, has left Google; he joined the company in 2016 and jumped between several different roles during his five years — - Chris “Moot” Poole has left Google five years after his hiring made waves. — Poole is best known as the “boy-genius” … Thanks:@mattrosoff
| Crystal Tse / Bloomberg: |
Confluent, an event streaming platform based on Apache Kafka, says it has filed confidentially for a US IPO; Confluent was last valued at $4.5B in April 2020 — Confluent Inc., an event streaming platform, has filed confidentially to go public in the U.S. — The company said in a statement …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A: Vimeo CEO Anjali Sud on how the company is helping large and small companies use video, its growing OTT business of making TV apps for creators, and more — Today on Decoder I'm talking to Anjali Sud, the CEO of Vimeo. Now, you probably think of Vimeo as a smaller competitor to YouTube … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says there are 2B+ users each month watching videos eligible for in-stream ads and is starting a test of targeting by topic for in-stream video ads — Facebook is announcing some new capabilities for video advertisers on Facebook and Instagram, as well as new numbers about the potential audience that those ads might reach.
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Facebook, Social Media Today, Reuters, Engadget, and The Verge
Tweets: @winniekamau254, @wongmjane, @litterstflorian, and @mattnavarra
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Productboard, which helps product managers prioritize what to build next, raises $72M Series C led by Tiger Global, bringing its total raised to $137M+ — Productboard, a startup developing a DevOps orchestration system for enterprises, today announced that it raised $72 million in a series C round.Sponsor Posts
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