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Sources: Spotify plans to announce a Apple Podcasts Subscriptions competitor that will let podcasters set their own prices without charging them or taking a cut — Podcasts exploded in popularity during the lockdown and are on track to bring in more than $1 billion in U.S. ad revenue this year| Technical University of Darmstadt: |
Researchers: an AirDrop user's phone number and email address can be learned via nearby Wi-Fi-capable devices when they open an iOS or macOS sharing pane — TU-Researchers discover significant privacy leak in Apple's file-sharing service — Apple users can share files with each other using AirDrop.
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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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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Cryptocurrency market loses $200B+ in a day as bitcoin plunges below $50K as President Biden is expected to raise long-term capital gains tax — - Bitcoin and other digital coins plunged on Friday wiping over $260 billion of the value of the cryptocurrency market.
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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 … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook launches a series of global News Feed ranking tests to solicit user feedback on posts they're seeing and what posts users find valuable — Facebook may be reconfiguring its News Feed algorithms. After being grilled by lawmakers about the role that Facebook played in the attack …
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| 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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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” … | 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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| 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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| 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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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Accolade, a health care service for employees to manage benefits, is buying virtual primary care startup PlushCare for up to $450M, in a cash and stock deal — The news: Seattle-based health benefits platform Accolade will pay up to $450 million to acquire PlushCare, a Bay Area-based startup that offers virtual primary care.Sponsor Posts
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