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Microsoft debuts Power Pages, a low-code website builder, and Power Apps Express Design, which can turn images into an app with controls and data storage — It's that time of the year again when Microsoft holds its Build developer event, and with it comes a ton of news for all kinds of Microsoft products.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft unveils Project Volterra, an ARM-powered developer kit to explore “AI scenarios” coming in 2022, as Windows gains support for neural processing units — Today at Build 2022, Microsoft unveiled Project Volterra, a device powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon platform that's designed …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft will support third-party Windows 11 widgets later this year, allowing developers to offer them as companions to their win32 or PWA apps — Widgets might appear on the Windows 11 desktop soon, too — Microsoft is planning to support third-party widgets inside Windows 11 later this year.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft debuts Dev Box, a cloud-based developer workstation for spinning up preconfigured VMs integrated with Windows 365, in private preview — It's Windows 365 for developers — Microsoft put PCs in the cloud with Windows 365 last year, and now, it wants to entice developers to use a cloud-powered developer workstation.
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Google Research details Imagen, an AI-based text-to-image generator to rival OpenAI's DALL-E 2, and says it won't release code or a public demo at this time — The AI world is still figuring out how to deal with the amazing show of prowess that is DALL-E 2's ability to draw/paint/imagine …
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| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
As Street View turns 15, Google announces several updates, including historical imagery on iOS and Android and a smaller camera system for its cars — Street View for Google Maps launched 15 years ago this week, and Google is taking advantage of the anniversary to drop some updates …
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Niantic unveils Visual Positioning System, a platform for developers building location-aware AR apps, and debuts Campfire, a location-based social network — The maker of Pokémon Go is releasing its AR map for other apps and a location-based social network called Campfire
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| Simon Jessop / Reuters: |
Flowcarbon, a carbon credit trading blockchain service backed by WeWork's Adam Neumann, raises $32M led by a16z and $38M from selling its Goddess Nature Token — LONDON (Reuters) - Flowcarbon, a blockchain-enabled carbon credit trading platform backed by WeWork founder Adam Neumann …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Snap stock drops 41%+ after Evan Spiegel warns employees the company will miss its Q2 revenue and earnings targets and plans to slow hiring — - Snap will miss its own targets for revenue and adjusted earnings in the current quarter, CEO Evan Speigel warned on Monday in a note to employees.
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| Melissa Repko / CNBC: |
Walmart plans to expand its drone delivery service with DroneUp to Arizona, Florida, Texas, Utah, and Virginia, bringing its total network to 37 sites in 2022 — - Walmart is expanding drone deliveries across six states with operator DroneUp, bringing its total network to 37 sites by year-end.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Stripe launches an apps marketplace to bring third-party tools directly into Stripe, starting with 50+ apps from companies like Dropbox, Mailchimp, and DocuSign — Payments processing and financial infrastructure giant Stripe has launched a new apps marketplace, designed to bring third-party accounting … | James Vincent / The Verge: |
Delivery startup Gorillas lays off half its “global office workforce”, around 300 people, and will reassess its operations in Italy, Spain, Denmark, and Belgium — An unsustainable business or just a side effect of the tech downturn? — Grocery app Gorillas …
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| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
How Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's $419M donation to US local and state election officials in 2020 has become a target of right-wing conspiracies — If Mark Zuckerberg could have imagined the worst possible outcome of his decision to insert himself into the 2020 election … | Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
Semperis, a cybersecurity startup offering tools to protect Microsoft Active Directory users, raises over $200M led by KKR — U.S. cybersecurity software firm Semperis said it has raised over $200 million in a funding round led by private equity firm KKR & Co Inc (KKR.N) at a valuation substantially higher than in its previous round.
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