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Fidji Simo / Facebook:
Facebook overhauls Live Video with support for groups and events, reactions, comments, filters, and a global map  —  Introducing New Ways to Create, Share and Discover Live Video on Facebook  —  With Facebook Live you can use your phone to share a moment instantly with the people you care about.
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Vivaldi browser launches out of beta with plenty of customization features for power users  —  Vivaldi browser hits 1.0  —  After more than a year of public alpha and beta releases, the Vivaldi browser is hitting its 1.0 release today.  —  Vivaldi, which was founded by Opera co-founder …
Nick Summers / Engadget:
IKEA launches IKEA VR Experience, a kitchen showroom app for HTC Vive now on Steam, as a pilot that runs through August  —  Ikea made a kitchen showroom in VR  —  Don't want to go to the store?  No problem.
Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:
Source: new higher-end Kindle will be thinner and come with a rechargeable case for extended battery life, and a solar-powered case is in development  —  Amazon to Release New Kindle With Rechargeable Protective Case  —  Solar-charged Kindle case also being developed
Cade Metz / Wired:
WhatsApp says it has enabled end-to-end encryption for all forms of communication on its service, which now has over a billion users, by default
Ron Miller / TechCrunch:
Microsoft makes Cloud App Security generally available, using the tech from last year's Adallom acquisition  —  Microsoft marches forward with its security plan, releasing Cloud App Security  —  As Microsoft works its way toward implementing the security plan that CEO Satya Nadella outlined …
More: VentureBeat.  Thanks:@anectolts
Rosie Bubb / Lyft Blog:
Lyft Line carpooling service to launch in Denver, Philadelphia, San Diego, San Jose, Seattle and Newark, starting April 11  —  Five Days.  Six Cities.  A Lyft Line First.  —  From April 11-15, Lyft Line will launch in six of our fastest growing cities: Denver, Philadelphia, San Diego, San Jose, Seattle, and Newark.

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Rob Bonta / Deadline:
California AG Rob Bonta says AGs' antitrust case is on antitrust grounds, not politics, and Paramount is “spearheading” a PR campaign to spin a false narrative

Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
More than 800 unionized USA Today staffers call on the company to dissolve its recently announced partnership with Palantir, citing “significant ethical issues”

Liz Skalka / Columbia Journalism Review:
SPJ releases a draft of its revised ethics code, its first update since 2014, including removing a line that journalism should “give voice to the voiceless”

More News

The Charlotte Observer:
PayPal drops plan to build $3.6M, 400-worker facility in Charlotte, NC, over recent discriminatory LGBT law
Daniel Rubino / Windows Central:
Sources: Microsoft's Surface phone slated for 2017, likely to come in three variants for different pricing tiers and markets

Earlier Picks

Jim McGregor / Forbes:
NVIDIA announces new Tesla P100 GPU with 15B+ transistors, 16GB of High-Bandwidth Memory for deep learning, manufactured using latest 16nm FinFET process
Emily Steel / New York Times:
Starz launches standalone streaming service with apps for Android and iOS at $9/month, less than Showtime's $11/month offering
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