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Apple announces media event at a Chicago high school at 10am CT on March 27, focused on “creative new ideas for teachers and students” — Apple today invited the media to an event on Tuesday, March 27 at Lane Tech College Prep High School in Chicago.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Mac: |
Google Lens starts rolling out on iOS with Google Photos app 3.15 update — Last month, Google announced that Lens — its set of visual search and analysis tools — is coming to iOS. First introduced at last year's Google I/O developer conference, it will be rolling out over the coming weeks to all users using Google Photos.
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| Daniel Oberhaus / Motherboard: |
Plattsburgh, New York, imposes an 18-month moratorium on bitcoin mining for new commercial operations, after residents complained of increased electricity bills — Plattsburgh, New York has imposed an 18-month moratorium on Bitcoin mining to prevent miners from using all the city's cheap electricity.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils cloud gaming division led by Microsoft vet Kareem Choudhry who says the company wants content available across all devices, hints at streaming — Cloud services seen as the future of games — Microsoft shipped its first video game in 1981, appropriately named Microsoft Adventure.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Crypto wallet startup Abra increases cryptocurrencies it supports from two to 20, to include Bitcoin Cash, Dash, Golem, Ethereum Classic, Dogecoin, more — Crypto wallet startup Abra is expanding the number of cryptocurrencies it supports to 20 from just two - bitcoin and ethereum - currently.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
SwiftKey 7.0, in the first major update from Microsoft after acquisition, introduces toolbar with GIFs and stickers; location and calendar features coming soon — Microsoft is unveiling its first major update to the SwiftKey keyboard it acquired back in 2016.| Joe McKendrick / ZDNet: |
Cloudability study: among AWS users, container adoption grew 246% and serverless adoption grew 667% in Q4 2017 due to upticks in AI and ML applications — Analysis of Amazon Web Services customers finds serverless computing and containers becoming the norm; hints at impending tsunami … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Cloud security startup Zscaler opens at $27.50, a pop of 72% on Nasdaq, raising $192M in its IPO — The first big tech IPO of the year has opened with a bang. Zscaler, a security startup that confidentially filed for an IPO last year, started trading this morning as ZS on Nasdaq at a price of $27.50/share.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: stock-trading app Robinhood is raising around $350M led by DST Global at a $5.6B valuation, a fourfold increase in one year — Russian firm DST Global is leading the $350 million investment in the stock-trading app — Robinhood Financial LLC is set to be valued at about $5.6 billion …
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Google says no statistically significant pay gap exists related to gender or race for 89% of its 70,000+ employees; disclosure omits some, like SVPs and above — Highest-paid jobs, majority held by men, excluded from report — Shareholder calls analysis ‘incomplete,’ presses for more
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| Leigh Cuen / CoinDesk: |
Lightning Labs raises $2.5M from Jack Dorsey, Charlie Lee, David Sacks, and more, launches beta of software that allows Bitcoin Lightning Network payments — A version of bitcoin's much-anticipated Lightning Network is finally ready for real users. — Announced today, California startup Lightning Labs …
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| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
Adobe beats with Q1 revenue of $2.08B, up 24% YoY, boosted by subscription revenue of $1.79B; stock has surged 25% so far this year after jumping 70% last year — Customers are buying multiple applications from the company — Adobe to raise prices on popular software, like Photoshop| Financial Times: |
Sources: Paul Jacobs, former Qualcomm executive chairman and son of the founder, informed the company board that he is considering bid to take Qualcomm private — James Fontanella-Khan in New Orleans, Tom Braithwaite in San Francisco and Arash Massoudi in Helsinki March 15, 2018
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