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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is planning to use its own processors in Macs by 2020, replacing Intel; Intel stock closes down 6.07% — Apple is planning to use its own chips in Mac computers beginning as early as 2020, replacing processors from Intel, according to people familiar with the plans, Bloomberg News' Ian King and Mark Gurman report.
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| Ezra Klein / Vox: |
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg about Facebook's hardest year, how it has changed the company's future ambitions, and his faith in its mission — “We will dig through this hole, but it will take a few years.” — It's been a tough year for Facebook. The social networking juggernaut found itself engulfed …
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| Azeen Ghorayshi / BuzzFeed: |
Grindr shares users' HIV status, “last tested” date, other personal info with 3rd parties, according to an outside research firm's analysis verified by BuzzFeed — The gay hookup app Grindr, which has more than 3.6 million daily active users across the world …
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| Kyle Wiggers / XDA Developers: |
Google bans all crypto-mining Chrome extensions from its Web Store, removing existing ones by July, after 90% failed to properly inform users about the activity — Despite new regulatory hurdles and a market downturn, the adoption of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin shows no sign of slowing down.
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| Bloomberg: |
Profile of Waymo CEO John Krafcik, who is confident Waymo offers superior safety to Uber after the rival's fatal accident; source: Waymo nearing deal with Honda — Waymo, the self-driving car company started by Google, did nothing after an autonomous vehicle run by Uber killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona.| CoinDesk: |
SEC charges Centra Tech co-founders with fraud following last year's ICO, which raised $32M+ and received endorsements from Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has halted an initial coin offering and charged its founders with “orchestrating …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google search chief John Giannandrea to step down and return to AI research, Jeff Dean will lead Google's AI efforts, and Ben Gomes will become VP of search — Two years ago, Google appointed its head of artificial intelligence to lead Search in a move that reflected the future of the company.| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Learning platform Pluralsight, which has raised $238M+ to date, announces it has filed with the SEC for an IPO — One of Utah's cloud unicorns is the latest tech startup to join a herd of companies going public after Dropbox's successful IPO. — Pluralsight has filed confidentially …
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| Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
Reddit begins months-long roll out of its site redesign, with ~1% of users seeing it today, will allow users to switch back to old site layout for now — Goodbye, dystopian Craigslist. There's a new Reddit, and it's all grown up. — ON A RAINY day in San Francisco … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
ESPN will launch its over-the-top streaming service, ESPN+, on April 12 for $4.99 per month — ESPN's new streaming service, ESPN+, was already expected to arrive this spring. Now we have the launch date: April 12, 2018. The service will cost subscribers $4.99 per month …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google expands its initiative to equip rural school buses with Wi-Fi and Chromebooks to 16 additional school districts — Google today announced an expansion of its Rolling Study Halls initiative to over 16 additional school districts, giving “thousands” of students access to Wi-Fi and Chromebooks on their buses.
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| Madison Malone Kircher / New York Magazine: |
After Facebook users complained that videos they'd deleted were found in downloadable archives, Facebook says it will delete the videos and blames issue on bug — Last week, Select All reported that Facebook had quietly been storing videos users never posted and believe they had deleted.| Wall Street Journal: |
As part of HQ2 search, Amazon officials have already visited 10 of 20 finalist cities, which are providing them with data including SAT scores of local students — Finalists for the company's second home base break out bicycles to win over the internet giant — Don't get too fancy.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube debuts “TrueView for reach”, which lets advertisers show ads as short as 6 seconds that can be skipped after 5 seconds — YouTube today is introducing a new way for advertisers to maximize reach from their shorter ads. The change arrives around two years … | Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Blockchain payments startup Bitpay raises $40M Series B with participation from Menlo Ventures and Aquiline Capital Partners — Not all investors or companies believe bitcoin will ultimately be used for day-to-day transactions. Menlo and Bitpay beg to differ.
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| Fraser Brown / PC Gamer: |
Valve's Steam Machines, the SteamOS gaming boxes from various vendors that debuted in 2015, are removed from the Steam store's front page amid waning interest — Goodbye, little boxes — Remember Steam Machines? Valve seems to be trying to forget its bid to get everyone playing games … | Sukhbir / Tor Project: |
Tor says it's sunsetting Tor Messenger, which launched in 2015 as a cross-platform OTR chat program — In 2015, we introduced Tor Messenger, a cross-platform chat program that aimed to be secure by default by sending all of its traffic over Tor and enforcing encrypted one-to-one conversations …
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