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Sources: Apple is planning to use its own processors in Macs by 2020, replacing Intel; Intel stock down 8%+ today — 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 is sharing the HIV status and “last tested” date of users with two other firms, according to an analysis by an outside research firm 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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| 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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| 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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| Matthew Prince / Cloudflare Blog: |
Cloudflare debuts 1.1.1.1, a free privacy-first consumer DNS service, which collects as little info as possible and wipes logs daily, retains KPMG as an auditor — Cloudflare's mission is to help build a better Internet. We're excited today to take another step toward that mission …
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| Bloomberg: |
How Google, carriers, and startups plan to capitalize on the Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum, likely to be freed from US military control this year — A bold plan to open up spectrum could rock the wireless industry and prove a $260 billion win for consumers. Guess-who would also make out all right.
Tweets: @kevinctofel and @mhbergen
| Tom Pendergast / Wired: |
GDPR in the EU and similar laws in other countries, along with Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal, may point to global shift in favor of personal data control — THE HEADLINES ABOUT the trade wars being touched off by President Trump's new tariffs may telegraph plenty of bombast and shots fired … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube debuts “TrueView for reach”, which lets advertisers show ads as short as 6 seconds that can be skipped after 5 — YouTube today is introducing a new way for advertisers to maximize reach from their shorter ads. The change arrives around two years after YouTube's introduction … | 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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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Interview with Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst about growing the company's core business beyond Linux with cloud computing projects like OpenShift and OpenStack — The Red Hat Linux distribution is turning 25 years old this week. What started as one of the earliest Linux distributions …
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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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