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April 2, 2018, 3:10 PM

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Bloomberg:
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.
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 …
Azeen Ghorayshi / BuzzFeed:
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
More: 9to5Google and Engadget

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