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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Google begins rolling out a visual and security revamp of Gmail with confidential mode, snoozing, nudging for time-sensitive emails, 2FA per message, IRM, more — Snoozing, nudging, hover actions, and a new sidebar — it's a mobile app on the web! — The world's most popular email service is getting a big overhaul today.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google debuts Tasks, a dedicated to-do app for iOS and Android that lets users add tasks from Google Calendar and Gmail — In addition to a leak late last month, the Gmail on the web revamp confirmed the existence of Google Tasks. Today, Google's new and unified to-do solution is available …
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| Selina Wang / Bloomberg: |
Twitter beats Q1 estimates with revenue of $665M, up 21% YoY, vs. $605.9M est., and says DAUs up 10% YoY; MAUs up 3% YoY to 336M vs. 334.2M est.; stock up 4%+ — Revenue increases 21 percent, the biggest jump in two years — Monthly active users rise by 3 percent to 336 million
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| Mat Honan / BuzzFeed: |
Amazon launches a $79 Echo Dot Kids Edition with kid-friendly Alexa and one year of FreeTime Unlimited, a bundle of curated content with a Parent Dashboard — Rose Wong for BuzzFeed News; Allyson Laquian / BuzzFeed News — There's a new version of Alexa, Amazon's digital assistant, that's designed just for kids.
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| Kellen / Droid Life: |
Source: Google Play Music will be replaced by YouTube's upcoming music streaming service, with Play Music users forced to use the new service by the end of 2018 — When Google finally launches its rumored YouTube Remix platform this year, one of its other services will be put to rest.| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Opera launches Touch, a mobile browser designed for one-handed use, and Flow to keep the mobile browser in sync with an updated desktop browser — Opera is releasing a new Android web browser today with a couple of clever interface choices meant to make it easier to use than other mobile browsers.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Tim Cook to meet Trump at the White House Wednesday, in a meeting closed to the press, amid US-China trade tensions that could affect Apple's business in Asia — Cook attended Tuesday's state dinner for France's Macron — Apple CEO has urged China and U.S. to settle trade differences
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Attackers successfully rerouted DNS requests for myetherwallet.com, showing visitors an unsigned SSL cert and apparently taking $13K+ in Ethereum in two hours — At midnight ET last night, MyEtherWallet users started noticing something odd. Connecting to the service …
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| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Google is changing its pistol emoji into a squirt gun in Android P, following Apple, Twitter, and Samsung — A few years ago, Apple was the first big emoji designer to stop rendering the “pistol” emoji as a real gun. It went from a revolver to a green squirt gun, and other companies have just started coming around.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram begins rolling out a data download tool, similar to Facebook's Download Your Information feature, ahead of new GDPR privacy law rollout next month — Two weeks ago TechCrunch called on Instagram to build an equivalent to Facebook's “Download Your Information feature so if you wanted …
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Facebook VP Kevin Martin replaces Erin Egan as the company's head of policy in the US on an interim basis; Erin Egan will remain as chief privacy officer — WASHINGTON — Facebook on Tuesday replaced its head of policy in the United States, Erin Egan, as the social network scrambles to respond … | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 11.3.1 with fix for bug that caused iPhones with third-party display replacements to be unresponsive — Apple has released a new software update for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. iOS 11.3.1 is likely a bug fix update to the iOS 11.3 software update released last month.
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| Tom Jackman / Washington Post: |
Federal appeals court upholds a 15-month prison sentence for e-waste recycler Eric Lundgren for making Windows restore disks — A California man who built a sizable business out of recycling electronic waste is headed to federal prison for 15 months after a federal appeals court in Miami rejected … | Aliya Ram / Financial Times: |
Sources: SoftBank to move $20B+ of investments in ride-hailing services like Uber, Ola, Grab, and Didi Chuxing into the Vision Fund within months — Japan's SoftBank is planning to swap more than $20bn of investments in some of the world's largest ride hailing groups including Uber, Ola … | Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Atlanta spent ~$2.6M on recovery efforts after the ransomware attack against city's systems, though it isn't clear if the city tried to pay the ~$50,000 ransom — THE CITY OF Atlanta spent more than $2.6 million on emergency efforts to respond to a ransomware attack that destabilized municipal operations last month.| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Oath, which owns Yahoo and AOL, is changing its terms of service to force users to give up their class action lawsuit rights in the US — Verizon's Oath unit, which includes Yahoo, AOL and other media properties, is making a change that requires users to give up their right to be part of class action lawsuits.| Monica Nickelsburg / GeekWire: |
USCIS tells Senate of its plans to stop letting spouses of H-1B visa holders apply for work permits and is working to rescind “International Entrepreneur Rule” — Immigration authorities are cracking down on requirements and conditions for H-1B visas, which many employers … | Paul Sandle / Reuters: |
Facebook's WhatsApp announces it will update privacy policy, raising its minimum age from 13 to 16 in Europe, and provide a data download tool ahead of GDPR — LONDON (Reuters) - WhatsApp, the popular messaging service owned by Facebook Inc (FB.O), is raising its minimum age from 13 to 16 …
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Inquirer, The Guardian, CNET, Android Authority, MediaNama, WhatsApp.com, Fortune, Ubergizmo, 9to5Mac, PhoneDog.com, and The Verge. Tweets: @sharonodea
| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Some YouTube thumbnails depicted bestiality, now pulled; YouTube says monitoring tech missed because bestiality thumbnails may lack signals of typical porn — There is bestiality on YouTube, and it's surprisingly easy to find. It's also surprisingly prevalent, but not in videos … | Bloomberg: |
Chinese student activist's letter about faculty intimidation was attached to an ether transaction and posted to the blockchain to evade #MeToo movement censors — Rare student movement seeks to avert government curbs — Blockchain was used as an anti-censorship tool in the petition
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
To better protect user data, Facebook and Instagram announce they will shut down or make changes to several APIs, with some going into effect today — Facebook is making good on Mark Zuckerberg's promise to prioritize user safety and data privacy over its developer platform.
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