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April 24, 2018, 9:00 AM

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Alphabet:
Alphabet reports Q1 revenue of $31.1B, up 26% YoY, net income of $9.4B, up from $5.4B YoY, but capital expenditures hit $7.3B, up from $2.5B YoY  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - April 23, 2018 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2018.
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Amazon partners with GM and Volvo to launch in-car package delivery service for Prime subscribers in 37 cities in the US  —  New service in collaboration with GM and Volvo will launch in 37 cities in the US  —  Last year, Amazon asked for permission to unlock your front door …
Kyle Orland / Ars Technica:
Researchers reveal unpatchable vulnerability in Nvidia Tegra chips that make all currently available Nintendo Switch consoles hackable  —  Newly published Tegra bootROM exploit could be a big headache for Nintendo and others.  —  A newly published “exploit chain” for Nvidia Tegra X1-based systems seems …
YouTube Blog:
YouTube releases its first community guidelines enforcement report: 8M+ videos removed in Q4 2017, with 6.7M first flagged by machines  —  In December we shared how we're expanding our work to remove content that violates our policies.  Today, we're providing an update and giving …
Monika Bickert / Facebook:
Facebook publishes the internal guidelines it uses to enforce its public Community Standards, will allow users to appeal when their posts are taken down  —  One of the questions we're asked most often is how we decide what's allowed on Facebook.  These decisions are among the most important …
Shannon Liao / The Verge:
Human Rights Watch: Chinese tech giants like Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent discriminate against women in some job listings by posting “men only” job ads, more  —  Qualifications for the job: Must be a man  —  Silicon Valley isn't the only tech hub guilty of widespread gender discrimination.
Steve Pratt / Pacific Content:
As it prepares to launch a podcasts app, Google adds seamless podcast listening across devices, allowing users to listen on a phone and resume on Google Home  —  Google has a new podcasting strategy that completely reimagines how people find and listen to shows.  Today, part one of our exclusive five-part series.
Ry Crist / CNET:
Inside Amazon's Lab126 and the Alexa Voice Services team, which has helped manufacturers pack Alexa into more than a hundred consumer devices  —  “JR” has a big, dumb grin on his face as he meanders around the room.  A Bluetooth speaker strapped to his back blasts out the first few lines …
Thanks:@rycrist

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