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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Google rolls out revamp of Gmail with refreshed UI, confidential mode, snoozing, nudging for time-sensitive emails, 2FA per message, high priority notifications — 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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| 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 — There's a new version of Alexa, Amazon's digital assistant, that's designed just for kids. The Amazon Echo Dot Kids Edition …
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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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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Sources: Microsoft is working on a new edition of Windows 10, codenamed Lean, that is 2GB smaller than the normal edition, aimed at devices with 16GB storage — Windows 10 Lean is Windows 10 on a diet. Featuring a much smaller footprint, Windows 10 Lean is designed for devices with 16GB …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snap announces Snappables, AR single and multiplayer mini games that sit alongside Lenses, launching globally this week with new games released weekly — Snapchat wants to let you play its augmented reality Lenses, not just play dress-up. Today it launched Snappables — AR games that use your touch …
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers discover flaw in Vingcard's Vision locks, used in 140K hotels in 160 counties, that lets them create master key using $300 reader and old key card — IN 2003, FINNISH security researcher Tomi Tuominen was attending a security conference in Berlin when a friend's laptop …
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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 …
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| 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.
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Opera Mobile, The Next Web, Engadget, 9to5Google, Opera Desktop, Thurrott.com, SlashGear, Android Authority, MSPoweruser, BetaNews, Inquirer, Softpedia News, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, Windows Central, and TechRadar.com. Tweets: @opera
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: US DOJ is investigating whether Huawei violated US sanctions related to Iran, amid broader concerns about the company from the US government — Probe raises the stakes for Huawei, which faces a series of moves by Washington to diminish its already-limited business dealings in the U.S.
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Tweets: @calbucci, @joshchin, @somospostpc, @blakesobczak, and @stuwoo
| 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.| 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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Tweets: @realdonaldtrump, @colincampbell, @gizmodo, @xeni, and @johnpaczkowski
| 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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Emojipedia, The Next Web, Digital Trends, USA Today, Mashable, TechCrunch, Engadget, Fortune, TechSpot, Android Authority, The Verge, and 9to5Google
Tweets: @michalmigurski, @jasonhowell, and @imkialikethecar
| Jamie Grierson / The Guardian: |
Webstresser, a platform that offered to stress cyber defences and has been linked to 4M+ cyberattacks, taken down after international investigation — Webstresser.org, which had 136,000 users, could be rented for £10 to launch DDoS attacks — A website linked to more than 4m cyber …
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Tweets: @nca_lynneowens, @europol, @nca_uk, and @europol
| 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 … | Jonathan Randles / Wall Street Journal: |
Filing: Peter Thiel agrees to withdraw bid for Gawker website and archives, will give eventual buyer legal release for archived articles — Billionaire venture capitalist will sit out sale of dormant blog to avoid potential legal claims against him — Billionaire investor Peter Thiel …
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Tweets: @albertburneko, @smorgasboredom, @freedomofpress, @wsj, @hamiltonnolan, and @tomscocca
| 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 …
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| Katie Roof / TechCrunch: |
Texas-based BigCommerce, which develops a platform to help companies with e-commerce, raises $64M led by Goldman Sachs, bringing total funding to $200M+ — Austin, Texas-based BigCommerce has completed a big round of funding. — The growth stage startup, which powers e-commerce sites for Sony … | 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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