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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Snap launches slimmer Spectacles 2.0 with water resistance and faster pic and video transfer times, available at Spectacles.com for $150, $20 more than before — They're slimmer, they take photos, and you can take them in the pool. But will you? — Snap today released the next generation …
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Nintendo reports operating profit of $1.62B, up 505% YoY, on strong Switch sales of 15M units in the year ending March, and names Shuntaro Furukawa as president — Nintendo sold just over 15 million Switch consoles in the last financial year, matching its own raised expectations after a hugely successful launch.
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| Ruhi Sarikaya / Amazon Developer Services: |
Amazon details upcoming Alexa features: discovering skills via natural language, storing/retrieving arbitrary info, follow-up questions without “Alexa” prompt — Friction is any variable that impedes your progress toward a goal, whether it's purchasing a product or navigating traffic to make your 9 a.m. meeting on time.
| Fred Lambert / Electrek: |
Tesla's head of Autopilot and key chip designer Jim Keller is leaving, source says he will join Intel — Legendary chip architect Jim Keller has seen an increasingly important role at Tesla since he joined the company in 2015. — He most recently took over the responsibilities …
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| Bloomberg: |
Samsung, the exclusive supplier of iPhone X OLED screens, says its Q1 profits for its display business were “affected by slow demand for flexible OLED screens” — IPhone X screenmaker adds to chorus of sales concerns — Samsung is exclusive supplier of OLED screens to Apple
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
IBM partners with a jewelry consortium to introduce TrustChain, a blockchain to prove the provenance of jewelry by following the supply chain from mine to store — Every time I talk to someone about the viability of blockchain, I get challenged to show a real project beyond the obvious bitcoin use case.
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
As the Google-led Chat carrier service shows, encryption is only viable for closed systems, so increased privacy regulations may further entrench walled gardens — It was eight years ago next month that Vic Gundotra, then-VP of Engineering at Google, delivered a blistering attack on Apple for not being open:1| Paula Parisi / Variety: |
US House unanimously passes Music Modernization Act to streamline licensing and ensure royalty protection for pre-1972 performances; bill now goes to Senate — In what is being hailed as a historic day for music creators, theMusic Modernization Act passed the House Wednesday … | Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Qualcomm says it will cap phone price at $400 for IP license fee calculations so vendors don't have to pay more for more expensive phones — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Qualcomm Inc's earnings call on Wednesday showed just how far the company is willing to go to preserve one of its core business practices … | Sui-Lee Wee / New York Times: |
A look at China's “programmer motivators”, attractive women hired at tech firms to chat up, fan, and calm male coders, as well as give massages to ease stress — BEIJING — China's vibrant technology scene is searching for people like Shen Yue.
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
London-based payments startup Revolut raises $250M led by DST Global, bringing its valuation to $1.7B, says it has 250K daily active users — - DST Global, a company that was an early investor in Facebook and Spotify, led the funding round, which included other venture capital firms Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital.
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| Morgen Peck / Glamour: |
A look at nine influential women in cryptocurrency, who are working towards making the technology more inclusive and less biased by closing the gender gap — Meet nine women who are changing the game. — When dinner conversations turn to cryptocurrency, as they often do these days … | Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
How 205 Facebook and Instagram accounts were impersonating Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, many to scam vulnerable users through promises of lottery prizes — SAN FRANCISCO — A Facebook notification on Gary Bernhardt's phone woke him up one night last November with incredible news …
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| CBC News: |
Researchers say ten countries are using internet-filtering tech by a Canadian firm to censor news, religious content, LGBTQ+ resources, and political campaigns — A new Citizen Lab report says Netsweeper is being used to censor political critics, news, and LGBTQ+ resources
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| Julia Fioretti / Reuters: |
EU lawmakers, member states strike preliminary deal to make streaming platforms finance production of local content in proportion to revenues in the country — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU lawmakers and member states on Thursday struck a preliminary deal that will allow countries … | Kif Leswing / Business Insider: |
Facebook and Microsoft confirm plans to update their gun emoji designs to be more in line with Apple, Samsung, and Google; Microsoft shares water gun design — - Apple changed the design of the gun emoji into a squirt gun back in 2016. — At the time, it was a controversial choice, but tech companies have since followed suit.
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| Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter: |
A look at the future of Hulu, which, sources say, is nearing 20M subscribers, up 18% in 4 months aided by Handmaid's Tale and Live TV — As season 2 of the reigning Emmy champ debuts and the streaming service once nicknamed “Clown Co.” now nears 20 million subscribers … | Dustin Volz / Reuters: |
Uber is updating its bug bounty policies and clarifies what it does and does not mean by “good faith” vulnerability research — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Uber on Thursday plans to announce changes to how it rewards cyber researchers who report flaws in its software … Thanks:@dnvolz
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
How Grindr and Hornet are working to keep their users safe in places like Egypt, where LGBTQ dating apps are used by police to find targets for persecution — Firas knew something was wrong when he saw the checkpoint. He was meeting a man in Dokki's Mesaha Square, a tree-lined park …
Tweets: @article19org and @maasalan
| Maureen Farrell / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Sonos is preparing for an IPO that could come as soon as June or July; one source says the company is expecting a post-IPO valuation of ~$2.5B-$3B — Wireless-speaker company has filed confidentially and is likely to go public in next few months — Sonos Inc., the Santa Barbara …
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| Facebook: |
Facebook reports Q1 advertising revenue of $11.8B, up 50% YoY, of which ~91% comes from mobile, up from 85% in Q1 2017; headcount up 48% YoY to 27,742 — Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2018. — “Despite facing important challenges …
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