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Sources: Apple signed deal with Volkswagen to use vans as autonomous staff shuttles, wanted to partner with BMW and Mercedes-Benz on all-electric autonomous car — SAN FRANCISCO — Apple had already curtailed its grand vision for disrupting the automotive industry by building its own self-driving car.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: DOJ and CFTC have opened a criminal probe into alleged market manipulation of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies — - Justice Department opens investigation into illicit trading — Agency is working with CFTC, which oversees crypto futures — The Justice Department …
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| Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast: |
The FBI used a court order to seize a key server in the Russia-linked VPN Filter botnet, stopping its ability to reactivate when an infected router is rebooted — FBI agents armed with a court order have seized control of a key server in the Kremlin's global botnet of 500,000 hacked routers, The Daily Beast has learned.
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| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Facebook users worldwide are being asked to review their privacy settings, including political and religious affiliations, as GDPR goes into effect in Europe — - Facebook is telling all users to review their privacy settings, including information they share on their profiles and facial recognition preferences.
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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Qualcomm unveils 10nm Snapdragon 710 SoC with 4K HDR playback support, promises twice the AI performance compared to Snapdragon 660, expected in devices in Q2 — The focus for the next generation of chips is artificial intelligence, neural networking, and support for high-quality photos and video.| Garrett Camp: |
Sixteen years after it started, StumbleUpon to shut down and transition its accounts to content discovery platform Mix.com over the next couple of months — Sixteen years ago, we started StumbleUpon to help people discover new webpages. The idea was simple: click a button to find a cool webpage.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Instapaper, owned by Pinterest, says it will be temporarily unavailable to all European users on May 24 as it works to ensure GDPR compliance by May 25 — The read-it-later app needs time to make changes ahead of GDPR going into effect on Friday — Popular read-it-later app Instapaper informed …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber says it will open an Advanced Technologies Center in Paris focused on its Uber Elevate flying taxis project, will spend €20 million over five years — S'envoler — Uber's plan to fill the skies above cities with swarms of electric-powered flying taxis is getting its own dedicated laboratory.
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| Cromwell Schubarth / Silicon Valley Business Journal: |
VC firms including a16z and Menlo Ventures are piloting a program they hope can address the shortage of experienced CFO candidates for private tech firms — Hiring a good chief financial officer is an important box for venture-backed businesses to check off on their way to an IPO.| Abrar Al-Heeti / CNET: |
Amazon Map Tracking, which gives live updates of the exact location of packages and their estimated arrival times, is now available for all US deliveries — Pinning down the location of your Amazon package should become a whole lot easier with the US rollout of Amazon Map Tracking.
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| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
Uber reports $2.6B in Q1 2018 revenue and a profit of $2.5B due to $2.9B received from merging its Russia and Southeast Asia businesses with local competitors — The company saw $2.5 billion in profits on $2.6 billion in revenue in the first quarter of 2018.
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
US NTSB report on Uber's self-driving car that killed a pedestrian in March in AZ says the car failed to identify the pedestrian or break until it was too late — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] self-driving vehicle that struck and killed a woman in Tempe …
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| Bloomberg: |
Lenovo reports Q4 profit of $33M, down 69% YoY, and revenue of $10.6B, up 11% YoY, with no recovery in its smartphone business and PC market remaining stagnant — - The No. 2 PC maker grows sales the most in over two years — The company is now counting on datacenters to drive growth
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Payments processing company Adyen says it plans to IPO on the Euronext Amsterdam exchange at a $7B-$11B valuation — The floodgates are definitely open for IPOs in the tech world right now, and the latest is coming out of Europe. Adyen, a company that powers payments for large … | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Pet-sitting startup Rover raises $155M round led by T. Rowe Price, bringing its total funding to $310M — When Rover started seven years ago, many in the startup community snickered. There was no real business model, they said. A marketplace that matched dog owners with caretakers wouldn't work, they said.| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Tinder says it is testing Tinder Places, which will let users find potential matches based on places they travel to, powered by Foursquare, in Australia, Chile — We knew Tinder Places — the dating app's new way to connect people through location sharing — was coming …
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| AAA NewsRoom: |
American Automobile Association survey finds 73% of American drivers would be too afraid to ride in an autonomous vehicle, up from 63% last year — Following high-profile incidents involving autonomous vehicle technologies, a new report from AAA's multi-year tracking study indicates … | Nicholas Thompson / Wired: |
Facebook outlines new steps to combat false news: request for academic proposals to study it on Facebook, release of a 12-minute film, and news literacy program — NEWS FEED, THE algorithm that powers the core of Facebook, resembles a giant irrigation system for the world's information.
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