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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
What to expect at Apple's WWDC next week: focus on digital health, ARKit 2.0, small changes to iOS, deeper Mac-iOS integration, and no Mac or iPad hardware — - Company will outline software roadmap for the next year — Tech giant to more tightly integrate Mac, iPhone software
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| SV Angel: |
SV Angel no longer raising funds for seed rounds; Ron and Topher Conway will invest their personal money at $25K-$100K per company and co-manage existing funds — The investing ecosystem has gone through significant changes over the last 10 years. When we started SV Angel, there were just a handful of funds investing in seed rounds.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft announces an update for Microsoft Launcher for Android letting parents track kids' location, and MSN Kids, a new curated news website for children — Microsoft is launching an update to its Android launcher today that gives parents the ability to track their kids' location.
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| Byron Kaye / Reuters: |
Amazon will require Australians to use its Australian site instead of its US site due to new 10% sales tax on imported goods effective July 1 — SYDNEY (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc said on Thursday it will force Australians to use its Australian website instead of its much larger U.S. site …
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| Rich Woods / Neowin: |
Microsoft retiring Groove Music apps for iOS and Android on December 1; if installed, apps will stop working; PC, Xbox, and Windows Phone apps will still work — At the end of last year, Microsoft killed off its Groove Music Pass service. The Groove apps themselves continues to function … | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo announces deal with Fiat Chrysler to add 62K minivans to its upcoming robotaxi service and begins discussions on selling self-driving cars to people — Google spinoff orders 62,000 Chrysler Pacifica minivans — The size of Waymo's fleet of self-driving Chrysler Pacifica minivans just got radically bigger.| Robert Triggs / Android Authority: |
ARM announces next-generation CPUs and GPUs focused on efficient VR and AI; ARM Cortex-A76 is new flagship mobile chip, now with 35% better performance — You probably haven't complained about high-end smartphone performance for a while now, but processors can always be a bit faster and, more importantly, power efficient.
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| Dani Deahl / The Verge: |
Ticketfly goes offline and says it has been the target of a cyber incident after hacker defaces site and boasts of getting access to customer and employee info — Events ticketing company Ticketfly has been compromised by a digital attack, according to an announcement today on Twitter.
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| Matthew Boyle / Bloomberg: |
Walmart officially announces Jetblack, a $50/month same-day delivery service that users text requests to, available in NYC with plans to expand over time — Walmart Inc. wants to be your personal shopper — if you're lucky enough to be invited. — The world's biggest retailer unveiled Jetblack …
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Hello Alfred, which uses existing on-demand services to automate weekly chores, raises $40M Series B — New York-based chore wizard Hello Alfred is about expand its mission to make life easier, one to-do list at a time. The company commands a small army of thoroughly trained home helpers … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Researcher discovers a 10-year-old remote code execution bug within the Steam client library that left all 125M users vulnerable until Valve's fix in March 2018 — A security researcher found a serious vulnerability that allowed hackers to take control of a Steam user's computer.| Megan Farokhmanesh / The Verge: |
Pew Research study of US teen internet usage finds 85% say they use YouTube, 72% use Instagram, 69% use Snapchat, while only 51% say they use Facebook — And Facebook continues to fall, according to Pew Research Center — Teenagers are more interested than ever in YouTube, home to the world's growing influencer and vlogger base.
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| Deborah Gage / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the ways nonprofits and tech companies are trying to get girls interested in cybersecurity, with camps, contests, Girl Scout badges, and courses — Nonprofits and tech companies are trying to get younger girls interested in fighting cybercrime — There is a shortage of workers … | Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
App Annie data on iOS App Store shows over 10K apps have individually generated over $1M since 2010, with 2,293 making $1M-$10M and 564 making $10M+ in 2017 — Ten years after Apple launched the App Store, the exclusive iOS software shop is continuing to grow at a rapid clip … | Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
To aid discovery of Alexa skills, Amazon says it's testing an interface that lets developers say what kind of questions their skill can answer — Amazon is introducing a feature that will allow Alexa to suggest voice apps without first being given a name. Instead, you will be able …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Gaming platform Roblox launches Roblox Education, offering a free curriculum to teachers and more, says it has 60M+ MAUs and paid $30M to its creators last year — Roblox, the massively multiplayer online game favored by the under 13 crowd, is following in Minecraft's footsteps with a move into the education market.
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