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Intel announces limited edition 5GHz Core i7-8086K anniversary CPU, its fastest ever, as an homage to the 40th anniversary of the eponymous 8086 processor — As an homage to both Intel's 50 year company anniversary and the 40 year anniversary of the eponymous 8086 processor …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Behind the long-running dispute between Facebook and WhatsApp's founders, about monetizing WhatsApp with ads, which led them to leave with $1.3B on the table — After a long dispute over how to produce more revenue with ads and data, the messaging app's creators are walking away leaving about $1.3 billion on the table
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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Israeli-based DNA testing service MyHeritage discloses security breach, says account info for 92M+ users exposed, including email addresses and hashed passwords — On Monday MyHeritage announced a security researcher had uncovered tens of millions of account details for recent customers, including email addresses and hashed passwords.
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| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Apple upgrades Safari's tracking prevention features by limiting both “fingerprinting” of devices and user tracking through comment, share, and like buttons — - Users will have to “opt-in” to allowing websites to track their browsing behavior on Safari, including sites with a …
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| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Asus announces ZenBook Pro 15 with ScreenPad, a 5.5-inch touchpad with FHD display that can run its own apps; price and availability TBD — Remember Razer's Switchblade UI? Remember Windows SideShow? If you ever dreamt of a computer with its own secondary display, then ASUS' New ZenBook Pro is the device for you.
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| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
How comment hosting service Disqus, which gets ~2B unique visitors/month and supports anonymous comments, is losing its battle against trolls and hate speech — The commenting giant Disqus has said repeatedly that it doesn't allow hate speech. But its platform is overrun with trolls, white nationalists, and neo-Nazis.
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| Axios: |
Source: GV to lead ~$250M round in scooter startup Lime; each scooter gets used 8-12 times/day, and the startup has told investors users have taken 4.2M rides — Lime, a San Francisco-based bike and scooter-sharing startup, is raising around $250 million in new funding led by GV (formerly Google Ventures), Axios has learned.| Rich Woods / Neowin: |
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 850 platform for “Always Connected” Windows 10 PCs, with eight 10nm Kryo 385 cores, Adreno 630 GPU, and X20 4G LTE modem — Microsoft and Qualcomm first announced their plans to put Windows 10 on ARM chips in December 2016, promising the emulation of x86 apps.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's newly updated App Store guidelines say non-subscription apps may offer a “free time-based trial period” by using a “non-consumable” in-app purchase — Apple today has updated its App Store Review Guidelines with a handful of changes.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google releases new shortcut app to directly launch Google Lens — At the moment, the LG G7 offers the fastest way to access Google Lens through a dedicated hardware button. In comparison, the vast majority of users have to first bring up Assistant and then tap the camera icon.
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| Makiko Yamazaki / Reuters: |
Foxconn's Sharp to buy Toshiba's PC business for $36M and retain its Dynabook brand, in a return by Sharp to a market it quit eight years ago — TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Sharp Corp (6753.T) said it will buy Toshiba Corp's (6502.T) personal computer business and issue $1.8 billion in new shares …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
GitLab's high-end plans are now free for open source projects and schools, and the company says 100,000+ repos have been opened since GitHub acquisition news — The fact that Microsoft is buying GitHub has left a lot of developers with a deep feeling of unease and a lot of them are now looking for alternatives.
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| David Ingram / Reuters: |
Washington sues Facebook and Google for allegedly violating state campaign finance law by failing to maintain and disclose information on political ad spending — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The state of Washington said on Monday it had sued Facebook Inc (FB.O) and Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Dutch payments startup Adyen aims for a ~$1B IPO, valuing the firm at up to $8.3B when it lists on Euronext Amsterdam on June 13 — After announcing its intention to go public in May, today Adyen published more details with the finances filled in. The Netherlands-based payments startup …
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Bloomberg, Reuters, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Crowdfund Insider, VentureBeat, and PYMNTS.com. Tweets: @ingridlunden
| Apple: |
Apple unveils new features in iOS 12 to reduce distractions, including Screen Time, Do Not Disturb at Bedtime, grouped notifications, and new parental controls — San Jose, California — Apple today announced new tools built into iOS 12 to help customers understand and take control …
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Tweets: @caseynewton, @nxthompson, @cwarzel, @jean_twenge, and @venturebeat
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
watchOS 5 does not support first gen Apple Watches, including the $17,000 Editions — After announcing watchOS 5 today, Apple has shared the hardware requirements for the latest operating system for its wearables. — It's not surprising, but Apple has indeed cut off support … | Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
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