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Apple announces a special event on March 25 at the Steve Jobs Theater where it is expected to announce a streaming video service and a news subscription service — The rumors were true: Apple will hold its next special event on March 25th at Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
twttr, Twitter's beta app to test new ideas, is launching today for some English and Japanese users on iOS, starting with a new design that color-codes replies — Twitter's new prototype application is rolling out to the first group of testers starting today, the company announced this afternoon by way of a tweet.
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| Bloomberg: |
Lawsuit claims Larry Page didn't get board approval and personally approved a $150M stock grant to Andy Rubin despite sexual harassment allegations — - Company co-founder bypassed board, revised investor suit says — Tech giant accused of covering up executive sexual misconduct
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Nvidia to buy Mellanox Technologies, which makes chips and other hardware for data center servers, for $6.9B — - Mellanox holders offered $125-per-share in all-cash deal — Graphics chipmaker trying to further embed itself in servers — Nvidia Corp. agreed to buy chipmaker Mellanox …
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| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
F5 Networks, which makes cloud and security application services, to acquire rival NGINX, which powers some of the busiest websites in the world, for $670M — F5 Networks says it is acquiring NGINX, one of the most popular web servers on the internet today, for $670 million.
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| Cristiano Lima / Politico: |
Facebook pulled ads from Sen. Warren's campaign calling for the breakup of Facebook and other tech giants, citing policy violations, but is now restoring them — Facebook removed several ads placed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign that called for the breakup of Facebook and other tech giants.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Researchers find Box enterprise cloud storage accounts leaking sensitive data like prices for donated body parts and backdoor passwords to city waterworks — Security researchers have found dozens of companies inadvertently leaking sensitive corporate and customer data because staff …
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| David McCabe / Axios: |
Source: Amazon will no longer tell third-party sellers that they can't sell the same goods for a lower price on another site — Amazon will no longer tell third-party merchants that sell products on its platform that they cannot offer the same goods for a lower price on another website … | Davey Alba / BuzzFeed News: |
Leaked documents reveal CBP plans to deploy facial recognition tech at US airports in as little as two years, despite concerns about the tech and its legality — In March 2017, President Trump issued an executive order expediting the deployment of biometric verification of the identities of all travelers crossing its borders.
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| Shelby Brown / CNET: |
YouTube Stories and ARCore now offer an Augmented Faces API which lets users add Snapchat-like AR effects to short video clips — From dog ears to fairy crowns to monstrous fangs, filters and AR effects are old hat for social-media selfies. Now, YouTube is jumping on the bandwagon.| Greg Brockman / OpenAI: |
OpenAI creates a new “capped-profit” company called OpenAI LP which will raise outside investments but will have a capped return — We've created OpenAI LP, a new “capped-profit” company that allows us to rapidly increase our investments in compute and talent while including checks and balances to actualize our mission.
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
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