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Facebook's Chief Product Officer Chris Cox and VP of WhatsApp Chris Daniels are leaving the company — Today Mark Zuckerberg shared the following post with employees. — Hey everyone — I want to share some important updates as we organize our company to build out the privacy-focused social platform …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Sources: Chris Cox and Chris Daniels left in part over conflicts with Zuckerberg's plan to integrate Facebook's services into a single privacy-focused platform — SAN FRANCISCO — Two of Facebook's top executives — one regarded as the company's No. 3, and the other the head …
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| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Facebook says all of its services are now operational, attributes the downtime to a “server configuration change” — Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook all appear to be operating normally — Facebook is reporting all services operational after a prolonged outage that impacted all of the company's most popular apps.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Telegram founder Pavel Durov claims that 3M new users signed up to the service during a 24 hour period which coincides with the period of Facebook outages — Messaging platform Telegram claims to have had a surge in signups during a period of downtime for Facebook's rival messaging services.| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces WWDC 2019 will be held June 3-7 at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose — Apple has officially announced dates and opened registration for its annual developer conference where it will likely unveil iOS 13, macOS 10.15, watchOS 6, and tvOS 13.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft launches a new cross-platform mobile SDK that allows game developers to add Xbox Live features to iOS or Android games — Microsoft also open to Xbox Live on the PS4 or Switch — Microsoft is bringing its Xbox Live network to iOS and Android devices.
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| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
Google Docs grows as a popular secret communication tool for teens as parents and teachers, unaware of its chat feature, assume students are just taking notes — How a writing tool became the new default way to pass notes in class — When the kids in Skyler's school want to tell …
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| Colin Harper / Bitcoin Magazine: |
Tether drops the claim that it's “always backed 1-to-1 with traditional currency”, now says it's “100% backed by reserves”, emboldening the stablecoin's critics — Tether just updated its website to clarify that each of its USDT tokens, which it used to claim were …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Slack says it has removed 28 accounts for having a “clear affiliation with known hate groups” — Chat competitor Discord has faced similar issues — Workplace chat company Slack said today it's removed 28 accounts for having a “clear affiliation with known hate groups.”
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Researchers find unsecured database of Chinese online shopping giant Gearbest exposing 1.5M+ records, including customer data, orders, and payments — Gearbest, a Chinese online shopping giant, has exposed millions of user profiles and shopping orders, security researchers have found.| Christine Kim / CoinDesk: |
Cosmos, a highly anticipated blockchain designed to provide interoperability between other blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum, goes live — Cosmos, a highly anticipated blockchain itself designed to improve the interoperability between any number of other blockchains, has officially released a live software.
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Tendermint, Circle blog, Cosmos Blog, CryptoNinjas, CryptoGlobe, and Blockonomi. Tweets: @jchervinsky
| Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: |
Discord says it will now let developers sell their games directly in their Discord server as well as use Discord to run alphas, betas, and early access tests — Discord is a social network first. While the platform has a store and subscription service, it recognizes that most people come to it for communications.| Maggie Fitzgerald / CNBC: |
TPG Capital fires Bill McGlashan, who managed TPG Growth, an investor in Airbnb, Spotify, and Uber, after the DOJ charged him in a college admissions scandal — - TPG's Bill McGlashan was fired from the private equity firm on Thursday amid the massive college cheating scandal.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Valve announces an early beta of Steam Link Anywhere, a Steam Link extension that allows users to connect to their computers and play games from anywhere — Ahead of the Game Developers Conference, Valve is adding a couple of new features for its Steam digital game distribution platform.
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The Verge, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Steam Community, PC Gamer, Engadget, Liliputing, Gamasutra, GameSpot, MacRumors, Android Police, TechCrunch, PCWorld, XDA Developers, Blue's News, and Polygon. Tweets: @ow
| Aamir Siddiqui / XDA Developers: |
Samsung says it has begun mass production of 10nm 12GB LPDDR4X DRAM chip for smartphones, targets 34.1 GBps data transfer rates — Just a few years ago, smartphones launching with 1GB RAM were deemed to be sufficient for mobile computing needs. After all, we had access to much more computing power …
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Samsung Global Newsroom, 9to5Google, Forbes, TechSpot, The Register, Wccftech, HotHardware, Android Authority, Android Police, and SamMobile. Tweets: @pranavmistry
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Flight-hailing startup BlackBird, which says it has 700+ pilots who fly passengers between 50 and 500 miles from and within California, raises $10M Series A — The origin story of BlackBird, a startup that links travelers to planes and commercial pilots through an app, didn't begin with air travel.
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| Li Tao / South China Morning Post: |
Huawei says it has developed its own OS for both smartphones and computers in case those developed by US companies are no longer available — Huawei Technologies, the largest smartphone vendor in China, said it has developed its own operating systems (OS) for both smartphones and computers … | Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Adobe reports Q1 revenue of $2.6B, vs. $2.55B estimated by analysts, subscription revenue of $2.3B, and product revenue of $170M — The Photoshop maker said Creative Cloud revenue was $1.49 billion. — Adobe delivered solid first quarter financial results on Thursday after the market closed.
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| Lydia DePillis / CNN: |
Amazon has hired more than 150 PhD economists, making it the largest US employer in the field behind institutions like the Federal Reserve — Estimating inflation is a tricky and complex task. In the United States, the government's Bureau of Labor Statistics sends testers to stores to record …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Massachusetts-based health research company TriNetX, which provides clinical data and analytics to researchers, raises $40M, bringing total raised to $102M — TriNetX, a health research company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, today announced that it has raised $40 million … | Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Sketch, which makes popular digital design tools for Mac and says 1M people paid $99 for a perpetual license, raises $20M Series A in its first outside round — You've probably noticed: design has become central for many businesses that might have once considered it an afterthought.Sponsor Posts
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