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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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| 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.| 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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| 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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| Emma Haruka Iwao / Google Cloud Blog: |
Google breaks world record for the most accurate value of pi, first time using cloud computing, calculating 31.4T digits after a ~112-day computation — Try GCP — Get $300 free credit to spend over 12 months. — Free Trial — TM title , and the first time the record …
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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 …
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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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| 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.| 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.| 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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Sources: Facebook's data-sharing deals under federal criminal investigation; an NY grand jury subpoenaed at least two device-makers who partnered with Facebook — Federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation into data deals Facebook struck with some of the world's largest … | Reuters: |
Sources: Uber will issue its public S-1 and start its IPO roadshow in April — Carl O'Donnell, Heather Somerville — (Reuters) - Ride-hailing company Uber Technologies Inc is planning to kick off its initial public offering in April, putting it close on the heels of its smaller rival Lyft Inc …
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| 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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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google says it removed 2.3B bad ads in 2018, down 28% from 2017 and terminated ~1M bad advertiser accounts, including ~734K publishers and app developers — Around this time of year, Google shares how many “bad ads” it killed the year before. And every year, the number grows. But not this time.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook starts rolling out a dedicated Facebook Gaming tab with a personalized feed for some users — Facebook's gaming efforts and challenge to Twitch are taking another big leap today, as the social network begins the initial rollout of a dedicated Facebook Gaming tab in the main navigation of Facebook's app.| 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 …
Tweets: @lydiadepillis and @trengriffin
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Garmin targets the high-end watch market with a new Marq line of premium smartwatches priced between $1,500 and $2,500 — Garmin is gunning for mainstays like Rolex, Breitling, and Omega — Garmin is taking its fitness-focused smartwatches in a more premium direction with its new Marq line.
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There are parallels between Facebook's response to organized abuse of its platform and Microsoft's response to malware on Windows and Office 20 years ago — - There are strong parallels between organised abuse of Facebook and FB's attempts to respond, in the last 24 months …
Tweets: @wmorein, @kermankohli, @e_hicham, @benedictevans, @dtunkelang, and @stevesi
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google debuts the first preview of Android Q to devs, available on all Pixel devices, with granular privacy settings, better support for foldable devices, more — Google today launched Android Q Beta 1, available for download now at google.com/android/beta.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Rakuten TV, a video on demand service which has 7M users, expands to 30 new countries in Europe, bringing the total countries served to 42 — Rakuten TV, the Japanese e-commerce giant's effort to take on Netflix and Amazon in the world of video streaming, has been something of a minor player … Sponsor Posts
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