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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple updates iMac lineup with Intel's 8th-gen and 9th-gen Core processors and AMD's Radeon Pro Vega GPUs, starting at $1,299 available to order today — Nearly two years have passed since Apple last refreshed the iMac, but updates are finally here for both 4K and 5K models.
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Tweets: @imyke, @charlesarthur, @whatthebit, @dcseifert, @duak, and @marcoarment
| Chris Sonderby / Facebook: |
Facebook says original Christchurch attack video was viewed <200 times during live broadcast; first user report came in 12 minutes after live broadcast ended — Our hearts go out to the victims, their families and the community affected by the horrific terrorist attacks in Christchurch.
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New York Times, iTnews, CNN, USA Today, The Guardian, iTnews, GIFCT, Engadget, Axios, The Verge, ABC, Bloomberg, Business Insider, ZDNet, Fortune, Washington Post, New Zealand Herald, BBC, Reuters, TechCrunch, Mashable, Newshub, Silicon Republic, CNET, The Verge, and Digital Trends
Tweets: @fbnewsroom, @lizzadwoskin, @mattnavarra, @fbnewsroom, @drewharwell, @erinscafe, @nycsouthpaw, @sarahfrier, @g_parker, @mitch_hell, and @rmac18
| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Reed Hastings confirms that Netflix won't be offering its content through Apple's upcoming video service — In other news: Turns out Netflix is not a tech company, Hastings says. — Apple is planning a big announcement to unveil its new video strategy next week, and there is a long list of unknowns about Apple's plans.
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Tweets: @pkafka, @shiraovide, @chronotope, @jbflint, @jank0, @tasharobinson, @wbm312, @lucas_shaw, and @jbflint
| Emma Sandler / Digiday: |
Instagram adds in-app shopping to let users buy from 20 beauty and fashion brands including Kylie Cosmetics, Nike, and Huda Beauty — Shopping on Instagram is about to change forever. — On March 19, the social platform announced in a blog post it was launching a beta shopping program …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Amid a noticeable uptick in Mirai botnet activity, a Palo Alto Networks report says a new Mirai malware variant targets signage TVs and presentation systems — Security researchers spot new Mirai botnet with an enhanced arsenal of IoT exploits. — Security researchers have spotted …
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Unit42, Ars Technica, Inquirer, Dark Reading, The Register, Security Affairs, SecurityWeek, The Hacker News, CyberScoop, Threatpost, and Gizmodo. Tweets: @campuscodi
| Juliegrace Brufke / The Hill: |
Rep. Devin Nunes is suing Twitter and some of its users for defamation, alleging Twitter is shadow banning conservatives, seeks $250M+ in damages — House Intelligence Committee ranking member and former chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) is suing Twitter and a number of its users for more than $250 million.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Nvidia launches the 70mm by 45mm Jetson Nano, its AI computing board for entry-level applications aimed at developers, makers, and enthusiasts, starting at $99 — The Jetson Nano is the latest example of cheap edge computing for AI — In recent years, advances in AI have produced algorithms …
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Tweets: @soumithchintala, @paulmwatson, and @postletyler
| Recode: |
European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager on why breaking up big tech should be a last resort measure, GDPR favoring large companies, and more — Vestager spoke with Recode's Kara Swisher in front of a live audience at South by Southwest. — On the latest episode of Recode Decode … | Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: |
Source: Google's upcoming lower-priced Pixel phones will be called Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL with 5.6- and 6-inch displays; 3a to feature Snapdragon 670, 4GB RAM — According to a source familiar with the phones, the forthcoming mid-range Google Pixels are indeed called the “Google Pixel 3a” …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A look at an iPhone prototype board from 2006-2007, when the device was codenamed “M68” and “Purple 2” within Apple — “This is a day I've been looking forward to for two and half years,” said Steve Jobs, Apple's late CEO, as he introduced the original iPhone on January 9th, 2007.| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
CEO of Exactis talks about the fallout after the marketing company exposed 230M personal records on a public server, says he plans to focus on another startup — STEVE HARDIGREE HADN'T even gotten to the office yet, and his day was already a waking nightmare.
Tweets: @a_greenberg, @wired, and @privacydigest
| TechCrunch: |
A roundup of the 85+ companies that launched at Y Combinator's Winter 2019 Demo Day 1, including medical, AI, on-demand, e-commerce, and robotics startups — Y Combinator's incubator classes have gotten huge. — With over 200 companies, the Winter 2019 class is by far YC's largest yet.| Associated Press: |
Facebook is struggling with Today In, its feature curating local news, because 40% of Americans live in places that do not have enough local news coverage — About 1,800 newspapers have closed in the US in the last 15 years, partly as a result of internet-based companies like Facebook
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Facebook Journalism Project, Associated Press, Recode, Telecoms.com, and Poynter
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Intel claims it will build America's first exascale supercomputer by 2021 using its new Xe GPU architecture, partnering with Cray in a Department of Energy deal — Intel today announced that it and subcontractor Cray will build the first supercomputer with of one exaflop of performance …
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Inquirer, CNET, MIT Technology Review, Engadget, TechCrunch, and South China Morning Post
Tweets: @nytimes, @jwangark, @nytimestech, @secretaryperry, @cnetnews, and @nytimestech
| Kaiser Health News: |
Report: US has spent $36B digitizing health records, which have risked patient safety with thousands of reports of deaths and injuries tied to software glitches — The U.S. government claimed that turning American medical charts into electronic records would make health care better, safer, and cheaper.
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Axios. Tweets: @ldrogen, @seemacms, @laware75, @erictopol, @nbsaphiermd, @rosenthalhealth, and @sarahkliff
| Stefan Etienne / The Verge: |
Xiaomi launches Black Shark 2, a ~$480 gaming smartphone with a pressure-sensitive 6.39" OLED display, vapor chamber cooling, and 6GB-12GB of RAM, in China — Currently a Chinese exclusive, with a Snapdragon 855 processor — Today, Xiaomi announced its new gaming smartphone, the Black Shark 2.Sponsor Posts
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