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Verizon launches its mobile 5G network in parts of Chicago and Minneapolis, with a 5G-enabled Moto Z3 — Though South Korea's government expected its three cellular carriers to be the world's first to offer commercial 5G services with smartphones based on the 3GPP's official 5G standard … | Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
Google rolling out Duplex AI restaurant booking assistant to non-Pixel devices and iOS in the US — Get ready, the ability to get your Google Assistant to call your local eateries to make reservations is now rolling out to non-Pixel devices and iOS in the United States.| Ivan Mehta / The Next Web: |
WhatsApp now allows users to control who can add them to group chats — WhatsApp's group conversations can be awfully annoying when you're dragged into them without your consent. It's finally rolled out a fix for that, in the form of a new setting that lets you choose who can add you to group chats …
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| Brady Dale / CoinDesk: |
SEC issues a “no-action” letter to TurnKey Jet, saying that tokens used by the business-travel startup are not securities, a first that clears token sales in US — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a “no-action” letter to TurnKey Jet, Inc. …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Facebook says it will stop asking for email passwords to verify new accounts; previously, it used them to verify accounts whose email addresses didn't use OAuth — Responding to criticism, Facebook says it will stop asking users for their email passwords as a means of verifying some new accounts.
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| Megan Hernbroth / Business Insider: |
WeWork acquires GV-backed Managed by Q, a platform for office management services that was recently valued at $249M, for an undisclosed sum — - WeWork has acquired Managed by Q, a platform for office tenants to hire on-demand service workers like cleaners, receptionists or IT support.
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo spinout Altaba, which was formed after AOL's 2017 Yahoo acquisition as a holding company, is selling its entire Alibaba stake and closing down — Bye-bye, Altaba . The Yahoo spin-out created to house Yahoo's lucrative stake in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan announced today that it will sell …
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Adobe's After Effects adds Content-Aware Fill for videos, which can intelligently remove and replace objects in a scene — Your browser does not support HTML5 video tag.Click here to view original GIF — In 2010, Adobe introduced one of Photoshop's first true ‘smart’ features …
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DOJ warns the group behind the Oscars that potential rule changes limiting the eligibility of Netflix and other streaming services could raise antitrust issues — WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has warned the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that its potential rule changes limiting …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
HR software startup Rippling, led by ex-Zenefits CEO Parker Conrad, raises $45M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins, source says at a valuation of $270M — Parker Conrad's last startup Zenefits drowned in busy work. Now with Rippling, he wants to boil that ocean.| Bloomberg: |
Researchers at UpGuard have found millions of Facebook user records exposed on AWS servers — Researchers at UpGuard, a cybersecurity firm, found troves of Facebook user information hiding in plain sight, inadvertently posted publicly on Amazon.com Inc.'s cloud computing servers.| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Crypto exchange Liquid says it is now valued at over $1B after raising an undisclosed sum in an ongoing Series C, with IDG Capital and Bitmain participating — Crypto has a new unicorn after exchange Liquid announced today it has raised capital from investors at a valuation of more than $1 billion …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Sources: Affirm, the online lending startup led by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, has raised ~$300M Series F at a post-money valuation of $2.9B — Affirm, the consumer credit startup led by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, has raised around $300 million in Series F funding, Axios has learned.| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
In January, Huawei patched a bug in its PCManager software, discovered by Microsoft, which acted like NSA-style malware and affected some MateBook laptops — The bug was patched back in January — Huawei has patched a bug in some of its MateBook laptops that could have allowed an attacker to take control of the system.
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Wayve claims its autonomous car uses only AI, cameras, and GPS, unlike others, like Waymo, that need HD maps, sensors, and hand-coded rules — Projects like Google's Waymo, Uber, Cruise and Aurora are developing autonomous vehicles by throwing engineers at the problem … | New York Times: |
Singapore introduces draft bill that requires sites to take down fake news raising concerns among human rights advocates over repression — HONG KONG — Singapore introduced draft legislation on Monday that it said would combat false or misleading information on the internet …
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| Emily Birnbaum / The Hill: |
Google will require contracting firms to give US workers health care benefits, parental leave, $15/hr min. wage, more, by 2022, following activism from Googlers — Google said on Tuesday it will require its contracted and temporary workforce to receive full benefits, including comprehensive health care … | Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
Inside the DNC's plan to replace its aging data repository Vertica with the Data Warehouse, a more powerful BigQuery-based system, before the 2020 election — IN JULY OF 2017, as Raffi Krikorian settled into his new office at the Democratic National Committee, Hillary Clinton's words were still ringing in his ears.
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| Edmund Lee / New York Times: |
Sources: more than 200,000 people subscribed to Apple News+ in its first 48 hours, more than Texture had at its peak — Executives have been burned by their previous dealings with big tech companies. But Apple's promise of a billion devices worldwide was too good to pass up. Even for Rupert Murdoch.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Powerbeats Pro, Beats' new $250 wireless earbuds with Apple's H1 chip, 9 hours of battery life, “Hey Siri”, and physical controls, shipping in May — Coming in May for $250 — A couple of weeks after Apple shipped its second-generation AirPods … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Aqua Security, which helps customers launch containers securely, raises $62M Series C led by Insight Partners — Aqua Security, a startup that helps customers launch containers securely, announced a $62 million Series C investment today led by Insight Partners.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Onfido, which verifies digital identities using AI, raises $50M co-led by SoftBank Investment (SBI) and Salesforce Ventures — Security breaches, where malicious hackers obtain snippets of information that then get used to impersonate individuals in order to gain access to individuals … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Squelch raises $20M Series A for its SaaS suite that integrates and indexes data from enterprise services from the likes of Salesforce, Slack, Box, and Google — Redwood City, California-based customer experience platform provider Squelch today announced that it's raised an additional $12 million …
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