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Sonos and Ikea unveil a $179 Symfonisk table lamp and a $99 bookshelf speaker, both of which can be controlled with Sonos' app, shipping in August — The lamp speaker and a bookshelf speaker are coming in August — Sonos and Ikea have fully unveiled the pair of speakers that the two companies have collaborated on for years.
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Tweets: @chriswelch, @reckless, @caseynewton, @dcseifert, @counternotions, @ow, @genmon, and @c_davies
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft makes developer and “canary” builds of its Chromium-based Edge browser available today for Windows 10 64-bit, says builds for macOS “coming soon” — Microsoft today released the first Edge build based on Google's Chromium open source project, the same browser that Google's Chrome is based on.
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Tweets: @thurrott, @backlon, @helgeklein, and @epro
| Joe Hindy / Android Authority: |
Snap is officially rolling out a faster version of its Snapchat Android app, which it's been rebuilding since the beginning of 2018 for better performance — Snapchat announced a big move in late 2017. It was going to fix all of the problems its Android version had in comparison to the iOS version.
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Tweets: @snapchat, @ohthatflo, @mtatsis, and @alexeheath
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest sets IPO price range at $15-$17 per share, to raise as much as $1.275B at up to a $11.3B valuation; Pinterest was valued at $12.3B in its last round — After dropping its IPO filing two weeks ago, today Pinterest, the social media platform where people can discover and share ideas …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
EU publishes seven guidelines for developing ethical AI applications including being accountable, sustainable, explainable, privacy-respecting, and unbiased — The European Union has published new guidelines on developing ethical AI — The European Union today published a set of guidelines … | Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Monzo is close to raising £100M from Y Combinator, which would give the UK-based digital bank a pre-money valuation of £2B, up from £1B in October — Just 5 months after announcing £85 million in Series E funding, Monzo is already gearing up to raise additional funding …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Ming-Chi Kuo backs off his earlier claim that a ~16" MacBook Pro with an all-new design would launch this year, says a 31" 6K display still expected in mid-2019 — A few months ago, well-known analyst Ming-Chi Kuo outlined his expectations for new Apple products in 2019, including a 16" …
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Klaviyo, a Boston-based email marketing firm founded in 2012 that says it has 12,000 customers, raises $150M Series B from Summit Partners — Klaviyo, a Boston-based email marketing firm founded in 2012, went about building its email marketing business the old-fashioned way.| Brian Merchant / Gizmodo: |
Once boastful of its plans to rely on 100% renewable energy for new datacenters, Amazon's quietly tamped down those ambitions — In 2014, Amazon announced that it would power its rapidly expanding fleet of data centers with 100 percent renewable energy. Apple, Facebook, and Google … | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft changes the default removal policy for external storage like USB thumb drives in Windows 10 from “Better performance” to “Quick removal” — The default removal policy for external storage media was changed by Microsoft in Windows 10 version 1809 from …
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Tweets: @way0utwest, @con_sigliere, and @vessonsecurity
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter lowers the number of accounts a user can follow per day from 1,000 to 400 to cut down on spam and bot activity — Twitter just took another big step to help boot spammers off its platform: it's cutting the number of accounts Twitter users can follow, from 1,000 per day to just 400.| Ian Boudreau / PCGamesN: |
Tencent launches WeGame X, a global version of its games distribution platform WeGame — Like most people, you may have missed the fact that Chinese gaming giant Tencent launched the global version of its games distribution platform WeGame, called WeGame X, this week.
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2U, which provides online degree programs for top US universities, acquires Trilogy Education, which creates tech bootcamp programs for higher ed, for $750M — As more universities turn to offering online degrees to expand their student bodies by way of cyberspace, one of the pioneers … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Deep Lens, developer of the VIPER clinical research software suite that includes AI-backed image detection tools, raises $14M Series A led by Northpond Ventures — Deep Lens, a Columbus, Ohio-based startup developing a precision medicine software suite, today announced that it's raised $14 million …
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Fleetsmith raises $30M Series B led by Menlo Ventures to expand its Apple device management platform beyond the US — Fleetsmith launched in 2016 with a mission to manage Apple devices in the cloud. It simplified an IT activity that had previously been complex with help from Apple's Device Enrollment Plan.
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PR Newswire, Startups News, FinSMEs, and SecurityWeek
| Scott Scrivens / Android Police: |
14 HTC apps that were on the Google Play Store have been unpublished in the last three months, including HTC Mail and HTC Calendar — Back in February, we wrote about the disappearance of the HTC Mail app from the Play Store, but it was quickly restored. More recently, we received a tip …
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Dropbox pays out $319,300 in bug bounties for a HackerOne event in Singapore that focused on the file sharing service and its subsidiary HelloSign — Cloud storage vendor forks out $319,300 in a one-day bug bounty programme that galvanised 45 HackerOne members in Singapore … Sponsor Posts
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