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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Anthos, Google's Cloud Services Platform for managing hybrid clouds that span on-premise data centers and Google Cloud, comes out of beta, runs on AWS and Azure — Google's Cloud Services Platform for managing hybrid clouds that span on-premise data centers and the Google cloud, is coming out of beta today.
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Google Cloud Blog, Google Cloud Blog, 9to5Google, SiliconANGLE, Light Reading, ZDNet, GeekWire, Business Insider, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @gcpcloud and @janakiramm
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google Cloud partners with seven open-source projects, including Elastic, Redis Labs, and MongoDB, to offer fully managed services on GCP in the coming months — At Google Cloud Next 2019 today, Google signed strategic partnerships with seven “leading open source-centric companies” …
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Google Cloud Blog, 9to5Google, The New Stack, TechCrunch, GeekWire, Google Cloud Blog, GeekWire, Redis Labs, SiliconANGLE, BetaNews, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @gcpcloud, @nehanarkhede, @fredericl, @gcloudpartners, @kennwhite, @sundarpichai, @googlecloud, and @pauldix
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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TechCrunch, Google Cloud Blog, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, ZDNet, DevOps.com, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, The Register, GeekWire, and CNET
Tweets: @janakiramm, @shiraovide, and @patrickmoorhead
| BuzzFeed News: |
Sources: Larry Page and Sergey Brin have yet to make an appearance at Google's weekly “TGIF” town halls in 2019, their longest absence since at least 1999 — Following leaks and employee revolts, the absences raise questions about the future of transparency at Google| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Facebook says it will use AI to stop notifying users to reach out to deceased friends, rolls out a “tribute” section dedicated to posts made posthumously — Algorithmic features have sent suggestions to wish happy birthday to those who've died — Facebook has promised …
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Facebook, Wired, Telegraph, The Verge, Fortune, VentureBeat, MSPoweruser, CNET, and Engadget
Tweets: @facebook, @cuinfoscience, @mattnavarra, @caitlin__kelly, @alexhern, @wongmjane, and @jimwaterson
| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Apple has reportedly hired Arthur van Hoff, a founding executive of the Disney-backed VR startup Jaunt, as a senior architect — Apple just made a significant hire in the virtual reality (VR) space: The iPhone maker has hired serial entrepreneur Arthur van Hoff, a founding executive of the Disney-backed VR startup Jaunt.| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: 31.6-inch Apple display with mini-LED backlight will launch in Q2 or Q3 2019; new iPad and MacBook with mini-LED displays will launch by 2020 or early 2021 — TF Securities' Ming-Chi Kuo has released a report which lays out Apple's product interest in mini-LED technology.
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Tweets: @marcoarment and @bzamayo
| Jake Evans / ABC: |
Alphabet's Project Wing gets approval in Canberra, Australia to launch a commercial drone delivery service, will initially deliver from a dozen local businesses — Google has launched a world-first commercial air delivery business in Canberra's north, delivering gelato and golfing equipment by drone directly to homes.
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Wing Blog, Business Insider, Reuters, Engadget, The Guardian, The Verge, Mashable, KnowTechie, 9to5Google, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @nisummers, @fastcompany, @theteamatx, and @jcobevans
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Qualcomm unveils Cloud AI 100, a chip slated to ship next year for AI inference at the edge, estimating peak performance to be over 3X that of Snapdragon 855 — Qualcomm kicked off its annual AI Day conference in San Francisco with a bang. It took the wraps off of three new system …
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The Verge, SiliconANGLE, 9to5Google, CNET, Android Authority, PCWorld, Gizmodo, Engadget, AnandTech, XDA Developers, and Android Beat
| Zheping Huang / South China Morning Post: |
China's economic planning body has proposed new rules that would ban all local cryptocurrency mining farms; the rules are under public consultation until May 7 — Bitcoin, the world's most traded cryptocurrency, is now at around US$5,200, its highest level in four months China's plan …
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Gizmodo, BBC, Bloomberg, CoinDesk, MIT Technology Review, NewsBTC, Reuters, New York Times, Bitcoin Magazine, Mashable, Crypto Briefing, NullTX, TechSpot, Motherboard, PYMNTS.com, Modern Consensus, Trustnodes, BGR, CryptoSlate, Bitcoinist.com, CryptoGlobe, The Next Web, Ars Technica, Cointelegraph, TechNode, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @matigreenspan, @lisaabramowicz1, @el33th4xor, @coindesk, @pingroma, @nouriel, and @jasoncaston
| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
YouTube says it will begin developing choose-your-own-adventure-style shows under a new unit, following the success of Netflix's “Bandersnatch” and others — - Video site is steering program dollars into new technology — Company to announce new slate of shows next month in New York| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Walmart expands its rollout of store tech in US, including more vending machine-like Pickup Towers for online orders and robots that scrub floors and scan items — Walmart is doubling down on its technology innovations in its brick-and-mortar stores in an effort to better compete with Amazon.
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news.walmart.com, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today
Tweets: @walmartinc, @walmartinc, @walmartinc, @walmartinc, and @kantrowitz
| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
Instagram class accounts are used by incoming freshmen to make friends and find roommates, similarly to how teens once used Facebook — By the time many college freshmen arrive on campus this fall, they'll have already met their roommate, their core friends, and many of their classmates on Instagram.
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Forbes. Tweets: @angelmendozaazc, @chsever, @sachgau, @erinblasco, @mattnavarra, @balajis, @kscheib, @theatlantic, @pavtalk, @elanazak, @oneunderscore__, @taylorlorenz, and @taylorlorenz
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Facebook is using AI to map population density around the world and is releasing new maps covering the majority of Africa — The work has humanitarian applications, but it could also benefit Facebook's commercial interests — Facebook has always been a company with global ambition …
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TechCrunch, Facebook AI Blog, Digital Trends, MIT Technology Review, Engadget, and VentureBeat. Tweets: @facebookai
| Manish Singh / VentureBeat: |
Opera for desktop now includes a cryptocurrency wallet, after its Android app got one in December; wallet keys and transactions are synced between PC and mobile — Opera has updated its eponymous web browser for the desktop with a crypto-makeover and a number of additional features.
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Opera Desktop, The Next Web, CNET, CoinDesk, TechRadar.com, Windows Central, ZDNet, BetaNews, Memeburn, Cointelegraph, and Anycoin.news. Tweets: @opera
| Dominic Casciani / BBC: |
UK student arrested over 4 years ago is sentenced to 6+ years for a blackmail scheme that involved buying ads on porn sites that installed ransomware if clicked — A student who made hundreds of thousands of pounds blackmailing pornography website users with cyber attacks has been jailed.
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Fox News, ZDNet, Sky News, Engadget, Press Association, Gizmodo, Mashable, The Register, Inquirer, BleepingComputer, Dark Reading, and Boing Boing
| Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: |
Verizon is pushing updates to patch critical flaws in millions of residential routers, after the vulnerabilities were reported in mid-December — Verizon has been pushing firmware updates to its Fios Quantum Gateway residential routers to address several vulnerabilities …
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Tenable TechBlog, CNET, BleepingComputer, Tenable, Dark Reading, and eWeek
| K.G Orphanides / WIRED UK: |
Investigation finds games approved for kids on the Play Store with shooting and gore; Google removed 16 games after press inquiry — Scores of games in Google's Play Store that are rated safe for kids are packed with guns, gore and panda mutilation - but little is being done to stem the flow of inappropriate and dangerous content
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GamesIndustry.biz, Telegraph, and Komando.com
Tweets: @mattburgess1, @mattburgess1, and @kezamacdonald
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Slack now has deeper integration with Office apps and files, including full previews of Office files like PowerPoint slides, and new Outlook and OneDrive apps — Available to Slack users today — Slack is integrating Microsoft's Office 365 services today.
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TechCrunch, Slack, SiliconANGLE, The Next Web, VentureBeat, PCWorld, Engadget, MSPoweruser, GeekWire, and WinBuzzer. Tweets: @tomwarren. Thanks:@samueljevans
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
G Suite now lets Dropbox users work with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides directly inside the file sharing service, following a similar Box integration — More than a year after announcing a series of cross-platform integrations, Google and Dropbox have finally given a first glimpse …
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The Verge, Engadget, Android Police, 9to5Google, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, and iPhone in Canada Blog
| Becky Peterson / Business Insider: |
In an updated filing, video conferencing company Zoom sets an IPO price range of $28-$32 per share, valuing it at $8.25B on the upper end of the range — - Video conferencing company Zoom has set an IPO price range of $28 to $32 per share, giving the company a $8.25 billion valuation on the upper end of the range.
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Business Insider, New York Times, Washington Post, SiliconANGLE, and Axios
| James Ball / MIT Technology Review: |
Some fear the sweeping nature of UK's proposal to combine work done by 8+ regulators into a new “super-regulator” with the power to block online platforms — Technology giants will be forced to have a “duty of care” for their users, if a proposal announced by the government on Monday becomes law.
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Stratechery, The Guardian, and Wired
Tweets: @techreview, @notjessewalker, @fabiochiusi, @nytimes, @sajidjavid, @politicalshort, @dcms, and @ukhomeoffice
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Roku rolls out an update that makes it less of a neutral platform, as it now more prominently features and automatically plays back The Roku Channel's content — In the past, Roku seemed to be more of neutral platform compared with streaming media player rivals like Amazon Fire TV or Apple TV.Sponsor Posts
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Zoho:
Labels that build themselves: Simplified Label Automation in Zoho Writer — Anyone who ships every day knows this feeling. Forty orders, each with a different number of items, and every item needs its own label.
Labels that build themselves: Simplified Label Automation in Zoho Writer — Anyone who ships every day knows this feeling. Forty orders, each with a different number of items, and every item needs its own label.
IDrive:
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