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Qualcomm and Apple settle all worldwide litigation between the two companies, as Apple makes a payment to Qualcomm; Qualcomm's stock rises 15%+ — Apple and Qualcomm have settled their royalty dispute, sources told CNBC. — Qualcomm stock rose over 13% after the news broke. Apple was up less than 1%.
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Tweets: @tonyromm, @nickwingfield, @webster, @rsgnl, @inafried, @benbajarin, and @markgurman
| Wired: |
Interviews with 65 current and former employees on the meltdown inside Facebook over the last 15 months as the Cambridge Analytica scandal unfolded — Scandals. Backstabbing. Resignations. Record profits. Time Bombs. In early 2018, Mark Zuckerberg set out to fix Facebook.
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Google has removed the popular video app TikTok from its Play Store in India to comply with a state court's directive — NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Google has blocked access to the hugely popular video app TikTok in India to comply with a state court's directive to prohibit its downloads …
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| Megha Mandavia / The Economic Times: |
Sources: Indian government has asked Apple and Google to take down TikTok from their app stores, following a Madras High Court order to ban the app — MeitY's order will stop further downloads, but people who already the app will be able to still use it. — BENGALURU: Google and Apple …
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| NBC News: |
About 4,000 pages of leaked Facebook documents from 2011-2015 shed light on its approach to sharing and selling data, giving more access to friendly companies — Facebook's leaders seriously discussed selling access to user data — and privacy was an afterthought.
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| BuzzFeed News: |
Overview of high-profile male executives in tech who were accused of sexual misconduct and are now getting second chances — Silicon Valley says it's committed to improving diversity, but high-profile male executives accused of sexual misconduct are getting second chances. Some advocates are wondering why.
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| Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: Apple is planning a desktop extension feature for macOS 10.15 that allows users to send any window of any app to an external display, including an iPad — It's undeniable that one of the best characteristics of every Apple product is its display. Apple ships computers …
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| Twitter: |
Twitter to test option to hide a tweet's replies in June, suspends 3x more abusive accounts reported within 24 hours than last year, relies less on user reports — We want people to feel safe on Twitter. Last year, we shared that building a Twitter free of abuse, spam and other things …
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| Peter Rubin / Wired: |
Sony says its next-gen PlayStation console will be backward-compatible, support 8K graphics with ray tracing, and have an SSD, but won't be released this year — MARK CERNY WOULD like to get one thing out of the way right now: The videogame console that Sony has spent the past four years building is no mere upgrade.
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Tweets: @lisasu, @notpatrick, @pressstartkofi, @leojtravis10, @serkantoto, @puertorock77_, @megmeg203, and @siracusa
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Mozilla executives reflect on how Google web products would often break in Firefox but not Chrome and on other issues perceived as anti-competitive tactics — Former and current Mozilla engineers are reaching their boiling points. — A former high-ranking Mozilla executive has accused Google …
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Tweets: @johnath, @skstock, @youngbloodjoe, @tveastman, @aral, @encthenet, @jeremys, and @johnath
| Sahil Chinoy / New York Times: |
Using 9 hours' worth of footage of a park in NYC from public cameras and Amazon Rekognition, NYT detected 2,750 faces, matching many to real identities, for $60 — Most people pass through some type of public space in their daily routine — sidewalks, roads, train stations.| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Zoom raises its IPO list price to $33-$35 ahead of Thursday debut and says it will sell $100M in Class A shares to Salesforce Ventures at IPO price — Zoom, the developer of video conferencing software, plans to list its shares on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “ZM” at between $33 and $35 apiece, per an updated S-1 filing.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook will discontinue P2P payments in Messenger in the UK and France on June 15; the service will remain active in the US — Facebook is pulling away from its ambitions to provide peer-to-peer money transfers via Messenger in Europe. Today, the company announced that it would be discontinuing … | Chris Otts / WDRB: |
Louisville, KY mayor says Google Fiber will pay the city $3.84M to repair damage to city streets after the company abandoned the Louisville market — LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) - As Google Fiber prepares to pull the plug on Louisville customers tonight, the tech company has agreed … | Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Researcher: Adblock, Adblock Plus, uBlock browser extensions could have let providers of filtering lists run arbitrary code in sites; uBlock Origin not affected — Third-party providers of content filter rules could stiff netizens — A feature introduced last year in Adblock Plus and a few …
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| Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: |
Samsung says it has developed a 5nm semiconductor process using its Extreme Ultra Violet tech and expects to commercialize it in 2020 — Samsung Electronics has successfully developed a 5nm semiconductor process to gain more chip-making clients, pushing Moore's Law to its limit.| Vasily Berdnikov / Securelist: |
Researchers detail recently patched zero day vulnerability in win32k.sys, the fifth Local Privilege Escalation they have discovered in Windows in recent months — In March 2019, our automatic Exploit Prevention (EP) systems detected an attempt to exploit a vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows operating system.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
London-based Zencargo, which is using machine learning to improve freight forwarding, raises ~$19M Series A led by HV Holtzbrinck Ventures — Move over, Flexport. There is another player looking to make waves in the huge and messy business of freight logistics.
Tweets: @paulpage
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Intel says it has acquired Omnitek, a UK-based chip designer focused on FPGAs with customized and high-performance vision and AI inferencing capabilities — Intel said it has acquired Omnitek, designer of programmable chips for smart video and vision systems, for an undisclosed price.
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ZDNet, TechCrunch, and Intel Newsroom
| Bill Bostock / Business Insider: |
Uber launches a tool for female Saudi Arabian drivers, letting them pick up only women, after finding 74% didn't want to pick up men — - Uber has launched a feature for female drivers in Saudi Arabia which means they can block men from hailing their cab. — The feature …
Tweets: @amirtalai
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Apple iMac (2019) review: both models received a notable performance boost but a comprehensive design refresh is needed, especially for the 21.5-inch version — The design is still the same, but the performance jump is real — There isn't much I can tell you about the new iMacs that you likely don't already know.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
HP unveils new commercial laptops and workstations launching in May and June that will include its new AI-based malware protection software called HP Sure Sense — HP hopes to bring much-needed security to laptops and workstations with its HP Sure Sense technology, which uses artificial intelligence …
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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Leapwork, which develops a process automation platform that can be used by non-technical staff, raises $10M Series A led by DN Capital and e.ventures — Most work involving computers is highly repetitive, which is why companies regularly have developers write code to automate repetitive tasks.
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| Sameer Samat / Android Developers Blog: |
Google outlines new Android developer relations policies, says it will take more time to review apps by developers that don't yet have a track record — Thank you for all the feedback about updates we've been making to Android APIs and Play policies. We've heard your requests for improvement as well as some frustration.
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