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Jack Dorsey had a closed-door meeting with Trump on Tuesday, which sources say was anticipated to be about “the health of the public conversation on Twitter” — The meeting lasted 30 minutes, and touched on “the health of the public conversation on Twitter,” according to an internal Twitter email obtained by Motherboard.
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Alphabet's drone delivery business, Wing, becomes first drone operator to get FAA approval as an airline, plans to launch a delivery trial in Virginia this year — - Google offshoot becomes only drone firm approved as an airline — Wing's new status clears way for others seeking drone commerce
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Leaked internal memo suggests Apple now requires most keyboard-related repairs to be carried out in store with a quoted next-day turnaround time — Apple has indicated that most MacBook and MacBook Pro keyboard repairs will be required to be completed at Apple Stores until further notice …
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Engadget, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, Macworld, BGR, The Verge, SlashGear, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Cult of Mac
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| Polina Marinova / Fortune: |
A history of Kleiner Perkins' two-decade losing streak, as it got distracted by renewable energy, lost key talent, and failed to groom its next-gen leadership — Once the very embodiment of Silicon Valley venture capital, the storied firm has suffered a two-decade losing streak.
Tweets: @ekp, @polina_marinova, @shaig, @thesignoffive, and @sarthakgh
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Snap reports Q1 revenue of $320M, vs. $307M est., up 39% YoY, DAUs of 190M, up 2% QoQ; Snapchat reaches 90% of 13-24 year-olds in US — - Snap, the maker of Snapchat, posted a loss fo 10 cents per share, vs. expected loss of 12 cents per share. — The company also managed to continue growing …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: billionaire SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son made a huge personal bet on bitcoin just as prices peaked and lost more than $130M when he sold out — Japanese billionaire made a huge personal investment in the digital currency as prices peaked — Masayoshi Son, the billionaire founder …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Q1 beats with revenue of $787M, up 18% YoY and net income of $191M, reports MAUs of 330M, up 9M QoQ but down 6M YoY; stock closes up 15%+ — Social networking and media platform Twitter today reported its results for the first quarter of the year, and it's a strong one.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
The EU has voted to interconnect border control, migration, and law enforcement systems into a searchable biometrics database of 350M+ EU and non-EU citizens — EU Parliament green-lights the creation of the Common Identity Repository (CIR), a gigantic biometrics database.
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Tim Cook shares his thoughts on privacy, tech regulation, politics, and the “rigged” San Bernardino encryption case, citing an inspector general report — Today at the TIME 100 Summit, Apple CEO Tim Cook opened the event with an interview with Nancy Gibbs.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Kohl's and Amazon expand partnership: Amazon customers will be able to return products to Kohl's 1,150 US stores, some of which will now carry Amazon products — It's one thing to be able to get everything delivered to your doorstep, it's another to then have to actually have to leave your home …
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| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
KeepTruckin, which develops hardware and software that helps truck drivers manage their vehicles and cargo, raises $149M Series D at a $1.25B valuation — KeepTruckin, a developer of hardware and software that helps truck drivers manage their vehicles and cargo, has raised $149 million in Series D funding.
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| Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Intel debuts 9th Gen Core chips: 34 desktop CPUs with minor enhancements and more cores at the high end, as well as 45W H-Series, best suited for gaming laptops — How Intel has launched its range of ninth generation processors has been an odd and awkward one.| Brady Dale / CoinDesk: |
Civic says it will bring its blockchain age verification tech to 1,000 beer vending machines by end of 2019, partnering with 12 major automated retail companies — It started with selling beer, but age verification could crack open a whole industry to cryptocurrency.
Tweets: @alexhern and @lawmaster
| Ben Munster / Decrypt: |
Interviews with contractors who write crypto white papers reveal startups routinely force them to fabricate business models, inflate funding budgets, and more — We dive into this murky industry to find out who writes these things, what goes into the research and how much it really costs to get one written.
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Tweets: @dcsilver, @notsofast, @ben_munster, and @mdudas
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Kaspersky researchers say the supply-chain attack that infected ASUS and its PC update tool this year also affected six other companies, mostly in South Korea — ASUS was not the only company targeted by supply-chain attacks during the ShadowHammer hacking operation as discovered by Kaspersky …
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| Federal Bureau of Investigation: |
Report from FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) says online theft, fraud, and exploitation caused losses of $2.7B globally in 2018, up from $1.4B in '17 — Report Shows Cyber-Enabled Crimes and Costs Rose in 2018 — The statistics gathered by the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center …
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Reddit says it is rolling out Events, used to schedule posts related to an event like a TV show, and Collections, used to curate posts, to all subreddits — After testing them with “Game of Thrones” fans and a few dozen other Subreddits for the past couple of months, Reddit is now launching …
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| Ben Fox Rubin / CNET: |
Amazon launches Key in-garage delivery service and expands Key to 13 more US cities — Amazon Key faced a bumpy start in late 2017, with plenty of folks mocking the program's concept of delivering packages inside people's homes. — But, a year and a half later and following a slight name change …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Facebook hires Jennifer Newstead, a legal advisor for the US State Department who helped craft the Patriot Act, as its general counsel, replacing Colin Stretch — 'Jennifer is a seasoned leader whose global perspective and experience will help us fulfill our mission,' says Sheryl Sandberg
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| James Thorne / GeekWire: |
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