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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces Fluid Framework, a new web-based modular platform for document creation, available to developers later this year — Today marks the start of Build, Microsoft's annual developer conference, and this morning's keynote address was predictably newsy.
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Microsoft 365 Blog, Windows Command Line Tools …, TechCrunch, The Verge, InfoWorld, OnMSFT.com, GeekWire, PCWorld, Engadget, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, Engadget, and Wired
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft announces ElectionGuard, an open source platform for securely handling voting data, available this summer with a pilot during the 2020 elections — When it comes to voting, we've come a long way from dropping pebbles into an amphora, but still not nearly far enough …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft unveils .NET 5, which will support Java, Swift, and Objective C interoperability on multiple platforms, and makes ML.NET 1.0 generally available — Build is Microsoft's annual developer conference, which makes Visual Studio and .NET the stars of the show.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Interviews with Microsoft executives shed light on the company's decision to rebuild its Edge browser with Google's Chromium, after Edge's flaws became clear — Microsoft's Edge web browser, released in 2015, hadn't made much progress by the summer of 2017.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says its Chromium-based Edge browser will have an IE mode, privacy tools, and Collections when it launches — New privacy and collections features are coming to Edge — Microsoft is unveiling a number of new features for its upcoming Edge Chromium browser today.
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Tweets: @reckless, @carnage4life, @thekitze, @tomwarren, and @thelarkinn
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: at WWDC, Apple will unveil iOS 13 with updated Maps, Reminders, and Messages apps, watchOS 6 with Calculator, Voice Memos, App Store, and more — Apple Inc. is planning to unleash a slew of new apps, features and development tools at its annual software conference next month.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Tim Cook says Apple buys a company every two to three weeks on average and has acquired about 20 to 25 companies in the past six months — KEY POINTS — In an interview with CNBC's Becky Quck, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company has acquired approximately 20 to 25 companies in the past six months.| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
Facebook says it has opened a “war room” in Dublin to monitor EU elections, ahead of voting later in May, with about 40 employees — The social network took the wraps off a special operations center in Dublin ahead of this month's European Union voting.
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| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Google to update Android Auto in the summer to make it more intuitive with features like a dynamic, persistent bar for navigating apps, and a default dark mode — A bunch of little changes that should make Android Auto easier to use — Android Auto is getting a little refresh … | Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: |
Alexa keeps recordings of conversations triggered by its wake word but doesn't allow a user to opt out of the collecting of recordings, unlike Google Assistant — When Alexa runs your home, Amazon tracks you in more ways than you might want. — Would you let a stranger eavesdrop in your home and keep the recordings?| @twittereng: |
Starting today Twitter lets you add images, GIFs, and videos to quote tweets — Exciting news: Today we are launching the ability to Retweet with GIF, photos, and video! We find solutions to many challenges as we build for a global, vocal audience. Here is a glimpse into our process as we worked on this feature. https://twitter.com/...
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook updates its video guidelines to promote original content, loyal and engaged viewership — Facebook today announced a series of changes to the way it ranks videos on its social network, which determines how widely they're distributed. According to the updated guidelines …
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| Peter Kafka / Vox: |
Sources: Amazon in talks with big US publishers about paying them to expand internationally so it can reach more shoppers with its affiliate business — Big US publishers already make money from Amazon's “affiliate” business. Amazon wants them to make more, and may pay them upfront.| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Pregnant Amazon workers were fired after informing managers of their pregnancies, a review of seven lawsuits shows; six of the cases were settled out of court — A warehouse worker told her manager she was pregnant. Less than two months later, she was fired. Several lawsuits against Amazon show a similar pattern.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Word Online is getting a new feature called Ideas, an AI-powered editor that suggests ways to make your writing more concise and readable — If you write in Microsoft Word Online, you'll soon have an AI-powered editor at your side. As the company announced today …
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Tweets: @shanegiberson, @drvox, @elizabeth_joh, @kantrowitz, @michaeltoole, @astepanovich, @lindsaypgorman, @michaelzimmer, and @tonyromm
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox announces a new long-term, more affordable storage option called Cold Storage to let users store rarely accessed files — Dropbox started shifting workloads away from AWS to its own data centers several years ago because it needed more control over how files were stored and accessed.
Tweets: @ron_miller
| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Equity management platform Carta raises $300M Series E led by a16z at a $1.7B valuation, says it works with 11,000+ companies and 143 VC firms — Carta, a seven-year-old, San Francisco-based startup, is the newest unicorn in tech. The company, which helps private and public companies …
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Carta, Crunchbase News, FinSMEs, SiliconANGLE, and PE Hub Blog
Tweets: @mg, @troyharvey, and @ldrogen
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Indian grocery delivery startup BigBasket raises $150M Series F at $1B+ valuation; source says Alibaba takes a ~30% stake, more than other investors — India has a new unicorn after BigBasket, a startup that delivers groceries and perishables across the country, raised $150 million for its fight …
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