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| Ginny Marvin / Search Engine Land: |
Google will let merchants list their products for free in Shopping search results, as part of an effort to better compete against Amazon in product search — After 8 years, Google will bring free listings into its Shopping results as part of an evolution to better compete against Amazon in product search.
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| Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: |
NPD Group: Nintendo Switch sales doubled YoY in March, while PlayStation 4 and Xbox One sales each grew by over 25%; March hardware spending rose 63% to $461M — Let's say a global pandemic forces you to spend almost all of your time inside at home. Sure, this means you have a chance to catch up on Netflix and reading.
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| Rachel Abrams / New York Times: |
New York's AG says it's investigating Charter Communications' handling of COVID-19, requiring thousands to work in offices; source: 230+ workers tested positive — More than 230 workers at Charter Communications, the cable and internet giant known as Spectrum, have tested positive for Covid-19 …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Sonos launches Sonos Radio, a free streaming radio service preloaded in the Sonos app, with 60K+ stations from multiple partners alongside original programming — Sonos Radio will now be the default service available for the company's speakers — Sonos has always been the neutral manager …
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| Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: |
Samsung says its blood pressure monitoring app for Galaxy Watch has been approved by a South Korean regulator and will be available in Q3 — The app measures blood pressure when paired with a smartwatch. — Samsung's app that measures blood pressure on its smartwatch has been approved …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Security researcher discloses four 0-days affecting an IBM enterprise security tool after IBM refused to accept the bug disclosures through its official program — Zero-days impact the IBM Data Risk Manager (IDRM), one of IBM's enterprise security tools. — A security researcher …
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Security firm buys a database, first seen last month, with info on 267M+ mostly US Facebook users, including full names and phone numbers, for £500 on dark web — Threat actors are selling over 267 million Facebook profiles for £500 ($623) on dark web sites and hacker forums.| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
Google's head of quantum computing hardware John Martinis resigned from his position this month after disagreements with Hartmut Neven, its quantum AI director — John Martinis brought a long record of quantum computing breakthroughs when he joined Google in 2014. He quit after being reassigned to an advisory role.
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Tweets: @brianroemmele, @tsimonite, @skdh, @benjaderberg, @charlesarthur, and @wired
| Apple: |
Apple launches App Store, iCloud, Apple Arcade, and Apple Podcasts in 20 new countries; Apple Music expands to 52 new countries — Cupertino, California — Apple announced that starting today, even more customers around the world can enjoy many of Apple's most popular Services.
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Tweets: @beirutspring, @jdevermont, @reuters, @zkahn, and @asymco
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Epic Games launches Fortnite on the Play Store, after over a year of offering it only outside the store, noting Google puts sideloaded apps at a disadvantage — Epic Games is finally settling its feud — kind of — with Google and putting Fornite onto the Google Play Store, but the studio sounds pretty pissed about it.| Hollywood Reporter: |
HBO Max to launch on May 27 for $15 per month with 10,000 hours of programming — The streaming service is set to debut amid the shutdown brought about by the novel coronavirus outbreaking, bringing with it 10,000 hours of library programming from across the WarnerMedia catalog.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources including employees at Foxconn and Pegatron facilities say iPhone factories have slowed production, cutting overtime and reducing staff, as demand dips — Some of the biggest factories supplying Apple are reducing staff and cutting overtime — Chinese factories that supply Apple …
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MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, Wccftech, and Ars Technica
| Nick Bilton / Vanity Fair: |
A look at Elliott Management and Twitter's deal, which bought Jack Dorsey time as CEO, as activist investors pinned Twitter's stagnation on his 4.5-year tenure — Twitter's CEO, last of the Steve Jobs-like tech-founder demigods, was on the verge of being pushed out by private-equity investors.
Tweets: @vanityfair, @vanityfair, @jim_edwards, @b52malmet, and @kantrowitz
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Confluent, the company behind open source streaming data project Apache Kafka, raises $250M Series E at a $4.5B valuation, following last year's $125M Series D — The pandemic may feel all-encompassing at the moment, but Confluent announced a $250 million Series E today … | Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
Thirty experts, including tech execs and VCs, on how the adoption of tech amid the pandemic will change work, education, health care, manufacturing, and more — We're four weeks into the massive time-out forced on us by coronavirus. Many of us have spent much of that time trying to get used …
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| Lewis Krauskopf / Reuters: |
Analyst: Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, and Facebook account for 25%+ of the S&P 500's market cap, as Amazon and Microsoft perform well during the pandemic — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors are once again crowding into a narrow range of technology and internet stocks … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Nvidia's GeForce Now loses more titles from developers including Xbox Game Studios and Warner Bros. even as it works to bring in more games ahead of June launch — But it's gaining more Ubisoft titles — Nvidia's GeForce Now cloud gaming service is losing access to more titles later this month, the company announced on Monday.
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The Official NVIDIA Blog, Digital Trends, Windows Central, TechRadar.com, Thurrott, OnMSFT.com, Kotaku, bit-tech.net, Wccftech, MSPoweruser, TechSpot, Pocket-lint, Softpedia News, Liliputing, Neowin, PC Games Insider, Gamasutra, GameSpot, Seeking Alpha, VG247, and Slashdot. Tweets: @zhugeex
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: Apple postpones iPhone SE Plus release from H1 to H2 2021, seeing a dip in demand for iPhones and production delays across the upcoming iPhone 12 models — Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of TF International Securities has shared a new investor note today detailing the ongoing development of Apple's 2020 iPhone 12 models.| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
The hacker that stole ~$25M worth of cryptocurrency from dForce-based Lendf.Me returns ~$24M through a series of transactions involving different token types — The hacker that drained $25 million in cryptocurrency from decentralized finance protocol dForce over the weekend has sent back almost all the stolen assets.
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dForce, TechSpot, Crowdfund Insider, BBC, and Crypto Briefing
| Snap: |
Snap reports in Q1 DAUs increased 20% YoY to 229M, revenue increased 44% YoY to $462M, time spent watching Discover content rose 35%+; stock up 20%+ after hours — Snap Inc. Announces First Quarter 2020 Financial Results Daily Active Users increased 20% year-over-year to 229 million …
Tweets: @cnbcnow
| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Facebook and Amazon announce TorchServe for deploying PyTorch models for inference at scale on AWS, alongside other PyTorch upgrades like stable C++ API support — Facebook's PyTorch has grown to become one of the most popular deep learning frameworks in the world, and today it's getting … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
ForgeRock, which provides digital identity management services, raises $93.5M Series E led by Riverwood Capital and Accenture Ventures — For better or worse, digital identity management services — the process of identifying and authenticating users on networks to access services … Sponsor Posts
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