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Apple reports Q2 revenue of $58.3B, up 1% YoY, of which $44.9B came from products, $13.35B from services, and net income of $11.25B — Total Revenue Grows, Services Revenue Reaches New All-Time High of $13.3 Billion — Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2020 second quarter ended March 28, 2020.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Amazon reports Q1 “other” category revenue, which mostly covers its ad business, of $3.9B, up 44% YoY, and subscriptions services revenue of $5.56B, up 28% YoY — Amazon today reported earnings for its first fiscal quarter of 2020, including revenue of $75.5 billion …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Andreessen Horowitz raises $515M for its second fund dedicated to cryptocurrency and blockchain investments and holdings — Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has raised $515 million for its second fund dedicated to cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Zoom admits it doesn't have 300M DAUs, quietly correcting a misleading claim in its original blog post, which now says 300M “daily Zoom meeting participants” — Zoom quietly updated a blog post earlier this month — Zoom has admitted it doesn't have 300 million daily active users.
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| New York Times: |
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have declined to remove Trump's comments on UV and disinfectants curing COVID-19, despite commitments to removing misinformation — Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have declined to remove the president's statements about unproven coronavirus treatments.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft's bet on Xbox Game Pass seems to be paying off, as it hits 10M subscribers, far ahead of the 5M and 1M subscribers EA and Sony announced last year — Microsoft takes an early lead in the battle for the Netflix of video games — Microsoft now has 10 million subscribers …
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| Prafulla Dhariwal / OpenAI: |
OpenAI announces Jukebox, a neural net that generates music, including rudimentary singing, as raw audio in a variety of genres and artist styles — We're introducing Jukebox, a neural net that generates music, including rudimentary singing, as raw audio in a variety of genres and artist styles.
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| Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware: |
Raspberry Pi announces a new $50 camera board with a 12MP Sony sensor and support for interchangeable lenses — Great flexibility and resolution make the Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera a winner. — OUR VERDICT — With interchangeable lenses and a 12-MP sensor, the Raspberry Pi High …
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Design software startup Figma raises $50M Series D led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $2B valuation — Covering venture capital, software and startups — Figma CEO Dylan Field has enjoyed watching his design software take off in bizarre ways in recent weeks.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft opens registration for Build 2020, scheduled for May 19 to 21, and says the virtual event will be free, with a focus on developers rather than users — - Unlike past years, people will only be able to watch the 2020 Microsoft Build conference online, and the event won't be as much talk …
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| New York Times: |
FBI director Christopher Wray's law firm argued in favor of strong end-to-end encryption while representing WhatsApp in a sealed 2015 case involving the DOJ — Christopher Wray has said tough encryption offered by companies like Facebook and Apple blinds law enforcement. But his law firm defended it five years ago.| TrendForce: |
Global smartphone production in Q1 fell by 10% YoY to ~280M units, the lowest in five years, and is estimated to drop by 16.5% YoY to ~287M units in Q2 — - TrendForce has revised down its forecast of yearly smartphone production volume to 1.24 billion units, an 11.3% decrease YoY, given weakening end-product demand.
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| Taylor Lyles / The Verge: |
Facebook rolls out a tool that lets users in the US and Canada transfer their photos and videos to Google Photos as part of the Data Transfer Project — Facebook launched the tool in Ireland last year — Facebook is rolling out a new tool today allowing users in the US and Canada to transfer … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft renames Visual Studio Online, its online code editor, as Visual Studio Codespaces and drops the price of the service by over 50% — About a year ago, Microsoft launched Visual Studio Online, its online code editor based on the popular Visual Studio Code project.
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| Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Intel launches flagship 10th-gen Comet Lake desktop CPUs with 10 cores based on its Skylake architecture; the $488 Core i9-10900K CPU can reach 5.3GHz — Today we get the full range of its Intel's 10th Generation processors for desktops. These chips, which fall under the banner of ‘Comet Lake’ …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Walmart is piloting a 2-hour “Express” grocery delivery service for an extra $10 fee; plans to expand to 1K stores in May, using its 74K+ “personal shoppers” — Record usage of grocery delivery services amid the COVID-19 pandemic has led to delayed orders …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: construction software company Procore called off its IPO and instead raised $150M at a $5B valuation, but may still go public in 2020 — - Construction software company raised more than $150 million — It had filed for U.S. initial public offering in February
Tweets: @lewis_lin and @katie_roof
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Motorola Edge Plus review: top-tier specs, good camera, solid battery life, but it's not waterproof, edge display has issues, and it's Verizon exclusive — When great just isn't good enough — After years mainly spent in the midrange phone market, Motorola burst back into the spotlight …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Joe Biden names Apple's VP for Public Policy Cynthia Hogan to his four-strong VP selection committee; Hogan was Biden's chief counsel in the Senate and as VP — Joe Biden's campaign this morning announced that it has chosen a team to vet potential running mates for the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
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| Bobbie Johnson / MIT Technology Review: |
Pandemic conspiracy theories are being spread using Wayback Machine links of content already discredited by fact-checkers and even deleted — Pandemic conspiracy theorists are using the Wayback Machine to promote “zombie content” that evades moderators and fact-checkers.
Tweets: @aaronwall, @wrklsshrd, @mantzarlis, and @xor
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google says Duplex, its AI chat agent which previously only spoke English, can now speak Spanish “only for confirming store hours” in Spain during the pandemic — Google today launched Google Duplex, its AI chat agent that can arrange appointments over the phone … Sponsor Posts
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Bringing local models and sandboxed tools to Windows and GitHub Copilot — GitHub Copilot will soon determine when a task is best handled by on-device AI and when it needs cloud-scale models.
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