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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Zoom is acquiring Keybase, a 25-person startup, to add end-to-end encryption to video calls, the first acquisition in the company's nine-year history — - Zoom is acquiring Keybase, a 25-person start-up in New York, to add end-to-end encryption to video calls.
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Zoom Blog, keybase.io, Vox, TechCrunch, BetaNews, The Verge, GlobeNewswire, CoinDesk, Threatpost, Business Insider, SiliconANGLE, Computerworld, FinSMEs, Forbes, Associated Press, The Block, 9to5Mac, Fortune, Dark Reading, ZDNet, CNET, TechRadar.com, The Daily Dot, Silicon Valley Business …, IT Management, Engadget, and NBC Bay Area
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
A Facebook SDK crash caused iOS apps like TikTok and Venmo to crash on Wednesday, showing the need for Apple to sandbox third-party SDKs from an app's own code — Facebook's near-ubiquitous SDK broke yesterday, taking major mobile apps with it — Sometime around 6:30PM ET on May 6th …
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The Verge, Rambo Codes, Digital Trends, Fast Company, and Forbes
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| Isabelle Kirkwood / BetaKit: |
Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs says it will no longer pursue its smart city project at Quayside in Toronto due to “unprecedented economic uncertainty” — Sidewalk Labs has announced it will no longer pursue its project at Quayside in Toronto. The company noted the decision was due to the current …
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Sidewalk Talk, BBC, The Guardian, New York Times, Business Insider, Globe and Mail, Gizmodo, The Verge, VICE, TechCrunch, Fortune, Axios, and waterfrontoronto.ca
| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Sidewalk Infrastructure Partnership, a spin-off of Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs, raises $400M Series A from Alphabet and OTPP to improve US infrastructure with tech — As the U.S. hunkered in lockdown mode in mid-April, the influential venture capitalist Marc Andreessen published a viral essay titled “Time to Build.”| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google updates its Lens app for iOS and Android to let users copy and paste some handwritten text to Chrome, read text aloud, and provide information on words — If you handwriting is neat enough — Google has added a very useful feature to Google Lens, its multipurpose object recognition tool.
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The Keyword, Digital Trends, Android Police, Engadget, and The Next Web
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| Matt Brian / Engadget: |
UK broadband provider Virgin Media and telecom operator O2 announce a £31B merger in an effort to take on BT, Sky, and Vodafone in the country — The rumors were true: UK broadband provider Virgin Media and telecoms operator O2 are to merge, their parent companies confirmed today.
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Business Wire, Bloomberg, CNBC, Reuters, The Guardian, Financial Times, Telegraph, coinspeaker.com, TechCrunch, CNET, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Hollywood Reporter, and Silicon Republic
Tweets: @bbcbenthompson, @amirpaivar, @atbwebb, @jmalvpal, and @tomwarren
| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Apple MacBook Pro 13-inch review: nice display, lovely keyboard, and great performance, but models with 10th-gen Intel CPUs are pricey and it can get hot — I had a feeling I'd be reviewing a new 13-inch MacBook Pro sooner rather than later. When Apple refreshed the MacBook Air back in March …
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TechCrunch, The Verge, Mashable, Laptop Mag, Six Colors, Daring Fireball, CNBC, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, Macworld, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, and Tom's Guide
Tweets: @dcseifert, @backlon, and @danawollman
| Brittany A. Roston / SlashGear: |
Smart home company Wink to require users pay a $4.99 monthly subscription fee starting May 13, or device automations and accessibility via app will be disabled — Smart home company Wink has made a surprising and heavily criticized announcement: it will soon charge a monthly subscription fee.
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Wink Blog, Ars Technica, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, Engadget, TechHive, ExtremeTech, Android Police, iMore, AppleInsider, TechSpot, 9to5Toys, VentureBeat, CNET, and The Overspill
Tweets: @rgriff, @trixtur, @nick_stevens_gr, @sivavaid, @aricohn, @markbach, @annemariebridy, @daniellevesq, @davezatz, @arlogilbert, and @audiophileaj. Thanks:@c_davies
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Uber leads a $170M investment in Lime, with Bain Capital Ventures, Alphabet, and GV participating, and will transfer its Jump scooter division to Lime — - Uber is leading a $170 million investment round in Lime, the companies announced Thursday. — Uber will transfer its own electric bike …
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li.me, VentureBeat, The Information, TechCrunch, The Guardian, Financial Times, The Verge, Observer, Bloomberg, and Engadget
Tweets: @stevekovach, @ow, @g_rapier, @stevekovach, @andyjayhawk, @limebike, @ryan_browne_, and @fabianladda
| Apple: |
Apple awards $10M from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund to COPAN Diagnostics, a leader in COVID-19 sample collection kit production — Cupertino, California — Apple today announced it is awarding $10 million from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund to COPAN Diagnostics, a market leader …
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MacRumors, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Daring Fireball, Computerworld, iPhone in Canada Blog, Fox Business, Neowin, CNET, TechCrunch, iMore, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, and Engadget. Tweets: @tim_cook
| Owen Churchill / South China Morning Post: |
Citizen Lab: WeChat screens overseas users for sensitive content, which it then bars from being viewed by Chinese accounts — Research group Citizen Lab finds WeChat screens overseas users for sensitive content, which it then bars from being received by Chinese accounts Findings are likely … | New York Times: |
Israeli security company says hackers linked to the Chinese military have used Aria-body, a cyberattack tool, on governments and firms in Australia and SE Asia — An Israeli security company said the hacking software, called Aria-body, had been deployed against governments and state-owned companies in Australia and Southeast Asia.
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Forbes, Threatpost, Check Point Research, CNBC, TechRepublic, BleepingComputer, and The Hacker News
Tweets: @jessmarindavis, @780thc, @ronenbergman, @nytimes, @josh_davidovich, @sankofabrown, and @andrewbgreene
| Jules Wang / Android Police: |
Google Authenticator now lets users transfer accounts between devices — The Google Authenticator app has undergone its first facelift since 2017, making the jump from version 5 to 5.10. But the visual makeover — including a much-needed adaptation to newer phones' aspect ratios … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nintendo reports FY 2019 net profit of $2.43B, up 33.5% YoY, on sales of $12.31B, up 9% YoY; to date, 55.7M Nintendo Switch and Lite consoles have been sold — Nintendo reported that its full-year sales for the fiscal year ended March 31 were $12.31 billion, up 9% from $11.30 billion a year earlier.
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Financial Times, Mashable, Reuters, Reuters, TechCrunch, Polygon, Nintendo Life, Bloomberg, GameSpot, Thurrott, Gamasutra, South China Morning Post, VentureBeat, Financial Times, Engadget, The Verge, and USgamer.net
Tweets: @6d6f636869, @zhugeex, and @6d6f636869
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Epic Games says Fortnite has 350M registered players, up from 250M in March 2019; in April, players logged 3.2B hours in the game — More than 3.2 billion hours played in April alone — Epic's Fortnite has more than 350 million registered players, the game developer announced on Wednesday.
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Epic Games' Fortnite, The Guardian, Pocket-lint, GamingBolt, CCN.com, Gizchina, and VG247
Tweets: @fortnitegame, @maxwinebach, @ducain23, @zhugeex, @thegrunt4500, @gronky_, and @donaldmustard
| Strategy Analytics: |
Strategy Analytics: global smartwatch shipments grew 20% YoY to 14M in Q1 with Apple Watch maintaining 55% marketshare and Samsung in second place with 15% — BOSTON—(BUSINESS WIRE)— According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global smartwatch shipments grew 20 percent annually …
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Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Business Insider, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, TechPP, MacRumors, PhoneArena, and Android Headlines
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Groove, which provides customer service software for SMBs, raises $12M Series A led by Level Equity — Sales engagement solutions provider Groove today announced that it raised $12 million, which CEO Chris Rothstein says will be used to expand awareness and acceleration adoption of the company's platform.| David Kaye / Just Security: |
Facebook's efforts are laudable, but the Oversight Board does not end debates over online speech or legitimize content moderation choices by other platforms — With the Naming of Oversight Board Members, What Kind of Institution Will This Become? — With Facebook's unveiling of the first 20 …
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Civicist Posts and ComputerWeekly.com
Tweets: @iainlevine, @wiczipedia, @sofiajaroto, @valeriabet, @ia, @noraniloideain, and @jodieginsberg
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Oversight Board, The Guardian, Washington Post, OneZero , The Verge, USA Today, Inc42 Media, and Neowin
Tweets: @arusbridger, @sarahfrier, @sheeraf, @hellethorning_s, @nytopinion, @kevinroose, @sarahfrier, @oversightboard, @issielapowsky, @jayrosen_nyu, @stevematthewson, @dickensolewe, @ghoshd7, @draglikepull, @rossdawson, @anthropaulicy, @brendancarrfcc, @sivavaid, @jodieginsberg, @mylesudland, @brooklynmarie, @medium, @parkermolloy, @issielapowsky, @drroselynakombe, @herahussain, @dylanbyers, @ianclucas, @ealshafei, @anujsrivas, @pressgazette, @oneunderscore__, @connellyal, @parkermolloy, @hernameis_bea, @catoinstitute, @tawakkolkarman, @maina_kiai, and @julieowono
| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
AMD launches Ryzen Pro 4000 series of mobile business processors, with better security features and improvements to battery life and performance — AMD promises new security features and big performance gains — AMD has announced its Ryzen Pro 4000 series of mobile business processors.
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Windows Central, Tom's Hardware, PCWorld, Laptop Mag, and ZDNet
| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
In a letter, Democratic senators ask Amazon if it retaliated against whistle-blowers by firing four employees who raised health concerns about warehouses — Democratic senators sent a letter to the company asking for more details after it fired four employees who raised health concerns about its warehouses.| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Internal document reveals Twitch is looking to fund a slate of original, unscripted series that would be live and interactive on dating, sports, music, and more — - Amazon unit will bankroll slate of unscripted series this year — Use of Twitch has exploded during the coronavirus pandemic
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Gizmodo, The Verge, KnowTechie, The Streamable, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @newsynick, @mhbergen, @lucas_shaw, @zck, and @lucas_shaw
| Maria Jose Valero / Bloomberg: |
Shopify and Pinterest partner to let Shopify merchants upload their catalogs to Pinterest and turn products into shoppable Product Pins — Shopify merchants in the U.S. and Canada are now able to share their products to about 350 million Pinterest users, the companies announced Thursday.| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
House antitrust chairman says only Jeff Bezos “expressed reservation” about testifying before Congress after speaking to CEOs of Apple, Alphabet, and Facebook — - Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is the only chief executive to have “expressed reservation” about appearing … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Square launches Online Checkout to let sellers accept card payments without having to build an online store — Square is introducing a new payment tool designed for small businesses looking to rapidly transition to ecommerce. — With billions of people around the world forced to adhere … Sponsor Posts
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