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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft's Chromium Edge is getting Pinterest suggestions, sidebar search, and business features like Windows Information Protection support — At its Build 2020 developers conference today, Microsoft announced a slew of new features coming to Chromium Edge. Consumers can expect Pinterest suggestions and sidebar search.
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The Verge, PCWorld, Laptop Mag, Windows Central, and Thurrott
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces Project Reunion, its latest attempt to unify the Windows developer platform by reducing fragmentation between Win32 and UWP APIs — At Build 2020 today, Microsoft unveiled Project Reunion, its latest attempt to unify the Windows developer platform by reducing fragmentation …
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Windows Blog, TechCrunch, PCWorld, Thurrott, Microsoft Docs, Softpedia News, SlashGear, WinBuzzer, MSPoweruser, OnMSFT.com, and Engadget
Tweets: @tomwarren, @panos_panay, @epro, @dcseifert, and @ow
| Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott: |
Microsoft unveils Windows Package Manager, native to Windows 10, letting users install software from the command line without visiting vendor sites or the Store — Microsoft is adding a built-in package manager to Windows 10. The company today announced Windows Package Manager at Build 2020 …
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CNET, The Verge, Petri, Tom's Hardware, Windows Central, VentureBeat, and The Verge. Tweets: @whatthebit
| Tom Krazit / Protocol: |
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| New York Times: |
Disney's top streaming exec, Kevin Mayer, resigns to become CEO of TikTok and COO of parent company ByteDance; Disney names Rebecca Campbell as his successor — Kevin Mayer will lead the Chinese-owned app for making and sharing short videos, which has exploded in popularity during the pandemic.
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| BBC: |
Budget airline EasyJet says email addresses and travel details of 9M passengers were stolen and credit card details of 2,208 customers were accessed — EasyJet has admitted that a “highly sophisticated cyber-attack” has affected approximately nine million customers.
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Samsung announces a 50-megapixel smartphone sensor promising faster “DSLR-level auto-focus speeds” and better low-light image quality — Samsung has unveiled a new smartphone sensor showing that more megapixels may not always be better. The ISOCELL GN1 is “only” a 50-megapixel sensor …
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| Richard Speed / The Register: |
At an MIT event, Microsoft president Brad Smith says the company was “on the wrong side of history” with open source — Tell-all with president Brad Smith reveals Obama warned tech giants that a privacy reckoning was coming — Microsoft president Brad Smith (pictured) …
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Microsoft's Cloud for Healthcare, a suite of telehealth tools including a Healthcare Bot Service and patient engagement portals, is now in public preview — At its virtual Build conference today, Microsoft announced it is launching industry-specific cloud offerings, starting with one designed for healthcare.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces the Fluid Framework, a new type of Office document built around collaborative Lego-like blocks on the web, and says it will be open source — Microsoft is creating a new kind of Office document. Instead of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, the company has created Lego blocks of Office content that live on the web.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft launches Lists, an Airtable-like app for Microsoft 365 that helps users track a wide range of issues using customizable views, rules, and alerts — Microsoft today launched Lists, a new “smart tracking app” for Microsoft 365 users. That may sound a lot like a todo list app …
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| The Verge: |
Interview with Sundar Pichai on Google's diversity, long-term plans for its hardware division, the pandemic's effect on its ads business, and more — Like all big tech companies, Google and Alphabet are playing an outsized role in our lives as the coronavirus pandemic continues.
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
AG Barr says that, “no thanks to Apple”, the FBI succeeded in unlocking the “phones” of the Pensacola gunman, who they found had significant links to Al Qaeda — It looks like the most recent contention between the FBI and Apple over device encryption has come to an end …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers found a bug in Bluetooth Classic pairing process that allows attackers to spoof the identify of a previously paired device to gain access of another — New BIAS attack works agaisnt Bluetooth devices and firmware from Apple, Broadcom, Cypress, Intel, Samsung, and others.
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Brex, which offers a credit card tailored to startups, raises $150M in a Series C extension — Fast-growing fintech behemoth Brex is raising big money as its customer base itself — high-growth and spendy startups — is struggling. — The company, which sells a credit card tailored for startups …
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| Mara Hvistendahl / Wired: |
Profile of Chinese voice computing company iFlytek, which makes AI-based apps for consumers and the Chinese government that critics say aid surveillance efforts — Alexa can tell you the weather. Siri knows a few jokes. In China, voice-computing company iFlytek built similar smart assistants beloved by users.
Tweets: @chinabeigebook, @shanthikalathil, @wired, and @wadhwa
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces the public preview of Project Bonsai, a platform for building autonomous industrial control systems — Microsoft announced the public preview of Project Bonsai, a platform for building autonomous industrial control systems, during its Build 2020 online conference.| David Meyer / Fortune: |
Germany's Federal Constitutional Court rules that spying on the Frankfurt exchange's global internet traffic by the BND, its intelligence agency, is illegal — In the world of online spying, great power lies with those who can get their hands on the data flowing through the world's Internet infrastructure.
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Bundesverfassungsgericht. Tweets: @privacyint, @markard_chair, @daphnehk, @gabrielazanfir, @fborgesius, @senficon, and @jonathandunnett
| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Walmart says it will discontinue Jet.com, which it acquired for $3.3B in 2016, even as Q1 e-commerce sales were up 74% — Jet.com was critical to Walmart's e-commerce strategy and omnichannel efforts, but is no longer necessary.| David Cohen / Adweek: |
Instagram introduces Guides, a feature letting creators curate content on a specific subject, debuting with select accounts focusing on wellness — Creators, public figures, organizations and publishers can curate content on a specific subject — Instagram introduced a new Guides feature Monday …
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Tweets: @mosseri, @instagram, @glenngabe, @adweek, @taylrn, @joshconstine, @bluechoochoo, and @besvinick
| Brian Merchant / OneZero: |
Google says it will not “build custom AI/ML algorithms to facilitate upstream extraction in the oil and gas industry” — A Greenpeace report details Silicon Valley's ties to Big Oil — and spurs Google to take a step toward opting out — After a year of weathering criticism … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Confluera, a cybersecurity startup that helps companies autonomously detect and track attacks in real time, raises $21M Series B led by Icon Ventures — Confluera, a cybersecurity startup that helps companies autonomously detect and track attacks in real time, has raised $21 million in a series B round of funding led by Icon Ventures.
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
A look at Congress' approach to data privacy during the pandemic, including the COVID-19 Consumer Data Protection Act, a bill introduced by Republican Senators — After saving lives, the most urgent — and hotly debated — problem facing government policymakers in the age of COVID-19 …
Tweets: @math_rachel
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