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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces a virtual WWDC 2021 from June 7 to June 11, where iOS 15, macOS 12, watchOS 8, and more are expected — Apple has officially announced WWDC 2021. This year, the conference will take place completely virtually starting June 7. This marks the second year in a row that Apple …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google announces upgrades to Maps, including indoor AR directions, a new directions interface with eco-friendly driving routes, and new weather map layers — Indoor AR directions, a new directions interface, and more — Google is announcing a bunch of new features planned for Google Maps …
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Tweets: @bilawalsidhu, @callmenicholi, @rastrau, @edparsons, @marshacollier, @googlemaps, @scobleizer, @zrh_airport, @sundarpichai, @backlon, @mollyali, and @google
| Anna Irrera / Reuters: |
PayPal says it has started letting US customers use cryptocurrency holdings to pay all 29M of its online merchants globally — LONDON (Reuters) - PayPal Holdings Inc will announce later on Tuesday that it has started allowing U.S. consumers to use their cryptocurrency holdings to pay …
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PayPal Newsroom, The Verge, Fortune, theblockcrypto.com, AppleInsider, NewsBTC, Gizmodo, The Defiant, ZDNet, TechCrunch, Inc42 Media, TechSpot, Fast Company, PYMNTS.com, Protos, New York Post, GameRevolution, coinspeaker.com, cryptodaily.co.uk, Mashable, KnowTechie, MUO, CryptoGlobe, and Cointelegraph
Tweets: @johnlegere, @kulmeetbawa, @danlesac, @reutersbiz, @paypal, @reuters, @davidgerard, @scottmelker, and @nischalshetty
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Spotify buys app developer Betty Labs, creator of Locker Room, a live social audio app where fans can talk about sports, which Spotify plans on expanding — The acquisition will allow creators of all kinds to host anything from debates to live concerts.
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The Verge, Spotify, NBC News, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, XDA Developers, Tubefilter, PYMNTS.com, USA Today, CNBC, iMore, iPhone Hacks, and MUO
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Source: in January, IoT manufacturer Ubiquiti downplayed a “catastrophic” breach, which gained root access to its AWS accounts and access to countless devices — On Jan. 11, Ubiquiti Inc. [NYSE:UI] — a major vendor of cloud-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as routers …
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Sources: Google plans to release “Pixel Buds A” in 2021, which will almost be visually indistinguishable from current Buds and offered in white and green colors — For a few years now, Google has offered affordable variants of its Pixel phones with the Pixel 3a and Pixel 4a.
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Android Police, SlashGear, Android Headlines, and Droid Life
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn adds Creator mode for influencers, launches video Cover Stories, and extends free career training tools in partnership with Microsoft — LinkedIn, the social network now with 740 million users around the world, has carved out an identity for itself as the place online where professionals …
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Official LinkedIn Blog, Engadget, Insider, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @andrewmseaman, @caseynewton, @linkedin, @ingridlunden, @chrismessina, and @lanceulanoff
| Alex Heath / The Information: |
Sources: Snap plans to unveil new Spectacles aimed at AR developers and creators in May and has begun a years-long project to make a camera drone — Snap is readying a new push into hardware with a more advanced version of its Spectacles smart glasses that feature displays capable …
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MacRumors, AppleInsider, Engadget, Social Media Today, 9to5Mac, MUO, and SlashGear
Tweets: @patrickmcgee_, @amir, @jessicalessin, and @alexeheath
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Arm unveils Armv9, its next gen chip architecture that adds features for security, AI, and more, as it expects ~300B Arm-based chips to ship in the next decade — Arm today announced Armv9, the next generation of its chip architecture. Its predecessor, Armv8 launched a decade ago …
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CNET, Arm, SiliconANGLE, Android Authority, AnandTech, PCWorld, HotHardware.com News, Protocol, The Register, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Engadget, The Verge, Android Central, Liliputing, Neowin, and ServeTheHome
Tweets: @hpc_guru, @alexvoica, and @stshank
| Nikkei Asia: |
Foxconn, the world's top contract electronics manufacturer, says the chip shortage will result in it shipping 10% fewer products, without specifying a timeframe — Key iPhone maker to invest $1bn in North American electric vehicle plant — TAIPEI — Foxconn, the world's biggest contract … | Sebastian Pellejero / Wall Street Journal: |
Dapper Labs, maker of NFT-focused NBA Top Shot, raises $305M, sources say at $2.6B valuation; investors include several pro athletes including Michael Jordan — Dapper Labs draws investors that include basketball legends Michael Jordan and Kevin Durant, seeking to cash in on the digital-collectibles craze
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Insider, USA Today, FinSMEs, VentureBeat, Forbes, Fast Company, CoinDesk, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @nbatopshot, @kippbodnar, @dapperlabs, @eisenberg43, @andrewgertler, @nikilster, @pakman, @wsj, @ownthemomentnft, @awealthofcs, and @joshelman
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Xiaomi announces Mi Mix Fold, its first folding phone, with an 8.01-inch 4:3 OLED display, Snapdragon 888, 5,020mAh battery, and four Harman Kardon speakers — The Mi Mix series returns — Xiaomi has resurrected its Mi Mix series with the Mi Mix Fold, the company's first commercial folding phone.
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Mi Blog, Android Authority, Financial Times, Neowin, Android Beat, Pocketnow, 9to5Google, Android Central, HotHardware.com News, The Next Web, Tom's Guide, SlashGear, CNET, iPhone Hacks, and Livemint. Tweets: @dcseifert
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google has started to roll out a limited developer origin trial of FLoC, as part of its Privacy Sandbox project for Chrome — Google today announced that it is rolling out Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC), a crucial part of its Privacy Sandbox project for Chrome, as a developer origin trial.
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9to5Google, The Keyword, Engadget, AdExchanger, Adweek, and The Verge
Tweets: @googlechrome and @glenngabe
| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Epic Games says it has filed a complaint in support of UK antitrust watchdog's ongoing investigation into Apple's alleged anti-competitive behavior — Epic Games today said it had filed a complaint to the UK's antitrust watchdog in support of the government department's ongoing investigation …
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Epic Games, MacRumors, WRAL TechWire, Thurrott, 9to5Mac, The Hill, Cult of Mac, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @markdistef and @epicnewsroom
| Matt Binder / Mashable: |
iOS 14.5 beta seems to fix a longstanding bug affecting Safari's adult content blocking option that would block any search containing the word “Asian” — Do you have adult content blocked on your iPhone or iPad? — If so, it's likely that your iOS device is currently blocking web searches using the word “Asian.”
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9to5Mac, AppleInsider, The Verge, iMore, and techadvisor.co.uk
| Jim Salter / Ars Technica: |
Intel's new 11th-gen Rocket Lake-S gaming CPUs are yet another 14nm offering and don't seem to match Intel's claim of 19% performance increase over 10th-gen — Rocket Lake-S doesn't look like a very compelling gen-on-gen upgrade. — Today marks the start of retail availability …
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techadvisor.co.uk, AnandTech, PCWorld, Laptop Mag, PCWorld, KitGuru, Eurogamer.net, VideoCardz.com, and Slashdot
Tweets: @jeffgrubb, @podperson, and @fpiednoel
| Hamish McKenzie / Substack Blog: |
Substack raises $65M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz — When we started Substack to build an alternative media economy that unlocks the full potential of the internet and gives more power to writers and readers, we didn't know if the model would work. A lot of people told us that no one would pay for newsletters.
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Facebook says Chief Revenue Officer David Fischer will be leaving the company in the fall after more than a decade — Facebook Inc. Chief Revenue Officer David Fischer, one of the company's highest ranking executives under Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, is leaving after more than a decade.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Indian fintech startup MobiKwik is investigating after a dark web site claimed to have private info on ~100M users and “know your customer” docs of 3.5M users — MobiKwik said on Tuesday it was investigating claims of data breach after a website claimed to have exposed private information …
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MobiKwik, DataBreaches.net, HackRead, Candid.Technology, Inc42 Media, BleepingComputer, and MediaNama
Tweets: @pogowasright, @jackerhack, @jackerhack, @zackwhittaker, and @underthebreach
| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Ripple says it is acquiring a 40% stake in Asian cross-border payments company Tranglo — Crypto firm Ripple has agreed to acquire a 40% stake in Asian payments specialist Tranglo. The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals is expected to occur sometime this year.
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Ripple, FinSMEs, CoinDesk, coinspeaker.com, Coin Journal, and CryptoSlate. Tweets: @mackattackxrp
| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Netflix says it wants to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2022, by reducing electricity use by 45%, hiring local crews, and offsetting the rest — It plans to hit ‘net zero’ emissions by the end of 2022 — Netflix set out goals today to limit the damage the company does to the climate.
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Financial Times and GeekWire
| NBC News: |
Filings: at least 37 charges have been filed by workers against Amazon to the NLRB since February 2020, up 3x from 2019 and 6x from 2018 — The day after Jonathan Bailey organized a walkout over Covid-19 concerns at an Amazon warehouse in Queens, New York, he was, he said, “detained” …
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Tweets: @sarahljaffe, @danpriceseattle, @rmc031, @libshipwreck, @ravenbookstore, @hshaban, @hshaban, @cornellilr, @aprilaser, and @ella_nilsen
| Brandon Katz / Observer: |
LightShed Partners: SVOD subscribers will nearly double by 2024 to 1.25B from 650M at the end of 2020 — Of the 11 major legacy media and tech companies that have a direct hand in Hollywood, all but one house some sort of over-the-top (OTT) streaming service.| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Google Nest Hub (2nd-gen) review: easy and reliable sleep tracking, improved speaker, excellent Google Photos photo frame, but too slow for everything else — The new Nest Hub is just as good at being a digital photo frame as before, but it's slow for everything else
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9to5Google, TechCrunch, Livemint, CNET, Android Police, Android Authority, The Ambient, CNET, Gizmodo, Engadget, and SlashGear
Tweets: @pkedrosky, @reckless, @stuartdredge, @backlon, @nicnguyen, and @dcseifert
| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
Cameo, which now has 40,000 personalities, raises $100M from Vision Fund 2 and others at a $1B+ valuation, up from $300M in 2019 — The four-year-old video platform features more than 40,000 personalities but faces increased competition, potentially from Facebook
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Cameo, Reuters, Chicago Business Journal, TechCrunch, and Variety
Tweets: @mr312, @petergyang, @wsj, @addison_jacoby, @mgsiegler, and @arthur_leopold
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Amazon has acquired Perpule, a startup in India that helps offline stores go online; filings show Amazon paid $14.7M to acquire Perpule, plus staff compensation — Amazon has acquired a startup in India that is helping offline stores go online, the e-commerce group's latest attempt …
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Livemint, Entrackr, and Business Standard
| Marija Butkovic / Forbes: |
Cleo, a parenting support app for working parents offered through employers, raises $40M Series C, bringing its total raised to $83M — One of the key problems affecting women and families today (that sadly Covid-19 has made even more urgent) is the lack of retention and acceleration … Sponsor Posts
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