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| James T. Areddy / Wall Street Journal: |
China is pitching the digital yuan as a way to soften the power of US sanctions, which are increasingly being used against Chinese companies and individuals — A cyber yuan stands to give Beijing power to track spending in real time, plus money that isn't linked to the dollar-dominated global financial system
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Signal says it has added support for privacy-focused cryptocurrency MobileCoin to let users send and receive money, starting in the UK on iOS and Android — The encrypted messaging app is integrating support for MobileCoin in a bid to keep up with the features offered by its more mainstream rivals.
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| Pranob Mehrotra / XDA Developers: |
New software update for the Google Pixel lineup reportedly dramatically boosts Pixel 5's GPU performance, which had been poor for a Snapdragon 765G-based phone — The latest software update for the Google Pixel lineup recently started rolling out to users.
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| BuzzFeed News: |
Source shares data on 1,803 US taxpayer-funded orgs using Clearview AI; many cops used its facial recognition without higher-ups knowing or after a local ban — A controversial facial recognition tool designed for policing has been quietly deployed across the country with little to no public oversight.
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| Bloomberg: |
Companies that make $1 display driver chips can't keep up with surging demand, causing serious production problems for products with LCD displays like laptops — - Without a display driver chip, you can't build your product — CEO says he can't “see the light at the end of tunnel yet.”
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
TikTok says creators will soon be able to add automatic captions to videos in US English and Japanese with support for other languages “in the coming months” — Launching in American English and Japanese first — TikTok creators will soon be able to add automatically-generated captions …
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| Atul Bhattarai / Rest of World: |
A look at the rise and fall of India's missed call industry, which was transformed by Twitter-owned ZipDial that serviced 5M missed calls a day at its peak — In the age of expensive data, missed calls became more than just a cheap way to communicate. But in India, technology moves faster than you'd think.
Tweets: @chengela, @anupkaphle, @restofworld, @restofworld, @shiraovide, @restofworld, and @restofworld
| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
Review of Intel's Ice Lake Xeon Scalable CPUs, its first server chip design using a 10nm process, which sees large increases in performance for many workloads — The launch of Intel's Ice Lake Xeon Scalable processors has been in the wings for a number of years.
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Tweets: @intelnews, @intelnews, @iancutress, @stshank, @intelnews, and @iancutress. Thanks:@anandtech
| Clubhouse: |
Clubhouse partners with Stripe to let its users send payments to other users without taking a cut; only selected users will be able to receive payments for now — From the earliest days of Clubhouse, a guiding principle has been to build a platform that puts the creator first.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
YouTube says that 18 out of every 10K views in Q4 2020 were on videos that violate its policies, down from 72 out of every 10K views in Q4 2017 — ‘Violative View Rate’ fell steeply after 2017 — YouTube wants the world to know that it's doing a better job than ever of enforcing its own moderation rules.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
E3 will take place as a free virtual conference on June 12-15 and organizers say an in-person event will happen in LA in 2022 — The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) announced plans for a “reimagined” all-virtual E3 2021, set to take place June 12-15, 2021, featuring news and game reveals.
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| Washington Post: |
A Facebook recruiter, Rhett Lindsey, who left after 11 months, and others say Facebook's hiring processes are problematic and will hinder diversity goals — The recruiter quit after 11 months, adding fuel to claims that it discriminates against Black applicants
Tweets: @quinnypig, @keithboykin, and @lizzadwoskin
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Upsolver, which offers low-code SQL tools for cloud data analytics, raises $25M Series B, adds free tools for smaller workloads and says revenue tripled in 2020 — Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — Upsolver, a no-code startup …
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| Paul R. La Monica / CNN: |
NonFungible.com data shows the average price of an NFT has dropped from over $4,000 in late February to ~$1,256 on April 5 — New York (CNN Business)Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, are all the rage. But their popularity may have already peaked. Prices of NFTs, the digital certificates … | Bloomberg: |
EU says a number of institutions, including the European Commission, were hit by a significant cyberattack last week, although no data breach has been detected — A range of European Union institutions including the European Commission were hit by a significant cyber-attack last week.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sendbird, which helps developers integrate chat, video, and other features in their apps, raises $100M at a $1.05B valuation led by Steadfast Financial — Messaging is the medium these days, and today a startup that has built an API to help others build text and video interactivity …
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PYMNTS.com and VentureBeat
| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Foxconn Q1 revenue jumps 44% YoY to $47B based on robust demand for Apple's new 5G devices and other gadgets — - Consumers continue to buy devices to stay connected at home — Company warns component shortage will affect 10% of shipments — IPhone assembler Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.'s …
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AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, and Cult of Mac
| Aamir Siddiqui / XDA Developers: |
Google announces the Android Open Source Project now supports Rust for developing the OS itself, providing more memory safety guarantees than C and C++ — Android as a complete OS solution involves a lot of moving parts. Very broadly speaking, these parts are the app ecosystem and then the OS itself.
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9to5Google and Google Online Security Blog
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Cora, which offers a digital checking account and other financial services to SMBs, raises $26.7M Series A led by Ribbit Capital — Cora, a São Paulo-based technology-enabled lender to small and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $26.7 million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital.Sponsor Posts
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SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work — Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.
Command Line:
GitHub Universe 2026: Highlights from the developer's developer conference — Copilot Fusion was the belle of the ball, but the hero at the heart of the two-day event was the developer community.
GitHub Universe 2026: Highlights from the developer's developer conference — Copilot Fusion was the belle of the ball, but the hero at the heart of the two-day event was the developer community.
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