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| Jeff John Roberts / Decrypt: |
Ahead of its April 14 direct listing, Coinbase reports a record quarter, with estimated profits of $730M-$800M in Q1 on revenue of ~$1.8B and 56M verified users — Coinbase announced its 2021 first quarter earnings on Tuesday, revealing that the crypto giant made a profit of between $730 million …
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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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Signal Blog, GitHub, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Pocketnow, PCMag, 9to5Mac, Android Central, Pocket-lint, CoinDesk, SlashGear, The Block, and Decrypt
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Facebook says the leaked 533M records is a different data set that attackers created by abusing a flaw in a Facebook contacts import feature, not by hacking — The company's explanations have been confusing and inconsistent, but there are finally some answers.
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| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Clubhouse is in talks to raise funding from investors in a round valuing the business at about $4B, following its reported valuation of ~$1B in January — Clubhouse, the buzzy audio-based social network, is in talks to raise funding from investors in a round valuing the business …
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| BuzzFeed News: |
Report: employees at 1,803 public agencies in the US used Clearview AI for ~340K facial recognition searches without informing the public or their departments — 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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| 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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| 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| 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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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
YouTube says that 18 out of every 10K views in Q4 2020 were of 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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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple launches an app for enterprises to test devices that work with Apple's Find My network, ahead of its expected launch of its own new AirTags accessory — Apple has launched a new app, Find My Certification Asst., designed for use by MFi (Made for iPhone) Licensees …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google open sources Lyra in beta, an audio codec that uses ML to create high-quality voice calls for low-bandwidth networks or archiving large amounts of speech — Google today open-sourced Lyra in beta, an audio codec that uses machine learning to produce high-quality voice calls.| 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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| Washington Post: |
Rhett Lindsey, a former Facebook recruiter, and other Black employees involved in hiring, describe a problematic hiring process that hinders diversity goals — The recruiter quit after 11 months, adding fuel to claims that it discriminates against Black applicants
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Gadget trade-in site Gazelle says it changed its mind and will continue to offer its online trade-in program, after briefly ending its program in February — Two months after Gazelle supposedly shuttered the program — Trade-in provider Gazelle exited the online trade-in business back in February … | 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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| Robert Hackett / Fortune: |
Australian online design service Canva has raised $71M, valuing the company at $15B, up from its $6B valuation last June — Melanie Perkins has come a long way since founding a high school yearbook business in 2006. Out of the seed of that small venture she grew Canva … | 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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| Bloomberg: |
BitMEX cofounder Arthur Hayes turns himself in to US authorities six months after BitMEX was accused of trying to avoid implementing money laundering controls — - Hayes and his co-founders are accused of flouting banking laws — BitMEX was a pioneer in opening crypto to smaller investors| 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.
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Tech.eu, PYMNTS.com, BleepingComputer, and CyberScoop
Tweets: @technology, @albertonardelli, and @angeljimenez
| 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 — Upsolver, a no-code startup that enables analytics on cloud data lakes, this morning announced that it raised $25 million in financing led by Scale Venture Partners.
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CRN, FinSMEs, Globes Online, and Upsolver
| 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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