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Union seeking to represent Amazon workers in AL says 3,215 ballots were cast; half of ballots have been counted, votes against unionization have 2-1 advantage — The union seeking to represent workers at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama said late Wednesday that there were 3,215 ballots cast …
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Sources: production of some MacBooks and iPads has been postponed due to the global component shortage; supply of some iPhone components is “quite tight” — US tech giant's headaches suggest even worse chip shortages lie ahead — TAIPEI — Production of some MacBooks and iPads …
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Forbes, Gizmodo, Tom's Hardware, SiliconANGLE, Laptop Mag, MUO, TechRadar, SlashGear, KnowTechie, TechSpot, HotHardware.com News, CRN, MacDailyNews, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, and iPhone in Canada Blog
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| Amanda Macias / CNBC: |
US Commerce Department adds seven Chinese supercomputing entities to an export blacklist for allegedly building supercomputers used by Chinese military — - Commerce added seven Chinese supercomputing entities to a U.S. economic blacklist citing national security concerns.
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| Katie Canales / Insider: |
Report: hackers scraped data of 500M LinkedIn users and posted it for sale online; LinkedIn confirms the dataset includes publicly viewable info from its site — - Personal data from 500 million LinkedIn users has been scraped and is reportedly for sale on a hacking forum.
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The Verge, Windows Central, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, PCWorld, HotHardware.com News, and OnMSFT.com
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
As part of its filing in its case against Epic, Apple argues that the App Store doesn't lead the gaming market and so cannot be considered a monopoly — Back in August 2020, Apple removed Fortnite from the App Store after an update that bypassed the App Store's in-app purchases system.
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| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Verizon is recalling 2.5M Ellipsis Jetpack mobile hotspots, ~1.3M of which are in use, after investigation found batteries could overheat and cause fire hazards — The CPSC says the devices' batteries are the source of the overheating — Verizon said Thursday it is working …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Facebook says it is adding contextual labels like “satire page” and “public official” to some posts in News Feeds, to reduce confusion about their origin — Facebook is adding labels to satire pages in the News Feed — Facebook is adding additional labels to posts …
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Tweets: @fbnewsroom, @wordstern, @sethdillon, @thedextriarchy, @propornot, @pleaseruiz, @gisellalomax, and @digiphile
| David Priest / CNET: |
Samsung announces $40 SmartTag+, which uses Bluetooth and UWB to locate lost items, and AR to guide users to them, launching globally on April 16 — Samsung has announced it will launch its new $40 SmartTag Plus globally on April 16, with US availability to follow “in the coming weeks.”
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Tweets: @gigastacey, @andrewmartonik, @techhighest, and @mgsiegler
| Ian Carlos Campbell / The Verge: |
Lenovo debuts 6.92" Legion Phone Duel 2 with two 2,750 mAh batteries, two USB-C ports, two cooling fans, Snapdragon 888, and up to 18GB RAM, starting at €999 — Multiple ports, a pop-up camera, and yes — two fans — Lenovo's next gaming phone leaked earlier this week … | Luke Plunkett / Kotaku: |
Intel details Bleep, which uses AI to redact audio when it detects “hate speech” and lets users toggle how much they want to hear — Intel gave a presentation at GDC a few weeks back, but I'm guessing nobody actually watched it because it took until this week for anyone to notice …
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| Matt Mullenweg: |
Matt Mullenweg denounces Wix's bizarre marketing campaign against WordPress and says Wix's business model “is getting customers to pay more and more every year” — Wix, the website builder company you may remember from stealing WordPress code and lying about it …
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TechRadar, Search Engine Journal, Pixel Envy, and The Register
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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Lawsuit alleges that, since 2017, civil rights groups have flagged hundreds of anti-Muslim Pages and Groups to Facebook, more than half of which stayed up — Suit says the company made false claims to consumers by promising, at congressional hearings, that it quickly removes hate groups and hate speech| R. Lawler / Engadget: |
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp have recovered after a brief outage; Facebook says a configuration change caused the issue — After a brief outage, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are available once again.
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Ramp, which provides corporate cards and spend management software, raises $115M at a $1.6B valuation, and says it is nearing a transaction rate of $1B — This morning, Ramp, which provides corporate cards and spend management software, announced that it has closed $115 million across two investments …
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
UK startup TrueLayer, which lets fintech apps connect with customers' bank accounts, raises $70M Series D led by Addition, bringing its total raised to $142M — - TrueLayer lets fintech apps like Revolut and Freetrade connect with customers' bank accounts using technology known as APIs.
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TechCrunch, TrueLayer, Verdict, Securities.io, AltFi, Business Wire, Crunchbase News, Tech.eu, Crowdfund Insider, Silicon Canals, and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @level39cw and @sarthakgh
| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Amazon offers a rare insight into its Indian business over the past decade: $3B of Indian-made goods exported, 1M+ local jobs created, and 250,000 new sellers — - It says helped create a million jobs, fuel $3 billion exports — Amazon is battling Walmart's Flipkart in a crucial market
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Hindustan Times, The Hindu BusinessLine, Livemint, The Financial Express, Moneycontrol, and PYMNTS.com. Tweets: @bloombergquint
| Emi Nietfeld / New York Times: |
An ex-Google engineer says she endured harassment for over a year and that Google's positive external image led her to delay reporting it — I learned the hard way that no publicly traded company is a family. — Ms. Nietfeld is a software engineer. She worked at Google from 2015 to 2019.
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| Vikas SN / The Economic Times: |
Indian messaging service Gupshup raises $100M from Tiger Global at a $1.4B valuation, bringing its total raised to $150M — Conversational messaging platform Gupshup has raised $100 million from Tiger Global, pushing the company's valuation to $1.4 billion.
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TechCrunch, FinSMEs, Moneycontrol, Business Wire, Business Insider, Entrepreneur, Yahoo Finance, Reuters, Entrackr, Voicebot.ai, Bloomberg, Livemint, Tech in Asia, and Crunchbase News. Tweets: @anmolm_. Thanks:@tsuvik
| Jonathan Keane / Silicon Republic: |
Dublin-based Tines, which helps automate mundane security tasks, raises $26M Series B led by Addition, at a $300M valuation — Tines, a Dublin-based cybersecurity start-up, has raised $26m in a new round of funding that values the company at $300m. — The Series B round was led by Addition …
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Tech.eu, EU-Startups, Insider, Tines blog, independent, The Irish Times, and DevOps.com
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
London-based mobile game studio Tripledot raises $78M Series A and says it has an active user base of 11M, up from 6M six months ago — Tripledot Studios, a fast-growing London-based mobile game studio, raised $78 million in funding. That's an extraordinary amount for a mobile game studio … | Becky Bracken / Threatpost: |
Report: collaboration tools like Slack and Discord are increasingly being used to spread malware, often using the tool's own CDNs and APIs to evade detection — Workflow and collaboration tools like Slack and Discord have been infiltrated by threat actors, who are abusing their legitimate functions … Sponsor Posts
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