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| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
Siri prematurely reveals Apple's next event planned for Tuesday, April 20, in which it is expected to unveil new iPad Pro models and possibly AirTags trackers — Siri has apparently prematurely revealed that Apple plans to hold an event on Tuesday, April 20, where the company is expected …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils Surface Laptop 4 with 13.5" and 15" displays, starting at $999 for AMD model and $1,299 for Intel, shipping April 15 in US, Canada, and Japan — The AMD version starts at $300 less than Intel's equivalent — Microsoft is refreshing its Surface lineup with the Surface Laptop 4 today …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft debuts a $70 webcam and $100 USB-C speaker, available in June, new USB and wireless headsets, and Surface Headphones 2 Plus — Both devices are designed to improve video and audio calls — Microsoft's long-awaited new webcam is finally here, alongside a number of accessories designed for the work from home era.
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Roku starts rolling out Roku OS 10, adding AirPlay 2 and HomeKit support for HD devices and introducing Instant Resume for faster reload times — Roku has started rolling out its latest operating system, and it will give its HD streaming devices AirPlay 2 and HomeKit compatibility. When the company first
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| Jeff Dunn / Ars Technica: |
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Facebook Oversight Board will now accept appeals to remove content from Facebook and Instagram; previously, users were only able to appeal to restore content — From today, users will be able to appeal content to the Oversight Board which they want removed from Facebook and Instagram.
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| Ian Hamilton / UploadVR: |
Facebook to host Oculus Gaming Showcase, a virtual event focused exclusively on VR games, on April 21, with streams on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitch — Facebook will host an Oculus Gaming Showcase streaming to various sites on April 21. — The event will stream to Twitch, Facebook …
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| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Grab is going public on NASDAQ via SPAC, raising $4B+ at a ~$39.6B valuation; deal would make it the first Southeast Asian tech unicorn to go public via SPAC — - SoftBank-backed Grab strikes pact with Gerstner's Altimeter — Southeast Asia ride-hailing giant set to trade on Nasdaq
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google to shut down Play Movies and TV app for Roku, Samsung, LG, and Vizio on June 15, will push users to use YouTube instead — After announcing Google TV last year, its predecessor had an unspoken expiration date. This week, Google has confirmed that it will kill off the Play Movies & TV app …
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Facebook is testing a free video speed dating app called Sparked, which requires a Facebook profile to create an account — Users will be set up on four-minute video dates — Facebook is testing a video speed dating app called Sparked. The app, which requires a Facebook profile to create an account …
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| Will Sattelberg / Android Police: |
Google expands Lens beyond mobile by rolling it out inside Google Photos for the web, allowing desktop users to copy text from images using OCR — For better or worse, Google has been working on expanding its Lens features far beyond the reach of its dedicated app.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Epic Games raises $1B at a $28.7B equity valuation, including an additional $200M from Sony — Epic Games, the company behind global smash hit “Fortnite,” announced that it completed a $1 billion round of funding — giving it a whopping equity valuation of $28.7 billion.
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| Bloomberg: |
Bitcoin rises to an all-time high of $63,179, exceeding the previous peak in March, ahead of Coinbase listing on NASDAQ on April 14 — - Token surpasses the previous high set in March this year — Coinbase is scheduled to go public on the Nasdaq on April 14 — Follow us @crypto for our full coverage.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia will let customers rent its DGX A100 SuperPod mini supercomputers instead of buying them and introduces a subscription offering — The day has come when you can rent your own mini supercomputer. When you're done with it, you can return it to Nvidia.
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| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Researchers find new vulnerabilities called NAME:WRECK in the TCP/IP stack that impact hundreds of millions of servers, smart devices, and industrial equipment — Security researchers have found a new set of vulnerabilities that impact hundreds of millions of servers, smart devices, and industrial equipment.| Zak Doffman / Forbes: |
Researchers have discovered a flaw where any user can deactivate another user's WhatsApp via multiple 2FA requests and emailing support to deactivate account — A nasty new surprise for WhatsApp's 2 billion users today, with the discovery of an alarming security risk.| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
OnePlus Watch review: long battery life, nice finish, and low price, but no voice assistant, no always-on display, few notification options, only one big size — The OnePlus Watch pairs with and is controlled by the OnePlus Health app for Android — there's no iPhone compatibility at all.
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| Brave Browser: |
Brave is disabling Google's FLoC tracking method from all of its releases, saying it materially harms user privacy under the guise of being privacy-friendly — Peter Snyder, Senior Privacy Researcher at Brave — FLoC is a recent Google proposal that would have your browser share …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Through her version of Fearless, Taylor Swift is showing artists how to use the power of the internet to ascribe value to work they own and devalue the rest — In July 2014 Taylor Swift wrote an editorial in the Wall Street Journal entitled, For Taylor Swift, the Future of Music Is a Love Story:
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| Axios: |
Senator Josh Hawley unveils a proposal aimed at Big Tech that would bolster antitrust laws and ban acquisitions by companies with a market cap of over $100B — Corporate giants would be barred from acquisitions and century-old antitrust laws would get sharper teeth under a new proposal by Sen. Josh Hawley … | Julia Fioretti / Bloomberg: |
Sources: travel booking site Trip.com, formerly called Ctrip, plans to raise ~$1.09B in its Hong Kong secondary listing; its US shares have risen ~4% this year — - Online travel platform would raise $1.09 billion at that price — U.S.-listed Chinese companies are flocking to Hong Kong
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| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
China orders 34 internet companies to rectify their anti-competitive practices in the next month, signaling that its internet crackdown didn't end with Alibaba — - Companies summoned to meeting after record fine on Alibaba — Statement underscores Beijing's internet crackdown persists
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South China Morning Post, Reuters, Financial Times, caixinglobal.com, Tech Xplore, and Reuters. Tweets: @ryan_chua
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Berlin-based Grover, which runs a subscription business where people rent out consumer electronics, raises €45M Series B in equity and €15M debt — A startup tapping into the concept of the circular economy, where people don't buy items outright but pay an incremental amount to use …
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Finextra, FinSMEs, Silicon Republic, Tech.eu, Silicon Canals, and EU-Startups. Tweets: @ingridlunden
| Tyler Wilde / PC Gamer: |
Court filings show that Epic committed $444M to “minimum guarantees” for game developers that release on Epic Games Store but stay off of Steam for a year — Here's how much money Epic is burning to make the Epic Games Store a Steam competitor.
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