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Facebook says it will start testing Live Audio Rooms in Groups and expects to roll out the feature to everyone on the Facebook app by the summer — Storytelling helps people build meaningful bonds: we all have stories to share with our friends, our communities, and the world at large.
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In a letter to Congress, Apple says it has approved Parler's return to the App Store, following moderation improvements by Parler — Washington (CNN Business)Apple has approved Parler's return to the iOS app store following improvements the social media company made to better detect …
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Microsoft says xCloud game streaming service will launch on iOS and PC Tuesday as an invite-only beta via browsers, available to Game Pass Ultimate subscribers — An invite-only beta begins for xCloud via the web — Microsoft's Xbox Cloud Gaming (xCloud) will officially arrive on iOS and PC tomorrow, April 20th.
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Sony backtracks on removing PS3 and Vita digital stores, saying it was “the wrong decision”; PSP store will still shut down on July 2 — The PSP store is still shutting down on July 2nd — Sony has announced that it'll be keeping its PS3 and PlayStation Vita digital storefront open “for the foreseeable future.”
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Reddit shares a preview of Reddit Talk, a Clubhouse-like social audio feature for subreddits coming to iOS and Android; moderators can join a waitlist to try it — Sign up now to get on the waitlist — Reddit unveiled its take on a Clubhouse-like social audio product on Monday, called Reddit Talk.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Facebook expands a tool to let users export posts and notes to Blogger, Google Docs, and Wordpress and calls for new guidelines on data flows between services — - Facebook announced Monday it's expanding a tool that allows users to transfer their data to other services.
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The Bank of England and the UK Treasury jointly create a taskforce to explore a potential central bank digital currency — Quick Take — The Bank of England and HM Treasury have jointly created a CBDC taskforce. — They will explore a potential digital currency in the U.K.
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UK says it will intervene in SoftBank's sale of ARM to Nvidia on national security grounds — Britain said on Monday it would intervene in SoftBank's (9984.T) sale of chip designer ARM Holdings to U.S. group Nvidia (NVDA.O) on national security grounds, and had requested a report on the implications of the $40 billion deal.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Geico, the 2nd-largest US auto insurer, says hackers could steal customer driver's license numbers from its site from Jan. 21 through March 1; bug now patched — Geico, the second-largest auto insurer in the U.S., has fixed a security bug that let fraudsters steal customers' driver's license numbers from its website.
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Facebook details moderation steps around the trial of Derek Chauvin, accused of murdering George Floyd, including designating Minneapolis a “high-risk location” — It's designated Minneapolis a ‘high-risk location’ — Facebook says it's taking extra moderation measures around …
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| Sean Burch / The Wrap: |
Sensor Tower: Clubhouse was downloaded 2.7M times in March, a 72% decline from February's 9.5M+ — After pulling in 9.5 million downloads in February, Clubhouse only had 2.7 million downloads in March, according to new data from Sensor Tower — Is the party on Clubhouse already dying out?
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| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
President Biden's decision to punish Russia for the SolarWinds hack broke with years of US foreign policy that tolerated cyber espionage — Administration said Moscow breached bounds of acceptable online spying with hack's size and attack on U.S. private sector
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Mastercard says it will buy digital identity verification company Ekata for $850M — The move will bolster Mastercard's digital identity and security platform and framework. — Mastercard said it will acquire Ekata for $850 million in a deal that will bolster its identity verification technology.
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Facebook says employees can continue permanently working from home, even after July 2021, subject to approval from managers — Facebook says its employees can continue working from home, even as other tech giants appear to be going off the idea. — The social media company told the BBC it thinks remote work is “the future”.| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
Fitbit unveils Luxe, a $150 fashion-focused fitness tracker coming this spring with a wide range of bands, up to 5 days of battery life, and an OLED touchscreen — It features up to five days of battery life per charge — Fitbit has announced its new Luxe fitness tracker that looks like a more fashion-focused take on the Inspire 2.| Julia Fioretti / Bloomberg: |
Leaked terms: Meituan seeks to raise $10B via share placement, $400M from Tencent, about $3B from convertible bonds for R&D of autonomous vehicles, and more — - Meituan raises funds via share placement, convertible bonds — Largest-ever sale of new shares by a Hong Kong-listed company
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