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Apple executives detail privacy and anti-stalking protections built into AirTags and insist they are designed just to track items, not people or pets — Apple's “Spring Loaded” event on Tuesday offered a bonanza of new hardware announcements, including some unexpected ones.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Apple AirTag hands-on: works very well with a thoughtfully designed system, beautiful with a plastic body that serves as a speaker, but get scuffed easily — They work super well, and they're one more thing keeping you on the iPhone — I was starting to get really worried that I wouldn't find my friend.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook launches a series of global News Feed ranking tests to solicit user feedback on posts they're seeing and what posts users find valuable — Facebook may be reconfiguring its News Feed algorithms. After being grilled by lawmakers about the role that Facebook played in the attack …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Consumer Reports says it was “easily” able to trick Tesla's Autopilot system to operate without anyone in the driver's seat — Consumer Reports says, ‘Under no circumstance should anyone try this’ — Consumer Reports said Thursday it was “easily” able to trick Tesla's Autopilot system … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 to include upgrades to notifications, Lock Screen, and iMessage, a redesigned iPad Home Screen, and more privacy protections — - New privacy tools, updates to iMessage app also planned — Company to show software updates at June developer conference| Steve Kovach / CNBC: |
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An internal Facebook report found it failed to take appropriate action against Stop the Steal groups before Capitol riot, saying it should “do better next time” — Last month, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in front of a House of Representatives committee that his company …
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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Chris Poole, founder of 4chan, has left Google; he joined the company in 2016 and jumped between several different roles during his five years — - Chris “Moot” Poole has left Google five years after his hiring made waves. — Poole is best known as the “boy-genius” … Thanks:@mattrosoff
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q1 revenue of $18.6B, flat YoY, vs. $17.90B est., Data Center Group revenue of $5.56B, down from $6.99B YoY, and PC unit volumes were up 38% YoY — - Intel's first-quarter earnings are the first with CEO Pat Gelsinger at the helm. — He's already announced a turnaround …
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| Crystal Tse / Bloomberg: |
Confluent, an event streaming platform based on Apache Kafka, says it has filed confidentially for a US IPO; Confluent was last valued at $4.5B in April 2020 — Confluent Inc., an event streaming platform, has filed confidentially to go public in the U.S. — The company said in a statement …
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Sources: Apple plans to expand its ad business and add a second ad slot in the App Store search page even as it introduces privacy rules crippling ads by rivals — New privacy rules deal a huge blow to how the mobile advertising industry works — Apple will expand its advertising business …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A: Vimeo CEO Anjali Sud on how the company is helping large and small companies use video, its growing OTT business of making TV apps for creators, and more — Today on Decoder I'm talking to Anjali Sud, the CEO of Vimeo. Now, you probably think of Vimeo as a smaller competitor to YouTube …
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| Bloomberg: |
Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Intel, and Alphabet had a combined $100B+ in overseas pretax income in FY 2020, making them targets of Biden's new tax plans — - Biden plan takes aim at popular tech tax-code maneuvers — Book income tax would have cost Apple alone $3.8 bln in 2020
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Two senators are circulating a draft amendment that exempts 15K self-driving vehicles per manufacturer annually from human driver safety standards, up from 2.5K — WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two U.S. senators are working to attach legislation to allow automakers to deploy tens of thousands … | Andy Robinson / VGC: |
Sony confirms it is testing PlayStation Plus Video Pass, which lets PS Plus subscribers access over 20 movie and TV shows from Sony Pictures, in Poland — POLISH USERS HAVE ACCESS TO VIDEO CONTENT FROM TODAY; NO NEWS ON OTHER MARKETS YET — Sony Interactive Entertainment …
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| Nic Fildes / Financial Times: |
Canada-based Alphawave IP, which develops chip technology for faster data flow through networks, is aiming to raise $500M+ via a London IPO at a $4.5B valuation — Chip designer says listing in UK trumped both US and Canada despite Deliveroo's turbulent debut
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