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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Snap announces Pixy, a $230 mini drone that can capture 2.7K videos and 12MP photos, syncs with Snapchat, and weighs 101g, available in the US and France — Meet Pixy, Snap's little flying companion. Pixy is a mini drone that can act as a camera sidekick when you can't ask someone to take a video of you.
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| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel dismisses Meta's metaverse ambitions as “ambiguous and hypothetical” and says the word “metaverse” is never uttered in Snap's offices — Founder says his company is committed to augmenting the real world rather than replacing it
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| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
Snap Pixy review: a cute drone with four flying modes, but the footage quality is not the best, the battery lasts only a few flights, and it can't handle wind — With this new kind of flying camera, Snapchat's creators take the stress out of piloting remote-controlled aircraft for aerial photography.
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| Business Wire: |
Apple reports Q2 revenue of $97.3B, up 9% YoY, $25B net income, up from $23.6B YoY, authorizes an additional $90B in share repurchases, and hikes dividend by 5% — Revenue up 9 percent to new March quarter record — Services revenue reaches new all-time high
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple Q2 revenue: $50.57B from iPhone, up 5.5% YoY, $10.44B from Mac, up 14.7% YoY, $7.65B from iPad, down 1.9% YoY, and $8.8B from other products, up 12.4% YoY — - Apple's revenue grew nearly 9% on an annual basis in the quarter ending in March. — Apple did not provide a forecast for the current quarter.
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| Financial Times: |
In an email, Twitter reassures advertisers it will remain a safe place for brands after Elon Musk's takeover, as advocacy groups predict more toxicity and abuse — Campaigners and car manufacturers among groups to express concern over Tesla chief's $44bn takeover
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Twitter says it overstated mDAUs from Q1 2019 to Q4 2021 by up to 1.9M per quarter, counting one user's multiple accounts as active, even if they weren't in use — How did this happen twice? — Twitter overstated the number of daily users on its service for three years straight, overcounting by up to 1.9 million users each quarter.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
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| Business Wire: |
Amazon reports Q1 revenue up 7% YoY to $116.4B, $3.8B net loss vs. $8.1B net income in Q1 2021, and AWS revenue up 37% YoY; stock down 10%+ on weak Q2 guidance — SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2022.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon reports Q1 advertising services revenue grew 23% YoY to $7.88B vs 8.17B est., and subscription services grew 11% to $8.4B — - Amazon on Thursday gave a revenue forecast that trailed analysts' estimates. — Growth rates are at their slowest since the dot-com bust in 2001.| João Carrasqueira / XDA Developers: |
A Microsoft support page shows the company is testing the Microsoft Edge Secure Network feature, a built-in VPN-like service for Edge, powered by Cloudflare — Microsoft is testing a VPN-like service for its Edge browser, adding a new layer of security and privacy to the browsing experience.
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Google now accepts requests to remove Search results that include users' contact info, like physical addresses, phone numbers, and emails, and login credentials — If you put in a request and it agrees they're harmful — Google says it's expanding the types of personal information …
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| William Li / Counterpoint Research: |
Global PC shipments fell 4.3% YoY to 78.7M in Q1 2022; Lenovo shipped 9.5% less, HP shipped 16% less due to weak Chromebook sales, and Apple shipped 8% more — Taipei, London, Hong Kong, Boston, Toronto, New Delhi, Beijing, Seoul - April 28, 2022 — Global PC shipments fell 4.3% YoY …
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Tom's Hardware, iThinkDifferent, MacDailyNews, Dot Esports, TechSpot, The Mac Observer, Apple Must, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Gizchina, and iClarified. Tweets: @frankcatalano
| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Cloudflare says it mitigated a 15.3M rps HTTPS DDoS attack earlier in April, one of the largest volumetric DDoS attacks recorded, targeting a “crypto launchpad” — Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare said today that it mitigated one of the largest volumetric distributed denial of service …
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Ars Technica, HotHardware.com News, Security Affairs, The Register, Telecoms Tech News, Digital Trends, Bitcoinist.com, and cybernews.com
Tweets: @moo9000, @moo9000, @cloudflare, and @bushidotoken
| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: the EU plans to file antitrust charges against Apple next week for not allowing third parties to process payments using the iPhone's NFC and Apple Pay — EU will accuse the tech giant of blocking financial groups from its Apple Pay mobile system — Apple is set to face fresh …
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9to5Mac, MacRumors, Thurrott, AppleInsider, Fortune, Crowdfund Insider, iThinkDifferent, The Mac Observer, Neowin, MacDailyNews, TechSpot, and Cult of Mac
Tweets: @javierespft, @carnage4life, and @muradahmed
| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Google expands its sensitive ad categories, letting users limit dating, pregnancy, parenting, and weight loss ads across its Display network, not just YouTube — The company is adding to its sensitive ad categories — Google is expanding its sensitive ad categories options …
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| Frank Konkel / Nextgov: |
The NSA re-awards its $10B cloud computing contract, codenamed “Wild and Stormy”, to AWS, after Microsoft contested the original award to AWS in July 2021 — Amazon Web Services beat out Microsoft for the contract after a bid protest battle. — The National Security Agency …
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| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
An overview of the iPhone's autocorrect feature and how it has evolved, including an interview with Ken Kocienda, who created the autocorrect keyboard software — Tpying truble? During the iPhone's first 15 years, its keyboard software has evolved, but it still sometimes flubs your lines.
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iPhone in Canada Blog, Newslit Daily, and YouTube
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
DJI admits that AeroScope drone tracking signals aren't encrypted, after claiming otherwise for almost a month, letting anyone track its drones and their pilots — The packets are in the air for anyone to grab — Last month, Ukraine Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov accused DJI …
Tweets: @d0tslash and @starfire2258
| The Information: |
Sources: the FTC opened an inquiry into whether Elon Musk complied with its reporting requirement as he amassed his 9.1% Twitter stake between January and April — Elon Musk's $44 billion Twitter takeover is unlikely to raise antitrust concerns. But what is already being scrutinized … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Roku reports Q1 revenue of $734M, up 28% YoY, 20.9B total streaming hours, up 14% YoY, and the addition of 1.1M active accounts to reach 61.3M, up 14% YoY — Streaming platform Roku saw revenue and user growth cool down in the first three months of 2022, as the company missed Wall Street expectations on the bottom line.| Reuters: |
Weibo says the company will publish users' IP address locations on their account pages and posts in a bid to combat “bad behavior”; users cannot opt-out — Weibo , China's equivalent of Twitter, told users on Thursday it would start to publish their IP locations on their account pages … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google launches the Privacy Sandbox Developer Preview for Android 13 to add “safer” ad alternatives, offering an “early look” at the Topics API and SDK Runtime — As work on the Chrome version continues, Google announced the Privacy Sandbox for Android in February … | Will Sattelberg / Android Police: |
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