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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to let developers port their iPad apps to Mac using a new SDK that will be released as early as June at WWDC — - This year, it will be easier to turn iPad apps into Mac apps — App merger initiative comes as Apple plans its own Mac chips
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| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Microsoft says Russia-linked Fancy Bear targeted European research groups and think tanks that work on issues including election security and nuclear policy — SEATTLE — A group of hackers associated with Russian intelligence targeted civil society groups across Europe ahead of May elections there, Microsoft said on Tuesday.
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Tweets: @donie, @politicoeurope, @microsofteu, @olivia_gazis, @jsaryuszwolski, and @cnn
| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Xiaomi debuts Mi 9 with three rear cameras, 6.39" AMOLED display, Snapdragon 855, 6GB RAM, and 20W wireless charging, for ~$446 in China, shipping on Feb. 26 — Xiaomi has officially launched the Mi 9 at an event in China after months of teasers. The triple-camera flagship is powered …
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| Nick Bastone / Business Insider: |
Google says the built-in microphone in Nest Secure devices, which it had never disclosed earlier in the tech specs, was “never intended to be a secret” — - In early February, Google announced that Assistant would work with its home security and alarm system, Nest Secure.
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| Chris Morris / Fortune: |
Industry sources: Google will reveal details about its Project Stream game streaming service during its keynote at the Game Developers Conference on March 19 — Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo might want to brace themselves. Googleis about to enter the lucrative video game sector with its Project Stream.
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| Dani Deahl / The Verge: |
Soundcloud adds a self-distribution feature to its Premier tier, currently in beta, that lets artists publish and monetize their songs on other platforms — SoundCloud announced today that it is adding distribution to its self-monetization Premier program.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Arm unveils two new products for cloud and edge applications, the Neoverse N1, which focuses on compute speed, and the Neoverse E1, focusing on throughput — For the longest time, Arm was basically synonymous with chip designs for smartphones and very low-end devices.
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| eMarketer: |
eMarketer predicts that US digital ad spending will surpass traditional in 2019, growing 19% YoY to $129.34B, of which mobile will account for ~$87B — Amazon's ad business to grow more than 50%, taking bite out of duopoly — This year will mark a major milestone in the world of advertising.| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
Binance launches Binance DEX, a decentralized trading platform built on its own blockchain network, for public testing — Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has rolled out public testing for a decentralized trading platform built on its own blockchain network.
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| Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: |
CrowdStrike: Russian state-sponsored hackers take less than 20 minutes to start moving laterally in a targeted organization's network after an initial breach — It takes Russian state-sponsored hackers less than 20 minutes to start moving laterally within a targeted organization's network …
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Tweets: @marquardta, @crowdstrike, @padresj, and @kennwhite
| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
Cisco Visual Networking Index: by 2022, 5G will power as many 9% of mobile data connections in North America, compared to 6.5% in Western Europe, and 4% in Asia — U.S. policymakers keep wringing their hands over a competition with China to build the world's first mass-market 5G wireless network.| Wall Street Journal: |
The DoD will investigate some of the complaints raised by Oracle in a lawsuit over the JEDI cloud computing contract, which is expected to be won by Amazon — A federal judge delayed a lawsuit over a massive Pentagon cloud-computing contract Amazon.com was favored to win while the government continues … | Nicole Kobie / WIRED UK: |
Citymapper announces a £30-£40/month subscription service for London transport with access to its Ride car-sharing service, TfL trains, and Santander bikes — The company's transport as a service plan combines Transport for London services with other ways of getting around the city under one subscription
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| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
House Committee on Energy and Commerce asks in open letter whether Facebook users were misled about what personal data could be leaked by joining closed groups — House committee asked for a briefing — Lawmakers are looking to question Facebook about its privacy practices after allegations …
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Tweets: @donie, @ravindranize, @matthewstoller, and @frankpasquale
| Chloe Bryan / Mashable: |
A look at “Reply Guys”, a harmless but annoying Twitter phenomenon where one or two men reply to every tweet from a woman — On Twitter, a place where a lot of bad things happen, there's a mostly harmless but decidedly annoying phenomenon. A lot of people, mostly women …
Tweets: @sbarolo, @taylorlorenz, @the_shitface, @raxkingisdead, @chloebryan, @taylorlorenz, and @taylorlorenz
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
German insurance giant Allianz increases the size of its VC fund, Allianz X, from €430M when it launched in 2016, to €1B, making it one of the largest in Europe — Allianz X, the venture capital arm attached to German insurance giant Allianz, has increased the size of its fund to €1 billion …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Fabless semiconductor company Peraso, which is developing wireless networking chips based on WiGig, has raised $42M Series D, bringing total raised to $79.3M — Peraso Technologies, a Toronto-based fabless semiconductor company developing wireless networking chips based …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
ThousandEyes, which provides a network intelligence platform to monitor performance, raises $50M Series D led by GV — ThousandEyes, a San Francisco cloud analytics startup founded in 2010 by UCLA Internet Research Lab grad students Mohit Lad and Ricardo Oliveira, today announced …
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| K.G Orphanides / WIRED UK:NEW |
Investigation: YouTube is monetizing sexualized videos of minors, many with comments from predators; Epic Games pauses all pre-roll ads following enquiry — Scores of YouTube videos with tens of millions of views are being inundated with comments by paedophiles, with adverts from major brands running alongside the disturbing content
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Zoho:
It's finally here! An all-new Zoho Social for your mobile — Social media marketing is dynamic, engaging, and most importantly, happens all in real-time. Conversations continue to take place. Whether you're at work, at home, or out buying your 20th cup of coffee.
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Sphero is crowdfunding RVR, a new robot that can connect to accessories like Raspberry Pi through its universal expansion port, starting at $199 on Kickstarter — The RVR is coming — Sphero, the Colorado-based connected toy company, has had a successful, conventional run making sphere-shaped, smartphone-controlled robots.
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Geek.com, TechCrunch, Robotics Business Review, KnowTechie, VentureBeat, MacRumors, IEEE Spectrum, Pocket-lint, Hackaday, SlashGear, Digital Trends, and Engadget. Tweets: @captain_primate
| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Regulators globally increasingly view “loot boxes”, which provide random in-game items for real money, as a form of gambling, and are considering regulations — A month ago, a woman known online as CadenceLikesVGs realized she had a gambling problem.
Tweets: @nickstatt and @carnage4life
| James Vlahos / Wired: |
The rise of voice computing is transforming web search by shifting the objective from providing links to providing a single correct response to any query — IF YOU HAD visited the Cambridge University Library in the late 1990s, you might have observed a skinny young man …
Tweets: @javzamora and @anthpb
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Smartsheet:
Smartsheet Announces Appointment of Praerit Garg as CTO — Smartsheet (NYSE: SMAR), a leading cloud-based platform for work execution, today announced that Praerit Garg has joined the company as Chief Technology Officer.
Smartsheet Announces Appointment of Praerit Garg as CTO — Smartsheet (NYSE: SMAR), a leading cloud-based platform for work execution, today announced that Praerit Garg has joined the company as Chief Technology Officer.
Zoho:
It's finally here! An all-new Zoho Social for your mobile — Social media marketing is dynamic, engaging, and most importantly, happens all in real-time. Conversations continue to take place.
It's finally here! An all-new Zoho Social for your mobile — Social media marketing is dynamic, engaging, and most importantly, happens all in real-time. Conversations continue to take place.
Chromebook:
If you're over the old way of doing things — With Family Link on Chromebook, parents have a new, easy way to set digital ground rules and help children create healthy online habits.
If you're over the old way of doing things — With Family Link on Chromebook, parents have a new, easy way to set digital ground rules and help children create healthy online habits.
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K.G Orphanides / WIRED UK:
Investigation: YouTube is monetizing sexualized videos of minors, many with comments from predators; Epic Games pauses all pre-roll ads following enquiryFind
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A look at “Reply Guys”, a harmless but annoying Twitter phenomenon where one or two men reply to every tweet from a womanFind
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Citymapper announces a £30-£40/month subscription service for London transport with access to its Ride car-sharing service, TfL trains, and Santander bikesFind
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Dani Deahl / The Verge:
Soundcloud adds a self-distribution feature to its Premier tier, currently in beta, that lets artists publish and monetize their songs on other platformsFind
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eMarketer:
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ThousandEyes, which provides a network intelligence platform to monitor performance, raises $50M Series D led by GVFind
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Arm unveils two new products for cloud and edge applications, the Neoverse N1, which focuses on compute speed, and the Neoverse E1, focusing on throughputFind
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