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Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: 30 mins ago

Self-driving car startup Aurora has acquired lidar company Blackmore, which has raised $21.5M; sources: GM's Cruise was looking at acquiring Blackmore last year

Ian Duncan / Baltimore Sun: 2 hours ago

Google restores Gmail accounts used by Baltimore officials during its ransomware recovery; Google's automated security systems initially disabled the accounts

Tom Angell / Forbes: 2½ hours ago

Square quietly launches an invite-only beta to process payments for some CBD products

Matt Day / Bloomberg:

Source: Amazon is working on a wearable voice-activated health and wellness device that works with a mobile app and can recognize human emotions

Joseph Cox / VICE:

Multiple sources and emails describe how Snap employees used internal tools like SnapLion to access user data several years ago, before Snap restricted access

Guy Rosen / Facebook:

Facebook releases an update on enforcing its community standards, saying it banned 2.19B fake accounts in Q1 2019, up from 1.2B in Q4 2018

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:

Samsung researchers detail a machine learning method that can recreate lifelike motion from just a single image of a person's face

Ashley Carman / The Verge:

Instagram says IGTV will now support landscape video, following feedback from creators and users, as the service struggles to gain traction

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Google says it has partnered with delivery services including DoorDash and Postmates to let users order food via Google Search, Maps, or Assistant in the US

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

GitHub launches Sponsors, a tool that lets users pay their favorite open source contributors; developers can opt in to a “Sponsor me” button on repositories

Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News:

As Twitter tests an increased ad load, users report a higher number of spammy or malicious promoted tweets

Aislinn Keely / The Block:

AT&T says customers can now pay their mobile bills in cryptocurrency via BitPay

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Rotten Tomatoes says it will now calculate the Audience Score using only ratings or reviews from users whose ticket purchase has been verified through Fandango

Khari Johnson / VentureBeat:

Google researchers say they used 2,000 “mannequin challenge” YouTube videos as a training data set to create an AI model for depth prediction from videos

Biz Carson / Forbes:

Food delivery app DoorDash raises $600M led by Darsana Capital Partners at a $12.6B valuation, just three months after it raised $400M at a $7B valuation

Nico Grant / Bloomberg:

Interviews with Marc Benioff and 18 associates and current and former Salesforce employees show his instinctual and sometimes mystifying M&A strategy

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