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April 19, 2017, 12:50 PM

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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft makes its Wunderlist successor, To-Do, available in preview as part of Office 365; Wunderlist will “eventually” be retired  —  Microsoft's ‘Project Cheshire,’ the successor to its Wunderlist to-do app, is now in public preview for many Office 365 users on a variety of devices.
Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net:
Sources: Nintendo to launch a mini version of its SNES console in time for Christmas 2017, after the success of its mini NES console  —  Major factor for NES mini discontinuation.  —  Nintendo will follow up its smash hit NES microconsole with a mini version of the SNES, sources close to the company have confirmed to Eurogamer.
Andrew Dalton / Engadget:
Microsoft now lets users use phone authentication instead of passwords to access accounts  —  Microsoft's Authenticator app can now save you a step when logging into anything that requires a Microsoft Account.  According to a blog post from the company's identity division …
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Elizabeth Weise / USA Today:
Trump's newly signed executive order to reform H-1B visas may make outsourcing less viable but could bring more educated and better paid tech workers to US  —  SAN FRANCISCO — H-1B visa holders could get a lot more expensive and a lot better educated under a new executive order signed …
Sam Byford / The Verge:
Xiaomi announces 5.15-inch Mi 6 with Snapdragon 835, 12MP dual-cameras, 6GB RAM, 3,350 mAh battery, no headphone jack, starting at $360  —  Xiaomi has announced its latest flagship phone, the Mi 6, at an event in Beijing.  While Xiaomi drew widespread attention last year …
Serdar Yegulalp / InfoWorld:
Docker unveils LinuxKit, a containerized kit for assembling custom Linux distributions, and the Moby Project for building customized container systems  —  LinuxKit provides tools for creating container-centric Linux distros, and the Moby Project helps integrate container elements Docker has released to the community
Rich McCormick / The Verge:
Baidu opens up self-driving vehicle platform Apollo, encompassing both hardware and software, which aims to offer fully autonomous driving by 2020  —  Project Apollo aims to offer fully autonomous driving by 2020  —  Chinese tech giant Baidu has announced a new autonomous vehicle platform …
Fortune:
Sources: home design firm Houzz is raising as much as $500M Series E at a valuation of more than $5B  —  This article first appeared in Term Sheet, Fortune's newsletter on deals and dealmakers.  Sign up here.  —  Houzz, an online platform for home remodeling and design services …

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