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Shara Tibken / CNET:
Source: Apple is working on an AR/VR headset, slated for 2020, with two 8K displays that wirelessly connect to a dedicated box powered by Apple's own 5nm CPU  —  The headset, which would straddle the two technologies and tap into Apple's own chips, is slated for 2020.
Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:
Suspected Golden State Killer caught after investigators matched DNA from the crime scenes to genetic data available on free genealogy site GEDmatch  —  “No court order was needed to access that site's large database of genetic blueprints.”  —  To get a leg up in the investigation in the cold case of the …
Bloomberg:
Sources: T-Mobile, Sprint deal would value Sprint at $24B-$26B; T-Mobile majority owner Deutsche Telekom to get 42% stake, 69% voting interest in combined firm  —  T-Mobile US Inc. and its German owners are advancing toward a deal that would value Sprint Corp. at about $24 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Microsoft announces that the “Windows 10 April 2018 Update” is coming as a free download on April 30, with features like Timeline, Focus Assist, updated Edge  —  After a brief delay (though Microsoft won't confirm or deny this), Microsoft today announced that the Windows 10 April 2018 Update …
Tarunya Govindarajan / Facebook:
Facebook's Messenger Kids gets a sleep mode that lets parents set predetermined off times for the app  —  Messenger Kids was built to give parents more control and to give kids a safer space to message and video chat with close friends and family.  Parental controls are core …
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware:
A look at Intel's problems transitioning from 14nm to 10nm chips as it delays high-volume production of Cannon Lake CPU again, this time from late 2018 to 2019  —  Intel announced its financial results today, and although it posted yet another record quarter, the company unveiled serious production problems with its 10nm process.
Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts …:
Cryptographer's doubts about Ozzie's CLEAR key-escrow system: securing private keys at OEMs and disabling a phone once law enforcement accesses it are hard  —  Yesterday I happened upon a Wired piece by Steven Levy that covers Ray Ozzie's proposal for “CLEAR”.
Shaun Nichols / The Register:
In a quarterly report filed with the SEC, Facebook warns that it may find more Cambridge Analytica-sized instances of user data misuse  —  It's a $460bn business with a free service... what did you think was going on?  —  Facebook has confirmed what many of us have known for years …
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Nat Levy / GeekWire:
DocuSign closes up 37% on its first day of trading after raising $629M in its IPO  —  A little more than a year ago, Dan Springer was a stay-at-home dad.  Today he is the CEO of a freshly minted public company now valued at close to $6 billion.  —  Springer joined the digital signature company DocuSign …
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Twitter confirms it is now pushing news links tweeted by your network into your home timeline and grouping tweets mentioning the link underneath it  —  Twitter is now pushing links tweeted by your network into your home timeline and grouping the tweets mentioning the link underneath it.
Tweets: @jack.  Thanks:@kantrowitz

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New York Times:
Court docs detail a smear campaign against actor Blake Lively via media articles and social media posts after she accused director Justin Baldoni of misconduct

Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

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Jason Del Rey / Recode:
Amazon will raise the US price of Prime for the first time in 4 years, from $99 to $119; change will take effect for new subs May 11 and existing subs June 16
Rene Ritchie / iMore:
Apple to stop production of AirPort Express, Extreme, and Time Capsule Wi-Fi base stations, which were last updated in 2013, but will sell while stock lasts
Sam Byford / The Verge:
Nintendo reports $1.62B operating profit, up 505% YoY, on strong Switch sales of ~15M units in the year ending March; Shuntaro Furukawa named president and CEO
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