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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.
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| 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 …
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| 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.
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| 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 …
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| 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.
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| 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”.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon has launched a portal offering home security services including installations, with no monthly service contracts, in five price tiers from $240 to $840 — Amazon's made a slew of acquisitions in the area of smart home services, and now it's offering a product that brings them together under one roof — your roof.
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| 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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| Damian Collins / UK Parliament: |
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| 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.| 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 … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Cloud-based collaboration and work management platform Smartsheet closes up 30% on its first day of trading after raising $150M in its IPO at $1.48B valuation — - Shares closed at $19.55 after debuting at $18.40, more than 20 percent above the price of shares it sold in its initial public offering.
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