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Microsoft says it will rebuild Edge to run on Google's open source Chromium project and will make it available on macOS, Windows 7, and Windows 8 — A Chromium version of Edge will also arrive on Windows 7 and Windows 8 — Microsoft is announcing some significant changes to its Edge browser today.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
As part of Microsoft's embrace of Chromium, Edge users will get access to Chrome extensions, and EdgeHTML will be replaced by Blink and Chakra with V8 — Microsoft today embraced Google's Chromium open source project for Edge development on the desktop. The company also announced Edge …
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Lyft says it has filed with the SEC for an IPO, hasn't specified the number of shares it is selling or their price range; sources say IPO is slated for H1 2019 — (Reuters) - Ride-hailing company Lyft Inc on Thursday filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering …
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Google says it will stop working on Allo and instead focus on Messages; Allo will stop working March 2019 — Google has officially announced that it's shutting down Allo, ending the run of yet another failed Google chat app experiment. The news isn't entirely unsurprising …
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Australia passes sweeping anti-encryption bill giving police power to implant malware and insert backdoors, despite opposition from experts, tech companies — Australia's controversial anti-encryption bill is one step closer to becoming law, after the two leading but sparring party political giants struck …
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| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Apple Watch Series 4 ECG feature goes live in the US as part of the watchOS 5.1.2 update, letting users detect irregular heart rhythms — Apple Watch users can now take a reading of their heart's electrical signal by holding a finger on the crown of the device.
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| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
Amazon says it is beta testing Amazon Answers, an invite-only program for users to help answer questions that Alexa doesn't know, starting today — Smartphones settle a lot of dinner table debates nowadays. We argue about this or that, until somebody finally pops out a phone and Googles it.
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Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 8cx, an “extreme” processor for Windows laptops that it says is the first 7nm chip for a PC platform — Could Qualcomm replace Intel in your next Windows PC? — The “X” stands for “extreme.” That's what Qualcomm's marketing department wants you to think about the new Snapdragon 8cx.
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| Financial Times: |
Millions of users on O2 in UK are unable to use mobile data due to a software problem in Ericsson's equipment; SoftBank in Japan was affected for several hours — Millions of mobile phone users around the world have been unable to use their smartphones after a software issue in systems provided by Ericsson caused major disruption.
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| Globe and Mail: |
Canada has arrested Huawei's global CFO, who now faces extradition to the US on the warrant from NY state claiming she violated US trade sanctions against Iran — Canada has arrested the chief financial officer of China's Huawei Technologies who is facing extradition to the United States …
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| Zack Seward / CoinDesk: |
Blockchain startup incubator ConsenSys says it is laying off 13% of its staff amid a “re-focusing of priorities”; report estimated its annual burn rate at $100M — ConsenSys, the ethereum production studio, is letting go 13 percent of its staff, according to a company announcement … | Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Lightspeed hires Jana Messerschmidt, Merci Victoria Grace, Ashley Brasier, Jerry Ye, Jay Madheswaran as investing partners and Neetzan Zimmerman as VP of growth — Months after raising a fresh $1.8 billion in fresh funds, one of Silicon Valley's faster growing venture firms has made a wave of hires to continue its growth.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Business intelligence and big data analytics platform Looker raises $103M Series E at a valuation of $1.6B; CEO says revenue run rate has crossed $100M — Looker has been helping customers visualize and understand their data for seven years now and today it got a big reward … | Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg: |
UK Parliament publishes 250+ redacted pages of sensitive, internal Facebook documents seized last month from founder of Six4Three, a company suing Facebook — - Documents were released by U.K. parliamentary committee — Lawmaker Collins says publication was lawful in U.K.
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