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Apple cancels AirPower wireless charging mat, citing inability to meet its quality standards for the product — Apple has canceled the AirPower product completely, citing difficulty meeting its own standards. — “After much effort, we've concluded AirPower will not achieve our high standards and we have cancelled the project.
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| Craig Lloyd / iFixit: |
A theory on Apple's AirPower: its overlapping multi-coil design worked in the lab but complying with FCC's rules for safe wireless emissions was too challenging — In a surprising turn of events, Apple has cancelled its long-awaited AirPower wireless charging mat.| Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
Lyft closes up 8.7% on its first day of trading after raising $2.3B in its IPO, which valued the company at over $20B — - The stock ended trading 8.7 percent up at $78.29 — something of a modest IPO for such a giant tech company. — Lyft's stock popped as much as 23 percent in its debut on the public market Friday.
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| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Google accidentally posts information about Nest Hub Max, an unannounced 10" smart display with a built-in Nest camera, on Google Store's connected home page — A lot of Google products have “fallen off of a truck” in the last couple of years, leading to leaks ahead of official announcements.
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Interview with YouTube Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan about its recommendation algorithms, radicalization, violent extremism, and the rabbit-hole effect — Neal Mohan discusses the streaming site's recommendation engine, which has become a growing liability amid accusations that it steers users to increasingly extreme content.
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| Brian Feldman / New York Magazine: |
In his interview, Neal Mohan disingenuously fails to mention that YouTube gives users a heavily weighted single recommendation after each video via autoplay — There is perhaps no better pipeline to online radicalization, save for 4chan, than by watching videos on YouTube.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Report: a Facebook project called “Catalina”, which ended last year, explored shuttling SSDs filled with data to users in remote areas through bird-sized drones — The secretive codenamed ‘Catalina’ project was ended a year ago — Facebook has for years explored ways … | CNBC: |
Researchers find totaled Teslas contain unencrypted and personally revealing data about owners, including locations visited, phone contacts, and dash cam video — - Crashed Tesla vehicles, sold at junk yards and auctions, contain deeply personal and unencrypted data including info … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Toast, a cloud-based restaurant management platform, raises a $250M Series E led by TCV and Tiger Global at a $2.7B valuation — Restaurant sales hit $825 billion last year in the US, but with margins averaging at only three to five percent per business, they're always looking for an edge …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
A newly published exploit for a Magento vulnerability that can be used without authentication puts hundreds of thousands of e-commerce sites at risk — Magento admins: beware of SQL flaw that requires no authentication. — Attack code was published on Friday that exploits a critical vulnerability …
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| Hannah Kuchler / Financial Times: |
A look at Facebook's growth team, set up in 2007 to pioneer techniques to lure in new users, that has now been charged to fix the company's “integrity” problems — If you joined Facebook at any time over the past decade, Alex Schultz probably had something to do with it.
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| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Valve teases a VR headset called the Valve Index with a May 2019 release date; Valve previously partnered with HTC on the HTC Vive in 2016 — Months of barely contained rumors have now been confirmed. — Valve Corporation's long-rumored VR headset is finally real.
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| Jessica Toonkel / The Information: |
Sources: Amazon is planning to launch a free ad-supported video news app for Fire TV devices, featuring digital news programming from TV networks — Amazon.com is planning to launch a free ad-supported video news app for its Fire TV streaming video devices, featuring digital news programming …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
AirPods with Wireless Charging Case review: excellent wireless performance and reliability with support for Qi charging but using “Hey Siri” can be frustrating — The new AirPods look and sound familiar, but have a couple new tricks — Of the many new products that Apple announced …
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| Blake Droesch / eMarketer: |
eMarketer expects Amazon Music will pass 35M MAUs in the US this year, up 17.7% YoY, growing faster than any other digital audio service in its forecast — Amazon Music will cross 35 million monthly listeners in the US this year. At a growth rate of 17.7% year over year … | Reuters: |
Sources: cross-border money transfer startup TransferWise is raising up to $300M at a ~$4B valuation — (Reuters) - TransferWise Ltd, the money transfer startup whose investors include entrepreneur Richard Branson and PayPal Holdings Inc founders Peter Thiel and Max Levchin …
| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase Custody starts offering staking services to institutional clients, starting with Tezos — The Takeaway: — Coinbase Custody is offering staking services to institutional clients, starting with Tezos. — Client assets will remain inside Coinbase's fully insured cold storage at all times, mitigating risk to investors.| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Google updates its login system with support for FIDO2, allowing users to log into its services with hardware security keys on Firefox and Edge — Google has updated its support for hardware security keys so you no longer need to rely on its Chrome browser to log into websites like Gmail, YouTube and G Suite.
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Earl of Sandwich and Planet Hollywood restaurant franchise owner admits a breach of its PoS systems where 2M+ credit and debit card details may have been stolen — On Feb. 21, 2019, KrebsOnSecurity contacted Italian restaurant chain Buca di Beppo after discovering strong evidence … | Bloomberg: |
A look at the numbers behind Amazon's market reach in terms of dollar sales, revenue, units sold, number of visitors and users, and a snapshot of its history — In recent months, talk of regulating or even breaking up Amazon.com, Inc. has moved from the political fringes to the mainstream.| Rob Price / Business Insider: |
Facebook says it “mistakenly deleted” some of Zuckerberg's old Facebook posts that were public and reported on, including a post about the Instagram acquisition — - Some old Facebook posts by CEO Mark Zuckerberg have disappeared, and the company says it “mistakenly deleted” them.
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