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Sonos and Ikea unveil a $179 Symfonisk table lamp and a $99 bookshelf speaker, both of which can be controlled with Sonos' app, shipping in August — The lamp speaker and a bookshelf speaker are coming in August — Sonos and Ikea have fully unveiled the pair of speakers that the two companies have collaborated on for years.
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Tweets: @chriswelch, @reckless, @caseynewton, @dcseifert, @counternotions, @ow, @genmon, and @c_davies
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft makes developer and “canary” builds of its Chromium-based Edge browser available today for Windows 10 64-bit, says builds for macOS “coming soon” — Microsoft today released the first Edge build based on Google's Chromium open source project, the same browser that Google's Chrome is based on.
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Tweets: @h0x0d, @seanontwt, @msedgedev, @maryjofoley, @h0x0d, @mderooij, @tomwarren, @mohamedmansour, @thurrott, @thurrott, @joebelfiore, @greywulf, @backlon, @helgeklein, @sinclairinator, @zacbowden, @epro, and @campuscodi
| Joe Hindy / Android Authority: |
Snap is officially rolling out a faster version of its Snapchat Android app, which it's been rebuilding since the beginning of 2018 for better performance — Snapchat announced a big move in late 2017. It was going to fix all of the problems its Android version had in comparison to the iOS version.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter lowers the number of accounts a user can follow per day from 1,000 to 400 to cut down on spam and bot activity — Twitter just took another big step to help boot spammers off its platform: it's cutting the number of accounts Twitter users can follow, from 1,000 per day to just 400.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest sets IPO price range at $15-$17 per share, to raise as much as $1.275B at up to a $11.3B valuation; Pinterest was valued at $12.3B in its last round — After dropping its IPO filing two weeks ago, today Pinterest, the social media platform where people can discover and share ideas …
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Tweets: @lisaabramowicz1, @jonerlichman, @refsrc, @nytimes, and @eringriffith
| Ajit Mohan / Facebook: |
As it preps for India's elections, Facebook says it removes ~1M accounts/day using AI, will open centers on election integrity in Singapore and Dublin this week — As Facebook continues to play a larger role in civic discussions and debate, we are committed to working hard to prevent abuse on our services, especially during elections.
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| Becky Peterson / Business Insider: |
In an updated filing, video conferencing company Zoom sets an IPO price range of $28-$32 per share, valuing it at $8.25B on the upper end of the range — - Video conferencing company Zoom has set an IPO price range of $28 to $32 per share, giving the company a $8.25 billion valuation on the upper end of the range.
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Ming-Chi Kuo backs off his earlier claim that a ~16" MacBook Pro with an all-new design would launch this year, says a 31" 6K display still expected in mid-2019 — A few months ago, well-known analyst Ming-Chi Kuo outlined his expectations for new Apple products in 2019, including a 16" …
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| Eric Feng: |
Study: the App Store's Top 30 popular apps have been available to download for 5+ years on average in 2019, compared to less than two years on average in 2014 — My current favorite podcast is Hit Parade, by music writer and Billboard chart historian Chris Molanphy at Slate.
Tweets: @efeng, @jonsakoda, @benedictevans, @efeng, @efeng, @abarrallen, @efeng, and @eric_seufert
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
EU publishes seven guidelines for developing ethical AI applications including being accountable, sustainable, explainable, privacy-respecting, and unbiased — The European Union has published new guidelines on developing ethical AI — The European Union today published a set of guidelines …
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Tweets: @vdignum, @nathaliesmuha, @cwalshmd, @noelsharkey, @bschorr, @dsmeu, and @asteris
| Jake Bright / TechCrunch: |
Branch, which gives loans starting at $2 in emerging markets like India and Kenya, raises $170M, partners with Visa to offer virtual pre-paid debit cards — The San Francisco-based startup Branch International, which makes small personal loans in emerging markets, has raised $170 million and announced| Scott Scrivens / Android Police: |
14 HTC apps that were on the Google Play Store have been unpublished in the last three months, including HTC Mail and HTC Calendar — Back in February, we wrote about the disappearance of the HTC Mail app from the Play Store, but it was quickly restored. More recently, we received a tip …
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| Ian Boudreau / PCGamesN: |
Tencent launches WeGame X, a global version of its games distribution platform WeGame — Like most people, you may have missed the fact that Chinese gaming giant Tencent launched the global version of its games distribution platform WeGame, called WeGame X, this week.
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PC Gamer, Overclock3D.Net, Game World Observer, GamesIndustry.biz, TechRaptor.net, Engadget, and Blue's News
Tweets: @gwobserver, @akatigra, @pcgamesn, and @jasoncaston
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Roblox says it now has 90M MAUs, up from 70M last fall, which it credits to international expansion and recent support for the French and German languages — Kids gaming platform Roblox, most recently valued at over $2.5 billion, has reached a new milestone of 90 million monthly active users, the company said on Sunday.
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| Brian Merchant / Gizmodo: |
Once boastful of its plans to rely on 100% renewable energy for new datacenters, Amazon's quietly tamped down those ambitions — In 2014, Amazon announced that it would power its rapidly expanding fleet of data centers with 100 percent renewable energy. Apple, Facebook, and Google …
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Tweets: @krishnan, @bcmerchant, @greenpeaceusa, @joshgreenman, @bcmerchant, and @strangerworks
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
EU starts investigation into Microsoft products used across EU institutions, after a Dutch probe found some products' hidden telemetry violated GDPR — EU starts investigation of Microsoft's contracts with EU institutions after Dutch government report. — The European Data Protection Supervisor … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
RiskLens, formerly Cxoware, a cyber risk qualification and management software provider, raises $20.55M Series B led by Paladin Capital — RiskLens (formerly Cxoware), a cyber risk qualification and management software provider, today revealed that it's raised $20.55 million in series B funding led …
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