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| Natalia Drozdiak / Bloomberg: |
Huawei reiterates that it has been working on its own mobile OS; sources: Huawei has been pitching app makers and European carriers on its own mobile app store — - Comments come after U.S. restricted Huawei access to market — Move threatens Huawei's partnerships with U.S. suppliers
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Tweets: @lordravenscraft, @business, @hunterwalk, and @amir
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: US is considering blacklisting as many as five Chinese video surveillance companies, including Hikvision and Dahua Technology, from buying US tech — - Hikvision and Dahua accused of being part of Uighur crackdown — Rubio and others say they are part of a massive crackdown
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
The “tech cold war”, escalated by recent actions against Huawei, started over a decade ago when China began restricting US services companies in its market — Tim Culpan declared at Bloomberg that The Tech Cold War Has Begun after the Trump administration barred companies viewed … | Reuters: |
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Apple says the new iteration of its butterfly keyboard uses “new materials” in the switch mechanism that should reduce double- and missed-key presses — A ‘new material’ will be put into third-generation repaired keyboards — Apple is announcing an update to its keyboard repair program today.
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Tweets: @alexschleber, @edbott, @stroughtonsmith, @stroughtonsmith, @fredbenenson, @verge, @rtfeldman, @ow, @kifleswing, @wongmjane, @kifleswing, @tomwarren, @tam7t, @kifleswing, @backlon, and @kifleswing
| Jason Snell / Six Colors: |
Apple updates 13" and 15" MacBook Pros with improved keyboards and 9th-generation Intel CPUs with up to 8 cores, expands its Keyboard Service Program coverage — Continuing its renewed commitment to update pro Mac laptops on a regular basis, Apple on Tuesday announced an update to its 13 …
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Tweets: @jsnell, @backlon, @ow, @joannastern, @reckless, @stalman, @lewlater, @deathmetalmods, and @pt. Thanks:@jsnell
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Google says it stored some G Suite passwords in plaintext due to an error dating back to 2005, found another set of unhashed passwords in 2019, both now fixed — Google says a small number of its enterprise customers mistakenly had their passwords stored on its systems in plaintext.
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Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @zackwhittaker, @malwarejake, @olivier_amar, @nxthompson, and @wired
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft officially rolls out the Windows 10 May 2019 update, which includes Windows Sandbox and unified search across Windows, Office, Bing, and more — Microsoft's Windows 10 May Update/1903 is available to consumers and business customers as of today, May 21.
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
TransferWise discloses a new $292M secondary round led by Lead Edge Capital, Lone Pine Capital, and Vitruvian Partners at a $3.5B valuation — TransferWise, the London-headquartered international money transfer service, is disclosing a new $292 million secondary round that sees investors value the company at $3.5 billion.
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| Greg Bensinger / Washington Post: |
To reduce the tedium of work and increase productivity at its warehouses, Amazon has created several video games where workers compete by fulfilling real orders — Inside several of Amazon's cavernous warehouses, hundreds of employees spend hours a day playing video games.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Valve launches a dedicated Steam Chat app for iOS and Android, which includes many key features of the desktop chat client such as Invite Links and Group Chats — Valve announced that the new Steam Chat mobile app has gone live as a free chat app iOS and Android platforms.
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| Celia Wan / The Block: |
Sources: Circle has cut its $250M fundraising goal that was reported in March to $150M; the company has raised $246M to date, according to Crunchbase data — Crypto startup Circle's revised fundraising goal is 40% lower than the $250 million it was reportedly set to raise in March, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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| Thomas Simms / Cointelegraph: |
Craig Wright, who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, filed for the US copyright for the original Bitcoin white paper and most of the original Bitcoin code — Craig Wright has filed United States copyright registrations for the Bitcoin (BTC) white paper authored by Satoshi Nakamoto.
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CoinGeek, CoinDesk, Decrypt, Coinspeaker, Micky, NullTX, Ethereum World News, Modern Consensus, Attack of the 50 Foot …, AMBCrypto, Cryptopolitan, CryptoSlate, CryptoGlobe, CNET, and NewsBTC
Tweets: @neerajka, @jerrybrito, @samuelpatt, @matthew_d_green, and @naomibrockwell
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Mozilla releases Firefox 67 with new privacy features that block cryptomining and fingerprinting, WebRender, a 2D rendering engine for Windows 10, and more — Mozilla today launched Firefox 67 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The 10th release since Mozilla's big Firefox Quantum launch …
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| Matt Novak / Gizmodo: |
Source: Comcast's upcoming health device to focus on monitoring the motion of elderly people at home; Comcast has no plans for a direct-to-consumer launch — Comcast is working on a new in-home device that will monitor your health, according to a new report from CNBC.
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The Verge, Engadget, BGR, SiliconANGLE, CNET, Seeking Alpha, TechSpot, Mashable, Stop the Cap!, Digital Trends, CNBC, VentureBeat, and SlashGear
Tweets: @nickadobos, @hypervisible, @dtunkelang, @bdsams, @chillmage, and @mashfiqui
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
After eight months of alpha testing, the first official version of Tor Browser for Android has been released on the Play Store — After eight months of alpha testing, Tor Browser for Android is now ready for rollout. — Today, the Tor Project released on the Google Play Store the first stable version of the Tor Browser for Android.
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Updates from the Tor Project, The Next Web, Engadget, Softpedia News, Neowin, BleepingComputer, XDA Developers, CNET, and Android Police
Tweets: @torproject and @jeffstone500
| Vivian Ho / The Guardian: |
After backlash, Google to require abortion services advertisers in the US, UK, and Ireland to declare in their ads whether or not they provide abortions — Announcement comes after Guardian revealed Google gave $150,000 in free ads to opaque anti-abortion group
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The Next Web, Gizmodo, New York Times, National Review, Ad Age, CBS News, TechCrunch, The Verge, SlashGear, and BBC. Tweets: @donnanoble10th. Thanks:@lutherlowe
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Google and UCSD research: of the 27 hacking service providers contacted online to hijack test Gmail accounts, ten never replied and only five launched attacks — Survey of 27 hacker-for-hire services found that only five launched attacks against victims. — Hacker-for-hire services available online …
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| Dan Kennedy / Nieman Lab: |
The 016, a small social network with no algorithmic feed, seeks to connect local media, organizations, and businesses with the citizens of Worcester, MA — Mark Henderson was getting ready to throw in the towel on his dreams of becoming a successful media entrepreneur.
Tweets: @niemanlab, @jbenton, @niemanlab, @niemanlab, @niemanreports, and @niemanlab
| Nivedita Balu / Reuters: |
Slack updates its S-1 filing, registers about 117M of its Class A shares, and says it expects to raise $196.5M in its direct listing on the NYSE — (Reuters) - Slack Technologies Inc, the owner of the workplace instant messaging app, said on Monday it expects here to raise $196.5 million …
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