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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces a virtual WWDC 2021 from June 7 to June 11, where iOS 15, macOS 12, watchOS 8, and more are expected — Apple has officially announced WWDC 2021. This year, the conference will take place completely virtually starting June 7. This marks the second year in a row that Apple …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Spotify buys app developer Betty Labs, creator of Locker Room, a live social audio app where fans can talk about sports, which Spotify plans on expanding — The acquisition will allow creators of all kinds to host anything from debates to live concerts.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google announces upgrades to Maps, including indoor AR directions, a new directions interface with eco-friendly driving routes, and new weather map layers — Indoor AR directions, a new directions interface, and more — Google is announcing a bunch of new features planned for Google Maps …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Source: in January, IoT manufacturer Ubiquiti downplayed a “catastrophic” breach, which gained root access to its AWS accounts and access to countless devices — On Jan. 11, Ubiquiti Inc. [NYSE:UI] — a major vendor of cloud-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as routers …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn confirms it's working on a Clubhouse rival and says it will begin beta testing soon, but doesn't have an exact timeframe for its launch — Clubhouse's list of competitors is growing. LinkedIn has now confirmed it's also testing a social audio experience in its app which would allow creators …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn adds Creator mode for influencers, launches video Cover Stories, and extends free career training tools in partnership with Microsoft — LinkedIn, the social network now with 740 million users around the world, has carved out an identity for itself as the place online where professionals …
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| Anna Irrera / Reuters: |
PayPal says it has started letting US customers use cryptocurrency holdings to pay all 29M of its online merchants globally — LONDON (Reuters) - PayPal Holdings Inc will announce later on Tuesday that it has started allowing U.S. consumers to use their cryptocurrency holdings to pay …
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| Politico: |
Sources: suspected Russian hackers stole thousands of State Department officials' emails last year; the classified network doesn't appear to have been accessed — A previously unreported breach reveals new details of Russian access to U.S. government communications.
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Sources: Google plans to release “Pixel Buds A” in 2021, which will almost be visually indistinguishable from current Buds and offered in white and green colors — For a few years now, Google has offered affordable variants of its Pixel phones with the Pixel 3a and Pixel 4a.
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Foxconn, the world's top contract electronics manufacturer, says the chip shortage will result in it shipping 10% fewer products, without specifying a timeframe — Key iPhone maker to invest $1bn in North American electric vehicle plant — TAIPEI — Foxconn, the world's biggest contract …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google has started to roll out a limited developer origin trial of FLoC, as part of its Privacy Sandbox project for Chrome — Google today announced that it is rolling out Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC), a crucial part of its Privacy Sandbox project for Chrome, as a developer origin trial.
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| Sebastian Pellejero / Wall Street Journal: |
Dapper Labs, maker of NFT-focused NBA Top Shot, raises $305M, sources say at $2.6B valuation; investors include several pro athletes including Michael Jordan — Dapper Labs draws investors that include basketball legends Michael Jordan and Kevin Durant, seeking to cash in on the digital-collectibles craze
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Insider, Andreessen Horowitz, Cointelegraph, VentureBeat, and FinSMEs
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| Alex Heath / The Information: |
Sources: Snap plans to unveil new Spectacles aimed at AR developers and creators in May and has begun a years-long project to make a camera drone — Snap is readying a new push into hardware with a more advanced version of its Spectacles smart glasses that feature displays capable …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Arm unveils Armv9, its next gen chip architecture that adds features for security, AI, and more, as it expects ~300B Arm-based chips to ship in the next decade — Arm today announced Armv9, the next generation of its chip architecture. Its predecessor, Armv8 launched a decade ago …
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Tweets: @hpc_guru, @stshank, and @alexvoica
| Reed Albergotti / Washington Post: |
User had ~$600K worth of bitcoin stolen after using a fake app for cryptocurrency hardware wallet Trezor downloaded from the App Store; app was rated five stars — Recent scams show there are holes in Apple's safety net — Phillipe Christodoulou wanted to check his bitcoin balance last month …
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| Ken Klippenstein / The Intercept: |
Leaked doc sheds light on “Veritas”, an Amazon FC Ambassador program conceived in 2018 that sought to train employees to defend Amazon and Bezos on social media — Amazon's small Twitter army of “ambassadors” was quietly conceived in 2018 under the codename “Veritas,” …
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| BBC: |
Chinese police and Tencent seize $46M in assets during bust of what they claim is “world's biggest” video game cheating operation, which made ~$76M in revenue — A collaborative effort between Chinese police and gaming giant Tencent has led to the closure of what police say is the biggest ever video-game-cheat operation.| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Xiaomi announces Mi Mix Fold, its first folding phone, with an 8.01-inch 4:3 OLED display, Snapdragon 888, 5,020mAh battery, and four Harman Kardon speakers — The Mi Mix series returns — Xiaomi has resurrected its Mi Mix series with the Mi Mix Fold, the company's first commercial folding phone.
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Tweets: @dcseifert, @arjunkharpal, and @dylanmcd8
| Matt Binder / Mashable: |
iOS 14.5 beta seems to fix a longstanding bug affecting Safari's adult content blocking option that would block any search containing the word “Asian” — Do you have adult content blocked on your iPhone or iPad? — If so, it's likely that your iOS device is currently blocking web searches using the word “Asian.”
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| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Chinese grocery app Nice Tuan, which focuses on community group buying and claims to have 15M orders per day, raises $750M led by Alibaba and DST Global — - D.E. Shaw, Anatole, Jeneration Capital invest in grocery app — Nice Tuan also attracts backing from CDH, GGV, Kunlun Capital| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Facebook says Chief Revenue Officer David Fischer will be leaving the company in the fall after more than a decade — Facebook Inc. Chief Revenue Officer David Fischer, one of the company's highest ranking executives under Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, is leaving after more than a decade.
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CNBC, Insider, UPI, Stock market news, Reuters, The Information, and PYMNTS.com. Facebook: David Fischer
| Will Gottsegen / Decrypt: |
ConsenSys announces Palm, an Ethereum-connected NFT ecosystem, and claims its new protocol can deliver 99% more energy efficiency than proof of work systems — The blockchain software development company says its Ethereum sidechain, Palm, is “99% more efficient than Layer 1 Ethereum.”| Brandon Katz / Observer: |
LightShed Partners: SVOD subscribers will nearly double by 2024 to 1.25B from 650M at the end of 2020 — Of the 11 major legacy media and tech companies that have a direct hand in Hollywood, all but one house some sort of over-the-top (OTT) streaming service.| Hamish McKenzie / Substack Blog: |
Substack raises $65M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz — When we started Substack to build an alternative media economy that unlocks the full potential of the internet and gives more power to writers and readers, we didn't know if the model would work. A lot of people told us that no one would pay for newsletters.
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Axios, The Wrap, and TechCrunch
| Carolina Mandl / Reuters: |
WhatsApp gets approval from Brazil's Central Bank to offer P2P payments via Mastercard and Visa, but is still seeking approval to operate with merchants — SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's central bank on Tuesday cleared the way for Facebook's WhatsApp messaging service to let its users send each … | Katie Jennings / Forbes: |
Rightway, maker of an app that helps employees at its client companies navigate digital care and pharmacy benefits, raises $100M Series C at a $1.1B valuation — I am a staff writer covering healthcare. Email me at kjennings@forbes.com. — Growing up Jordan Feldman could always call on his dad …
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