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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Snap announces Pixy, a $230 mini drone that can capture 2.7K videos and 12MP photos, syncs with Snapchat, and weighs 101g, available in the US and France — Meet Pixy, Snap's little flying companion. Pixy is a mini drone that can act as a camera sidekick when you can't ask someone to take a video of you.
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Tweets: @reckless, @caseynewton, @vjeranpavic, @dcseifert, @pierce, @bigblackjacobin, @casey, @mattnavarra, @pt, @qwongsj, @alexeheath, @awallenstein, @joannastern, @alexhern, @alexeheath, @mgsiegler, @sarahintampa, @jetscott, @scobleizer, @kylebrussell, @martinsfp, @mcwm, @mcproulx, @parkerortolani, and @jaypeters
| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel dismisses Meta's metaverse ambitions as “ambiguous and hypothetical” and says the word “metaverse” is never uttered in Snap's offices — Founder says his company is committed to augmenting the real world rather than replacing it| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Financial Times: |
In an email, Twitter reassures advertisers it will remain a safe place for brands after Elon Musk's takeover, as advocacy groups predict more toxicity and abuse — Campaigners and car manufacturers among groups to express concern over Tesla chief's $44bn takeover
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Tweets: @elonmusk, @muradahmed, @tim, @kantrowitz, @mikeelgan, and @alexstamos
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Twitter says it overstated mDAUs from Q1 2019 to Q4 2021 by up to 1.9M per quarter, counting one user's multiple accounts as active, even if they weren't in use — How did this happen twice? — Twitter overstated the number of daily users on its service for three years straight, overcounting by up to 1.9 million users each quarter.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Twitter reports Q1 revenue of $1.2B, up 16% YoY, vs. $1.23B est., net income of $513M, and 229M mDAUs; Twitter says it won't offer guidance pending Musk's deal — - Twitter reported earnings for the first quarter of 2022. — It could be one of its last as a public company after its board agreed …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Google now accepts requests to remove Search results that include users' contact info, like physical addresses, phone numbers, and emails, and login credentials — If you put in a request and it agrees they're harmful — Google says it's expanding the types of personal information …
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| João Carrasqueira / XDA Developers: |
A Microsoft support page shows the company is testing the Microsoft Edge Secure Network feature, a built-in VPN-like service for Edge, powered by Cloudflare — Microsoft is testing a VPN-like service for its Edge browser, adding a new layer of security and privacy to the browsing experience.
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Cloudflare says it mitigated a 15.3M rps HTTPS DDoS attack earlier in April, one of the largest volumetric DDoS attacks recorded, targeting a “crypto launchpad” — Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare said today that it mitigated one of the largest volumetric distributed denial of service …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Google expands its sensitive ad categories, letting users limit dating, pregnancy, parenting, and weight loss ads across its Display network, not just YouTube — The company is adding to its sensitive ad categories — Google is expanding its sensitive ad categories options …
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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: the EU plans to file antitrust charges against Apple next week for not allowing third parties to process payments using the iPhone's NFC and Apple Pay — EU will accuse the tech giant of blocking financial groups from its Apple Pay mobile system — Apple is set to face fresh …
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| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
An overview of the iPhone's autocorrect feature and how it has evolved, including an interview with Ken Kocienda, who created the autocorrect keyboard software — Tpying truble? During the iPhone's first 15 years, its keyboard software has evolved, but it still sometimes flubs your lines.
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| William Li / Counterpoint Research: |
Global PC shipments fell 4.3% YoY to 78.7M in Q1 2022; Lenovo shipped 9.5% less, HP shipped 16% less due to weak Chromebook sales, and Apple shipped 8% more — Taipei, London, Hong Kong, Boston, Toronto, New Delhi, Beijing, Seoul - April 28, 2022 — Global PC shipments fell 4.3% YoY …
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MacDailyNews, iClarified, TechSpot, The Mac Observer, Apple Must, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and Gizchina. Tweets: @frankcatalano
| Frank Konkel / Nextgov: |
The NSA re-awards its $10B cloud computing contract, codenamed “Wild and Stormy”, to AWS, after Microsoft contested the original award to AWS in July 2021 — Amazon Web Services beat out Microsoft for the contract after a bid protest battle. — The National Security Agency …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google launches the Privacy Sandbox Developer Preview for Android 13 to add “safer” ad alternatives, offering an “early look” at the Topics API and SDK Runtime — As work on the Chrome version continues, Google announced the Privacy Sandbox for Android in February … | Will Sattelberg / Android Police: |
| The Information: |
Sources: the FTC opened an inquiry into whether Elon Musk complied with its reporting requirement as he amassed his 9.1% Twitter stake between January and April — Elon Musk's $44 billion Twitter takeover is unlikely to raise antitrust concerns. But what is already being scrutinized … | Kim Masters / The Hollywood Reporter: |
What went wrong at Netflix: sources say VP of content Cindy Holland's departure in 2020 let chief content officer Ted Sarandos prioritize quantity over quality — As rivals toggle between schadenfreude and fear, top creators and insiders are increasingly becoming vocal about what's gone wrong with the streaming giant's culture.
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Android Authority. Tweets: @tedgioia, @aagave, @phil_rosenthal, @benedictevans, @raveenthedream, @mmmmurf, @rickporter, @legopolis, @carnage4life, @kaludiasays, @great_katzby, @konshideout, @de_kosnik, @thefienprint, @theinsneider, @masasoncap, @nreviewed, @aysrick, @sarthakgh, @richlightshed, @cmscreens, @hedgeyecomm, @dianalunareja, and @loudmouthjulia
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Facebook's daily active users grew 1.6% QoQ to 1.96B in Q1 2022, vs. 1.94B est., a return to growth after Facebook's first-ever QoQ user decline in Q4 2021 — Facebook's main social network added more users than projected in the first quarter, potentially staving off concerns that the company …
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Tweets: @kurtwagner8, @gunjanjs, @epro, @shiringhaffary, @shiraovide, @matthew41905514, @ldignan, @shiraovide, and @shiraovide
| Nelson Wang / CoinDesk: |
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
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CoinDesk, Tubefilter, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Fossbytes
Tweets: @munster_gene, @politics1com, @shiringhaffary, @munster_gene, @kimbenabib, @munster_gene, @munster_gene, and @munster_gene
| Daniel Howley / Yahoo Finance: |
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