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A behind-the-scenes look at two tumultuous years at Facebook as it battled with fake news, its impact on the election, global affairs, and users' minds — ONE DAY IN late February of 2016, Mark Zuckerberg sent a memo to all of Facebook's employees to address some troubling behavior in the ranks.
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Sources: Apple is changing its iOS development strategy, moving away from an annual schedule crammed with major features and prioritizing reliability — The company is shaking up its development program to focus more on key features and push back others to the following year.
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Sources: Android P to have deeper Google Assistant integration, better battery life, support for iPhone X-like notches, multiple screens, and foldable displays — Search giant tries again to win over valuable iPhone users — Android P to integrate more tightly with Google's Assistant
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| Matt Day / The Seattle Times: |
Source: in a rare cutback, Amazon is laying off several hundred corporate employees in Seattle and hundreds elsewhere across its global operations — Amazon is cutting several hundred jobs in Seattle, and hundreds elsewhere, a rare layoff that appears to fall predominantly on its established consumer retail business.
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| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
Researchers: cyberattack caused disruption to Pyeongchang2018.com and local internet, which grounded drones and more during Winter Olympics' opening ceremony — A cyberattack caused the internet disruptions during the Winter Olympics' opening ceremony on Friday night, Olympic officials and security experts said.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft says it will add Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection support for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 this summer — Microsoft is adding Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1 to the list of protected end-points covered by Windows Defender ATP, starting this summer.
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| Taylor Lorenz / The Daily Beast: |
600K+ people sign petition on Change.org calling for Snapchat redesign to be reverted, as celebs such as Chrissy Teigen, Kylie Jenner, MKBHD express disapproval — Last week Snapchat rolled out its biggest redesign since the app launched in 2011. — The company split the app into two sections … | Aaron Tilley / The Information: |
Source: Amazon is designing its own AI chip for use in Echo and other Alexa-powered devices, following its 2015 acquisition of chip maker Annapurna Labs — Amazon.com is developing a chip designed for artificial intelligence to work on the Echo and other hardware powered by Amazon's Alexa virtual assistant …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber will require drivers in the US to take six-hour breaks after driving a total of 12 hours in a single shift — The app will use GPS and telematics to track driving time — In an effort to combat drowsy driving, Uber announced today that it would require its most frequent drivers …
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| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
Snap Map now available on its own site and embeddable online as individual stories, a collection from a location or event, or stories from a specific area — WHEN HURRICANE HARVEY wreaked destruction in Houston last August, the country turned not just to cable television, but also to Snapchat.| Alex Heath / Cheddar: |
Source: Snap's VP of Sales Jeff Lucas has left the company after joining less than two years ago — Jeff Lucas, Snap Inc.'s VP of Sales, has left the company, Cheddar has learned. — His departure comes after working for less than two years at Snap, which he joined after serving as ad sales chief at Viacom.
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| Fitz Tepper / TechCrunch: |
Instagram tests a feature showing users who has taken screenshots of their stories — Instagram is testing a feature that will show users when someone else takes a screenshot of their story. Users included in the test are getting a warning that the next time they take a screenshot …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
OLED microdisplay maker eMagin disputes reports, says it's not aware of Apple, Valve, or LG investing in recent secondary offering; source: Apple did not invest — Update : A source very close to Apple says that the company has not invested in OLED display maker eMagin — and …
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| Dana Cimilluca / Wall Street Journal: |
Broadcom secures $100B of debt financing for its hostile Qualcomm bid; KKR and CVC join Silver Lake in providing $6B in convertible debt for the deal — KKR, CVC join Silver Lake in providing $6 billion in convertible debt for the bid — Broadcom Ltd. AVGO 2.58% secured as much as $100 billion …
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Google's Cloud TPUs, hardware accelerators custom-built to speed up TensorFlow ML workloads, are now available in beta, starting at $6.50 per Cloud TPU per hour — By John Barrus, Product Manager for Cloud TPUs, Google Cloud and Zak Stone, Product Manager for TensorFlow and Cloud TPUs, Google Brain Team
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
eMarketer says Facebook lost ~2.8M US users under 25 in 2017, predicts it will lose ~2.1M in 2018; Instagram's US users will grow 13%, Snapchat's by 9% in 2018 — That's according to research firm eMarketer. — Facebook is losing young users even quicker than expected, according to new estimates by eMarketer.
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| Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: |
Sources: Amazon paid ~$90M to acquire security camera firm Blink late last year, for its energy-efficient chips that could extend battery life of other devices — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) paid about $90 million to acquire the maker of Blink home security cameras late last year …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook is promoting its user data-tracking Onavo VPN, which it acquired in 2013, under a “Protect” tab within its main mobile app on iOS — Onavo Protect, the VPN client from the data-security app maker acquired by Facebook back in 2013, has now popped up in the Facebook app itself … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
YapStone has raised $71M in Series C financing, aiming for $100M+, to take on PayPal, Stripe, and more in marketplace payments — While a part of the fintech world remains abuzz with crypo-talk, a startup that's built a business around the more traditional world of payments has raised … | MIX / The Next Web: |
Another cryptocurrency startup, LoopX, pulls exit scam, deleting its site and online accounts after raising $4.5M in a series of ICOs in January — Another day, another exit scam: an emerging cryptocurrency startup more commonly known as LoopX has suddenly vanished out of thin air along with millions worth of its investors' savings.
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