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President Trump signed an order blocking Singapore-based Broadcom's proposed acquisition of US-based Qualcomm, citing national security concerns — President Donald Trump killed Broadcom's proposed buyout of Qualcomm, citing national security concerns, according to a statement issued by the White House on Monday.
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| Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times: |
Larry Page-backed flying taxi firm Kitty Hawk signs agreement with New Zealand government to test autonomous planes as part of an official certification process — Since October, a mysterious flying object has been seen moving through the skies over the South Island of New Zealand.
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| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Experts reveal 13 alleged flaws in AMD Ryzen and EPYC chips, just 24 hours after showing AMD, that allow malware to be installed on secure portions of the chips — Researchers have discovered critical security flaws in AMD chips that could allow attackers to access sensitive data …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Sources: Facebook is aiming to launch a news section for its Watch platform this summer and is testing different video partnerships with roughly ten publishers — Facebook is getting ready to launch a news section for its Watch platform and it's testing different video partnerships with roughly 10 publishers, Axios has learned.
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| Sam Levin / The Guardian: |
Rise in reports of TSA searching devices of passengers of domestic flights has led ACLU to sue the agency, demanding it disclose its policies; TSA denies claims — Exclusive: growing number of reports raises concerns US government may be increasing surveillance and privacy violations at airports
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| Tom Miles / Reuters: |
U.N. human rights experts investigating a possible genocide in Myanmar say that Facebook has played a role in spreading hate speech in the country — GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. human rights experts investigating a possible genocide in Myanmar said on Monday that Facebook had played a role in spreading hate speech there.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Fitbit launches its second mainstream smartwatch, Versa, for $200, and the first fitness wearable for kids, Ace, for $100; both available for preorder today — Fitbit has announced new wearables Fitbit Versa, which runs the upcoming Fitbit OS 2.0, and Fitbit Ace. Both are available for preorder today.| Google Cloud Platform Blog: |
Google partners with Ubisoft to launch Agones, an open source, multiplayer, dedicated game server hosting system built on top of the Kubernetes platform — In the world of distributed systems, hosting and scaling dedicated game servers for online, multiplayer games presents some unique challenges.| David Welch / Bloomberg: |
Sources: GM plans to start pilot program this summer that will allow car owners to rent out their vehicles through its Maven car-sharing service — Carmaker plots peer-to-peer pilot program starting this summer — Service could take on Turo and Getaround, potentially Tesla| iFixit: |
Galaxy S9+ teardown: two blades for changing aperture versus the usual five on normal cameras; battery, iris scanner, front cam are basically unchanged from S8+ — Tools Featured in this Teardown — Introduction — While phone makers and operating system developers of dubious numeracy skip straight … | Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Cloudflare launches Cloudflare Workers, an edge computing service for developers using its network, charging devs $0.50 for every 1M tasks used by their apps — Cloudflare is ready to take the wraps of a new service designed for developers creating Internet-of-Things apps that want to capitalize …
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Annual Harris reputation poll of corporate brands says Amazon retained the top spot, Apple dropped from 5th to 29th, while Google dropped from 8th to 28th — (Reuters) - Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google corporate brands dropped in an annual survey while Amazon.com Inc maintained the top spot … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
RapidAPI, an API marketplace that processes 400B API calls each month, raises $9M led by A16Z — APIs — lightweight application interfaces that developers use both to integrate third-party services into their own apps, and to let their apps get used more easily by other developers …
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| Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
University of Arizona tracks freshman students' usage of ID cards, which can be swiped at library, snack machines, and more, to intervene with likely dropouts — The University of Arizona is tracking freshman students' ID card swipes to anticipate which students are more likely to drop out.
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The rising value of Spotify playlists by prominent users has spurred pay-for-play schemes despite Spotify updating its ToS explicitly prohibiting the practice — Tommie King could be the next rapper to breakout from Atlanta. He's well-connected, has obvious swagger, and he's been quietly building … | Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: |
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