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Apple announces media event at a Chicago high school at 10am CT on March 27, focused on “creative new ideas for teachers and students” — Apple today invited the media to an event on Tuesday, March 27 at Lane Tech College Prep High School in Chicago.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Mac: |
Google Lens starts rolling out to Google Photos for iOS — Last month, Google announced that Lens — its set of visual search and analysis tools — is coming to iOS. First introduced at last year's Google I/O developer conference, it will be rolling out over the coming weeks to all users using Google Photos.
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Lyft confirms it has been testing subscriptions for rides for the past few months, starting at $199 for 30 rides a month — 30 rides for $199 a month. Or is it $300? — Lyft is testing monthly subscription plans for high-frequency users, a sign that the company is shifting toward a Netflix or Spotify model for transportation.
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| Daniel Oberhaus / Motherboard: |
Plattsburgh, NY imposes an 18-month moratorium on bitcoin mining for new commercial operations, after residents complained of increased electricity bills — Plattsburgh, New York has imposed an 18-month moratorium on Bitcoin mining to prevent miners from using all the city's cheap electricity.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it is testing a change to Windows 10 that will force users to open links within Windows Mail app in Edge, even if Edge is not a default browser — A desperate move to grab browser share — Microsoft is testing a new change to its future version of Windows 10 …
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| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Facebook apologizes and says it is investigating why its search box autocomplete suggested sexual videos, child abuse content, and other strange results — Searches starting ‘video of’ returned autocomplete suggestions of sexual videos and child abuse content
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Paul Jacobs, former Qualcomm executive chairman and son of the founder, informed the company board that he is considering bid to take Qualcomm private — James Fontanella-Khan in New Orleans, Tom Braithwaite in San Francisco and Arash Massoudi in Helsinki March 15, 2018
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Cloud security startup Zscaler opens at $27.50 on Nasdaq, a 72% pop, raising $192M in its IPO — The first big tech IPO of the year has opened with a bang. Zscaler, a security startup that confidentially filed for an IPO last year, started trading this morning as ZS on Nasdaq at a price of $27.50/share.| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Crypto wallet startup Abra increases cryptocurrencies it supports from two to 20, to include Bitcoin Cash, Dash, Golem, Ethereum Classic, Dogecoin, more — Crypto wallet startup Abra is expanding the number of cryptocurrencies it supports to 20 from just two - bitcoin and ethereum - currently.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Village Global, a seed fund that has prominent people in tech like Zuckerberg, Bezos, Gates, Schmidt, and Hoffman as mentors for startups, raises $100M — It takes a village to grow a startup, so Village Global is offering access to a deep network of top tech execs to lure founders to its seed fund.
Tweets: @joshconstine
| Ellen K. Pao / Project Include: |
Ellen Pao says she is leaving Kapor Capital and Kapor Center to work full-time on Project Include, a non-profit focused on promoting diversity in tech — Now watch what we'll be able to do. — It's time to step up. We now all acknowledge and understand the need for lasting change.| Sam Levin / The Guardian: |
In a class action filed against Uber by nine women, company argues that women claiming they were sexually assaulted by drivers must turn to arbitration, not sue — Court records reveal company says women must settle through arbitration, a move critics say stops the public from learning of rapes
Tweets: @samtlevin, @susanthesquark, and @susanthesquark
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