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Sonos and Ikea unveil a $179 Symfonisk table lamp and a $99 bookshelf speaker, both of which can be controlled with Sonos' app, shipping in August — The lamp speaker and a bookshelf speaker are coming in August — Sonos and Ikea have fully unveiled the pair of speakers that the two companies have collaborated on for years.
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Pinterest sets IPO price range at $15-$17 per share, to raise as much as $1.275B at up to a $11.3B valuation; Pinterest was valued at $12.3B in its last round — After dropping its IPO filing two weeks ago, today Pinterest, the social media platform where people can discover and share ideas …
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Microsoft makes developer and “canary” builds of its Chromium-based Edge browser available today for Windows 10 64-bit, says builds for macOS “coming soon” — Microsoft today released the first Edge build based on Google's Chromium open source project, the same browser that Google's Chrome is based on.
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| Joe Hindy / Android Authority: |
Snap is officially rolling out a faster version of its Snapchat Android app, which it's been rebuilding since the beginning of 2018 for better performance — Snapchat announced a big move in late 2017. It was going to fix all of the problems its Android version had in comparison to the iOS version.| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Monzo is close to raising £100M from Y Combinator, which would give the UK-based digital bank a pre-money valuation of £2B, up from £1B in October — Just 5 months after announcing £85 million in Series E funding, Monzo is already gearing up to raise additional funding …
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EU publishes seven guidelines for developing ethical AI applications including being accountable, sustainable, explainable, privacy-respecting, and unbiased — The European Union has published new guidelines on developing ethical AI — The European Union today published a set of guidelines … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Klaviyo, a Boston-based email marketing firm founded in 2012 which says it has 12,000 customers, raises $150M Series B from Summit Partners — Klaviyo, a Boston-based email marketing firm founded in 2012, went about building its email marketing business the old-fashioned way.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter lowers the number of accounts a user can follow per day from 1,000 to 400 to cut down on spam and bot activity — Twitter just took another big step to help boot spammers off its platform: it's cutting the number of accounts Twitter users can follow, from 1,000 per day to just 400.| Brian Merchant / Gizmodo: |
Once boastful of its plans to rely on 100% renewable energy for new datacenters, Amazon's quietly tamped down those ambitions — In 2014, Amazon announced that it would power its rapidly expanding fleet of data centers with 100 percent renewable energy. Apple, Facebook, and Google … | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft changes the default removal policy for external storage like USB thumb drives in Windows 10 from “Better performance” to “Quick removal” — The default removal policy for external storage media was changed by Microsoft in Windows 10 version 1809 from …
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UK whitepaper proposes “code of best practice” for how internet platforms should deal with harmful content, suggests expanding liability to tech company execs — Internet sites could be fined or blocked if they fail to tackle “online harms” such as terrorist propaganda and child abuse, under government plans.
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Dropbox pays out $319,300 in bug bounties for a HackerOne event in Singapore that focused on the file sharing service and its subsidiary HelloSign — Cloud storage vendor forks out $319,300 in a one-day bug bounty programme that galvanised 45 HackerOne members in Singapore … | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Ming-Chi Kuo backs off his earlier claim that a ~16" MacBook Pro with an all-new design would launch this year, says a 31" 6K display still expected in mid-2019 — A few months ago, well-known analyst Ming-Chi Kuo outlined his expectations for new Apple products in 2019, including a 16" …
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Survey: fewer than 50% of US adults expect Google to collect data on users' activities on its platforms or apps, track personal browsing for ad targeting, more — Numerous privacy scandals over the past couple of years have fueled the need for increased examination of tech companies' data tracking practices.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
2U, which provides online degree programs for top US universities, acquires Trilogy Education, which creates tech bootcamp programs for higher ed, for $750M — As more universities turn to offering online degrees to expand their student bodies by way of cyberspace, one of the pioneers … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Deep Lens, developer of the VIPER clinical research software suite that includes AI-backed image detection tools, raises $14M Series A led by Northpond Ventures — Deep Lens, a Columbus, Ohio-based startup developing a precision medicine software suite, today announced that it's raised $14 million …
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Fleetsmith raises $30M Series B led by Menlo Ventures to expand its Apple device management platform beyond the US — Fleetsmith launched in 2016 with a mission to manage Apple devices in the cloud. It simplified an IT activity that had previously been complex with help from Apple's Device Enrollment Plan.
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