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Qualcomm and Apple settle all worldwide litigation between the two companies, as Apple makes a payment to Qualcomm; Qualcomm's stock closes up 23% — - Apple and Qualcomm have settled a royalty and patent dispute that went to trial this week in San Diego, California.
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Interviews with 65 current and former employees on the meltdown inside Facebook over the last 15 months as the Cambridge Analytica scandal unfolded — Scandals. Backstabbing. Resignations. Record profits. Time Bombs. In early 2018, Mark Zuckerberg set out to fix Facebook.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: DOJ staffers have told T-Mobile and Sprint that their planned merger is unlikely to be approved as currently structured — DOJ staff told wireless rivals deal is unlikely to be approved as structured, according to people familiar with the matter — Justice Department staffers …
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About 4,000 pages of leaked Facebook documents from 2011-2015 shed light on its approach to sharing and selling data, giving more access to friendly companies — Facebook's leaders seriously discussed selling access to user data — and privacy was an afterthought.
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Overview of high-profile male executives in tech who were accused of sexual misconduct and are now getting second chances — Silicon Valley says it's committed to improving diversity, but high-profile male executives accused of sexual misconduct are getting second chances. Some advocates are wondering why.
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Twitter to test option to hide a tweet's replies in June, suspends 3x more abusive accounts reported within 24 hours than last year, relies less on user reports — We want people to feel safe on Twitter. Last year, we shared that building a Twitter free of abuse, spam and other things …
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| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Microsoft announces Xbox One S All-Digital Edition, a disc-free Xbox One S launching May 7 for $249 with a 1TB HDD and three games; preorders open now — Microsoft is preparing to sell a new Xbox unlike any it's offered before. The gadget is missing a disc drive.
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Google has removed the popular video app TikTok from its Play Store in India to comply with a state court's directive — NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Google has blocked access to the hugely popular video app TikTok in India to comply with a state court's directive to prohibit its downloads … | Megha Mandavia / The Economic Times: |
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Netflix reports Q1 revenue surpassed $4.52B, up 22% YoY, vs $4.50B est.; net subscriptions grew 9.6M, up 16% YoY, with 1.74M in the US and 7.86M internationally — - The company reported $4.52 billion, vs. $4.50 billion expected, per Refinitiv consensus estimate.
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Sources: Apple is planning a desktop extension feature for macOS 10.15 that allows users to send any window of any app to an external display, including an iPad — It's undeniable that one of the best characteristics of every Apple product is its display. Apple ships computers …
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| Sahil Chinoy / New York Times: |
Using 9 hours' worth of footage of a park in NYC from public cameras and Amazon Rekognition, NYT detected 2,750 faces, matching many to real identities, for $60 — Most people pass through some type of public space in their daily routine — sidewalks, roads, train stations.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Mozilla executives reflect on how Google web products would often break in Firefox but not Chrome and on other issues perceived as anti-competitive tactics — Former and current Mozilla engineers are reaching their boiling points. — A former high-ranking Mozilla executive has accused Google …
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Sony says its next-gen PlayStation console will be backward-compatible, support 8K graphics with ray tracing, and have an SSD, but won't be released this year — MARK CERNY WOULD like to get one thing out of the way right now: The videogame console that Sony has spent the past four years building is no mere upgrade.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Apple iMac (2019) review: both models received a notable performance boost but a comprehensive design refresh is needed, especially for the 21.5-inch version — The design is still the same, but the performance jump is real — There isn't much I can tell you about the new iMacs that you likely don't already know.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Now-patched security flaw in EA's Origin client for Windows, used by tens of millions of gamers to buy and download games, exposed PCs to remote code execution — Electronic Arts has fixed a vulnerability in its online gaming platform Origin after security researchers found they could trick … | Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google Pay adds Gmail importing for automatically adding movie tickets, loyalty cards, coupons, airline boarding passes, and more from your inbox — Back in February, it was spotted that Google was testing out a new feature for Google Pay which would import data from Gmail automatically.
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Zoom raises its IPO list price to $33-$35 ahead of Thursday debut and says it will sell $100M in Class A shares to Salesforce Ventures at IPO price — Zoom, the developer of video conferencing software, plans to list its shares on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “ZM” at between $33 and $35 apiece, per an updated S-1 filing.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook will discontinue P2P payments in Messenger in the UK and France on June 15; the service will remain active in the US — Facebook is pulling away from its ambitions to provide peer-to-peer money transfers via Messenger in Europe. Today, the company announced that it would be discontinuing … | Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post: |
Uber says it recently modified some of its JUMP electric bikes after finding a braking problem like the one that prompted Lyft to recall its electric bikes — Uber acknowledged Monday that it had modified some of its electric bikes recently after the company encountered a braking problem similar … Sponsor Posts
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