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Facebook unveils plans for Messenger app for Windows and macOS, a new social video-watching feature, a lightweight and full-featured version of Messenger, more — Ahead of its annual F8 developer conference in San Jose, Facebook has offered a glimpse into some of the things it's cooking …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Dating launches in 14 more countries, will come to US in 2019, adds Secret Crush feature to let users select up to 9 friends for Tinder-like matching — Facebook built Dating to be privacy-safe, hoping to avoid the awkwardness of friends or family checking out your romance profile.
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| Rob Price / Business Insider: |
Facebook launches a major redesign that ditches the blue bar at the top, features Groups and Stories more prominently, and debuts Meet New Friends feature — - Facebook is getting a major redesign. — The social network has ditched its iconic blue bar and now looks more similar to Messenger and Instagram.
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Zuckerberg opens F8 reiterating Facebook's new focus on a “privacy-focused communications platform” prioritizing end-to-end encryption and interoperability — Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is doubling down on privacy. — At F8, the social network's annual developer conference …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Messenger adds a Close Friends tab, the ability for users to book appointments with merchants, other business tools like lead generation chatbot templates, more — To win chat, Facebook Messenger must be as accessible as SMS, yet more entertaining than Snapchat.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Instagram is launching a camera redesign to make it easier to make high quality posts without importing media, adds dedicated shopping tags for creators — Turning Instagram into a more robust commerce platform — Instagram is announcing a couple of new features today that are designed … | Kevin Carbotte / Tom's Hardware: |
Oculus Quest review: attractive, comfy wireless design, $399 price is fair, but a step back in VR graphics quality and some Oculus Store content is restricted — The Oculus Quest could be the device that turns the VR market around and attracts the masses. It's easy to use, simple to setup, performs well and is reasonably priced.
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Facebook says its Portal smart displays will soon support end-to-end encrypted WhatsApp video calls — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today announced that its Portal smart displays will soon support end-to-end encrypted WhatsApp video calls. The move brings together WhatsApp … | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Bird is launching monthly scooter rentals for $24.99 in San Francisco and Barcelona — The company will even deliver the scooter right to your front door — If using an app to track down a nearby electric scooter to rent is too much of a crapshoot, Bird is now offering monthly rentals …
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
General counsel to both Bitfinex and Tether says in an affidavit that the USDT stablecoin is only 74% backed by cash and equivalents as of April 30 — The USDT stablecoin is only about 74 percent backed by fiat equivalents as of April 30, says its issuer's general counsel.
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| Ju-min Park / Reuters: |
Samsung posts a profit of $5.4B in Q1, down 60% YoY, as its semiconductor and mobile businesses post a 64% drop and a 40% drop in operating profits respectively — SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd posted a 60 percent drop in first-quarter operating profit on Tuesday … | Sage Lazzaro / OneZero: |
Residents of a rent-controlled Manhattan building are suing smart lock startup Latch for providing data about tenants and their guests to landlords — Great for landlords. Not so great for you. — atch is on a mission to digitize the front door, offering apartment entry systems …
Tweets: @karlbode and @sagelazzaro
| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Google employees plan to hold a “sit-in” on May 1 to protest the alleged retaliation against staff from management over previous activism — Google workers are staging a sit-in Wednesday to protest alleged retaliation from management toward employee organizers at the company.| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Ford says it is bringing Amazon Key's in-car delivery service to select Ford and Lincoln vehicles — The automaker said eligible Ford and Lincoln vehicles from 2017 onward will have the ability to link up to Amazon's Key delivery service. — Ford Motor Company said on Tuesday …
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Cable operator Altice USA agrees to acquire streaming-video network Cheddar for $200M; Cheddar founder Jon Steinberg to become president of the Altice News unit — Cheddar founder and CEO Jon Steinberg is set to become president of Altice News, overseeing Cheddar, News 12 and i24News
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Creative Commons launches its search engine out of beta, with over 300M images indexed — Nonprofit organization Creative Commons is today publicly launching its search engine, after over two years of beta testing. The new service is designed to offer an easy way to search the commons' archive …
Tweets: @mattmcgee
| BBC: |
Vodafone denies report that said Huawei could have had unauthorized access to the carrier's fixed-line network in Italy, saying the issues were caught and fixed — Vodafone has revealed that it found vulnerabilities in equipment supplied to it by Huawei in Italy 10 years ago.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
NSA says the number of warrantless search queries conducted by the NSA of Americans' data rose 28% in 2018 — The intelligence community's annual transparency report revealed a spike in the number of warrantless searches of Americans' data in 2018. — The data, published Tuesday by the Office …
Tweets: @dangillmor
| Malwarebytes Labs: |
Researchers are monitoring a growing botnet hijacking Electrum cryptocurrency wallets and spreading malware that has infected 100K+ clients and stolen $4.6M+ — By Jérôme Segura, Adam Thomas, and S! Ri — We have been closely monitoring the situation involving the continued attacks … | Lauren Hirsch / CNBC: |
Chewy.com, the online pet product retailer acquired by PetSmart for ~$3B in 2017, files for IPO, reports net loss of $268M on sales of $3.5B for fiscal year '18 — KEY POINTS — Chewy.com, the online pet product retailer owned by PetSmart, filed documents with regulators on Monday to prepare for an initial public offering.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft's game streaming platform Mixer now lets streamers reward fans for participation, not just subscriptions, with a feature called Channel Progression — On game streaming platforms today, there's really only one way to earn status within a creator's community: you have to become a subscriber.
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| Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
Garmin adds period tracking to Garmin Connect, announces three new types of Forerunner smartwatches, starting at $199 — The new Garmin Forerunner 45 smartwatch. [credit: Garmin ] — Garmin has been slowly updating its smartwatches and fitness trackers over the past few years, and 2019 appears to be the year of the Forerunner.
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