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Facebook and Twitter pull out of the SXSW conference citing COVID-19 concerns; event organizers say the conference is proceeding as planned — Twitter pulled out earlier today — Facebook has pulled out of the upcoming SXSW conference in Austin, TX, according to a company statement given to Business Insider.
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Report: senior management at Apple rebuffed some operations execs' suggestion to relocate part of its manufacturing from China to Vietnam as early as 2015 — Production on Apple's devices has been stymied in recent weeks due to delays caused by the coronavirus outbreak in China.
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iPhone maker Foxconn says it expects its Chinese plants to begin operating normally by the end of March, after the disruption caused by the coronavirus — - Hon Hai says its facilities are at 50% seasonal capacity — The epidemic has disrupted Apple's finely tuned supply chain| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Robinhood says it is again experiencing a “major outage”, after saying issues were resolved on Monday, and will compensate users on a case-by-case basis — - Robinhood saw a second day of glitches that kept clients from trading as markets rebounded.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
US sanctions two Chinese nationals for allegedly laundering cryptocurrency for North Korea's Lazarus Group, which has hacked two crypto exchanges since 2018 — UPDATE: The Department of Justice has also indicted the two Chinese nationals on money laundering-related charges.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Mac Pro 2019 review: beautiful design, incredibly quiet, but most apps don't push performance limits, expansion slots still can't use Nvidia GPUs, and is pricey — Apple's back in the pro game, but can it keep up? — Reviewing the new Mac Pro has been an interesting challenge.| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Honeywell says it will launch a quantum computer within three months with a quantum volume of at least 64, the world's most powerful quantum computer — Under Honeywell's quantum plans, customers will connect directly to systems housed by the company. Honeywell will use quantum computing …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Waymo raises $2.25B from Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, parent-company Alphabet, and others to scale up its autonomous vehicles operations — Waymo, the autonomous vehicles division of Google parent company Alphabet, just got a massive capital infusion from a coterie of investors.
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
How a security analyst sent his mother to a state correctional facility with fake credentials to plant malicious USB drives, resulting in the director using one — Security analyst John Strand had a contract to test a correctional facility's defenses. He sent the best person for the job: his mother.
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| George Anadiotis / ZDNet: |
Sourcegraph, which enables developers to search, explore, and better understand code, raises $23M Series B led by Craft Ventures — Sourcegraph wants to be the Google of code, even though code search is harder than web search — As opposed to web search, most people don't use, know, or care about code search.
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
BMC to acquire its longtime mainframe software competitor Compuware from Thoma Bravo for an undisclosed sum; Thoma Bravo bought Compuware in 2014 for $2.4B — Together they plan to focus on mainframe operations, cybersecurity, application development, data, and storage.| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Public, a stock investing app that allows users to buy fractions of shares, raises $15M Series B led by Accel and Greycroft, bringing total raised to ~$24M — Investing in the stock market can be intimidating for many. It can also be difficult for those who don't have tons of extra cash …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google updates Pixel phones with new Motion Sense gesture controls, emoji, AR effects, car crash detection for its Personal Safety app, photo and video features — One of the benefits of owning a Pixel smartphone is that it improves over time as Pixels are first to receive updates that deliver the latest fixes and improvements.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Talespin, which uses VR/AR to develop enterprise training tools, raises $15M Series B led by Cornerstone OnDemand, bringing its total raised to $20M — Talespin made itself famous for a virtual reality demo where managers learn how to fire a hapless worker named Barry.
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| Joann Muller / Axios: |
Bolt, a Miami Beach-based electric scooter startup co-founded by Usain Bolt, closes $30M Series A at a $100M valuation led by Rokk3r Fuel ExO — Bolt Mobility, a Miami Beach-based electric scooter company co-founded by Olympic sprinter Usain Bolt, announced Tuesday that it closed a Series A funding round …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Sensel, which makes multi-touch input devices for third parties, raises $28M Series A to work with new OEMs, bringing its total funding to $38M — I was honestly a surprised to find out from Sensel that the company is only just recently raising its Series A. The Sunnyvale-based hardware startup …
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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
ACLU sues ICE for its algorithm used to recommend if people arrested for immigration violations should be let go, argues it's rigged to detain nearly everyone — In 2013, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement quietly began using a software tool to recommend whether people arrested …
Tweets: @chadloder, @theintercept, @jvagle, and @theintercept
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Ampere unveils Ampere Altra, an 80-core ARM-based 64-bit server processor for server applications like data analytics, AI, database, storage, and more — Ampere has unveiled the industry's first 80-core ARM-based 64-bit server processor today in a bid to outdo Intel and Advanced Micro Devices in data center chips.
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Behind Facebook's rewrite of Messenger, going live today, that has shrunk the iOS app's size from 130MB to 30MB and its codebase from 1.7M to 360K lines of code — To make its iPhone messaging app run better—especially on older phones—Facebook rewrote it from the ground up. The new version is going live now.
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Apple shares rose 9.3% Monday, closing at $298.81, with the Dow up 5.1% and Nasdaq up 4.5%, as the market rebounded from last week's coronavirus-fueled selloff — Tim Anderson: I don't see how cutting rates is going to solve problem — Stocks rose sharply in volatile trading on Monday …
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