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| Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Intel unveils 11th-gen Core Tiger Lake-H 10nm mobile processors for high-performance desktop and gaming, with five consumer chips and five commercial ones — Ever since the launch of the first series of Intel Core 11th Generation Tiger Lake processors aimed at the ‘U-series’ 15 W market … | Monica Chin / The Verge: |
MSI unveils new laptops for creators and gamers, like the $2,599 Creator Z16, aimed at MacBook Pro users, with a 120Hz 16:10 QHD+ display and GeForce RTX 3060 — New models for creators and gamers at all price points — MSI has announced a number of gaming and creator laptops that include Intel's brand-new Tiger Lake H processors.
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
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The Verge, VentureBeat, The Verge, Windows Central, Forbes, CNET, techadvisor.com, Neowin, SlashGear, Trusted Reviews, and PCWorld. Tweets: @devindra
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Deep dive on the DarkSide ransomware gang, which pressures victims into paying via phone calls by affiliates, DDoS attacks, and threats of tipping short sellers — The FBI confirmed this week that a relatively new ransomware group known as DarkSide is responsible for an attack … | Eamon Javers / CNBC: |
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FBI, BleepingComputer, Bloomberg, New York Times, CyberNews, Protos, Threatpost, Ars Technica, and PYMNTS.com
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| Wall Street Journal: |
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Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @senatormenendez, and @malwarejake
| Anna Cooban / Insider: |
WhatsApp details the experience for those who don't agree to its new privacy policy, including losing access to calls, messages, and notifications — - WhatsApp will eventually stop users sending and receiving messages if they refuse a new privacy policy. — If users do not agree to the policy …
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WhatsApp FAQ, The Register, Gizmodo, TNW, Social Media Today, WhatsApp FAQ, The Guardian, PCMag, Times of India, India Today, Moneycontrol, The Indian Express, BGR India, 9to5Mac, PCMag, and SlashGear
Tweets: @sub8u, @mikaelthalen, and @vijayshekhar
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Sources: TikTok is launching a tool for brands to recruit employees that it's currently beta testing with a group of companies — TikTok is testing a tool for brands to recruit employees, sources tell Axios. — Details: The pilot program is designed to help people find jobs on TikTok …
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Insider, CNET, Engadget, dot.LA, and Mashable
Tweets: @jessedamiani, @taylorlorenz, @blackamazon, @rmac18, @axios, @sarafischer, @darrenrovell, @baldingsworld, and @liahaberman
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube plans to pay $100M to top creators on YouTube Shorts, its TikTok competitor, through 2022, starting in the next few months in the US and India — YouTube is giving its TikTok competitor, YouTube Shorts, an injection of cash to help it better compete with rivals.
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YouTube Official Blog, Forbes, Reuters, Social Media Today, Adweek, Neowin, Android Central, Engadget, Bloomberg, Variety, CNBC, 9to5Google, Tubefilter, and The Verge
Tweets: @youtubecreators, @drbarnard, @kirstinestewart, @fwiz, @martinsfp, and @kantrowitz
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google Pay users in the US can now send money to GPay users in India and Singapore; Google has partnered with Western Union and Wise to enable this feature — Google Pay users in the U.S. can now send money to GPay users in India and Singapore, Google said on Tuesday, making its first push into the remittances market.
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Tweets: @federalbankltd, @wise, and @8ap
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
HTC unveils the Vive Pro 2 VR headset with a 5K resolution display, 2448×2448 pixels per eye, a 120Hz refresh rate, and 120-degree FoV, coming June 4 for $799 — Available to preorder today and on sale from June 4th for $799 — HTC has unveiled the new Vive Pro 2 …
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UploadVR, Tom's Hardware, techadvisor.com, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, IGN, VRFocus, and MCV/DEVELOP. Tweets: @qdot
| Eric Benjamin Seufert / Mobile Dev Memo: |
Apple's ATT privacy policy is a commercial land grab dressed up as a moral crusade and it will ultimately subvert the open web and the freemium business model — Last week, Apple introduced a new ad unit to the App Store: a paid placement on its Search page. — Rumors of this new unit had circulated previously
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple says that ~1M new apps and ~1M app updates were rejected in 2020, 470,000+ developer accounts were terminated over fraud concerns, and more — - Apple said it rejected almost 1 million apps that were submitted to its App Store for the first time in 2020.
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Apple, iThinkDifferent, CNET, The Hill, MacDailyNews, Protocol, 9to5Mac, Digital Trends, and iPhone in Canada Blog
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| The Coinbase Blog: |
Coinbase to ban pay negotiations in hiring and will offer the same pay to new hires in the same position and location; top performers to still get “multipliers” — Coinbase is always evolving. In the last year, we've grown our headcount by 100%, hired in 6 new countries …
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Protocol, Insider, Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At, and Cryptonews
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| The Verge: |
A county-by-county map of the broadband gap in the US shows how lack of fiber stifles economic activity in poor counties which in turn results in disinvestment — A county-by-county look at the broadband gap — If broadband access was a problem before 2020, the pandemic turned it into a crisis.
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VICE, Maps Mania, and KnowTechie
Tweets: @backlon, @reckless, @glengilmore, @moonalice, @karlbode, @russellbrandom, @animatedgeoff, and @waltmossberg
| Wall Street Journal: |
Uber and Lyft will offer free rides to and from US vaccination sites until July 4, in a partnership with Biden's admin that provides site data to Lyft and Uber — New transportation partnership comes as Biden administration explores ways to encourage people to get vaccinated
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The White House, Uber Newsroom, Lyft, SlashGear, TechCrunch, Engadget, CNBC, Insider, Axios, and PCMag
Tweets: @kantrowitz, @uber, @uber, @sabrinasiddiqui, @vogon, @dkhos, and @nathanstall
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Big chip buyers, including Apple and Google, are joining top chip-makers like Intel to create a lobbying group for chip manufacturing subsidies — (Reuters) - Some of the world's biggest chip buyers, including Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp and Alphabet Inc's Google, are joining top chip-makers …
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Semiconductors …, Engadget, New York Times, Patently Apple, 9to5Mac, iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, Bloomberg, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @datadrivenmd and @silvermanjacob
| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Zigbee Alliance renames as Connectivity Standards Alliance and unveils Matter, an interoperable connectivity standard to ship in smart home devices this year — An industry alliance sponsored by Apple, Google, Amazon and other tech companies will begin certifying smart home devices later this year …
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Gizmodo, MacRumors, ZDNet, iThinkDifferent, AppleInsider, TechHive, 9to5Mac, Stacey on IoT, Business Wire, The Verge, iClarified, MacDailyNews, Business Wire, and Pocket-lint
Tweets: @andrewgirdwood, @glynmoody, and @stshank
| Tripp Mickle / Wall Street Journal: |
Google says it plans to double the size of its team studying AI ethics in the coming years, as it looks to strengthen the group battered by recent controversies — CEO will boost operating budget of team tasked with evaluating code and product to avert discrimination and other problems
Tweets: @_jack_poulson, @alexhanna, @_alialkhatib, @edroso, @zoeschiffer, @parismarx, @mer__edith, and @lizthegrey
| MK Manoylov / The Block: |
Coinbase reaches #1 on the US iOS App Store for first time since 2017, after reaching the #2 spot on April 14, the day of its IPO — On May 10, the Coinbase app topped the U.S. Apple App Store, a position the crypto exchange hadn't been in since late 2017.
Tweets: @alex
| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Palantir reports Q1 revenue of $341M, up 49% YoY, with $208M from government and $133M from commercial sources; Palantir has 149 customers, up from 125 in 2020 — - Palantir, the maker of software and analytics tools for the defense industry and large corporations, reported 49% revenue growth …
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Business Wire, SiliconANGLE, Wccftech, Bitcoin News, ZDNet, Crypto Briefing, The Block, and Cointelegraph
Tweets: @cmjomx, @palantir_news, and @lilmoonlambo
| Karin Matussek / Bloomberg: |
Facebook ordered to stop collecting German users' WhatsApp data by regulator, starting with a three-month emergency ban on the data collection — - Hamburg regulator issues a three-month emergency order — Watchdog calls new terms intransparent and overly broad
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TechSpot, BleepingComputer, euronews, Engadget, Fortune, CNBC, Financial Times, The Economic Times, Tech.co, Pocketnow, The Irish Times, TechCrunch, and Tech Policy Press
Tweets: @jason_kint, @digiphile, and @vijayshekhar
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Continuous software integration/delivery service CircleCI raises $100M at a $1.7B valuation and has acquired Vamp, a cloud-native release orchestration service — Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register fo r the AI event of the year. — CircleCI, a continuous integration and delivery …
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TechCrunch, CircleCI, SiliconANGLE, Silicon Canals, DevOps.com, DEVCLASS, and ZDNet
| MK Manoylov / The Block: |
eBay says it will allow NFTs to be sold on its platform and will add new “capabilities” for blockchain-driven collectibles in the coming months — The online sales platform eBay is now permitting the sale of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for digital collectibles.
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CNET, PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, The Hill, The Verge, cryptodaily.co.uk, Bitcoinist.com, CoinDesk, and Cointelegraph. Tweets: @ahcastor
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
SightCall, an AR-based visual assistance service for field workers, raises $42M Series B and says it has 200+ enterprise clients like Kraft-Heinz, GE Healthcare — Long before Covid-19 precipitated “digital transformation” across the world of work, customer services and support was built to run online and virtually.
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