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Microsoft and Open AI build GitHub Copilot, an AI-based tool to recommend code to software developers in almost any programming language — - GitHub, GitHub's parent company Microsoft and OpenAI have teamed up to deliver a tool that comes up with source code for programmers to use as they work.
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GitHub Copilot, The GitHub Blog, VentureBeat, The Verge, TechCrunch, and MSPoweruser
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Worldcoin, cofounded by Sam Altman, raises $25M, plans a cryptocurrency belonging to all people on earth, and is making a device to ID recipients via iris scan — Sam Altman has a new startup that intends to give a special type of cryptocurrency to every person on earth.| New York Times: |
The mounting legal and regulatory scrutiny of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google has led to a growing demand for lawyers who work in corporate competition law — Not since the government sued to break up Microsoft in the late 1990s has there been greater demand for people who know the ins and outs of corporate competition law.| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
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Source: Apple is on track to spend ~$300M on Google Cloud storage services in 2021, up ~50% from 2020, dwarfing ByteDance, Spotify, and other large customers — Apple executives have taken swipes at Google in the past over its privacy practices. But the iPhone maker trusts Google enough …
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MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, iPhone Hacks, iClarified, iPhone in Canada Blog, fossbytes.com, iMore, and Wccftech
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Instagram says it is running a small test that lets any user share links in their Stories through a sticker — Now with a linking sticker — Instagram has always limited who can post swipe-up links to their stories, but today, the company is starting a new test that could widen that ability.
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iThinkDifferent, Engadget, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, and iMore. Tweets: @sippinsocialtea
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
After hackers wiped many of Western Digital's My Book Live devices, a look at the code suggests the manufacturer had removed authentication code — Western Digital removed code that would have prevented the wiping of petabytes of data. — Last week's mass-wiping of Western Digital …
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Censys and AppleInsider
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Facebook unveils Bulletin, its Substack newsletter competitor, but is not yet accepting signups and says it won't take a cut of creators' revenue “at launch” — Facebook won't take a cut ‘at launch’ — Facebook is getting into the subscription newsletter game.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says all Play Store developer accounts will need to enable 2-Step Verification, provide an address, and verify their contact details later this year — To improve developer security on the Play Store, Google is requiring those that develop for Android to abide by 2-Step Verification …
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Tweets: @xdadevelopers and @androiddev
| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces a redesign for Office and says Windows 11 version will have a native 64-bit Arm version and support for 64-bit add-ins — A cleaner Office experience and Arm improvements — Microsoft is announcing that the next version of Office for Windows 11 will have a native 64-bit Arm version …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google launches a website for people struggling with food insecurity, aggregating 90K places offering free food support, a Google Maps locator tool, and more — Google today is launching a new suite of resources for people struggling with food insecurity across the U.S. The project includes …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Orum, which provides an API to help financial institutions move money in real time, raises $56M Series B, bringing its total raised to $82M+ — Orum, which aims to speed up the amount of time it takes to transfer money between banks, announced today it has raised $56 million in a Series B round of funding.| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
HP unveils the 13.3-inch Pavilion Aero 13, its lightest consumer laptop, weighing under 1KG with a 90% screen-to-body ratio, starting at $749, available in July — HP has unveiled the Pavilion Aero 13, which is the company's lightest consumer laptop yet. The device weighs less than a kilogram …
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Tweets: @joannastern and @harrymccracken
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
DevOps company JFrog acquires Vdoo, which develops AI-based security tools for IoT and connected devices, for $300M — JFrog, the company best known for a platform that helps developers continuously manage software delivery and updates, is making a deal to help it expand its presence …
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SiliconANGLE, Silicon Valley Business …, Globes Online, DEVCLASS, VentureBeat, CRN, and CTech
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft releases the first Windows 11 preview, available to Insiders, with major updates included except Teams integration and Android app support — The next version of Windows is available for testing — Microsoft is releasing its first Windows 11 preview build today.| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources and docs: as part of contracts, Amazon has made 80+ deals for stakes in suppliers, often at below-market prices, a sign of how it leverages its power — Certain suppliers are asked to give Amazon the right to buy shares at potentially lower-than-market rates as part of their contract
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Tweets: @jesselehrich, @matthewstoller, @wsj, @davecbenoit, and @danamattioli
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Microsoft says it will grow its legal and corporate affairs staff by 20% this year in anticipation of a multiyear wave of increased tech regulation globally — Microsoft plans to increase its legal and corporate affairs unit by 20 percent in the coming fiscal year as it prepares for what it sees …
Tweets: @ron_miller and @inafried
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Amazon debuts Reading Sidekick, which reads physical and digital books aloud from a catalog of over 700, for Kids Plus on Fire tablets and Echo devices — Reading Sidekick is available on Echo devices starting today — Amazon has announced a new feature for its Kids Plus service … | Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Accel announces fifteenth early-stage US fund at $650M, seventh early-stage European and Israeli fund at $650M, and sixth global growth stage fund at $1.75B — Accel announced Tuesday the close of three new funds totaling $3.05 billion, money that it will be using to back early-stage startups …
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Silicon Republic, Silicon Canals, Reuters, and CTech
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TP ICAP, the world's largest interdealer broker, says it is launching a cryptocurrency trading platform with Fidelity Investments and Standard Chartered — TP ICAP (TCAPI.L), the world's biggest interdealer broker, is launching a cryptocurrency trading platform with Fidelity Investments …
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The Block, Decrypt, CoinDesk, cryptodaily.co.uk, Bloomberg, Cryptonews, Cointelegraph, Bitcoin News, Crypto Briefing, and Coinspeaker
| Marcella McCarthy / TechCrunch: |
Gympass, a corporate fitness app that gives employees access to 50,000+ gyms, raises $220M Series E at a $2.2B valuation, twice its previous valuation — Gympass, the exercise and corporate wellness unicorn that originated in Brazil, today announced a $220 million Series E. The company …
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WHO publishes its first global report on AI in health care, a 2-year effort, with six guiding principles for its design and use, like protecting human autonomy — Growing use of AI for health presents governments, providers, and communities with opportunities and challenges
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ZDNet, World Health Organization, Geektime, World Health Organization, and UN News
| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
2U, which provides degree programs for top US universities, acquires edX, a nonprofit hosting 3K courses led by 15,000 instructors, for $800M in cash — 2U, a SaaS platform that helps non-profits and colleges run online universities, plans to acquire all the assets of Harvard and MIT-founded edX … | Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Neeva, a $4.95/month ad-free search engine from two ex-Google executives, launches after raising $77.5M — Sridhar Ramaswamy and Vivek Raghunathan helped turn Google into an ad giant. Now they're starting over with a service whose only customers are its users. — A new search engine?
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Neeva, MSPoweruser, Reclaim The Net, The Mac Observer, and Forbes
| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Studies have found that certain neighborhoods across the US that were redlined in the past are the same areas without fast home internet service today — Communities that couldn't get mortgage loans in the 1940s are the same areas without fast home internet service today. There's no easy fix.| TechCrunch: |
Duolingo files for US IPO, reveals revenue growth of 129% YoY in 2020, and reports $55.4M in revenue during Q1 2021 — The edtech unicorn reveals 129% 2020 revenue growth — Duolingo, a Pittsburgh-based language learning business last valued at $2.4 billion, has officially filed to go public.
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| Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post: |
NHTSA says it will require that companies like Tesla and Waymo report incidents involving driver-assistance and automated systems within one day — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said companies must report incidents within one day of learning of a crash.Sponsor Posts
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