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"Apple Pay comes to Singapore transit, New York City piloting in spring: Apple Pay is now available to public transit riders in Singapore, and will begin a pilot program with New York City's MTA later this spring." AppleInsider 9:23 AM
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"Feds bust $900,000 iPhone repair & return scam in Oregon: Two engineering students in Oregon are accused of bringing thousands of counterfeit iPhones to Apple and having them replaced with real ones that they then shipped to China for sale." AppleInsider 7:38 AM
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"Apple cuts iPhone XR prices in India: sources" Reuters 7:17 AM
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"APple Music Finally Comes To Amazon Alexa With New Skill Update/Amazon has brought Apple Music to Alexa smart speakers for the first time in the UK." The Independent 11:27 AM
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"Apple Music comes to Amazon's Echo & Fire devices in the UK and Ireland: Following up on a U.S. launch, Amazon has opened Apple Music streaming to U.K. and Irish owners of its Alexa-enabled Echo and Fire devices." AppleInsider 11:52 AM
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"Samsung Q1 profit to see shock 60% decline: Samsung Electronics expects operating profits of 6.2 trillion won for the first quarter of 2019, a steep 60% drop from a year ago and the South Korean tech giant's lowest in ten quarters." ZDNet 9:12 PM
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"Google to pull plug on AI ethics council" Reuters 9:12 PM
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"Amazon Is Making a Rival to Apple's AirPods as Its First Alexa Wearable" Bloomberg 4:18 PM
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"Another Facebook Screw-Up: Millions of Facebook Records Exposed on Amazon Cloud Servers" MacTrast 7:11 AM
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"45 Percent of Americans Can Barely Get Affordable Wired Broadband: Remember the digital divide? It never really was bridged. As evidenced by this report, the internet-connection differences between the haves and have-nots are wider than ever." PC Magazine 7:17 AM
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"Google Play Music is kicking out thousands of songs as its Artist Hub closes: YouTube Music is the future, but it's still not ready" The Inquirer 6:58 AM
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"Pharmaceutical giant Bayer targeted by cyberattack, threat 'contained': The German company says the Winnti hacking group is to blame." ZDNet 6:57 AM
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"The Internet Archive will host 490,000 music tracks 'lost' by MySpace: Nearly half a million tracks have been put back onto the internet." Engadget 6:57 AM
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"The Internet Archive has uploaded 450,000 songs collected before Myspace's massive data loss" TechCrunch 6:53 AM
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"Boffins develop malware that injects fake cancerous nodes into CT scans: Proof-of-concept created to highlight poor security of medical equipment" The Inquirer 6:58 AM
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"Facebook app developers expose 540 million user records on leaky server: Yet more proof firm has no control over data it shares with third-parties" The Inquirer 6:48 AM
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"Data on 540 million Facebook users exposed" BBC 6:46 AM
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"Robot can feed people with disabilities" BBC 6:46 AM
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"Computer Intelligence, Cashless Stadiums – TMO Daily Observations 2019-04-04" The Mac Observer 1:17 PM
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