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    • Google Pay adds Gmail importing for automatically adding movie tickets, loyalty cards, coupons, airline boarding passes, and more from your inbox (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

    Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Google Pay adds Gmail importing for automatically adding movie tickets, loyalty cards, coupons, airline boarding passes, and more from your inbox  —  Back in February, it was spotted that Google was testing out a new feature for Google Pay which would import data from Gmail automatically. Google Pay adds Gmail importing

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    • Netflix reports Q1 revenue surpassed $4.52B, up 22% YoY, vs $4.50B est.; net subscriptions grew 9.6M, up 16% YoY, with 1.74M in the US and 7.86M internationally (Lauren Feiner/CNBC)

    Lauren Feiner / CNBC: Netflix reports Q1 revenue surpassed $4.52B, up 22% YoY, vs $4.50B est.; net subscriptions grew 9.6M, up 16% YoY, with 1.74M in the US and 7.86M internationally  —  – The company reported $4.52 billion, vs. $4.50 billion expected, per Refinitiv consensus estimate. Netflix reports Q1 revenue surpassed .52B, up 22% YoY,

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    • Apple iMac (2019) review: both models received a notable performance boost but a comprehensive design refresh is needed, especially for the 21.5-inch version (Dan Seifert/The Verge)

    Dan Seifert / The Verge: Apple iMac (2019) review: both models received a notable performance boost but a comprehensive design refresh is needed, especially for the 21.5-inch version  —  The design is still the same, but the performance jump is real  —  There isn’t much I can tell you about the new iMacs that you

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    • Intel says it has acquired Omnitek, a UK-based chip designer focused on FPGAs with customized and high-performance vision and AI inferencing capabilities (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

    Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Intel says it has acquired Omnitek, a UK-based chip designer focused on FPGAs with customized and high-performance vision and AI inferencing capabilities  —  Intel said it has acquired Omnitek, designer of programmable chips for smart video and vision systems, for an undisclosed price. Intel says it has acquired Omnitek, a UK-based

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    • Researchers detail recently patched zero day vulnerability in win32k.sys, the fifth Local Privilege Escalation they have discovered in Windows in recent months (Vasily Berdnikov/Securelist)

    Vasily Berdnikov / Securelist: Researchers detail recently patched zero day vulnerability in win32k.sys, the fifth Local Privilege Escalation they have discovered in Windows in recent months  —  In March 2019, our automatic Exploit Prevention (EP) systems detected an attempt to exploit a vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows operating system. Researchers detail recently patched zero day

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    • London-based Zencargo, which is using machine learning to improve freight forwarding, raises ~$19M Series A led by HV Holtzbrinck Ventures (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

    Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based Zencargo, which is using machine learning to improve freight forwarding, raises ~$19M Series A led by HV Holtzbrinck Ventures  —  Move over, Flexport.  There is another player looking to make waves in the huge and messy business of freight logistics. London-based Zencargo, which is using machine learning to improve freight

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    • Twitter to test option to hide a tweet's replies in June, suspends 3x more abusive accounts reported within 24 hours than last year, relies less on user reports (Twitter)

    Twitter: Twitter to test option to hide a tweet’s replies in June, suspends 3x more abusive accounts reported within 24 hours than last year, relies less on user reports  —  We want people to feel safe on Twitter.  Last year, we shared that building a Twitter free of abuse, spam and other things … Twitter

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