Author: Tech Support

    • Apple releases watchOS 5.2 with support for the second-generation AirPods, extends ECG functionality to Hong Kong, the UK, and 18 other countries in Europe (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

    Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple releases watchOS 5.2 with support for the second-generation AirPods, extends ECG functionality to Hong Kong, the UK, and 18 other countries in Europe  —  Apple today released watchOS 5.2, the fifth update to the watchOS operating system that runs on modern Apple Watch models. watchOS 5.2 comes … Apple releases

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    • Mailchimp acqui-hired Shopify competitor LemonStand, which said on March 5 it was shutting down, in February; Mailchimp says deal unrelated to Shopify breakup (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

    Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Mailchimp acqui-hired Shopify competitor LemonStand, which said on March 5 it was shutting down, in February; Mailchimp says deal unrelated to Shopify breakup  —  Here’s an interesting twist on the story from last week about the break-up between Shopify and Mailchimp, after the two said they were at odds … Mailchimp

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    • A Kentucky startup is using AI on health records from insurers to help identify women at risk of preterm births, the leading cause of infant death in the US (Gregory Barber/Wired)

    Gregory Barber / Wired: A Kentucky startup is using AI on health records from insurers to help identify women at risk of preterm births, the leading cause of infant death in the US  —  EMILY PICKETT, A doula in Louisville, Kentucky, is used to hearing hard truths from expecting mothers. A Kentucky startup is using

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    • Researcher warned ASUS of hacking risks two months ago, after finding ASUS staff published passwords to GitHub repos; some passwords were public for over a year (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

    Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Researcher warned ASUS of hacking risks two months ago, after finding ASUS staff published passwords to GitHub repos; some passwords were public for over a year  —  A security researcher warned Asus two months ago that employees were improperly publishing passwords in their GitHub repositories … Researcher warned ASUS of hacking

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    • Spotify says it will begin to personalize some of its human-curated playlists (Jacob Kastrenakes/The Verge)

    Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: Spotify says it will begin to personalize some of its human-curated playlists  —  Spotify is starting to algorithmically personalize some of its curated playlists, making a major change to how people discover music on the streaming service.  —  Spotify is already known for having … Spotify says it will begin

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    • Online mattress retailer Casper Sleep raises $100M at a $1.1B valuation, bringing total raised to $340M, as it plans for an IPO (Selina Wang/Bloomberg)

    Selina Wang / Bloomberg: Online mattress retailer Casper Sleep raises $100M at a $1.1B valuation, bringing total raised to $340M, as it plans for an IPO  —  – Direct-to-consumer brand raised $100 million from investors  — Canada Goose CEO and former Neiman Marcus CEO join board Online mattress retailer Casper Sleep raises 0M at a

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    • Court records: Harold T. Martin III, a former contractor charged with stealing NSA secrets, is expected to plead guilty on Thursday; he faces 20 counts (Greg Otto/CyberScoop)

    Greg Otto / CyberScoop: Court records: Harold T. Martin III, a former contractor charged with stealing NSA secrets, is expected to plead guilty on Thursday; he faces 20 counts  —  A former National Security Agency contractor accused of perhaps the largest theft of government secrets in U.S. history is expected … Court records: Harold T.

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    • Hands-on: new AirPods have markedly reduced sound latency, faster device sync, and Hey Siri, a big step up from double-tapping; sound quality is mostly the same (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)

    Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: Hands-on: new AirPods have markedly reduced sound latency, faster device sync, and Hey Siri, a big step up from double-tapping; sound quality is mostly the same  —  The Apple AirPods have led the truly-wireless earphone industry and maintained their crown ever since their release in late 2016. Hands-on: new AirPods have

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    • Cryptocurrency startup Tagomi gets BitLicense to operate in New York

    Tagomi Trading LLC, a cryptocurrency venture backed by Paradigm and Pantera Capital, has become the 18th firm to receive a coveted BitLicense. The crypto brokerage firm received approval for a virtual currency license and a money transmission license. As a result, Tagomi is now authorized to offer trading for “non-securities virtual currencies“, including Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash,

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    • Microsoft, Adobe, SAP to expand Open Data Initiative, which unifies data across their platforms, by adding partners, starting with WPP, Sprinklr, and 10 others (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

    Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Microsoft, Adobe, SAP to expand Open Data Initiative, which unifies data across their platforms, by adding partners, starting with WPP, Sprinklr, and 10 others  —  At last year’s Microsoft Ignite conference, the CEOs of Microsoft, Adobe and SAP took the stage to announce the launch of the Open Data Initiative. Microsoft,

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