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    • Ping An, one of China's biggest financial conglomerates, takes its first step into the EU, leading a €41.5M round for Finleap, a Berlin-based fintech incubator (Elizabeth Schulze/CNBC)

    Elizabeth Schulze / CNBC: Ping An, one of China’s biggest financial conglomerates, takes its first step into the EU, leading a €41.5M round for Finleap, a Berlin-based fintech incubator  —  – One of China’s biggest financial conglomerates announced its first venture into continental Europe on Monday. Ping An, one of China's biggest financial conglomerates, takes

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    • Nuance to spin off its automotive unit, which generated $279M in 2018, into a publicly traded company called Nuance Auto with a focus on conversational AI (Natalie Gagliordi/ZDNet)

    Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: Nuance to spin off its automotive unit, which generated $279M in 2018, into a publicly traded company called Nuance Auto with a focus on conversational AI  —  Nuance said the move will help the company become more focused on its healthcare and enterprise verticals. Nuance to spin off its automotive unit,

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    Trump administration proposal could target exports of the tech behind Siri, self-driving cars and supercomputers

    Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM and their peers could be subject to new restrictions on how they export the technology behind voice-activated smartphones, self-driving cars and speedy supercomputers to Chi… Trump administration proposal could target exports of the tech behind Siri, self-driving cars and supercomputers Source: Washington Post Tech

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    • After a man was spotted last month wearing an Apple Maps backpack with LiDAR equipment, Apple confirms it will be collecting pedestrian data in six CA counties (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)

    Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: After a man was spotted last month wearing an Apple Maps backpack with LiDAR equipment, Apple confirms it will be collecting pedestrian data in six CA counties  —  Last month, a person wearing an Apple Maps backpack with LiDAR equipment was spotted at the intersection of Stockton and Sutter streets …

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    • Google says Chromecasts can now sync audio with Google Home speakers and similar integrations are planned for Google Home Hub and LG Xboom WK9 in coming weeks (Khari Johnson/VentureBeat)

    Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: Google says Chromecasts can now sync audio with Google Home speakers and similar integrations are planned for Google Home Hub and LG Xboom WK9 in coming weeks  —  Google Home speakers and Chromecasts can now be included in a Home audio group for music, podcasts, or audiobooks, a company spokesperson told

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    • Inside Uber before its self-driving car killed a pedestrian: sources describe infighting, "perverse" incentives, and questionable decisions (Julie Bort/Business Insider)

    Julie Bort / Business Insider: Inside Uber before its self-driving car killed a pedestrian: sources describe infighting, “perverse” incentives, and questionable decisions  —  Samantha Lee/Business Insider; Natalie Behring/REUTERS  — On March 18 one of Uber’s self-driving cars killed a pedestrian … Inside Uber before its self-driving car killed a pedestrian: sources describe infighting, "perverse" incentives,

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    • Airbnb deactivates ~200 listings in Israeli settlements in West Bank ahead of a Human Rights Watch report; Israel reportedly moves to restrict Airbnb operations (Caroline O'Donovan/BuzzFeed News)

    Caroline O’Donovan / BuzzFeed News: Airbnb deactivates ~200 listings in Israeli settlements in West Bank ahead of a Human Rights Watch report; Israel reportedly moves to restrict Airbnb operations  —  After years of protest, Airbnb deactivated listings in disputed territories in the West Bank on Monday, one day before Human Rights Watch … Airbnb deactivates

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    • The ruling party in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh is giving out smartphones preloaded with two campaign apps to voters as "gifts" but also to target them (New York Times)

    New York Times: The ruling party in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh is giving out smartphones preloaded with two campaign apps to voters as “gifts” but also to target them  —  RAIPUR, India — Forget the old American campaign slogan of a chicken in every pot, or the Indian politician’s common pledge to put rice

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    • JD.com founder reduces responsibilities amid rape allegation (Erica Pandey/Axios)

    Erica Pandey / Axios: JD.com founder reduces responsibilities amid rape allegation  —  Richard Liu, the billionaire CEO of JD.com who is facing a rape accusation in Minnesota, said today that he will shift his primary responsibilities away from the Chinese giant’s main e-commerce arm, instead focusing on the company’s “new businesses.” JD.com founder reduces responsibilities

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    • Tim Cook says some government regulation of Silicon Valley is inevitable, defends deal to make Google Apple's default search engine despite privacy concerns (Ina Fried/Axios)

    Ina Fried / Axios: Tim Cook says some government regulation of Silicon Valley is inevitable, defends deal to make Google Apple’s default search engine despite privacy concerns  —  If Apple is so big on users’ privacy, why does the company take billions of dollars from Google in exchange for letting the search giant … Tim

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