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Leapwork, which develops a process automation platform that can be used by non-technical staff, raises $10M Series A led by DN Capital and e.ventures (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch)

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: Leapwork, which develops a process automation platform that can be used by non-technical staff, raises $10M Series A led by DN Capital and e.ventures  —  Most work involving computers is highly repetitive, which is why companies regularly have developers write code to automate repetitive tasks. Leapwork, which develops a process automation

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Facebook will discontinue P2P payments in Messenger in the UK and France on June 15; the service will remain active in the US (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Facebook will discontinue P2P payments in Messenger in the UK and France on June 15; the service will remain active in the US  —  Facebook is pulling away from its ambitions to provide peer-to-peer money transfers via Messenger in Europe.  Today, the company announced that it would be discontinuing … Facebook

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Interviews with 65 current and former employees on the meltdown inside Facebook over the last 15 months as the Cambridge Analytica scandal unfolded (Wired)

Wired: Interviews with 65 current and former employees on the meltdown inside Facebook over the last 15 months as the Cambridge Analytica scandal unfolded  —  Scandals.  Backstabbing.  Resignations.  Record profits.  Time Bombs.  In early 2018, Mark Zuckerberg set out to fix Facebook. Interviews with 65 current and former employees on the meltdown inside Facebook over

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This location tracking tech could save your life across the EU in 2020

Advanced Mobile Location (AML) has been one of the biggest technological developments for emergency services around the globe. Once enabled, AML automatically activates the geo-locating capabilities of smartphones all over the world during emergency calls — sending locations to dispatchers that are 4,000 times more accurate than was previously possible. There’s just one problem, only

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Google outlines new Android developer relations policies, says it will take more time to review apps by developers that don't yet have a track record (Sameer Samat/Android Developers Blog)

Sameer Samat / Android Developers Blog: Google outlines new Android developer relations policies, says it will take more time to review apps by developers that don’t yet have a track record  —  Thank you for all the feedback about updates we’ve been making to Android APIs and Play policies.  We’ve heard your requests for improvement

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