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    • Microsoft says Azure users globally were unable to log in using MFA on Monday due to the weight of login requests, is still working on fix for Office 365 logins (Shaun Nichols/The Register)

    Shaun Nichols / The Register: Microsoft says Azure users globally were unable to log in using MFA on Monday due to the weight of login requests, is still working on fix for Office 365 logins  —  Redmond battles TITSUP multi-factor auth logins (yes, that’s Total Inability To Support Users’ Passcodes) Microsoft says Azure users globally

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    • Bitcoin hit its lowest level in more than a year on Monday, falling under $5,000, with the entire cryptocurrency market cap losing roughly $40B in the past week (Kate Rooney/CNBC)

    Kate Rooney / CNBC: Bitcoin hit its lowest level in more than a year on Monday, falling under $5,000, with the entire cryptocurrency market cap losing roughly $40B in the past week  —  – The world’s largest cryptocurrency is now down 22 percent in the past week, falling as much as 12 percent Monday to

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    A Candle Powered Guitar Pedal

    When it comes to guitar effects pedals, the industry looks both back and forward in time. Back to the 50’s and 60’s when vacuum tubes and germanium transistors started to define the sound of the modern guitar, and forward as the expense and rarity of parts from decades ago becomes too expensive, to digital reproductions

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    • The stocks of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Netflix have all declined 20% or more in value in recent months, pushing them into bear market territory (Kevin Kelleher/Fortune)

    Kevin Kelleher / Fortune: The stocks of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Netflix have all declined 20% or more in value in recent months, pushing them into bear market territory  —  Tech investors resumed their selloff of the large-cap FAANG stocks, with the five tech giants all sustaining declines of 20% or more … The

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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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