iOS 12.3 beta 4 released, public beta now available

Apple is rolling out the fourth beta for iOS 12.3 and along with it, the public beta is also available to download. iOS beta builds are generally prioritized for registered developers (who do so for a fee) until the operating system is deemed stable enough for the general public to try out before its public release. The fourth iOS 12.3 beta brings the new version of the Apple TV app, update with a new look and UI. With it, a new algorithm-based curator will suggest which movies and TV shows you should watch based on watch history and interests. Image source: Mac Rumors Under...

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Sprint and T-Mobile extend merger deadline by another month

Monday, April 29 marks the one-year anniversary that both T-Mobile and Sprint announced their plans to merge into a single carrier. As this day rolls around, the carriers are still seeing both support and opposition for the merger from different parties. According to a report from Reuters, T-Mobile filed an extension with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to a new July 29 deadline for the merger. Makan Delrahim is the head of the US Justice Department's Antitrust Division and told CNBC "I have not made up my mind," he continues with "We've requested some data from the companies...

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Google Pixel 3a shows up on Geekbench days before its unveiling

Google's Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL are finally going to be made official at the company's annual developer conference, I/O, on May 7. As we get closer to that date they're leaking even more than before, hard as that may be to believe. We've recently seen the Pixel 3a in press renders in white and purple, and today a prototype has made a visit to the Geekbench online database. The phone unsurprisingly runs Android 9 Pie, it has 4GB of RAM, and is powered by a Qualcomm chipset, though oddly enough the board for that is missing in the details. Past rumors said the bigger Pixel 3a XL would have...

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Realme 3 Pro gets an important update

Shortly after its announcement, the Realme 3 Pro is getting its first OTA update, which is a pretty important one too. It adds super slo-mo video recording and improves overall system stability. The firmware update weighs only 182MB and it carries a build number RMX1851EX_11_A.12, but April's security patch is nowhere to be found. However, there are plenty of changes that can keep you warm at night. For starters, Realme claims that the new update improves the overall clarity of captured photos while the super slo-mo video recording lets you shoot in 960fps. Improved system stability...

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Huawei P30 Pro gets another software update, enables dual-view camera mode

Huawei just won't stop updating the P30 Pro and we are not complaining. While the last update that rolled out in India was mainly focused on improving the user experience, this one revolves around a cool camera feature - the so-called dual-view mode. The feature was advertised during the announcement of the phone but it's only now that we are seeing it reach users. It comes with the EMUI 9.1.0.153 update and as for now, it's only available in China. It will surely make its way outside the country, though. You can see what the dual-view camera mode is all about in the video below, but it...

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Spotify reaches 100 million Premium subscribers

Spotify just announced that it reached a big milestone - 100 million paid users. That's almost half of the service's total users. Those listening on the free tier are 117 million. The official launch in India helped a lot last quarter as about million users signed up the first week and that number doubled in the next month or so. Unfortunately, though, even that's not enough to propel Spotify into profiting. The company lost about €142 million in Q1 2019, which is in contrast to December's €442 million in profit. At least it's less than last year's Q1 when Spotify lost €169...

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vivo Z3x announced - it is the vivo Z1 with a new selfie camera

Last week another vivo smartphone was spotted on TENAA, and today the device is official. Although it looks a lot like the vivo V9 or the vivo Z1, it is actually called vivo Z3x, despite having almost identical specs. The phone has a Snapdragon 660 chipset, coupled with 4 GB RAM and 64 GB storage. The screen is 6.26" LCD panel with Full HD+ resolution and a notch that some would call retro. The cutout houses the earpiece and the 16 MP selfie shooter, sitting behind an f/2.0 aperture. The front-facing camera is the only hardware difference from the vivo Z1 that has been official for...

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First Realme 3 Pro flash sale moved 170,000 units in 8 minutes

The Realme 3 Pro was introduced last Monday and today, as promised, the phone appeared for its first online flash sale. The company posted on Twitter that over 170,000 units were sold in just 8 minutes, with the amount expected to increase even more with second and third flash sales, all scheduled for today. The biggest fans of Realme could purchase the most powerful smartphone of the company in a blind order three days before the official announcement. The Oppo sub-brand also opened its first pop-up store on Saturday, where hardcore enthusiasts could purchase physically the...

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Xiaomi Mi 9 enters the UK tomorrow

Xiaomi's mainstream flagship, the Mi 9, has been selling like a hot cake in and outside of China. And no wonder - you are getting top-notch hardware at a reasonable price. Tomorrow, UK fans can get one too. The phone has been launched in other countries in Europe such as Spain and Italy, so it comes a bit late in the UK. Starting tomorrow, you can find the handset at Vodafone, Xiaomi's online Mi.com store and at the offline Mi store in London. The device will be available in two flavors - 64GB and 128GB. The first one will set you back £499 while the beefier version will cost £549....

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Samsung Galaxy A50 update adds a couple of new features

Samsung's Galaxy A50 is gaining a lot of traction lately and owners can now benefit from the latest OTA update that just arrived in India. It focuses on the camera, fingerprint reader and Bixby. The new software version is A505FDDU1ASD6 and it's 666MB big. It brings a couple of new camera features like narrow 68-degree field of view for the front-facing camera, more background effects for the Live Focus mode and beauty video mode for the front and back cameras. More importantly, the firmware update addresses the under-display fingerprint scanner issues that some users are...

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OnePlus 7 Pro's OLED aces DisplayMate tests

Rumors about the OnePlus 7 Pro's display sound promising and today's tweet from DisplayMate finally gives us some reassurance. It appears that the phone sports an excellent OLED panel, earning the highest test scores. The phone received A+, putting it side by side with flagships by Samsung and Apple. That's a big achievement for a phone that will cost considerably less than the competition, if the rumors are correct. DisplayMate's in-depth Lab Tests of the OnePlus 7 Pro OLED Display have just been completed, earning our Highest A+ Display Rating. Our in-depth Display Shoot-Out will be...

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Motorola Razr V4 appears in press renders along with all the accessories

Motorola's take on foldable phones is arguably one of the most interesting of the bunch. The vertical fold, if done properly, could spark the renaissance of clamshell phones. And today's renders give us a pretty good look at the handset itself. The images appear to be in line with what we've heard so far and the retail box looks pretty cool. It could be a special edition package, though, judging by the number of accessories that it contains. We've got what appears to be a wireless charger, earbuds, USB-A to USB-C charging cable, a power adapter and a USB-C to 3.5mm audio port...

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Redmi confirms flagship smartphone with elevating selfie camera

We've been hearing about a Redmi flagship for quite some time, and today the company confirmed such a device is arriving. We also expected the phone to have an elevating selfie shooter, and a video, posted by the Xiaomi sub-brand revealed it, ending all speculations and confirming previous spy shots. Redmi posted a short teaser on Weibo, showcasing a partnership with the latest Avengers: Endgame movie, meaning we might see a special version. However, this would clash with the already announced variant of Oppo F11 Pro, so we are eager to see what Redmi has in store for us. The...

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Realme teases pop-up selfie camera in a new promo

Realme is officially expanding to China, as the Oppo sub-brand has already set up a local website with a landing page and is already on Weibo. Today the company posted a video at the social network, showcasing a new smartphone with a pop-up selfie camera in the center. The video is less than a minute and consists a repetitive upbeat melody that can easily stick in your head and leave you humming "it's me, it's me, it's Realme" for the rest of the day. It is the official theme song and the clip has young people having fun, taking selfies, dancing and other stuff to hype you about...

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Farmers Go Organic in Search of Millennial Dollars - Bloomberg

Farmers Go Organic in Search of Millennial Dollars  Bloomberg

With crop prices stuck in a multi-year rout, more farmers are chasing price premiums by turning to organic crops. Higher-value farm products such as organic ...

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Organic farm donates harvested produce to families in need - The Daily Orange

Organic farm donates harvested produce to families in need  The Daily Orange

Rick and Jeff Rarick used to rely in part on local food pantries for their food. When they went, they realized virtually all of the fruits and vegetables on the shelves ...

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Certified-organic Millberg Farm celebrates 30 years in Kyle - Community Impact Newspaper

Certified-organic Millberg Farm celebrates 30 years in Kyle  Community Impact Newspaper

Millberg Farm, located at 737 Opal Lane in Kyle, is celebrating 30 years of certified-organic farming in April. In addition to promoting water conservation, ...

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From the Fields: Career path goes from cubicle to crops - Agri News

From the Fields: Career path goes from cubicle to crops  Agri News

ATLANTA, Ill. — Working in her corporate world cubicle was not something Katie Bishop was cut out to do.

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USDA releases data to help farmers tend to crops - WHP Harrisburg

USDA releases data to help farmers tend to crops  WHP Harrisburg

New data released by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is helping farmers and their future crops, especially at a time when farmers share ...

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GMO superior to organic? Researchers assert that strict EU policy hinders agricultural innovation - FoodIngredientsFirst

GMO superior to organic? Researchers assert that strict EU policy hinders agricultural innovation  FoodIngredientsFirst

29 Apr 2019 --- Ironclad EU policies on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is unjustified on the basis of the perceived “unnaturalness” of GMO plants and ...

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Hemp growing opportunity intriguing Indiana farmers - FOX 59 Indianapolis

Hemp growing opportunity intriguing Indiana farmers  FOX 59 Indianapolis

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- A hundred Indiana farmers are a part of a research trial to help state leaders understand how to grow hemp and the economic benefit of ...

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This village could be the hub of organic farming in Andhra - Times of India

This village could be the hub of organic farming in Andhra  Times of India

Visakhapatnam: The tiny village of Rambhadrapuram situated in the Parvathipuram division of Vizianagaram district, is known all over North-Andhra for.

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Transmission line report details significant ag impacts | Environment - Leader-Telegram

Transmission line report details significant ag impacts | Environment  Leader-Telegram

Finding all proposed routes for the Cardinal-Hickory Creek transmission line project “would impact significant acres of farmland,” the Wisconsin Department of ...

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Dine on a Farm and Shop a Celebratory Farmers Market This Week - HONOLULU Magazine

Dine on a Farm and Shop a Celebratory Farmers Market This Week  HONOLULU Magazine

The annual Parade of Farms in Wai'anae and Kokua Market's Celebration provides opportunities to meet farmers and learn the origins of your food.

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Brother David's Quest To Turn The Cannabis Industry Truly Green And Good - Weed News

Brother David's Quest To Turn The Cannabis Industry Truly Green And Good  Weed News

By Phillip Smith With the advent of legalization, the marijuana cultivation industry is being transformed — and not always for the better. What was once an…

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Royalties from digital services to UK copyright society PRS for Music rose 17% to £145.7M in 2018, the first year of its licensing deal with Facebook (Stuart Dredge/Music Ally)

Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
Royalties from digital services to UK copyright society PRS for Music rose 17% to £145.7M in 2018, the first year of its licensing deal with Facebook  —  British collecting society PRS for Music saw its collections grow by 4.4% to £746m (around $965.4m) in 2018, setting a new record.

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Amazon is looking to hire a managing editor of news for its video doorbell company Ring to "deliver breaking crime news alerts to our neighbors" (Joshua Benton/Nieman Lab)

Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Amazon is looking to hire a managing editor of news for its video doorbell company Ring to “deliver breaking crime news alerts to our neighbors”  —  When news organizations think about competition from tech companies, it's usually in terms of the audience's attention and advertisers' dollars.

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Samsung posts a profit of $5.4B in Q1, down 60% YoY, as its semiconductor and mobile businesses post a 64% drop and a 40% drop in operating profits respectively (Ju-min Park/Reuters)

Ju-min Park / Reuters:
Samsung posts a profit of $5.4B in Q1, down 60% YoY, as its semiconductor and mobile businesses post a 64% drop and a 40% drop in operating profits respectively  —  SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd posted a 60 percent drop in first-quarter operating profit on Tuesday …

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Uber has capped the number of drivers in NYC since Apr. 1, source says due to NYC's new driver wage rules; Lyft has similarly capped drivers since Apr. 19 (Dana Rubinstein/Politico)

Dana Rubinstein / Politico:
Uber has capped the number of drivers in NYC since Apr. 1, source says due to NYC's new driver wage rules; Lyft has similarly capped drivers since Apr. 19  —  Uber's and Lyft's once inexorable-seeming growth in New York City has ground to a halt.  —  Uber stopped hiring new drivers in New York City on April 1.

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Uber adds public transit directions and schedules to its app for users in London, after bringing the feature to users in Denver in January (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Uber adds public transit directions and schedules to its app for users in London, after bringing the feature to users in Denver in January  —  Uber aims to become a one-stop shop for all modes of transportation  —  Uber is adding public transportation schedules and directions to its app in London.

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Amazon announces that the Alexa Skills Kit now supports Spanish in the US and that Alexa-enabled devices in the US will gain support for Spanish later this year (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:
Amazon announces that the Alexa Skills Kit now supports Spanish in the US and that Alexa-enabled devices in the US will gain support for Spanish later this year  —  Hola, Alexa.  ¿Cómo estás?  Amazon today announced that the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) …

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Google says Q1 results reflect industry pressure on premium smartphone sales; Sundar Pichai cites "year over year headwinds" after the release of Pixel 3 line (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

Brian Heater / TechCrunch:
Google says Q1 results reflect industry pressure on premium smartphone sales; Sundar Pichai cites “year over year headwinds” after the release of Pixel 3 line  —  Alphabet's Q1 earnings were a disappointment for Wall Street, courtesy primarily of ad revenue shortcomings.

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Twitter announces live streaming content deals with Univision, WSJ, and Time and new initiatives with previous partners including Viacom, the NFL, and ESPN (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Twitter announces live streaming content deals with Univision, WSJ, and Time and new initiatives with previous partners including Viacom, the NFL, and ESPN  —  - Twitter Expands Live-Streaming Video Lineup, Sets Content Deals With Viacom, ESPN, Live Nation, Univision, and More

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On paid email newsletter platforms, small audiences are translating to dollars for writers, such as on Substack, where the 12 top earners make $160K+ on average (Alex Kantrowitz/BuzzFeed)

Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
On paid email newsletter platforms, small audiences are translating to dollars for writers, such as on Substack, where the 12 top earners make $160K+ on average  —  As writers gravitate toward paid email newsletters, small audiences translate to meaningful dollars.

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CoinSchedule: UAE accounted for 25%+ of all funds raised in digital coin offerings in 2019 through early April, as US falls from being the leader in 2018 to 7th (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
CoinSchedule: UAE accounted for 25%+ of all funds raised in digital coin offerings in 2019 through early April, as US falls from being the leader in 2018 to 7th  —  - Nation accounts for more than quarter of funds raised in 2019  — Singapore and U.K. lead in the number of digital token sales

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How Menlo Ventures landed a stake in Uber by leading a $32M Series B at the last moment, after a16z failed to accept Uber's terms, and went on to reap billions (Kate Clark/TechCrunch)

Kate Clark / TechCrunch:
How Menlo Ventures landed a stake in Uber by leading a $32M Series B at the last moment, after a16z failed to accept Uber's terms, and went on to reap billions  —  How Menlo Ventures landed a stake in Uber worth billions  —  Menlo Ventures was founded in 1976 but it took 35 years for the venture capital firm to hit the jackpot.

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Alphabet's "Other Bets", which includes Waymo, Verily, Fiber, and others, had a Q1 operating loss of $868M on revenues of just $170M, up from $150M YoY (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Alphabet's “Other Bets”, which includes Waymo, Verily, Fiber, and others, had a Q1 operating loss of $868M on revenues of just $170M, up from $150M YoY  —  After warning investors that it would be taking a $1.7 billion (€1.5 billion) charge this quarter due to a fine …

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Sources: Anki, the robotics startup that raised $200M+ from investors including a16z, is shuttering and laying off its staff of 200 with one week's severance (Theodore Schleifer/Recode)

Theodore Schleifer / Recode:
Sources: Anki, the robotics startup that raised $200M+ from investors including a16z, is shuttering and laying off its staff of 200 with one week's severance  —  It's a hard, hard fall.  —  Anki, the robotics company that has raised over $200 million in venture capital …

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Alphabet Q1: revenue of $36.3B, up 17% YoY, net income of $6.66B with EC fine, CPC down 19%, and paid clicks on Google properties up 39% YoY; stock drops 7%+ (Alphabet)

Alphabet:
Alphabet Q1: revenue of $36.3B, up 17% YoY, net income of $6.66B with EC fine, CPC down 19%, and paid clicks on Google properties up 39% YoY; stock drops 7%+  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - April 29, 2019 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2019.

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The We Company, better known as WeWork, announces it has filed confidentially for IPO; the company has said its 2018 revenue was $1.8B with a net loss of $1.9B (CNBC)

CNBC:
The We Company, better known as WeWork, announces it has filed confidentially for IPO; the company has said its 2018 revenue was $1.8B with a net loss of $1.9B  —  KEY POINTS  — The We Company, better known as WeWork, filed confidentially for an IPO.  — The company did not reveal …

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Google parent Alphabet’s stock tumbles on slow advertising growth

The firm said growth in advertising sales slowed to 15 percent from a year earlier.

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Google parent Alphabet’s stock tumbles on slow advertising growth

The firm said growth in advertising sales slowed to 15 percent from a year earlier.

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The London Marathon’s method for reducing plastic bottles: Edible seaweed pouches

At the London Marathon, participants received a new kind of refreshment: tiny pouches filled with a sports drink and made from seaweed. The squishy pods gave race organizers a chance to cut down on the flood of plastic waste that accompanies major sporting events.

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Flawless? Not quite, but ‘Mortal Kombat 11’ is great despite brutality of Krypt grind

Despite a less-than-ideal system for getting gear, the latest Mortal Kombat may be its best version ever.

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‘996’ Is China’s Version of Hustle Culture. Tech Workers Are Sick of It.

Chinese programmers once embraced working 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week. But online, discontent is brewing.

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Alphabet Falls $1 Billion Short of Revenue Forecasts, Blaming Strong Dollar

The company said it expected foreign currency to be an issue again in the current quarter, and its stock slid in after-hours trading.

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Labor Dept. Says Workers at a Gig Company Are Contractors

The department exempted an unnamed operation from pay standards applied to employees, marking a shift from the Obama administration view.

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Taskade 2.0 - Collaborative Notes + Video Chat

At the end of January I published a video overview of a neat collaborative notes and task management tool called Taskade. Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo's latest Ed Tech Digest I discovered that Taskade has...

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