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- $4. This revolves around six core principles: private interactions, encryption, reduced permanence, interoperability, and secure data storage.
- $4. Vodafone disputed Bloomberg's characterisation of events and said the vulnerabilities had been resolved.
- $4. The tech giant's fiscal second-quarter revenue - including that from its all-important iPhone line - fell from the same period a year earlier, as did its earnings but the results topped analysts' muted expectations.
- $4. Apple reported revenues of $5.1 billion for its Wearables, Home, and Accessories business in the first three months of 2019 , which is up from $3.9 billion in the same period of 2018.
- $4. It represents a doubling in cost.
- $4. On Tuesday, the California-based tech giant announced a sweeping redesign of the social network - ditching its iconic blue menu bar and replacing it with a cleaner white design, and placing greater-than-ever emphasis on groups.
- $4. It will allow users to discover if they and their friends have mutual crushes on each other.
- UiPath has raised $568 million in a Series D round of funding led by Coatue, with participation from Dragoneer, Wellington, Sands Capital, and T. Rowe price, the company announced Tuesday>$4. The round values UiPath at $7 billion, confirming $4 and likely making it the most valuable artificial intelligence startup in the world.
- $4. The ride-hailing giant is expected to net a valuation of up to $90 billion when it prices next week on May 9, the company said in updated regulatory filings.
- $4. Nick Bostrom, an Oxford philosophy professor, told Business Insider: "AI is a bigger threat to human existence than climate change. Climate change is not going to be the biggest change we see this century."
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