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- Snap announces Snappables, AR single and multiplayer mini games that sit alongside Lenses, launching globally this week with new games released weekly (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)
- Sources: US DOJ is investigating whether Huawei violated US sanctions related to Iran, amid broader concerns about the company from the US government (Wall Street Journal)
- Xiaomi says it will limit profit margin from its hardware business, including smartphones, to no more than 5% "forever", ahead of widely expected IPO (Bloomberg)
- Snap confirms it's testing a redesign that puts user-generated Stories back alongside content from celebrities and others in Discover page (Kurt Wagner/Recode)
- Sources: Microsoft is working on a new edition of Windows 10, codenamed Lean, that is 2GB smaller than the normal edition, aimed at devices with 16GB storage (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
- MobileCoin, from Signal's Marlinspike, raises $30M in BTC and ether in round led by Binance Labs, to make a cryptocurrency for resource-constrained environments (Taylor Hatmaker/TechCrunch)
- Bharti Infratel and Indus Towers merge to form ~$14.5B company that controls 163,000 towers used by Airtel and Vodafone, two of India's largest mobile operators (Simon Mundy/Financial Times)
- Researchers discover flaw in Vingcard's Vision locks, used in 140K hotels in 160 counties, that lets them create master key using $300 reader and old key card (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
- China's Sinovation Ventures, co-founded by Google, Microsoft veteran Lee Kai-Fu, raises $500M to invest in Chinese AI startups as prices become more "rational" (Bloomberg)
- Twitter says changes to its API and policy enforcement resulted in suspension of 142K apps responsible for 130M "low-quality" tweets, for violating its ToS (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- Federal appeals court upholds a 15-month prison sentence for e-waste recycler Eric Lundgren for making Windows restore disks (Tom Jackman/Washington Post)
- Atlanta spent ~$2.6M on recovery efforts after the ransomware attack against city's systems, though it isn't clear if the city tried to pay the ~$50,000 ransom (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
- Google debuts Tasks, a dedicated to-do app for iOS and Android that lets users add tasks from Google Calendar and Gmail (Abner Li/9to5Google)
- Twitter beats Q1 estimates with revenue of $665M, up 21% YoY, vs. $605.9M est., and says DAUs up 10% YoY; MAUs up 3% YoY to 336M vs. 334.2M est.; stock up 4%+ (Selina Wang/Bloomberg)
- Amazon launches a $79 Echo Dot Kids Edition with kid-friendly Alexa and one year of FreeTime Unlimited, a bundle of curated content with a Parent Dashboard (Mat Honan/BuzzFeed)
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