Hubble Network, which is building a satellite network for Bluetooth devices, says it has made a Bluetooth connection directly to a satellite for the first time (Aria Alamalhodaei/TechCrunch)

Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch:
Hubble Network, which is building a satellite network for Bluetooth devices, says it has made a Bluetooth connection directly to a satellite for the first time  —  Hubble Network has become the first company in history to establish a Bluetooth connection directly to a satellite …

Apple Watch’s AFib history feature gets FDA approval for use in clinical studies, the first digital health tech qualified under FDA’s MDDT program (Sudz Niel Kar/MyHealthyApple)

Sudz Niel Kar / MyHealthyApple:
Apple Watch’s AFib history feature gets FDA approval for use in clinical studies, the first digital health tech qualified under FDA’s MDDT program  —  The FDA today announced that it has qualified the Apple Watch AFib ( Atrial Fibrillation) history feature as an MDDT (Medical Device Development Tools).

Block plans to invest 10% of its gross profit from bitcoin products each month into bitcoin purchases; its $220M BTC investment grew by ~160% to $573M as of Q1 (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)

Paige Smith / Bloomberg:
Block plans to invest 10% of its gross profit from bitcoin products each month into bitcoin purchases; its $220M BTC investment grew by ~160% to $573M as of Q1  —  – Jack Dorsey’s digital payments firm lifts 2024 profit outlook  — Bitcoin is best candidate for open money protocol: Dorsey

WhatsApp told Delhi High Court last week that it will be forced to leave India if required to maintain “traceability” for messages as part of 2021’s IT rules (Russell Brandom/Rest of World)

Russell Brandom / Rest of World:
WhatsApp told Delhi High Court last week that it will be forced to leave India if required to maintain “traceability” for messages as part of 2021’s IT rules  —  Tracing the origins of messages is more complicated than it sounds.  —  Russell Brandom is the U.S. Tech Editor at Rest of World.

Apple Q2 revenue: iPhone down 10% YoY to $45.96B, Mac up 4% to $7.45B, iPad down 17% to $5.56B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 10% to $7.91B (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple Q2 revenue: iPhone down 10% YoY to $45.96B, Mac up 4% to $7.45B, iPad down 17% to $5.56B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 10% to $7.91B  —  Apple CEO Tim Cook waves to journalists after his meeting with Indonesian President Joko Widodo at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 17, 2024.