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| Peter Lee / The Official Microsoft Blog: |
Microsoft apologizes for Tay's hurtful tweets, says coordinated attack exploited vulnerability in Tay — Learning from Tay's introduction — As many of you know by now, on Wednesday we launched a chatbot called Tay. We are deeply sorry for the unintended offensive and hurtful tweets from Tay …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Google and Yahoo say they're still working on usable end-to-end encrypted email but decline to predict release dates — The Dream Of Usable Email Encryption Is Still A Work In Progress — Tech-savvy people have had a way to send secure email since the mid 1990s, when legendary cryptographer … | Les Shu / Digital Trends: |
Google's Nik Collection photo editing plugins for Photoshop and Aperture are now free — Google's advanced desktop photo editing software are now free downloads — Google is known for its useful software services, the majority of which are free. When the company acquired Nik's advanced … | Samantha Murphy Kelly / Mashable: |
How Liam, Apple's 29-armed robot, disassembles ruined and returned iPhones for salvageable components and recycling — Inside Liam, Apple's super-secret, 29-armed robot that tears down your iPhone — CUPERTINO, Calif — I'm standing in a warehouse parking lot at an undisclosed location …
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| Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeed: |
iPhone SE review: a blazing fast phone for small-handed or cash-strapped buyers — This Is What Using The New Small iPhone Is Actually Like — Wait, iPhone 5s? Is dat you? — Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed — Apple's newest device is, at its essence, an iPhone 5s updated with the 6s's most important features.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft Surface Hub conferencing system starts shipping — Microsoft's Surface Hub conferencing system, available in two large-screen models, finally are starting to ship to customers worldwide. — After a few delays, Microsoft's Surface Hub conferencing system has started shipping to customers …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft starts rolling out Office 365 Connectors, which pull content from other apps and services into Office 365 Groups shared inboxes — Microsoft starts rolling out Office 365 Connectors as part of Groups — Microsoft is starting to roll out Office 365 Connectors …
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| Jason Koebler / Motherboard: |
In Angola, Wikipedia Zero and Facebook Free Basics are being used to create a clandestine file sharing network — Angola's Wikipedia Pirates Are Exposing the Problems With Digital Colonialism — Wikimedia and Facebook have given Angolans free access to their websites, but not to the rest of the internet.| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
With Privacy, you can create virtual debit cards to protect your online payments — Meet Privacy, a new startup with a confusing name but an interesting product. Privacy lets you generate a virtual burner card every time you need to enter your credit card number on the web.
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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
France fines Google $112K, says the compromise company offered for right to be forgotten is not enough, links have to be removed globally — France Fines Google Over Right to be Forgotten — The French regulator says Google violated an order to apply the rule to “all domain names”| Wall Street Journal: |
Netflix says it has throttled its videos on AT&T's and Verizon's wireless networks for more than five years to protect users from exceeding data caps — Netflix Throttles Its Videos on AT&T, Verizon Networks — Streaming service says it limits video quality to protect users from exceeding data caps
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| Scott Martin / Wall Street Journal: |
Peter Thiel's Founders Fund raises $1.3B for its sixth fund, bringing capital under management to $3B+ — Peter Thiel's Founders Fund Bags $1.3 Billion … Founders Fund, the venture-capital firm known for prescient bets on some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, has closed on a $1.3 billion fund.
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