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Analysis of 7K+ cases: strong bias against black defendants found in crime prediction software that's increasingly relied upon to guide sentencing in US courts — There's software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it's biased against blacks.
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Spotify family plan is now cheaper, $14.99 for up to 6 people — Spotify is catching up with the competition when it comes to family plans. Like Apple Music and Google Play Music, families can now subscribe to Spotify Premium for $14.99 per month and get six different Spotify accounts and profiles.
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Facebook buys VR audio company Two Big Ears and debuts “Facebook 360 Spatial Workstation”, a free software suite for designing spatial audio — Today Facebook announced it's acquired Two Big Ears, a spatial audio technology company, for an undisclosed sum.| Emanuel Maiberg / Motherboard: |
Libre VR, creator of Revive tool used to play Oculus games on Vive headsets, circumvents Oculus' new DRM in under 24 hours, making it easier to pirate games — It's been a little bit over a day since Oculus started rolling out new DRM for its software, but it's already backfired, making pirating the company's games easier than ever.
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| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Amazon stops honoring partial refunds on items that drop in price after purchase, except TVs, amid entry of startups like Earny that track item prices — Except for TVs. — The company that prides itself on customer centricity may have just alienated some customers.
| Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide: |
Filing shows in 2015 Spotify had $2.18B in revenue, losses of $194M, and 98% year-over-year ad revenue increase to $219M — Spotify brought in a whopping $2.18bn (€1.95bn) in revenues in 2015, growing its income by 80% in the year. — Net losses stood at a painful $194m (€173.1m) … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google plans to bring password-free logins to Android apps by year-end via Project Abacus — Google's plan to eliminate passwords in favor of systems that take into account a combination of signals - like your typing patterns, your walking patterns, your current location, and more …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Live video will include a graph indicating engagement volume, so you can skip ahead to the good parts — Facebook's newest feature could fundamentally change how you watch video. Until now, you either sat through a video until it got too boring, waited for the interesting part … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: China's Tencent seeks majority stake in Clash of Clans maker Supercell, in early stage talks with SoftBank — Chinese Internet firm's discussions with Japan's SoftBank are still at early stage — HONG KONG—Internet company Tencent Holdings Ltd. of China is in talks …
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Kleiner Perkins raising close to $1.3 billion for two funds: Sources — Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the venture capital firm that last year defended itself against an explosive sexual discrimination lawsuit, is raising two funds totaling close to $1.3 billion, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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| Scott Cendrowski / Fortune: |
Xiaomi revenue for 2015 reached 78B yuan, only a 5% rise from 2014's 74.3B yuan — Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone maker and second highest-valued startup in the world at $45 billion, barely grew sales at all last year. — Revenue for 2015 reached 78 billion yuan ($12.5 billion) … | Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Oracle's closing argument implores jury to think in basic terms: “You don't take people's property” — “It takes strength and courage to stand up to Google. That's what Oracle has done." — SAN FRANCISCO—Oracle's copyright lawsuit is all about one “very simple rule,” the company's attorney told a jury today.
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