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Senate votes 50-48 to repeal Obama-era regulations requiring that ISPs ask before sharing customer data — Passed by the Federal Communications Commission under president Obama, the privacy rules require internet providers like Comcast and AT&T to first get your permission before they can sell …
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Apple acquires Workflow, an automation tool for iOS, will keep three-person team and make app freely available in the App Store — Apple has finalized a deal to acquire Workflow today — a tool that lets you hook together apps and functions within apps in strings of commands to automate tasks.
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Instagram says it will start blurring “Sensitive Content” that doesn't merit removal and opens two-factor authentication to all — Instagram is already doing a lot to spot and censor posts that violate its community guidelines, like outright porn, but now it's also taking steps … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Messenger rolls out @mentions within chats and News Feed-style reactions to messages — Group chat will get a bit less chaotic with the global rollout of two Facebook Messenger features it was previously testing in Vietnam. — Users can now @mention friends in a group chat to send … | TechCrunch: |
Sources: Amazon has finalized a deal to acquire Middle Eastern rival Souq.com for $650M, below its $1B valuation from February 2016 — Amazon continues its march across the globe, and one of its newest targets is the Middle East. According to multiple reports that we have confirmed with our own sources … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
WikiLeaks releases mostly decade-old documents detailing CIA techniques for compromising Macs and iOS devices using EFI, UEFI, and firmware malware — Earlier this month, when WikiLeaks dumped a cache of hundreds of secret documents allegedly detailing the CIA's hacking operations …
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Microsoft announces patent licensing program for connected cars, with navigation, entertainment, and voice recognition features, signs first deal with Toyota — Microsoft is making a fresh attempt to convince companies to use its technology for connected cars.| Kate Conger / TechCrunch: |
Android 2016 security report: 50% of devices in use at the end of 2016 had not received a platform security update in one year — Google has spent the past year working with third-party manufacturers and phone carriers to improve its update system for Android, which is often criticized …
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Filing: SoundCloud raises $70M in debt funding to build a “financially sustainable platform”, following a $100M raise in June 2016 — Music streaming service SoundCloud has raised $70 million (£56 million) in debt funding, according to documents filed with Companies House in the UK.| Ross Rubin / ZDNet: |
Adobe demos three retail-enablement apps for Hololens which use augmented reality to visualise analytics for marketers — An emerging technology group at Adobe has shown off a trio of retail enablement apps that use augmented reality to visualize analytics.
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Mashape, creator of top open source API management tool Kong, raises $18M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz — Mashape, a rising star in the quickly growing API management space, has raised its second funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, which is among Silicon Valley's top VCs who invest in enterprise technology.
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Android O developer preview hands-on: snoozing notifications is great, but new ambient display design and navigation bar features are poorly implemented — A tour of Android's latest: snoozing notifications, settings revamp, lots of customization. — Android O is actually here!
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