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Slack raises $250M, largely from Softbank's Vision Fund, valuing the firm at $5.1B, up from $3.8B at the time of its April 2016 round — Workplace messaging app Slack has been valued at $5.1bn in its latest fundraising, which drew $250m from investors as the weight of cash in private markets continues …
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Interview about Face ID with Apple's SVP of software engineering Craig Federighi, who says no data from Face ID is sent to the cloud — Face ID is easily the most hot-button topic to come out of Apple's iPhone event this week, notch be damned. As people have parsed just how serious Apple is about it … | Troy Hunt: |
Face ID has upsides and downsides on both security and usability and isn't less secure than a PIN or Touch ID in practice — I was wondering recently after poring through yet another data breach how many people actually use multi-step verification. I mean here we have a construct …
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Instagram now autoplays video sound once turned on until you close the app — Autoplay audio can be annoying or convenient depending on the situation. Luckily Instagram has found a happy medium between defaulting autoplay video sound on or off. — This weekend TechCrunch spotted …
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Facebook says Messenger now has 1.3B monthly active users, up from 1.2B in April, while Messenger Day has 70M daily active users — FB) users hate change — that's just a fact. — Back in 2014, many users became incensed when Facebook Messenger was spun out into a separate app people …
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Source: Facebook handed over data on Russian ad buys to special counsel Mueller under search warrant, including ad copies, targeting info, and account details — What $100,000 can buy you on Facebook — Special counsel Robert Mueller and his team are now in possession of Russian-linked ads run … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google debuts Tez, a mobile wallet and payments app for India launching today on iOS and Android, its first big foray into mobile payments in Asia — After several weeks of speculation and leaked details, today Google officially unveiled its first big foray into mobile payments in Asia.
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How computers and cellphones are impacting modern Amish communities: helping business owners and craftspeople increase efficiency, anxiety about social effects — A young woman, wearing a traditional full-length Amish dress and white bonnet, stepped away from a farmer's market, opened her palm and revealed a smartphone.
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Bing starts showing fact checking labels in search results — Following Google's lead earlier this year, Bing has added fact checking tags to search results. — A fact check label might now appear below results from Snopes, PolitFact, and other fact checking organizations …
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Apple says Safari's upcoming “Intelligent Tracking Prevention”, criticized by ad groups, will only block re-targeting, allow cookies from visited sites, more — Apple introduced a new technology to intelligently block browser cookies in Safari, which brought criticism from a number of advertising organizations.
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9to5Mac, AppleInsider, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, Ubergizmo, and iClarified. Tweets: @counternotions
| Aaron Pressman / Fortune: |
Prepaid Wireless Customers Can't Add Apple Watch Series 3 to Their Plans — Millions of people who pre-pay their wireless bill every month won't be able to add the new Apple Watch to their service. — All four major wireless carriers—Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Fast-charging battery startup StoreDot raises $60M led by Daimler's trucking unit with Samsung Ventures among investors, plans phone battery cases for next year — As we continue to see a proliferation of wireless connected devices make their way into the mainstream consumer electronics market … | Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Google allowed advertisers to target racist and bigoted keywords, suggested more similar keywords, and allowed campaigns using those keywords to run — Google, the world's biggest advertising platform, allows advertisers to specifically target ads to people typing racist and bigoted terms …
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