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Congress releases Zuckerberg's prepared testimony: “it's clear now that we didn't do enough” to protect data privacy, prevent fake news, election interference — Congress has released Mark Zuckerberg's prepared testimony ahead of Wednesday's hearing. — Here's the full testimony:
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Facebook launches new initiative to support independent academic research about the impact of social media on democracy and elections — By Elliot Schrage, Vice President of Communications and Public Policy, and David Ginsberg, Director of Research — Today, Facebook is announcing …
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| Reuters: |
Zuckerberg met with US senators Nelson, Thune, Grassley, and Feinstein ahead of Tuesday's scheduled appearance before Senate Commerce and Judiciary committees — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg swapped his trademark T-shirt and jeans for a dark suit …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Apple says its facilities are “powered 100 percent by renewable energy” worldwide; to reach goal, Apple purchases clean energy bonds and other green investments — But there's a catch — Apple announced today that its business is now powered by 100 percent renewable energy sources.
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| Donie O'Sullivan / CNNMoney: |
Investigation: owner of Facebook's biggest Black Lives Matter page, now suspended, appears to be based in Australia and may have taken some of ~$100K donations — For at least a year, the biggest page on Facebook purporting to be part of the Black Lives Matter movement was a scam with ties … | Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Uber acquires bike-sharing startup JUMP, source says for ~$200M; JUMP will continue running independently — Uber has acquired bike-sharing startup JUMP for an undisclosed amount of money. This comes shortly after TechCrunch reported that JUMP was in talks with Uber as well as with investors regarding …
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Pew: the 500 most-active suspected bot Twitter accounts are responsible for 22% of links from prominent news and media sites that are shared on Twitter — An estimated two-thirds of tweeted links to popular websites are posted by automated accounts - not human beings
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
The Galaxy S9's DeX Pad to ship May 13 for $99.99; preorders are up today and those who buy a Galaxy S9 and S9+ on Samsung.com get one for free — Preorders are up today, and new Galaxy S9 buyers can score one for free. — Hot off the launch of the Galaxy S9 last month …
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Seven top officials of Backpage.com, including its founders, arrested after 93-count indictment alleging conspiracy, facilitating prostitution, money laundering — Seven top officials of the website Backpage.com, long accused of facilitating child sex trafficking, have been arrested … | Ben Lang / Road to VR: |
Leap Motion to release Project North Star, a low-cost open source AR headset dev kit with wide field of view, 1600x1400 display at 120 FPS, robust hand tracking — Over the last few weeks, Leap Motion has been teasing some very compelling AR interface prototypes, demonstrated on an unknown headset.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google launches improved Cloud Speech-to-Text API for developers with a new punctuation model and claiming ~54% reduction in word transcription errors — Only a few weeks after launching a major overhaul of its Cloud Text-to-Speech API, Google today also announced an update to that service's Speech-to-Text voice recognition service.
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
HQ Trivia pilots its first social feature, “Friends on HQ”, in the UK, to help users track friends' performance and show whether they're in the current game — The popular quiz startup HQ Trivia is beginning to roll out the first of many new social features to its app focused …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
HP debuts Chromebook x2, a detachable Chrome OS tablet with keyboard and stylus, 12.3" IPS display, 4GB RAM, 32GB storage, 13MP camera, available June from $599 — Two weeks ago, Acer announced the first tablet running Chrome OS. And today, HP is announcing the second — and it's a lot higher end.
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| Verifone Systems, Inc.: |
Payments company Verifone says an investor group led by Francisco Partners will acquire the company in a deal valued at about $3.4B — Verifone Stockholders to Receive $23.04 Per Share in Cash — Transaction Provides Significant Cash Premium to Verifone Stockholders
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| Melanie Ehrenkranz / Gizmodo: |
Oregon governor signs bill mandating state bodies only contract with ISPs that operate under net neutrality; ISPs likely to sue to strike down new law — In February, three middle school students helped push a statewide net neutrality bill. Today, Gov. Kate Brown is headed to the girls' middle school …
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| Bloomberg: |
Winklevosses' Gemini to introduce cryptocurrency block trading on April 12, which will allow for big sales off the exchange to avoid upsetting markets — Off-exchange deals allow big moves without upsetting markets — Service to vie for business from hedge funds, institutions
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Twenty child advocacy and privacy groups ask FTC to investigate whether YouTube violates COPPA, a federal law designed to protect kids' online privacy — Consumer and privacy groups say the Google-owned video site is violating online child privacy laws. — YouTube is in hot water again …
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| Kai Stinchcombe: |
Blockchain's key promise of no-need-for-trusted-parties tech is largely irrelevant; systems built on trust, norms, and institutions inherently function better — Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future. Its failure to achieve adoption to date …
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