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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Civil rights groups concerned as FOIA request shows cities' law enforcement adopted Amazon's Rekognition facial recognition tech without prior public discourse — Amazon has been providing facial recognition tools to law enforcement agencies in Oregon and Orlando for only a few dollars a month …
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
In European Parliament, Zuckerberg was barraged with questions on Facebook's power and conduct, but the format let him cherry-pick the ones he wanted to answer — Mark Zuckerberg got to cherry-pick the questions he wanted to answer from EU Parliament after it spent an hour taking turns rattling off queries …
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| Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed: |
Instagram is rolling out a new feature that allows users to mute others in their feed without having to unfollow them — Instagram just announced a desperately needed feature: a mute button. … Previously, it was possible to mute someone's Stories (tap and hold their profile icon), but not their photos in your main feed.| Dani Deahl / The Verge: |
Twitter announces it is killing off its apps for Xbox, Roku, and Android TV on May 24 — Probably for the best — Today Twitter announced it is killing off several of its apps, including Twitter for Android TV, Twitter for Roku, and Twitter for Xbox. — Twitter for Xbox allowed …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
eMarketer: Starbucks' mobile payment service had 20.7M US users in 2017, over Apple Pay's 19.9M and Google Pay's 9.3M, and is expected to keep outpacing them — People really love getting their coffee more quickly. Starbucks, which has operated its own mobile payments service since 2011 …
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Sources: US and China reach broad outline of a deal to settle ZTE controversy that would lift US sales ban in exchange for major management changes and fines — Deal would lift the ban on U.S. companies selling components and software to ZTE — The U.S. and China have agreed on the broad outline …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Slack debuts action buttons, which let 3rd-party devs make Slack messages actionable with a click, with Asana, Jira, Pocket, Zendesk among launch partners — Turning messages into starting points — Slack is giving developers tools to build new integrations that turn clicks on messages into actions on their own platforms.
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| Will Oremus / Slate: |
The scandals around LocationSmart and Securus, dealers of millions of Americans' real-time cell location data, should be a bigger deal than Cambridge Analytica — Wireless carriers are sharing your real-time location with shady third parties—and a bug lets anyone use that data to track you.
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| Counterpoint Research: |
Counterpoint Research: in Q1 2018, US smartphone sales dropped 11% YoY to 38.7M, yet Apple shipped a record 16M iPhones, an increase of 16% YoY — Six out of the top ten smartphone model SKUs were from Apple with iPhone 8 & X 64 GB versions the most popular.| Financial Times: |
After EU's €2.4B fine for Google anti-trust abuses in shopping search results, Yelp files complaint with EU over similar alleged abuses with Google Local Search — Yelp has filed a complaint with the EU's antitrust watchdog against Google, arguing that the search company has abused … Thanks:@lutherlowe
| Alex Heath / Cheddar: |
Tesla has hired Snap's vice president of monetization engineering, Stuart Bowers, as vice president of engineering — Tesla has hired Snap vice president of monetization engineering, Stuart Bowers, to be the electric carmaker's vice president of engineering, people familiar with the matter told Cheddar.
| Politico: |
Sources: Trump has rebuffed efforts to improve security around his phone use, has gone as long as five months without having phone checked by security experts — The president has kept features at risk for hacking and resisted efforts by staff to inspect the phones he uses for tweeting.
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Tweets: @juddapatow, @anandwrites, @lorenzofb, @janinezacharia, and @danpfeiffer
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft shows off how its social chat bot Xiaoice, which is in use across platforms in China, can place phone calls to humans, similar to Google's Duplex — Similar to Google Duplex, but only in China — Google demonstrated a jaw-dropping new capability in Google Assistant earlier this month …
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| Reuters: |
Uber plans to launch its first taxi-hailing pilot service in Japan that will connect passengers to other taxi providers; the pilot will run through March 2019 — TOKYO (Reuters) - Uber Technologies plans to launch its first taxi-hailing pilot service in Japan that will connect passengers …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
London-based Realeyes, which uses AI and a front-facing camera to read viewers' emotions, raises $16.2M Series A led by Draper Esprit — One of the more interesting applications of AI to the world of advertising and marketing has been in how it's being used to help measure and ultimately shape campaigns.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
LG G7 ThinQ review: very bright 6.1" IPS LCD display with notch, the wide angle camera has improved, but battery life is mediocre and the software is not great — LG's new G7 ThinQ has a horrendous name, but the phone itself is pretty important. It's not a stretch to call this a restart for the company.
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Wired and Digital Trends
| Lily Katz / Bloomberg: |
Circle adds a Buy the Market feature that lets users easily buy seven different crypto coins at once, weighted by market value; CEO says none are securities — - With a few clicks, users can buy seven different coins at once — None of the tokens on firm's platform are securities, CEO says| Kashmir Hill / Gizmodo: |
Inside WhiteBoxDating, the “wordpress for dating” catering to any niche, comes pre-loaded with many fake “users”, and is home to Trump.dating, NeverTrump.dating — Earlier this year, the media got very excited about Trump.dating, a site for the pro-Donald set that promised to “make dating great again.”
Tweets: @cariatidaa, @joshconstine, @mawnikr, @malwarejake, @redlightvoices, and @tedonprivacy
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Tidelift, which provides firms with professional-grade support of open source software and pays part of proceeds to software maintainers, raises $15M Series A — Tidelift Inc. is raising $15 million as it looks to boost its unique open-source software model that sees companies pay …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
American Customer Satisfaction Index: customer satisfaction of streaming video services is 75% on average, far better than cable, satellite, telco TV rivals — U.S. cable and satellite TV sector falls to 11-year low on ACSI's index — This won't come as a huge shock … Sponsor Posts
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