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May 22, 2018, 2:50 PM

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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 …
Wall Street Journal:
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.”
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft and Google disclose Speculative Store Bypass CPU flaw that exploits speculative execution and is similar to Spectre and Meltdown  —  New firmware updates are on the way  —  Microsoft and Google are jointly disclosing a new CPU security vulnerability that's similar to the Meltdown …
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
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Instagram is testing a mid-feed alert that tells users they are caught up on all new posts from the past 48 hours  —  Without a chronological feed, it can be tough to tell if you've seen all the posts Instagram will show you.  That can lead to more of the compulsive, passive …

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