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Digital privacy activist Max Schrems files official GDPR complaints against Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram over forced consent — Europe's sweeping new data privacy regime came into effect this morning, and privacy activists are not wasting time in flexing their muscles.| BBC: |
Some US news sites like the LA Times and the Chicago Tribune restrict access from EU as GDPR goes into effect — Some high-profile US news websites are temporarily unavailable in Europe after new EU data protection rules came into effect. — The Chicago Tribune and LA Times were among … | Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
As Europe enacts GDPR, EU officials are encouraging countries like Brazil, Japan, and South Korea to adopt similar laws by tying data protection to trade deals — LONDON — The notices are flooding people's inboxes en masse, from large technology companies, including Facebook and Uber … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Essential, a startup co-founded by Android creator Andy Rubin, is considering selling itself and has canceled development of a new smartphone — - Company cancels development of second version of smartphone — Startup has spent over $100 million on product development| Canalys: |
Research: global smart speaker shipments grew to 9M units in Q1 2018, up 210% YoY; Google sold 3.2M Home and Mini devices, overtaking 2.5M Amazon Echos shipped — Palo Alto, Shanghai, Singapore and Reading (UK) - Wednesday, May 23 2018 Smart speakers continue to be the world's fastest-growing … | Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News: |
Sign up now for Techmeme's new newsletter, which goes out daily at 5pm Pacific — Today we're launching Techmeme's first newsletter. Sign up here! It goes out Sunday through Friday around 5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern and, like Techmeme.com, summarizes the day's top tech news and commentary … | Gary Horcher / KIRO: |
After allegations Alexa recorded a private conversation and sent it to a person in contact list, Amazon says the case was extremely rare, is taking steps to fix — A Portland family contacted Amazon to investigate after they say a private conversation in their home was recorded by Amazon's Alexa … | Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
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Apple wins $538.6M from Samsung in iPhone patent retrial: $533.3M for infringement of Apple's design patents and $5.3M for infringement of its utility patents — Nearly six years after a federal jury awarded Apple over $1 billion in damages against Samsung for infringing on iPhone design patents … | Tina Bellon / Reuters: |
Tesla agrees to settle class action lawsuit, says people who bought Teslas with $5,000 Autopilot upgrades in 2016 and 2017 will get $20 to $280 in compensation — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tesla on Thursday reached an agreement to settle a class action lawsuit with buyers of its Model S … | Marie Mawad / Bloomberg: |
Facebook's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun says company is designing its own energy-efficient chips to help with analyzing and filtering live video content — - Company is working on more energy-efficient semiconductors — AI scientist LeCun says more software cos working on hardware| Micah Singleton / The Verge: |
YouTube Music review: Easy to use with an excellent home screen and recommendation engine but confusing price structure and missing power user features — After years of false starts, YouTube is now serious about music streaming — YouTube Music, the video service's first full-fledged … | Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
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Sources: Pinterest revenues were up 58% in 2017 to $473M; company now has almost 250M monthly active users — - Online image service has almost 250 million monthly users — Predictable revenue growth is an important step before IPO — Pinterest Inc. sales jumped 58 percent … | Sean Hollister / CNET: |
Valve says Apple revoked its approval of the Steam Link app for iOS due to “business conflicts with app guidelines” and denied Valve's appeal — So much for easily playing PC games on your iPhone. — If you were hoping to stream PC games from your powerful gaming rig to your iPhone or iPad … | Richard Lai / Engadget: |
HTC's Vive Focus VR system update adds ability to receive calls, notifications, and messages from the U12+ and other HTC phones via a Vive companion app — Even though the Vive Focus won't be available outside of China until later this year, it's already getting a major update which will make it a lot more versatile.| Facebook: |
Facebook will check images and text, who is being targeted, and any linked websites in issue ads as it begins to apply new policies — Political advertising serves an important purpose. It helps candidates share their views with the public more broadly, and it can help encourage people to get involved in the political process.| Rob Leathern / Facebook: |
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
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Zoho Notebook: The free iPad note-taking app every student needs — If you're a student with an iPad, you already have one of the best note-taking devices in your hands. The question is, does your app actually do it justice?
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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