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Big tech industry groups claim EU's new ePrivacy Regulation will limit growth online; the law has been delayed after being slated to go into effect this month — The new European data privacy legislation is so stringent that it could kill off data-driven online services and chill innovations … | Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
The EU has emerged as a powerful regulator of Silicon Valley, stepping in where Washington has failed or been unwilling to limit influential US tech companies — Europe implemented a sweeping overhaul of digital privacy laws on Friday that has reshaped how technology companies handle customer data …
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Source: US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigating potential age discrimination in Intel's 2016 cuts that led to 10,000+ being laid off globally — Federal watchdog investigates allegations by former Intel employees that they were let go because of their age| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com: |
Creators of cryptocurrency trading app Taylor, which recently completed an ICO, claim a hacker stole around $1.35M of Ether from company funds — The creators of the Taylor cryptocurrency trading app claim that an unidentified hacker has stolen around $1.35 million worth of Ether from the company's wallets.
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Snapchat launches its first Lens that reacts to sound and says it will roll out more in the coming weeks — Snapchat has quite a few intriguing Lenses you can play with, including its body-tracking ones that can follow you around and its majestic sky whale Lens that uses sky segmentation technology.
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Google brings ARCore to China, where Play Store isn't available, through a partnership with the Xiaomi App Store on the Mi Mix 2S smartphone — After launching this February, Google's platform for mobile augmented reality hit version 1.2 and received a number of new features at I/O 2018.
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DHS moving forward on plans to rescind International Entrepreneur Rule, which would have let immigrant founders of startups stay in the US for up to five years — After nearly a year of protest and litigation, the Department of Homeland Security finally announced late last week …
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| Samuel Axon / Ars Technica: |
Dell XPS 15 2-in-1 review: Intel's Kaby Lake-G, with integrated AMD graphics, makes for a slim, light, and powerful laptop, but fan noise is frequent and loud — A chipset that combines Intel's CPU with AMD's GPU makes the XPS 15 thinner. — This new Dell XPS 15 2-in-1 is the first convertible …
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Tencent pulls ~$4.7M investment in WeChat-based media company Chaping after criticism in state media over the startup's handling of copyright issues — HONG KONG (Reuters) - Tencent Holdings, which owns China's top social media app WeChat, has scrapped an investment of up to 30 million yuan … | Patrick Brzeski / Hollywood Reporter: |
iQiyi debuts its first on-demand physical movie theater in China, with mini-theaters seating two to 10, that users can rent by the hour to watch iQiyi's content — The company plans to build physical cinemas in major cities across China. — Beijing-based streaming-video giant iQiyi … | Richard Gao / Android Police: |
Pandora matches Spotify and Apple Music with new $14.99/month Premium Family Plan for up to six members — Pandora isn't nearly as popular as it once was, but it still has a fairly sizable userbase. The company has just quietly introduced a new family plan, aptly dubbed 'Premium Family … | Julia Reda: |
EU governments agree on copyright reform, that needs EU parliament approval, to let news sites charge aggregators for snippets, force upload filters on websites — Update from May 25th 2018, 13:37: Member State governments have today adopted their position on the copyright reform … | BBC: |
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