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Amazon ends its Mayday video calling service for customer support for Fire tablets, nearly five years after its high-profile launch — Amazon is pulling the plug on its Mayday video calling feature for on-screen customer support on its Fire tablets, ending a service that was personally unveiled … | Mark Harris / Wired: |
Seattle's dockless bike trial shows 74% of city is in favor of bikeshare even as some complain about clogged streets and working conditions at bike providers — SEAN HEALY WAS driving for Uber in Seattle when a passenger offered him an intriguing job. It wasn't the first time a rider …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researcher details SigSpoof, a recently patched critical flaw in PGP that allowed hackers to spoof digital email signatures, says the bug dates back to 1998 — SigSpoof flaw fixed inGnuPG, Enigmail, GPGTools, and python-gnupg. — For their entire existence, some of the world's …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Interview with Sonos CEO Patrick Spence: Google Assistant is coming, Dolby Atmos in current speakers is doubtful, “Works with Sonos” program to expand, more — Sonos CEO Patrick Spence sat down with The Verge's editor-in-chief Nilay Patel for an hour-long interview on this week's Vergecast.| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
SF-based Skip, a scooter-rental startup formerly known as Waybots, is raising $25M Series A from Menlo Ventures, Accel Partners, and YC at a $100M valuation — Electric scooter startups are aggressively seeking to raise money, telling potential investors that restrictions cities have placed …
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Foxconn says it is establishing its North American headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, after announcing plans to build a $10B LCD plant in the state last year — SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn said it would establish its North American corporate headquarters in Milwaukee …
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| Katherine Maher / WIRED UK: |
As tech firms like Facebook and Google lean more on Wikipedia to fight disinformation, Wikimedia Foundation says they should do more to support the site — If big tech companies are going to use Wikipedia as a resource, they should better support its important work, says the executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation
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| Steve LeVine / Axios: |
A look at one of about a million small retail shops that Alibaba has transformed into a digitized Tmall store equipped with AI apps and heat sensors — China's take-no-prisoners Big Tech war is playing out in An Huang's little family grocery in Hangzhou, a three-hour drive southwest of Shanghai.
Tweets: @stevelevine, @axios, and @stevelevine
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
17 backdoored Docker images, posted to Docker Hub over the past year and downloaded 5M+ times, removed; some were used to mine at least $90K worth of Monero — 17 images posted by a single account over 10 months may have generated $90,000. — A single person or group may have made as much as $90,000 …
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Tweets: @oliverrochford, @darkarnium, @arstechnica, @rozzie, and @kingladar
| Shana Lebowitz / Business Insider: |
Cleo, a parenting support app for working parents offered through employers, including Slack and Reddit, announces $10.5M Series A led by Greylock Partners — - Family and parenting app Cleo announced a $10.5 million investment from Greylock Partners. — Cleo is offered through employers … | Muyao Shen / CoinDesk: |
Block.one finally launches EOS blockchain, but many in the crypto community remain skeptical about project's centralization and its prospects — After a messy weeks-long process, CoinDesk broke the news yesterday that the EOS blockchain is officially live. — To some, it's already an event for the cryptocurrency history books.
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| Anna Hensel / VentureBeat: |
Ohio-based Mezu, which enables P2P payments without sharing any personal info by employing one-time use codes, raises $10M Series A — For many peer-to-peer payment apps, the way to send money to other users is simple — enter the recipient's name or phone number and the amount of money and hit send.Sponsor Posts
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