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Eddy Cue and Apple Maps team members describe how they are rebuilding the product from the ground up to eventually own the entire map stack, like Google does — The company is rolling out more detailed maps built from its own data for the first time — I'm not sure if you're aware, but the launch of Apple Maps went poorly.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: Microsoft is working on a pocketable Surface device, codenamed Andromeda, with a wraparound display that bridges the gap of the hinge when fully opened — A new and disruptive dual-screen device to blur the lines between mobile and PC — Microsoft has been working on a new mysterious Surface device for at least two years.
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Comcast confirms national outages due to fiber cable cuts at internet backbone service providers CenturyLink and Zayo — If you couldn't reach your favorite web sites today at about 12:30 p.m. ET, it wasn't just you. — We first noticed it as Comcast customers took to Twitter to complain …
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| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Match says all Tinder swipe data is now the same size and images sent between Tinder's app and servers are now encrypted, addressing flaws disclosed in January — Your digital dating life is a lot less vulnerable to hackers as a result of security updates from Tinder.
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EFF files lawsuit asking court to invalidate FOSTA arguing that it amounts to unconstitutional censorship of the Internet violating First and Fifth Amendments — Sex work law prohibits speech that's protected by First Amendment, lawsuit says. — The Electronic Frontier Foundation has asked …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Hands-on with the Amazon Echo Dot Kids Edition: connection with FreeTime feels disjointed, there's a steep learning curve, regular Echo offers more flexibility — Is the Echo Dot Kids Edition right for you? — @ / 10 hours — Earlier this year, Amazon introduced an Echo Dot for kids …
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| Charlie Savage / New York Times: |
NSA says it is deleting all phone records acquired since 2015 under FISA because of a technical glitch that resulted in some unauthorized data collection — WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has purged hundreds of millions of records logging phone calls and texts that it had gathered …
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Brave ad-blocking browser releases update with Tor-powered Private Tabs in beta — Want more online privacy? Brave, the ad-blocking browser, has a new way to get it on the web. — A new version of the browser released Thursday adds technology called onion routing from the Tor Project as an option to its private tabs.
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Brave Browser, gHacks Technology News, The Register, PC Gamer, Cyberscoop, reddit.com, and Infosecurity.US. Tweets: @torproject. Thanks:@rogerwcheng
| Crystal Tse / Bloomberg: |
Source: Xiaomi raises $4.7B after pricing its IPO at $2.17/share, the low end of the range, valuing Xiaomi at about $54B, roughly half its rumored goal — Xiaomi Corp. and some existing investors raised $4.7 billion after pricing a Hong Kong initial public offering at the low end of a marketed range …
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South China Morning Post, Silicon Republic, The Register, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Quartz
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| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
Data analytics firm Domo closes up 30% on its first day of trading, raising $193M in its IPO at a $524M post-money valuation; Domo was valued at $2.1B in 2017 — The parade of successful software companies making their way to Wall Street was interrupted on Friday by the arrival of a less familiar beast …
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| Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed: |
How a Mexican digital marketing firm is using Facebook pages, Twitter bots, and Instagram likes to spread fake news in the lead-up to the country's elections — Armed with millions of bots and thousands of fake Facebook pages, Carlos Merlo's digital marketing firm is trying to hijack Mexico's politics with fake news.
Tweets: @craigsilverman, @buzzfeednews, and @lisatozzi
| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer: |
Report: 2,446 Android and 600 iOS apps using Google's Firebase service found to have misconfigured databases exposing 100M+ records of a wide range of user data — Thousands of iOS and Android mobile applications are exposing over 113 GBs of data via over 2,271 misconfigured Firebase databases …
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