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Wikipedia sets all of its Italian, Spanish, and Polish pages to redirect to a statement protesting July 5 EU Parliament initial vote on changes to copyright law — Wikipedia's Italian and Spanish language versions have temporarily shut off access to their respective versions …
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Tweets: @eu_commission, @maxniederhofer, @senficon, @jimmy_wales, @martinsfp, @s8mb, @cameliaboban, @raju, and @martinsfp
| Matthew Townsend / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon plans to send a physical holiday toy catalog to millions of US households this year as it incorporates traditional retailers' strategies — - Move is part of push to gain market share of defunct toy chain — Printed toy guide to be mailed and handed out at Whole Foods| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
California Supreme Court rules that Yelp can't be forced to remove negative reviews from users, overturning a lower court's decision against the company — Businesses can't sue Yelp to get defamatory reviews removed, California's Supreme Court has ruled. The decision overturns …
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New York Times, Yelp, CSO, Silicon Valley Business …, Engadget, The Next Web, The Mac Observer, Hit & Run, The Hill, and Technology & …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer: |
German privacy-focused organizations Zwiebelfreunde, a nonprofit that runs Tor relay servers, and Chaos Computer Club say police raided their offices and homes — Two privacy-focused organizations have accused today German police of carrying out raids at their offices and members' private homes …
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torservers.net blog, Chaos Computer Club Updates, and ZDNet
Tweets: @zackwhittaker and @ramyraoof
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Baidu announces it's partnering with Mobileye on its Project Apollo autonomous driving project, which now has over 115 partners — Chinese tech behemoth Baidu is ramping up production of its self-driving car platform. Today at the 2018 Baidu Create developer conference in Beijing …
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| Adrian Chen / New Yorker: |
Profile of Paul Denino, an “IRL” streamer who goes by Ice Poseidon and streams most of his life on YouTube, often with serious consequences — When your job is to constantly share your life, even your worst moments are an opportunity to please your audience.
Tweets: @drbrake, @nuclearteeth, @shelbygrad, @adrianchen, @aaronpcalvin, and @realiceposeidon
| Nikhil Pahwa / MediaNama: |
A look at changes WhatsApp can make to curb misinformation after violence in India, including making messages private by default and forwarding only by consent — With over 200 million users in India, WhatsApp has a massive Fake News and misinformation problem.
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Tweets: @theromit, @shivaroor, and @saliltripathi
| Sankalp Phartiyal / Reuters: |
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| Randy Nelson / Sensor Tower Blog: |
Sensor Tower: Super Mario Run made $60M+ in worldwide revenue since launching in 2016, with ~77% of revenue coming from the App Store and ~43% from US players — Nintendo has collected enough gold coins to earn several hundred thousand extra lives in its first mobile Mario outing.
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TouchArcade, iPhone Hacks, and GamesIndustry.biz
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Sources: Uber and Careem are in preliminary talks to combine their Middle Eastern ride hailing services — - Uber seeks majority stake in Middle Eastern rival, sources say — Careem is raising money at a reported $1.5 billion valuation — Uber Technologies Inc. and Careem Networks FZ …
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TechCrunch, Fortune, Telegraph, SiliconANGLE, Gizmodo, and Reuters
Tweets: @faseehmangi and @viviannereim
| New York Times: |
Amid the boom in AI, Silicon Valley's tech giants have taken their talent hunt for engineers and researchers to Cambridge, UK — A boom in artificial intelligence research has drawn the tech industry's biggest companies and their checkbooks to the storied English city.
Tweets: @nytimes, @matthausk, @cademetz, @professorshaw, and @satariano
| Zaid Shoorbajee / Cyberscoop: |
Maryland-based cyber security company Tenable, which has raised $300M, files for an IPO and says it had $187.7M revenue in 2017, up 53% YoY — Tenable announced on Friday that it has officially submitted plans to become a publicly traded company. — The Columbia, Maryland …
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americaninno.com, Washington …, MarketWatch, and SiliconANGLE
| Natalia Drozdiak / Bloomberg: |
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