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| Casey Newton / The Interface: |
Reports indicate Sergey Brin only recently learned about Dragonfly, Google's censored search project for China, which may be further along than execs claim — On Thursday afternoon, a critical meeting at Google was derailed by a handful of tweets. Employees who had been pressing top executives …
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Android Police, Beyond Search, Business Insider, Schneier on Security, Wall Street Journal, 9to5Google, Vox, Committee to Protect …, The Intercept, Ars Technica, Quartz, and Newser
Tweets: @aaschapiro, @kenroth, and @joshrogin
| Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: |
Sources: as Google considers return to China, Sundar Pichai talks about potential positive impact, while Sergey Brin, who led 2010 pullout, now sounds neutral — Mozilla, another progressive U.S. internet player, ceded moral high ground to stay in China — Google executives admitted …
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Business Insider and Beyond Search
| Bloomberg: |
Source: Amazon is working on a DVR that will record live TV, wirelessly connect to Fire TV boxes, and stream the video to smartphones — - Box would record live TV and stream that video to smartphones — Device competes with offerings from TiVo, Dish's Slingbox
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CNET, Fortune, Gizmodo, The Verge, 9to5Toys, GeekWire, Deadline, Digital Trends, AFTVnews, Cult of Mac, SlashGear, and Engadget
Tweets: @cnbcnow, @scottnations, and @chriskeall
| Sean Hollister / CNET: |
After Valve registered Steam.tv domain today, the site is now live as a game streaming website currently only showing its annual Dota 2 international tournament — Over the past couple hours, we've seen a smattering of reports that PC gaming giant Valve had registered a new domain name: Steam.tv.
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Kotaku, Engadget, VentureBeat, SlashGear, GameSpot, Neowin, PC Gamer, GamesIndustry.biz, The Verge, and Blue's News
Tweets: @steam_spy, @starfire2258, and @stshank
| Bruce Brown / Digital Trends: |
Amazon updates Alexa with skill to show last recorded event from Ring, Arlo, August, and Cloud Cam security cameras in the US and releases skill API — As of today, Amazon Alexa devices with displays can play video stream recaps from select smart home cameras, Amazon announced.
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Amazon Developer Services, Engadget, VentureBeat, CNET, AFTVnews, and AndroidHeadlines.com
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitter's actions to limit third-party apps illustrate the company's indecisiveness, which sources say stems from Jack Dorsey's cautious leadership style — What the Alex Jones controversy and its move to limit third-party apps have in common — Why does Twitter move so slowly?
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Vox and Adweek
Tweets: @harshilshah1910, @kerrymflynn, @tsuvik, @marcslove, and @stroughtonsmith
| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
JD.com announces the launch of its blockchain-as-a-service platform alongside its first live blockchain app that tracks invoices for China's Pacific Insurance — Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com has launched a blockchain-as-a-service platform alongside its first app - one that digitally …
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JD Corporate Blog, SiliconANGLE, and NewsBTC
| Adam Segal / Foreign Affairs: |
How President Xi Jinping plans to turn China into a “cyber-superpower” that will dominate the web through domestic regulations, innovation, and foreign policy — For almost five decades, the United States has guided the growth of the Internet. From its origins as a small Pentagon program …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Facebook is contesting DOJ's demand to make end-to-end encrypted Messenger voice conversations available for wiretapping in a case against MS-13 gang — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The U.S. government is trying to force Facebook Inc (FB.O) to break the encryption in its popular Messenger app …
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Quartz, MacRumors, The Register, The Verge, Engadget, Patently Apple, Neowin, AppleInsider, Boing Boing, Fortune, Gizmodo, CNET, SlashGear, Slate, The Hill, 9to5Mac, Axios, and reddit.com
| Allison Levitsky / Palo Alto Daily Post: |
Federal judge in San Francisco orders a man accused of hacking Electronic Arts to post his $750K bail in Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency — High-tech criminal charges call for high-tech bail in Silicon Valley. — A man charged with hacking the Redwood City video game company Electronic Arts …
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CoinDesk, PYMNTS.com, CNET, Crypto Briefing, Hacker Noon, The Next Web, CCN, Gizmodo, and Bitcoinist.com
| Craig Timberg / Washington Post: |
DOJ opposes Facebook's efforts to dismiss fair housing groups' lawsuit claiming discriminatory ad targeting, says Communications Decency Act doesn't apply — The Department of Justice on Friday formally opposed an effort by Facebook to dismiss a lawsuit by several housing groups … | Emily Dreyfuss / Wired: |
Psychology researchers claim bots might be responsible for uptick in low-quality data in recent surveys they conducted via Amazon's Mechanical Turk — FOR THE PAST week, psychologists all over America have been freaking out. — The cause of their agita was an observation …
Tweets: @wired and @withfries2
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