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| New York Times: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is better prepared to fight election interference, catalogs the steps the company has taken to prevent a repeat of 2016 — SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg began the year by promising to make Facebook safer from election interference around the world.
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| Antonia Woodford / Facebook: |
Facebook expands fact-checking efforts to photos and videos, targeting those that are manipulated, out of context, or presented with false audio or text — We know that people want to see accurate information on Facebook, so for the last two years, we've made fighting misinformation a priority.
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
The iPhone XR is neatly segmented primarily by virtue of being close enough to the best to be a force in the market for years to come — Apple released a new flagship iPhone yesterday, the iPhone XS. This isn't exactly ground-breaking news: it is exactly what the company has done for eleven years now …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources describe Larry Page as more withdrawn than ever, with his immersion in tech solutions of tomorrow distracting him from the problems Google faces today — Larry Page was a no-show. The co-founder and de facto leader of Google is famous for his wild bets on airborne taxis and space elevators …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announces $2B Bezos Day One Fund, which will create a network of nonprofit preschools and fund charities that help homeless families — A year after asking for suggestions on philanthropy, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is unveiling his first projects.
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| Ainsley Harris / Fast Company: |
Profile of Arlan Hamilton, founder of Backstage Capital, which is focused on underrepresented founders and is launching a $36M fund for black women founders — Backstage in the greenroom of the podcast festival where she's scheduled to appear, Arlan Hamilton is quietly singing the lyrics to Janet Jackson's “Control.”
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Breitbart's leaked Google all-hands video, while innocuous, is another example of employee dissatisfaction on public display, following James Damore and others — What the leak of a video says about this moment at Alphabet — It's an unhappy time at Google.| Jillian D'Onfro / CNBC: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Walmart's Jet.com relaunches its website to focus on products and services localized to cities, starting with NYC, and launches three-hour grocery delivery — Jet.com, the e-commerce site Walmart acquired in 2016 for $3 billion, is relaunching itself today with an upgraded look and assortment … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
European Court of Human Rights rules that some aspects of a former UK mass surveillance regime, including bulk data collection, violated human rights law — In another blow to the UK government's record on bulk data handling for intelligence purposes the European Court of Human Rights …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Four major US carriers detail “Project Verify” for letting web sites authenticate users via data unique to a customer's phone and mobile subscriber account — The four major U.S. wireless carriers today detailed a new initiative that may soon let Web sites eschew passwords …
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AT&T, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Ars Technica, FierceWireless, AndroidHeadlines.com, and Droid Life
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
For Curated Our Stories, Snapchat enlists 20 news partners, including CNN, Cosmopolitan, and NBC, to aggregate user-generated content in the Discover section — Snapchat is letting more than 20 news partners create curated “stories” with user-generated content from its platform as part …
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Digiday, Engadget, TechCrunch, Deadline, The Verge, Variety, Recode, Adweek, and Ad Age
Tweets: @moneyries, @yoda, and @joshconstine
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: two years before it was hacked, Equifax told the FBI of suspicions that company data including code and HR files may have been stolen by Chinese spies — The credit-reporting company went to the FBI with its suspicions—then the investigation stalled
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antfin.com, PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, and Finextra Research Headlines
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft says it acquired Lobe, a San Francisco-based startup that lets users build machine learning models using a visual interface with no coding required — Microsoft today announced it has acquired Lobe, creator of a platform for building custom deep learning models using a visual interface …
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The Official Microsoft Blog, GeekWire, CNBC, TechCrunch, and On MSFT
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube Kids app adds an “older” filter for profiles of kids 8-12 and adds ability for parents to whitelist all videos on Android, with iOS coming soon — YouTube Kids' latest update is giving parents more control over what their kids watch. Following a change earlier this year … | Rob Copeland / Wall Street Journal: |
Profile of Olaf Carlson-Wee, who turned $14K into $150M by betting on cryptocurrency, and his fund Polychain Capital, which earned investors 2,303% last year — Now running the world's largest crypto hedge fund, the 29-year-old says he is undeterred by recent losses
Tweets: @mims, @whalepanda, @sqeeqee, @wsj, @gzuckerman, and @coindesk
| New York Times: |
A look at how game apps track kids' data as a lawsuit accuses Google and Twitter ad businesses, and a popular app maker, of violating children's privacy law — A lawsuit by New Mexico's attorney general accuses a popular app maker, as well as online ad businesses run by Google and Twitter, of violating children's privacy law.
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GamesIndustry.biz, MediaPost, and Law360
Tweets: @jenvalentino, @mrdylancollins, @jugander, @jason_kint, @nickconfessore, @leoniehaimson, @profcarroll, and @manjusrii
| Heather Somerville / Reuters: |
Uber says it will spend $150M over five years to boost its Toronto-based engineering hub and expand self-driving car operations — Uber Technologies Inc is spending millions of dollars in Toronto to open an engineering hub and expand its self-driving car operations, the strongest indication yet …
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BetaKit, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, and Canadian Press
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
2018 iPhones to support eSIM later this year via an update, will work with Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile in the US at launch, Sprint to support in the near future — The new iPhone XS, XS Max, and iPhone XR models all come equipped with support for dual-SIM functionality through the inclusion …
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YouTube, Bloomberg, Apple Support, Gizmochina, and MacStories
| Olivia Beavers / The Hill: |
Russian hacker Peter Levashov, who was arrested by Spanish authorities last year, pleads guilty in a US District Court for his involvement in the Kelihos botnet — A renowned Russian hacker on Wednesday pleaded guilty in a U.S. District Court for his involvement in the Kelihos botnet …
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U.S. Department of Justice, Engadget, Ars Technica, Dark Reading, ZDNet, and The Hacker News
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Online used car marketplace Shift raises $140M Series D in equity and debt led by Lithia Motors as it plans to scale its staff from 35 to 80 by 2019 — Shift Technologies, an online marketplace for used cars, has closed a Series D financing round of more than $140 million in equity and debt.
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San Francisco Business Journal, PR Newswire, and MarketWatch
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Nvidia announces the Tesla T4 for faster AI inference in data centers, claims it offers up to 12x the performance of previous-gen Tesla P4 for the same power — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took to the stage at GTC Japan to announce the company's latest advancements in AI, which includes the new Tesla T4 GPU.
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NVIDIA Newsroom, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, The Tech Report, and Engadget. Tweets: @marchamilton
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Beijing-based blockchain game platform Cocos-BCX, founded by leaders of the Cocos2d-x open source development platform, raises $40M from Binance Labs and others — Beijing-based Cocos-BCX has raised $40 million for its blockchain game development platform.| Douglas Busvine / Reuters: |
Brave, with two co-plaintiffs, file GDPR complaints in UK and Ireland against Google and “others”, seeking probe into behavioral ad practices exposing user data — COLOGNE, Germany (Reuters) - Brave, a privacy-focused web browser set up by Silicon Valley engineering guru Brendan Eich …
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