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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
In internal email after WSJ report, Google CEO Pichai denied efforts to politically bias search results, reaffirmed Google should remain politically neutral — Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent a company-wide email Friday, which Axios obtained, denying any effort to politically bias …
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Sources: Apple delayed launch of a streaming video service twice, last time till March, spiked Dr. Dre's series as too violent as it looks for less edgy content — The tech giant wants to make scripted shows for streaming, only without violence, politics and risqué story lines
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| Megan Farokhmanesh / The Verge: |
Telltale Games, which makes games based on franchises such as Jurassic Park and Batman, lays off most of its staff, keeps 25 to begin “majority studio closure” — Telltale Games, creators of episodic adventure games like The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, and Batman …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Latvian hacker sentenced to 14 years in prison for creating and running Scan4You service that allowed malware authors to check the detection rates of their code — Ruslan Bondars run a “VirusTotal-for-crooks” operation from 2009 to 2017. — Ruslan Bondars, a 37-year-old man from Latvia …
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| Casey Newton / The Interface: |
Lately @Twitter account became more playful in its interactions with users; Twitter says it's part of an effort to promote healthy conversations on the platform — On Friday morning, Twitter posted a single word to its Twitter account: “The.” Average users began replying, telling a story one word at a time.| Nyay Bhushan / Hollywood Reporter: |
Q&A: Amazon Prime Video India head Vijay Subramaniam on Indian content for worldwide audiences, sparking conversation, and passing on film production for now — Led by Vijay Subramaniam, the service has been aggressively ramping up its slate with a mix of fiction and unscripted shows … | New York Times: |
As it gets ready to launch its first commercial robot, Boston Dynamics is still struggling to articulate what the big application for its robots is — WALTHAM, Mass. — Moving like a large dog, knees bent and hips swaying, the robot walked across a parking lot and into a rain puddle.| Washington Post: |
White House says draft EO ordering probes into practices of Facebook and Google is not an official document; sources: Yelp contacted WH aides with the draft EO — The White House sought to distance itself Saturday from reports that President Trump is considering an executive order …
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| iFixit: |
Teardown reveals iPhone XS has a notched L-shaped battery, iPhone XS Max has an extended logic board with an Apple-designed power management chip — Tools Featured in this Teardown … Introduction — Last year's iPhone X had a weird name and the most advanced internals we'd ever seen in a teardown.
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
NextVR now supports Oculus Rift and Oculus Go for its live sports and entertainment broadcasts — NextVR provides access to immersive sports and entertainment broadcasts for a number of virtual reality headsets, but it had a huge Oculus-shaped gap in its compatibility list.| Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed News: |
Profile of Marc Randazza, a free speech advocate and lawyer who tries to limit social media platforms' ability to act against hateful and abusive content — The new speech wars are a push and pull between individuals, governments, and platforms. At the center of this is attorney Marc Randazza …
Tweets: @etbrooking, @katienotopoulos, and @bernstein
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it fixed a bug that sent some users' direct messages from their interactions with business accounts to third-party developers, since May 2017 — Twitter said that a “bug” sent user's private direct messages to third-party developers “who were not authorized to receive them.”
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