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Twitter is relaunching the reverse-chronological feed as an option for all users starting today on iOS and other platforms in the coming weeks — Just hit that sparkle, fam — Twitter is offering users another escape hatch from its ranked timeline. The company said today that it will introduce …
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| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
As shilling products has become a sign of success for influencers, up-and-comers on Instagram are posting fake sponsored content to boost their credibility — Tapping through Palak Joshi's Instagram Stories recently, you might have come across a photo that looked like standard sponsored content …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Spectrum's parent Charter reaches $174.2M settlement in New York AG's speed fraud lawsuit, which alleged that the ISP's speeds were 80% slower than advertised — The lawsuit, filed last year, alleged that Charter's speeds were 80 percent slower than advertised
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Senate report on Russia's disinformation campaign accuses Google, Facebook, and Twitter of being evasive and withholding data about Russian activity — SAN FRANCISCO — When lawmakers asked YouTube, a unit of Google, to provide information about Russian manipulation efforts …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
AT&T to launch 5G mobile service on December 21 across 12 US cities via a $499 mobile hotspot device and $70/month data plan — The 5G era has arrived. AT&T is launching 5G mobile service in a dozen U.S. cities beginning this Friday, becoming the first carrier to do so.
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Google says Play Store's machine learning-based system removed millions of fake reviews and ratings and identified thousands of bad apps during a recent week — Posted by Fei Ye, Software Engineer and Kazushi Nagayama, Ninja Spamologist — Google Play ratings and reviews are extremely important … | Wall Street Journal: |
iPhone prices are unpalatable in India, where reports say its marketshare has shrunk to ~1%, and a source says it's taking in <50% the revenue once hoped for — With global smartphone sales flattening, Apple has looked to India for new growth, with little success so far
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| Ry Crist / CNET: |
Alexa Guard first impressions: hears sounds and alarms well, but can't contact emergency services, isn't supported by previous-gen Echo and Echo Dot speakers — “Alexa, I'm leaving.” — “OK — I'll be on guard.” — That's the gist of Alexa Guard, a new feature from Amazon that lets …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Twitter was warned by a researcher two years ago of a flaw, recently reported to FTC and EU's DPC by the company, that leaked users' phone # country codes — A security researcher found a bug in Twitter's support form two years ago that exposed the country codes of phone numbers attached to user's accounts.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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| Garett Sloane / Ad Age: |
HQ Trivia postpones rollout of its premier HQ Words gameshow and Google ad campaign until later this week; sources say the company had ~$10M ad revenue in 2018 — Founder's death causes company to reschedule — HQ Trivia plans to run its regularly scheduled game on Monday evening … | Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
Cisco to buy semiconductor company Luxtera, which develops silicon photonics technology that speeds up data transfer, for $660M — - Luxtera's advanced chips will help Cisco meet business client demand for faster and high-performing network service, the company said.| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Indian ride hailing service Ola invests $100M in scooter rental startup Vogo, which operates in Bangalore and Hyderabad — We're familiar with Uber cozying up to scooter startups — it has bought one and invested in another — but over in India, the U.S. firm's key rival is hatching …
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| Jane Smith / G Suite Updates Blog: |
Google introduces a new G Suite feature in beta that will enable non-G Suite users to collaborate on files as visitors, using PINs — Soon, people without Google accounts will be able to view, comment, suggest edits to, and directly edit Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides files.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Toronto-based Ada, which helps companies develop their own AI-powered customer service chatbots, raises $14M Series A led by FirstMark Capital — Ada, a Canada-based startup that is setting out to help companies develop their own automated customer service tools, has raised CAD$19 million …
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| Matthew Leising / Bloomberg: |
Leaked bank docs spanning four separate months in 2017 and 2018 show Tether has a large cash stockpile, perhaps allaying fears that the digital coin is a scam — - Bank statements seen by Bloomberg show a large cash stockpile — One of the biggest fears in crypto is whether Tether's a scamSponsor Posts
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