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Sources: Zuckerberg plans to add end-to-end encryption to Instagram and Messenger and integrate their messaging infrastructure and WhatsApp's by end of the year — SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, plans to integrate the social network's messaging services …
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| Nathan Halverson / Reveal: |
Unsealed documents show Facebook orchestrated a multi-year effort that duped children who played video games into spending their parents' money — Facebook orchestrated a multi-year effort that duped children and their parents out of money, in some cases hundreds or even thousands of dollars …
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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
YouTube says it will no longer suggest videos with “borderline content” or those that “misinform users in a harmful way” even if they don't violate guidelines — SAN FRANCISCO — Whether it is a video claiming the earth is flat or the moon landing was faked …
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| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Microsoft acquires Citus Data, which develops an open-source extension for PostgreSQL that turns it into a distributed database — Databases continue to be one of the most competitive areas of cloud computing, and Microsoft strengthened its database story Thursday with the acquisition of Citus Data.
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| Ryan Whitwam / ExtremeTech: |
DeepMind introduces AlphaStar AI, which won 10-1 in a series of StarCraft II matches against professional players — Humans tend to think we're adept at the games we create, but computers have proven time and time again that we're just not fast enough to stay on top.
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Amazon's Rekognition mistakes women as men 19% of the time, and darker-skinned women as men 31% of the time, more than similar services from IBM and Microsoft — In new tests, Amazon's system had more difficulty identifying the gender of female and darker-skinned faces than similar services from IBM and Microsoft.
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
HMD says it will soon sell its Nokia smartphones through Verizon and Cricket Wireless in US and Rogers in Canada — Nokia's parent company, HMD Global, chose to put its US ambitions in the back burner to focus on markets where the brand has been enjoying a resurgence these past few years.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
HP Spectre Folio review: the unique hinge design and the leather finish are nice but the 16:9 screen feels cramped and the trackpad is horrible — The Folio is one of the most unique laptops in years, but it isn't perfect — There's nothing really quite like HP's new Spectre Folio.| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Robinhood says it will roll out its cryptocurrency trading product in New York in the coming months after NY regulators grant the firm a BitLicense — Stock trading startup Robinhood and bitcoin ATM provider LibertyX have become the latest companies to be granted New York's BitLicense.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Strategy Analytics: Apple shipped an estimated 34.2M iPhones in China in 2018, down from 36.7M in 2017, and was the number five smartphone vendor in the country — Apple shipped an estimated 34.2 million iPhones in China in 2018, down from 36.7 million in 2017, according to new data shared today by Strategy Analytics.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase partners with TurboTax, will allow its customers to upload their transactions, gains, and losses in 2018 to TurboTax Premier to help file crypto taxes — Coinbase customers who need to file taxes in the U.S. this year can get a boost from TurboTax, the tax-filing software offered by Intuit Consumer Tax Group.
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Tweets: @bitjob_team and @coindesk
| Michelle Castillo / Cheddar: |
Source: T-Mobile to launch a free, ad-supported mobile video streaming service through the Layer3 division it acquired last year and using licensed Xumo tech — T-Mobile will join the streaming wars in the next few weeks with a free, ad-supported mobile video service, according to a source familiar with the matter.Thanks:@alexeheath
| Stu Woo / Wall Street Journal: |
Vodafone, the world's biggest mobile carrier outside China, says it is temporarily halting purchases of Huawei equipment for the core of its new 5G networks — Vodafone said it would pause the purchase of Huawei gear for use in the core of new 5G networks — LONDON—The world's biggest …
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