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February 21, 2019, 1:25 PM

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Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic:
Kids googling themselves for the first time face shock, frustration, and sometimes excitement at content parents had been posting about them since their birth  —  Googling yourself has become a rite of passage.  —  For several months, Cara has been working up the courage to approach her mom about what she saw on Instagram.
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft previews Dynamics 365 AI and mixed reality services and applications on iOS, Android, and HoloLens for remote assistance, customized bots, and more  —  Microsoft is readying new Dynamics 365 AI- and mixed-reality-centric services and applications for remote-assistance, customized bots and more.
Cherlynn Low / Engadget:
Hands-on with the Galaxy S10 and S10+: in-screen fingerprint readers works well and the materials feel classy, but it doesn't feel like a huge update  —  The new screens take up basically the entire front of the phones.  The 6.1-inch and 6.4-inch Quad HD+ panels sport tiny hole-punch cutouts for their selfie cameras.
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:
Julia Alexander / The Verge:
YouTube says it has terminated 400+ channels and deleted tens of millions of comments in response to concerns about its videos being used to exploit children  —  And it's deleted tens of millions of comments  —  YouTube has terminated more than 400 channels and deleted tens of millions …
Bloomberg:
Vlad Savov / The Verge:
The Galaxy Fold is Samsung's Google Glass: an exciting technical showcase that is hitting the market too soon and makes no sense as a consumer device yet  —  Nice technical showcase, Samsung  —  The foldable Galaxy Fold phone-tablet hybrid is Samsung's Google Glass: an exciting technical showcase …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Hadas Gold / CNN:
Mark Zuckerberg is meeting with UK Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright in CA after refusing to appear before the UK committee investigating online disinformation  —  (CNN Business)Mark Zuckerberg is finally coming face to face with a top UK official who'd like to regulate Facebook.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Personal homepage startup About.me is acquired by Oakland-based Broadly, which lets customers talk to and review small businesses, for an undisclosed sum  —  Personal homepage startup About.me has been acquired.  Again!  The company, once bought by Aol for a reported $35 million …
Rhett Jones / Gizmodo:
Pinterest says it's stopped returning vaccine-related search results as most spread anti-vax disinformation, part of its broader approach against “false cures”  —  The anti-vaccination movement has become so widespread that the World Health Organization added it to its list of the top threats to global health in 2019.
BuzzFeed News:
Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat:
Samsung debuts a basic Galaxy Fit band and Galaxy Watch Active, a simpler $200 version of its watch, shipping March 8 with blood pressure tracking coming later  —  Leaking every new product ahead of the official unveiling event has a way of making the formal announcements dull …

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