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Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter struggle to halt the spread of the horrific New Zealand shooting video; one of the shooters livestreamed the attack on Facebook — Hong Kong (CNN Business)Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are struggling to halt the spread of horrific footage that appears to show …
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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Documents, sources, and interviews with senior Facebook employees detail the process and the difficulty of moderating Facebook Live — On Friday, at least 49 people were killed in terror attacks in New Zealand. Documents, sources, and interviews with senior Facebook employees show …
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| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News: |
Reddit bans r/watchpeopledie and r/gore after users shared links to videos of the Christchurch shooting to the subreddits — Reddit banned two contentious but popular groups that regularly featured human injury and death following the widespread sharing of videos of the New Zealand terrorist incident on Friday.
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Apple responds to Spotify's complaint, says Spotify seeks to keep all the benefits of the App Store “without making any contributions to that marketplace” — We believe that technology achieves its true potential when we infuse it with human creativity and ingenuity.
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| Owen Williams / Charged: |
A point-by-point analysis of Apple's eloquent PR doublespeak response to Spotify's antitrust complaint — Apple remained silent for two entire days after Spotify accused it of unfair practices, apparently stunned by the sudden turn of events. Now, it's responded to Spotify's claims … | Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Beto O'Rourke acknowledges that, as a teenager, he was a member of Cult of the Dead Cow, one of the oldest US computer hacker groups — Illustration REUTERS/Mike Segar/Troy Dunkley — As the Texas Democrat enters the race for president, members of a group famous for “hactivism” …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Source: EU to announce an antitrust fine related to Google's AdSense next week that is expected to be much smaller than fines for Android and shopping search — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Alphabet unit Google is likely to be hit with a third EU antitrust fine next week related to its AdSense advertising service …
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Leaked email: Amazon is seeking investors for a new program, AWS Pro-Rata, which matches private investors with venture funds to invest in specific startups — - Companies listed as opportunities include Boom, which manufactures supersonic jets, and Roman, a maker of men's health products.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
App performance monitoring startup PagerDuty files its S-1, says it had FY2018 revenue of $79.6M, up 41% YoY, and 10K+ customers, including GE, IBM, and Netflix — - PagerDuty had a $15.3 million net loss on sales of $31.2 million in the quarter that ended on Oct. 31.| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google adds Google Translate support to its Gboard keyboard app on iOS; the feature has been available on Android since 2017 — 103 languages at your fingertips — Google's third-party iOS keyboard, Gboard, now supports Google Translate. The feature has been available in the Android version …
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Tinder says it no longer relies on a “desirability” score and that it now adjusts matches a user sees within 24 hours of someone acting on that user's profile — RIP to the mysterious Elo score — Tinder wants to set the record straight about how its platform ranks … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter confirms it is testing a “Subscribe to conversation” feature allowing users to follow a thread without directly signaling interest via likes or replies — In addition to testing out a new format for conversations within a prototype app called twttr and other features like a … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
LaunchDarkly raises $44M Series C for its platform that lets its 700+ customers, including IBM and BMW, quickly launch, test, and tweak new product features — Sussing out software bugs is often a time-consuming chore, as any developer will tell you. Unit tests — a technique by which segments …
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Source: Snap plans to announce its gaming platform, which will feature games by outside developers designed for the Snapchat app, at a partner summit on April 4 — Snap Inc. plans to announce its long-rumored gaming platform for developers next month, Cheddar has learned.
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Engadget, Pocket-lint, KnowTechie, Neowin, Variety, Financial Times, The Verge, Digital Trends, SlashGear, CNET, Fortune, and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @richbtig. Thanks:@jonsteinberg
| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Jury finds that Apple has infringed on three Qualcomm patents and awards $31M to the wireless chip maker in a lawsuit that was filed in July 2017 in San Diego — Apple violated three Qualcomm patents and should pay the chipmaker $31 million for infringing on its technology, a jury decided Friday …
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| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Facebook says all of its services are now operational, attributes the downtime to a “server configuration change” — Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook all appear to be operating normally — Facebook is reporting all services operational after a prolonged outage that impacted all of the company's most popular apps.
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