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| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Mark Zuckerberg, in a conversation with Axel Springer CEO, floats a “news tab to surface more high quality news”, says Facebook could pay publishers — The Facebook CEO floated a “news tab to surface more high-quality news,” and said he's willing to write checks to support it.
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| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
750+ Googlers sign a petition demanding Google remove Kay Coles James, president of the conservative Heritage Foundation, from its external AI advisory board — ‘They think that some of our colleagues either do not or should not exist’ — When Google announced an external advisory board …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Gmail launches email scheduling and brings Smart Compose to all Android phones with subject suggestions and personalized greetings — Despite Google's long-standing love affair with April Fools' fakery, fifteen years ago today the internet giant was deadly serious when it launched what would become one of its biggest products: Gmail.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Ming-Chi Kuo reaffirms all three new iPhones in 2019 will have bilateral wireless charging, says 5.8" model's battery size will jump 20-25%, the 6.5" by 10-15% — Apple's 2019 iPhones are going to have a two-way wireless charging feature that will allow the iPhone to charge other devices like the AirPods … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
One week with Apple News+: it's a great deal for those who enjoy reading magazines, but its design and news delivery mechanisms are messy and inconsistent — There's a lot to evaluate about Apple's new News Plus subscription service, including if it's a good deal for the media business … | Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair: |
Sources: Apple tried hard to sign up The New York Times and WaPo to Apple News+, was flexible on some terms but wanted the papers' entire content offerings — The Times and Post resisted Eddy Cue's hard sell ("We'll make you the most-read newspaper in the world.")
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| Reuters: |
Sources: as part of UAE's Project Raven, 9+ ex-NSA staffers helped hack phones of Al Jazeera's Chairman, a BBC Arabic host, and other journalists — A group of American hackers who once worked for U.S. intelligence agencies helped the United Arab Emirates spy on a BBC host …
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With Apple TV+, Apple enters a video streaming market with five different, but overlapping, categories and players like Netflix, Roku, AT&T, Hulu, and Google — In the U.S., Silicon Valley and media titans are competing in categories from subscription entertainment to hardware to online-TV bundles
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| Klint Finley / Wired: |
Cloudflare says users can now join waitlist for its mobile-only VPN service Warp via its 1.1.1.1 app, says it has plans to offer a faster, paid version of Warp — VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORKS (VPNs) can help protect your internet traffic from prying eyes. VPN services route your email … | Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Lyft shares close down 11.85% on second day of trading, after its stock jumped 8.7% on the day of IPO — SAN FRANCISCO — Lyft's debut on the stock market is off to a bumpy start. — The ride-hailing company went public in a blaze of glory on Friday, as its stock jumped 8.7 percent … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook asks for public input via questionnaire and free-form questions about Oversight Board, which is to be its “supreme court” for content policy decisions — In November, Facebook announced its plans to create an external content oversight board that would serve as something of a …
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
When it comes to low-light photography, Huawei's P30 Pro is markedly better than a Pixel 3 with Night Sight, preserving far more detail — The P30 Pro is somehow even better than Google's Night Sight — I know what date it is, but let me assure you that this is no April Fools' gag … Sponsor Posts
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