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Samsung Galaxy Fold teardown reveals a fragile build that lacks adequate protection against the ingress of debris between the OLED screen and the bezel — A teardown of the Samsung Galaxy Fold performed by iFixit in April of 2019.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google makes Fit, its activity tracker, available on iOS as a standalone app with full Health integration — Last August, Google Fit was completely revamped with the Material Theme and a focus on two new metrics. The health and activity tracking application is now coming to iOS with full Apple Health integration.
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Source: Trump complained in a meeting with Jack Dorsey that Twitter had removed some followers; Dorsey stressed even he lost followers from new Twitter policies — President Trump on Tuesday met privately with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, a huddle at the White House between one of the site's …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Report: the UK will allow Huawei limited access to help build parts of the country's 5G network, such as antennas and other “non-core” infrastructure — Experts and policymakers are wary of letting China get involved in domestic infrastructure — UK Prime Minister Theresa …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: former DHS Secretary tried to focus White House on potential Russian interference in 2020 election, but was told not to bring it up in front of Trump — WASHINGTON — In the months before Kirstjen Nielsen was forced to resign, she tried to focus the White House on one of her highest priorities …
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Twitter is adding an option to report attempts to mislead election voters, which will be available in India from April 25 and the EU from April 29 — Voting is a fundamental human right and the public conversation occurring on Twitter is never more important than during elections.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers find that someone has guessed the private keys of some Ethereum users and siphoned off ~45,000 ether from their accounts; low entropy keys to blame — LAST SUMMER, ADRIAN Bednarek was mulling over ways to steal the cryptocurrency Ethereum. He's a security consultant; at the time … | Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: Apple will launch two new AirPods models in the Q4 2019 - Q1 2020 timeframe, one an iterative update, the other with a new design and higher price — Following just hours after a Digitimes report on ‘AirPods 3′, the veritable TF Industries’ Ming-Chi Kuo reports that Apple is set …
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| New York Times: |
As China exports its surveillance tech to the world, a look at its use in Ecuador, where 4,300 cameras feed video to 16 monitoring stations employing ~3K people — In Ecuador, cameras across the country send footage to monitoring centers to be examined by police and domestic intelligence.| Rachelle Hampton / Slate: |
How a group of black women outed Twitter trolls masquerading as women of color in 2014, in what may have been a dry run for the 2016 misinformation campaign — Before Gamergate, before the 2016 election, they launched a campaign against Twitter trolls masquerading as women of color.
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| Colin Campbell / Polygon: |
Sources say Fortnite's growth led to months of intense crunch for Epic staff and contractors, and some are enduring an ongoing crunch to maintain game's success — Sources reveal long hours and intense pressure while working on hit game — In a dozen interviews conducted by Polygon …
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| Hiten Shah / Product Habits: |
Founder of KISSMetrics reflects on how the analytics startup failed because of distraction from random ideas, drive-by management, lack of prioritization, more — Back in 2008, I co-founded KISSmetrics, an analytics company. — There were so many times when I thought about giving up during the early days.
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| Reuters: |
Samsung plans to invest $116B in its semiconductor division through 2030 to develop non-memory logic chips for use in self-driving cars and AI-enabled devices — SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd plans to invest $116 billion in non-memory chips through 2030 … | Nicole Carpenter / Gizmodo: |
A look inside the creative streaming community on Twitch, which includes channels from musicians, knitters, makeup artists, scientists, and photographers — “Hi! I see you, but I'm focused on the reading right now. I can chat during the next break!" This message popped up on the stream …
Tweets: @sweetpotatoes and @kohquette
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says Paint will be included in Windows 10 “for now”, after previously announcing it would be deprecated — Microsoft had been planning to remove its popular Paint app from Windows 10, but the company has now reversed course. The software maker had been warning Windows 10 users …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Chrome 74 for desktop starts rolling out with Windows Dark Mode support, a user preference media query to help limit motion effects in web pages, and more — Google today launched Chrome 74 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. The release includes support for a reduced motion media query …
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| Jack Poulson / New York Times: |
American companies keep building surveillance tools that are used to violate human rights; workers who organize protests or refuse to comply deserve protections — American companies continue to build surveillance tools that are used to violate human rights. Workers who refuse to comply deserve protections.| Ashley Gold / The Information: |
Open Technology Institute director and Facebook critic Kevin Bankston says he is leaving in mid-June to become a director of privacy policy at Facebook — Kevin Bankston, currently director of the privacy-focused Open Technology Institute in Washington, will be joining Facebook as a director of privacy policy, he announced Tuesday.
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| Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg: |
Facebook tells UK MPs that New Zealand shooter's first-person video fooled its AI content detection, saying it was something “we had not seen before” — - Labour party lawmaker calls tech platforms a “cesspit” — Tech firms giving evidence on hate crime to U.K. panel
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Blocking social networks after terrorist attacks can do more harm than good, especially in places like Sri Lanka where official sources are often unreliable — We should be suspicious when governments crack down on speech in the name of safety — Imagine for a moment that you run … | Pew Research Center: |
Survey of 2,791 adult US Twitter users shows they are younger, more likely to be Democrats, and have higher incomes than US adults overall — U.S. adult Twitter users are younger and more likely to be Democrats than the general public. Most users rarely tweet, but the most prolific 10% create 80% of tweets from adult U.S. users
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| Reuters: |
Facebook supports 111 languages, but translates content rules to just 41, and its moderation staff speaks ~50; deficit leaves it struggling to monitor content — NAIROBI/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc's struggles with hate speech and other types of problematic content are being hampered … | Sara Ashley O'Brien / CNN: |
Bumble says it will soon launch Private Detector, a feature that uses AI to automatically blur incoming lewd images and present blocking and reporting options — New York (CNN Business)On Bumble, lewd pictures will soon come with a warning. — The company, which launched …
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Japanese government and financial institutions are scrambling to update their software and IT systems to align with the imperial era calendar reset on May 1 — It isn't exactly Y2K, but the country is scrambling to reconcile its systems with the ancient demands of an imperial calendar.Sponsor Posts
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