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Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes says Mark Zuckerberg's influence is staggering and that it is time to break up Facebook — The last time I saw Mark Zuckerberg — was in the summer of 2017, several months before the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke. We met at Facebook's Menlo Park …
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Uber prices its IPO at $45 per share, near the low end of its expected range, valuing the company at about $82B — Ride-hailing company commands a valuation of about $82 billion — Uber Technologies Inc. priced its initial public offering at $45 a share, according to people familiar with the matter …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Instagram says it will begin hiding search results for hashtags that consistently return false vaccine information, plans a pop-up to link to high-quality info — The company says it will use machine learning to identify where misinformation shows up most — Instagram will begin hiding …
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Photo storage app Ever, launched in 2013, now focuses on selling facial recognition tech, trained using 13B+ stored user photos, to others — “The app developers were not clear about their intentions,” one Ever user said. “I believe it's a huge invasion of privacy.”
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Consumer advocacy groups file a complaint with the FTC accusing Amazon's Echo Dot Kids of collecting children's data without parental consent — Amazon barreled into the children's smart-speaker market last year with a brightly colored device called Echo Dot Kids Edition.| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Internal doc: Amazon keeps text transcripts of Alexa-triggered voice recordings deleted by users; Amazon says it is working on deleting them from subsystems — Amazon doesn't need to hear your voice recordings to know what you've said. They can read it. — After Alexa hears its wake word … | Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Verizon report: nation states and affiliated parties carried out 23% of data breaches in 2018, up from 12% in 2017 and 19% in 2016 — Verizon's 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report highlights how nation states and espionage are becoming a worry for businesses and their data.| Edgar Alvarez / Engadget: |
Nike's new app, Nike Fit, will use AR to help find the right sneaker fit, expected to launch in the US in July — Nike has been experimenting heavily with augmented reality for a few years now, and the company is continuing to work on new experiences powered by the technology.
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Sonos says Google Assistant support, first announced in 2017, will roll out to Sonos One and Beam next week through a software update in the US — Sonos finally is bringing the Google Assistant to its smart speakers: The company announced as part of its earnings report Thursday that Assistant support will be rolling out next week.Thanks:@jank0
| Zoë Bernard / The Information: |
Sources: at least six Intercom employees have left the company in the last few years over sexual harassment allegations against its CEO Eoghan McCabe — Eight years ago, a group of Irish entrepreneurs led by an ambitious leader, Eoghan McCabe, relocated their software startup, Intercom …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Symantec says its president and CEO, Greg Clark, has stepped down; stock is down 13%+ after hours — Symantec stock fell as much as 15% Thursday after the security company said its president and CEO, Greg Clark, has stepped down. The company is looking for a replacement.
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| Axios: |
FCC votes unanimously to deny China Mobile's application to provide telecommunications services in the US due to concerns about national security — The FCC has voted unanimously to deny China Mobile's application to provide telecommunications services in the U.S. due to concerns about national security and law enforcement risks.
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| Natt Garun / The Verge: |
A year after its intro, Google Duplex is still limited in availability, with minimal impact on service workers, some of whom say it is more polite than humans — Myriah Q. hasn't stopped moving since the moment I entered the bar. She's got patrons seated on the sidewalk and the backyard areas …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
The lead of Oculus VR, Hugo Barra, says he is taking a new role at Facebook “building a global AR/VR partner ecosystem”; Erick Tseng to take over Oculus — Hugo Barra, the former Xiaomi executive who has run Facebook's Oculus VR team since 2017, is changing roles in what looks like a larger shake-up in VR at Facebook.
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| Caroline Spiezio / Law.com: |
SEC filing: Uber settles with “a large majority” of 60K+ US drivers who filed arbitration demands over their employment status, plans $146M-$170M for payouts — Uber is setting aside at least $146 million to pay drivers over misclassification concerns.
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Report: Oracle is shutting down its R&D arm in China, laying off 900+ employees — Staff that were made redundant have gathered to protest the layoff plan, according to photos and video clips circulating on social media. — Oracle will shut down its research and development (R&D) … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Coalition, which provides cybersecurity insurance, raises $40M Series B led by Ribbit Capital — Coalition, a cybersecurity insurance company, has raised $40 million in its latest round of funding. — Fintech investment giant Ribbit Capital led the investment with participation from Greenoaks Capital and Hillhouse Capital.| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Samsung announces the ISOCELL Bright GW1, a 64-megapixel image sensor for mobile phones, expects it to go into mass production in the second half of this year — Samsung fires new salvo in megapixel wars — Samsung has announced a new image sensor for mobile phones with a higher resolution than anything comparable on the market.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Inside Microsoft's Envisioning Center, which houses some of its prototype work including projection tech, AI for meetings, and desks that double as touchscreens — Every few years, Microsoft creates a video that looks at the future of productivity. This usually involves giant screens …
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| Canalys: |
Smartphone shipments in North America dropped 18% YoY in Q1 to 36.4M units, a five-year low; Apple kept its ~40% market share YoY, shipping 14.6M iPhones — Smartphone shipments in North America plummeted 18% year on year in Q1 2019 to a five-year low of 36.4 million units, down from a record high of 44.4 million in Q1 2018.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Evident, which provides identity and credentials verification platform for enterprises, raises $20M Series B led by Aspect Ventures — Identity fraud is more common than you might think. In 2017, 6.64% of consumers, or 1 in 15 people, had their identities stolen or compromised.
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Report: Fxmsp, a collective of Russian- and English-speaking hackers, is selling source code and network access to three US-based antivirus software vendors — Source code, network access being sold online by “Fxmsp” collective. — In a report published Thursday, researchers …
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Dropbox Q1: revenue of $385.6M, up 22% YoY, net loss of $7.7M, 13.2M paid users, up from 11.5M YoY, avg revenue per paying user of $121.04, up from $114.30 YoY — The company said average revenue per paying user was $121.04, compared to $110.79 for the same period last year.
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| Jonathan Browning / Bloomberg: |
In a UK court filing, Amazon says hackers siphoned money from ~100 seller accounts over a period of six months last year — - Amazon asked U.K. court for bank details linked to hackers — Hackers break into about 100 accounts, according to documents
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