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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
White House launches tool to solicit information from people who had social media accounts suspended or banned and who suspect political bias behind the actions — 'If you suspect political bias caused such an action to be taken against you, share your story with President Trump'
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Trump issues order blocking US companies from doing business with information and communications technology companies owned or controlled by a foreign adversary — Amid a deepening trade war with China, President Trump on Wednesday declared a “national emergency” to protect U.S. communications networks …
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Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, Google, and Amazon sign on to the Christchurch Call to Action, commit to a 9-point plan to stop spread of terrorist content online — Today, Facebook's Vice President for Global Affairs and Communications Nick Clegg joined G7 government and industry leaders …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Instagram is shutting down Instagram Direct, its standalone direct messaging app that it was testing to rival Snapchat, on iOS and Android — As Facebook pushes ahead with its strategy to consolidate more of the backend of its various apps on to a single platform, it's also doing a little simplifying and housekeeping.| New York Times: |
Sources describe Uber's IPO process and the setbacks that led Uber's $120B pre-IPO valuation floated by bankers to fall to its current market cap of $69B — Last September, Uber's top executives were pitched by some of Wall Street's biggest banks, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
SanDisk introduces the first 1TB microSD card, for $450 — Have you been salivating at the thought of stuffing a 1TB microSD card into your phone? You can finally act on that impulse. SanDisk has made the record-setting Extreme card available both through its own store and (when it's in stock) …
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| Bijan Stephen / The Verge: |
The effective disappearance of early meme site YTMND heralds the end of another internet era, the one where a popular site could just be a weird and fun hobby — The gif-and-looped-sound site was one of the earliest homes of internet culture — One of the earliest and most influential … | The Information: |
Sources: Quibi, the upcoming mobile streaming service led by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, is planning to raise up to $1B, following a $1B raise in August — Quibi, the mobile video streaming service headed by Hollywood and tech veterans Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman …
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| Google AI Blog: |
Google details Translatotron, its project to directly translate speech from one language into speech in another without intermediate text — Posted by Ye Jia and Ron Weiss, Software Engineers, Google AI — Speech-to-speech translation systems have been developed over the past several decades …
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Ajit Pai proposes a new rule that would allow carriers to block robocalls by default and lets customers block calls from numbers not on their contacts list — ‘The American people are fed up with illegal robocalls’ — On Wednesday, the Federal Communications Commission announced a new measure … | Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: |
Q&A with Ted Wang, a partner at micro VC fund Cowboy Ventures, founded by Aileen Lee, on risk rewards of seed rounds, changes since its first fund, and more — For our most recent Seed Series we are talking with Ted Wang, the second partner at Cowboy Ventures, a micro VC fund based in Silicon Valley founded by Aileen Lee.| Bijan Stephen / The Verge: |
In email to staff, Kickstarter CEO Aziz Hasan says management will not voluntarily recognize its employee union Kickstarter United, wants NLRB election instead — “I know this position is disappointing to some of you who were hoping the company would voice support for this effort," he wrote
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
User finds that Google was hiding three Google Pay privacy settings, like sharing creditworthiness, from its default view; Google says it was a bug it is fixing — Update 5/15/19 1:07 PM EST: Google has replied to our questions with the following statement:
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Valve releases Steam Link, its service for streaming desktop games to another device, on iOS and Apple TV, almost a year after its initial App Store rejection — Almost exactly a year after its initial rejection from the App Store, Valve today has officially released Steam Link on the App Store.
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| Munsif Vengattil / Reuters: |
How political parties in India are using cheap software to send up to 100,000 WhatsApp messages a day and get around the app's limit of five forwards per day — Munsif Vengattil, Aditya Kalra, Sankalp Phartiyal — NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) - WhatsApp clones and software tools that cost …
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Report details Apple's “long and painful divorce” with Intel, says Apple's custom 5G modems may not arrive until 2025 — The Information is out today with a detailed report on the falling out between Intel and Apple over the last few years that led to settling with Qualcomm …
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
TodayTix, a mobile ticketing startup for affordable theater tickets, raises $73M led by PE firm Great Hill Partners, bringing its total raised to $90M — TodayTix, a mobile ticketing company that makes it easy and relatively affordable to go to Broadway shows and other live performances …
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| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Europol and FBI arrest the leader and ten members of the GozNym criminal network, who broke into 44K computers and tried to steal ~$100M — Paying money and buying online concept, couple doing internet shopping with computer, customers making secure payment on laptop via e-banking service, close up view of hand holding credit card
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| Takashi Kawakami / Nikkei: |
Samsung and Huawei have agreed to settle their three-year dispute over smartphone patents, likely to refocus their energies on the global slowdown in demand — Move to settle patent dispute comes as global sales slow — GUANGZHOU — Samsung Electronics and Huawei Technologies …
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| Bérénice Magistretti / Forbes: |
Microsoft's AI for Accessibility initiative announces seven new grantees, including a chatbot for the cognitively disabled and a nerve-sensing wearable — Today is the eighth annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day, an event that was designed to help spread awareness around … Sponsor Posts
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