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Google has a “Purchases” page that shows your purchases based on receipts you have in your Gmail inbox; Google says only you can view your purchases — KEY POINTS — Google saves years of information on purchases you've made, even outside Google, and pulls this information from Gmail.
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Profile of ObEN, which creates “personal artificial intelligences”, life-size holographic AI avatars, by modeling people's appearance and adapting their voice — In January 2019, when China Central Television, the largest broadcast network in the most populous nation in the world …
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Snapchat's popular new gender-changing filter provokes mixed reactions in the LGBTQ community, with some lauding the ability to safely explore themselves — A Snapchat photo filter that lets people see themselves in highly feminized or masculine form has proven wildly popular.
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Physical storage startup Clutter, valued at $600M in its last raise, acquired the storage business of rival Omni, which is pivoting to rentals of personal items — On the heels of Clutter announcing a large growth round of $200 million earlier this year, the storage startup is cleaning up the competitive field.
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Salesforce says faulty script deployment gave users access to all of their company's Salesforce data, forcing it to shut down much of its infrastructure Friday — Faulty production script gave users access to all their company's Salesforce data. — Salesforce is going through …
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Italy launches Google antitrust probe, says Google refused to integrate Italian energy giant Enel's app to find electric car charging stations into Android Auto — Google has been hit by yet another antitrust investigation in Europe, but this time it's not about well-worn complaints … | Eric Feng: |
VC-backed consumer startups are outperforming enterprise startups at IPOs in this decade, going public more often at higher valuations, compared to the 2000s — On May 10th, ride hailing juggernaut Uber Technologies went public raising $8.1 billion at an initial valuation just over $75 billion.
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IBM report attributes a 95% decline in attacks caused by hacktivist groups since 2015 to the disintegration of Anonymous and sustained law enforcement crackdown — Hacktivist scene collapses as Anonymous hacker collective dies a slow death. — Threat intelligence analysts have long …
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| Lizzie O'Shea / Longreads: |
All harmful technologies are a product of unethical design, yet, like car companies in the '70s, today's tech companies would rather blame the user — an excerpt adapted from Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Teach Us about Digital Technology |
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| Selina Wang / Bloomberg: |
A look at Twitter in Japan, its second-largest market, raking in $136M in Q1 revenue, where the service has mass appeal and many users have multiple accounts — Rising ad dollars from Japan has bolstered the company's total revenue — When Yu Sasamoto joined Twitter Inc. as head of Japan in 2014 …
Tweets: @richbtig, @hamburger, @luca, and @selinawangtv
| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Techdirt settles suit by Shiva Ayyadurai, who claimed to invent email; no money exchanges hands; Techdirt to link to an Ayyadurai statement on related articles — It's possible that some of you saw the news earlier this week that the legal dispute, in which Shiva Ayyadurai sued us for defamation …
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| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Profile of Brian Hofer, an anti-surveillance activist who drafted San Francisco's facial recognition ban and over two dozen other privacy laws in California — SAN FRANCISCO — As San Francisco's Board of Supervisors prepared to vote Tuesday on an ordinance forbidding city agencies …
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