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Source: Amazon is working on a wearable voice-activated health and wellness device that works with a mobile app and can recognize human emotions — - Described as a health product, it would work with a mobile app — Machines that can understand emotions are a sci-fi staple
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| Guy Rosen / Facebook: |
Facebook releases an update on enforcing its community standards, saying it banned 2.19B fake accounts in Q1 2019, up from 1.2B in Q4 2018 — Today, we're publishing our third Community Standards Enforcement Report, covering Q4 2018 and Q1 2019. This report adds a few additional data points:
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Software maker Panic unveils Playdate, a Game Boy-like device with a hand crank control and 12 bundled games released over time, coming in 2020 for $149 — Little, yellow, different — Panic made its name through high-end Mac software, but more recently, the company moved into gaming …
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Samsung researchers detail a machine learning method that can recreate lifelike motion from just a single image of a person's face — Machine learning researchers have produced a system that can recreate lifelike motion from just a single frame of a person's face, opening up the possibility …
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Instagram says IGTV will now support landscape video, following feedback from creators and users, as the service struggles to gain traction — The vertical video experiment is over — Instagram is no longer all-in on vertical video. The company announced today that its longform video offshoot …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
GitHub launches Sponsors, a tool that lets users pay their favorite open source contributors; developers can opt in to a “Sponsor me” button on repositories — GitHub today launched Sponsors, a new tool that lets you give financial support to open-source developers through recurring monthly payments.
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| Mark Scott / Politico: |
GDPR has helped big tech companies cement their dominance in the data economy while smaller companies have suffered from relatively high compliance costs — The region's data protection overhaul was supposed to help citizens. Instead, it's helped Big Tech.
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| Biz Carson / Forbes: |
Food delivery app DoorDash raises $600M led by Darsana Capital Partners at a $12.6B valuation, just three months after it raised $400M at a $7B valuation — The investor feeding frenzy around food-delivery startups hasn't stopped. Just three months after raising $400 million … | Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
A breakdown of Huawei's supply problems after the US ban, using its latest flagship phone as an example, from hardware to software to building an app ecosystem — Huawei's hardware independence is actually pretty good! The software, though... President Trump's Huawei ban is in full effect …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Future, a $150/month fitness app which assigns users a human trainer who builds personalized workouts and proactively checks progress, raises $8.5M Series A — Push button, get healthy — The only way to beat laziness is with guilt, so that's what Future sells.
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Kleiner Perkins and FinSMEs
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Facebook says it won't pay commissions to employees who sell political ads; source: Zuckerberg decided to keep selling political ads after an internal debate — Company leaders considered dropping such ads, which are now viewed as a headache — Facebook Inc. said it stopped paying commissions …
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| Sijia Jiang / Reuters: |
Lenovo reports Q4 profit of $118M, up 389% YoY, on revenue of $11.7B, up 10.1% YoY, helped by strong PC sales, says production is unaffected by trade war — HONG KONG (Reuters) - Tech giant Lenovo Group Ltd on Thursday reported a market-beating three-fold surge in quarterly profit helped …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Walmart launches a line of Android tablets under its Onn store brand starting at $64, which ship with Play Store and Google apps, unlike Amazon's Fire tablets — Earlier this year it was reported that Walmart was working on bringing its own Android tablets to the market to compete with Amazon's popular Fire tablets.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Rotten Tomatoes says it will now calculate the Audience Score using only ratings or reviews from users whose ticket purchase has been verified through Fandango — Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes is taking additional steps to confirm that audience members actually see a movie before leaving a rating or review.| The Keyword: |
Google says it has partnered with delivery services including DoorDash and Postmates to let users order food via Google Search, Maps, or Assistant in the US — French fries, lettuce wraps, massaman curry, chicken wings, cupcakes—I could go on. When I was pregnant with my son last year, my cravings were completely overpowering.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
PlanetScale, a database-as-a-service startup based on Vitess, the tech that helped scale YouTube, raises $22M Series A led by a16z — PlanetScale's founders invented the technology called Vitess that scaled YouTube and Dropbox. Now they're selling it to any enterprise that wants their data both secure and consistently accessible.| Dave Lee / BBC: |
Leaked memo: ARM has told staff it must suspend business, including all active contracts, support entitlements, and pending engagements, with Huawei — UK-based chip designer ARM has told staff it must suspend business with Huawei, according to internal documents obtained by the BBC.
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| John Biggs / CoinDesk: |
Robinhood launches trading for seven cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin and ethereum, in New York after receiving a BitLicense from regulators in January — Robinhood, the popular stock and crypto investing app, has officially launched bitcoin, ethereum, and other cryptocurrency trading in New York.| Ginny Marvin / Search Engine Land: |
Google begins rolling out an updated mobile search design with a black “ad” label and favicons for all organic results — The new look brings some branding to the search results, and preps the mobile search for more types of content and actions for users to take right from the search results.
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