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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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| New York Times: |
Google says around 25% of calls placed using its Duplex AI service started with a human; calls to ~12 restaurants found people made 3 of 4 successful bookings — In a free service, bots call restaurants and make reservations. The technology is impressive, except for when the caller is actually a person.
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
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| Tara Seals / Threatpost: |
Researcher shares zero-day Windows 10 local privilege escalation exploit that grants full control over files reserved for full-privilege users — A Windows zero-day exploit dropped by developer SandboxEscaper would allow local privilege-escalation (LPE), by importing legacy tasks from other systems into the Task Scheduler utility.| 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.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
GitHub launches Sponsors, a tool that lets you pay your favorite open source contributors; developers can opt in to a “Sponsor me” button on their repositories — GitHub today launched Sponsors, a new tool that lets you give financial support to open source developers.
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Ireland's Data Protection Commission, the lead EU supervisory authority for Google, announces investigation into Google's online advertising data collection — KEY POINTS — Ireland's Data Protection Commission says its probe will examine whether Google's processing of data in advertising transactions breaches EU privacy rules.
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| 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.| 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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Tweets: @josephfcox, @jonrussell, and @ronamadeo
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Instawork, a platform that connects hospitality workers with employers, raises $18M round led by Spark Capital, GV, and Burst Capital to expand across the US — More than a third of U.S. workers — about 57 million people — are part of the so-called gig workforce, according to a recent Gallup poll.
Tweets: @bgurley
| 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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CNBC, ZDNet, The Guardian, Reuters, South China Morning Post, Android Authority, The Verge, Business Insider, Washington Post, VICE, South China Morning Post, Bloomberg, ExtremeTech, Chris Swan's Weblog, Wired, Firstpost Tech, Android Central, Pandaily, The Register, SiliconANGLE, Forbes, TechNode, KrASIA, The Verge, New York Times, Financial Times, The Verge, and BGR
| 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.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Amazon shareholders reject two non-binding proposals to ban sale of facial recognition tech to government customers, despite pressure from ACLU and others — Amazon shareholders have rejected two proposals that would have requested the company not to sell its facial recognition technology to government customers.
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| Camilla Hodgson / Financial Times: |
Samsung files emergency motion to redact details of its settlement with Qualcomm last year, revealed to be $100M, made public in the FTC v. Qualcomm ruling — Phonemaker Samsung on Wednesday filed an emergency motion to redact “highly sensitive and confidential” details of its settlement …
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| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
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Tweets: @neilcybart, @patrickmoorhead, @benbajarin, @ericjhonsa, @newley, @reneritchie, and @fosspatents. Thanks:@cremnob
| Keith Barry / Consumer Reports: |
Testing finds Tesla's updated Autopilot software, designed to make changing lanes “more seamless”, does not work well and could create safety risks for drivers — CR finds that latest version of Tesla's automatic lane-changing feature is far less competent than a human driver
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Washington Post, Gizmodo, SiliconANGLE, CNBC, Digital Trends, ExtremeTech, Mashable, Forbes, TechCrunch, and SlashGear
Tweets: @cgrantwsj, @neilcybart, @consumerreports, @lizadixon, @andrewmartonik, @nickbunkley, and @jyarow
| Laura Hautala / CNET: |
Researcher: since at least October, web source code for thousands of Instagram profiles leaked the user's contact info; the issue was fixed in March — Instagram's website leaked user contact information, including phone numbers and email addresses, over a period of at least four months, a researcher says.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Cala Health, an SF-based startup developing wearable electronic devices to tackle chronic disease, raises $50M Series C from investors including GV — Cala Health, a medical technology company that develops “wearable therapies” to tackle chronic disease, has raised $50 million in a series C round …
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Business Wire and Xconomy
| Olaf Storbeck / Financial Times: |
Deutsche Bank says a software glitch has, for almost a decade, prevented some potentially suspicious transactions from being flagged to law enforcement — A software glitch at Deutsche Bank has for almost a decade prevented some potentially suspicious transactions from being flagged …
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New York Times, PYMNTS.com, MarketWatch, New York Times, Bloomberg, and Wall Street Journal
Tweets: @davidenrich and @elizabeth_joh
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