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Google's Chrome 76, now in beta, will block Flash by default; a Google employee claims Chrome 76 will prevent sites from detecting users in Incognito Mode — Following version 75's release on Android, Mac, Windows, and Linux last week, the next beta release of Google's browser is rolling out.
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| Nolan O'Brien / Twitter: |
Twitter says its official app will return to the Mac by using its existing iOS codebase through Project Catalyst, with full feature parity with other platforms — What's the news? — Last week, Apple announced Project Catalyst for macOS 10.15 Catalina, which makes it easy for developers … | Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Sources: Libra Foundation, overseeing Facebook's upcoming cryptocurrency, may have eBay, Coinbase, Vodafone, a16z, USV, Thrive, more among the launch partners — Facebook has been quietly building out its cryptocurrency for over a year, and it looks like that time has been well spent …
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| Leigh Cuen / CoinDesk: |
Sources: as Stellar and others refused to partner and MobileCoin refused to sell, Facebook hired several dozen blockchain experts for several million/year each — Facebook's GlobalCoin project, also known as Project Libra, may face significant hurdles as the social media giant works toward a prospective launch.| Wall Street Journal: |
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| Raphael Satter / Associated Press: |
Researchers say a LinkedIn profile, now gone, of a woman connected to US policy experts and insiders, exhibited activity typical of state-run espionage — LONDON (AP) — Katie Jones sure seemed plugged into Washington's political scene. The 30-something redhead boasted a job at a top …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Black Hat removes Rep. Will Hurd as the 2019 Black Hat USA keynote speaker amid questions about his voting record on women's rights — Rep. Will Hurd will no longer give the keynote address at the Black Hat security conference amid questions about his voting record on women's rights.
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| Jason Schreier / Kotaku: |
Amazon Game Studios confirms reorganization after report that dozens of game developers were laid off; source: devs given 60 days to find new jobs at Amazon — Yesterday, as the video game industry's attention was focused squarely on the final day of the E3 convention in Los Angeles …
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Sources: T-Mobile and Sprint have approached Dish, Charter, and Altice about buying Boost Mobile and some of Sprint's spectrum to get DOJ's approval for merger — WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is moving closer to approving T-Mobile's $26 billion merger with Sprint …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon shuts down Spark, its Instagram rival launched in 2017; URL directs to #FoundItOnAmazon, its product discovery site similar to its Interesting Finds tool — Amazon's two-year-old Instagram competitor, Amazon Spark, is no more. — Hoping to capitalize on the social shopping trend … | New York Times: |
Researchers find some sleep apps and trackers provide inaccurate data and can cause an increased fixation on sleep, which can worsen anxiety and insomnia — Are you sabotaging your sleep in your quest to improve it? — Many new tools are becoming available to monitor your sleep or help … | Amrita Khalid / Engadget: |
Facebook releases AI Habitat, a platform to research embodied AI, which uses data from physical surroundings, and Replica, a dataset of sample spaces, on Github — Will virtual assistants be able to tell the difference between your living room and your kitchen? Or even help you find a missing book or set of keys?
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| Barclay Bram / Nautilus: |
WeChat's data centralization has inextricably linked it to all aspects of daily life in China and made it a cornerstone of the government's social-credit system — Living in China with the app that knows everything about me. — It's 9 a.m. on a typical morning in Chengdu and I'm awakened by the sound of my phone alarm.Sponsor Posts
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