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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple tests Face ID and Touch ID sign-in for iCloud․com on iOS 13 and macOS Catalina betas — For iOS 13, iPadOS 13, and macOS Catalina beta testers, Apple is trying out a new sign-in process for iCloud on the web. When you head to beta.icloud.com on a device running the betas …
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Engadget, The Verge, Mashable, MSPoweruser, Firstpost Tech, SlashGear, iPhone Hacks, and PYMNTS.com
| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
FBI and ICE have access to 641M photos including driver's license photos from 21 states for facial recognition searches, internal docs and GAO report show — A cache of records shared with The Washington Post reveals that agents are scanning millions of Americans' faces without their knowledge or consent.
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New York Times, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, and The Hill
Tweets: @nytimes, @virtuallybeth, @raicestexas, @annamerlan, @spytalker, @burritojustice, @someday_deane, @alvarombedoya, and @timkmak
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Mozilla says it has no plans to enable DNS-over-HTTPS by default in Firefox in the UK, after ISPs and the UK government criticize its support of the protocol — But there's nothing stopping users from enabling the DNS-over-HTTPS feature in Firefox on their own, though.
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TechCrunch, MSPoweruser, ZDNet, and CircleID
Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @leonardjfrench, @maxtemkin, @firefox, @campuscodi, and @liampomfret
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
7-Eleven Japan shut down its 7Pay mobile payment app two days after launch after hackers reset passwords for ~900 accounts and made ~$500K in illegal charges — Hackers exploit 7-Eleven's poorly designed password reset function to make unwanted charges on 900 customers' accounts.
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Digital Trends, The Verge, Japan Times, PYMNTS.com, Engadget, Nikkei Asian Review, Business Insider, SlashGear, and BBC
| Leticia Miranda / BuzzFeed News: |
A list of Amazon's known businesses, subsidiaries, and brands, including some that have been discontinued or absorbed into other services — Everything about Amazon in 2019 is inconceivably big: Amazon will make up an estimated 38% of the US e-commerce market this year … | Ruby Prosser Scully / New Scientist: |
Researchers say they have been able to store the digital data of thumbnail-sized images on molecules smaller than DNA and retrieve it with ~99% accuracy — DNA isn't the only molecule we could use for digital storage. It turns out that solutions containing sugars, amino acids and other small molecules could replace hard drives too.
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Scientific American, Engadget, Brown University, Slashdot, and CNET
Tweets: @khlopomanstvo, @brownuresearch, @synbiobeta, and @brownuresearch
| Nellie Bowles / New York Times: |
A look at the growing demand for screen time consultants, parenting coaches getting paid up to $250/hour to help parents wean their kids off devices — Screen consultants are here to help you remember life before smartphones and tablets. (Spoiler: get a dog!)
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Axios. Tweets: @hypervisible, @abenedikt, @drvantilburg, @djforohio, @heatherkelly, @ozzyetomi, @seanherms, and @raju
| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
Some creators are posting apologies for bad behavior on alternate platforms, letting them acknowledge issues without damaging their main channels — Creators have perfected the inauthentic public apology — When Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm released a statement apologizing for his behavior …
Tweets: @codinghorror and @valshen
| Martha Pskowski / The Verge: |
Uber Eats couriers in Mexico, delivering orders by bikes, describe dangerous work conditions and impossibility of obtaining promised insurance after accidents — In the past six months, five Uber Eats couriers in Mexico have died in crashes, and dozens more have been injured.| Emma Cosgrove / Supply Chain Dive: |
TradeLens, Maersk and IBM's blockchain-based platform, now has five of the world's top six carriers, responsible for 50%+ of all container shipping, on board — Dive Brief: — Hapag-Lloyd and Ocean Network Express (ONE) — the world's fifth and sixth largest ocean carriers, respectively … | Reuters: |
Source: CFIUS has cleared SoftBank's $2.25B investment in GM's Cruise after fresh assurances that Cruise's technology would be completely off limits to SoftBank — (Reuters) - Cruise, a U.S. self-driving vehicle company majority-owned by General Motors Co, told Reuters on Friday …
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SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS.com, and Engadget
| South China Morning Post: |
As China's economic growth slows and US trade tensions hit new investment, companies like Baidu and Tencent are freezing headcounts and restructuring operations — Tech sector demand for new hires down 25 per cent in first quarter from a year earlier, while jobs seekers up 37 per cent …
Tweets: @benktallmadge
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