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Apple says it has temporarily disabled the Apple Watch Walkie Talkie app, due to a vulnerability that could allow iPhone eavesdropping, while it works on a fix — Apple has disabled the Apple Watch Walkie Talkie app due to an unspecified vulnerability that could allow a person to listen …
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Belgian broadcaster obtains 1,000+ Google Assistant audio clips from a Google contractor, some of which seem to be recorded inadvertently and may violate GDPR — GOOGLE, AMAZON, AND Apple say their AI-powered virtual assistants make it easier to get things done on smartphones or at home.
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Google admits one of its language reviewers leaked confidential Dutch audio data and says it is investigating the issue — We're focused on building products that work for everyone, and as part of this, we invest significant resources to ensure that our speech technology works for a wide variety of languages, accents and dialects.
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Apple pushes silent Mac update to remove the hidden web server in the Zoom app that could let websites add a user to a video call without their permission — Apple has released a silent update for Mac users removing a vulnerable component in Zoom, the popular video conferencing app …
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Sources: Bird lost about $100M in the first quarter, with revenue shrinking to about $15M, and the company told people that it has about $100M in cash left — The wintertime was bleak for Bird. In this year's first quarter, the electric scooter operator lost nearly $100 million …
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France passes a 3% digital services tax on sales in France for large internet companies with over €25M in French revenues; the law affects about 30 companies — France has approved a digital services tax despite threats of retaliation by the US, which argues that it unfairly targets American tech giants.| Ana Swanson / New York Times: |
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon says it will spend $700M to retrain 100K, or about a third, of its US employees by 2025, acknowledging the impact of technology and automation on jobs — Amazon is embarking on a $700 million effort to retrain its U.S. workforce, in a high-profile acknowledgment of the impact …
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| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Sources: Amazon Music Unlimited's subscribers grew ~70% in the past year, compared to ~25% for Spotify; in April Amazon had 32M+ music subscribers in total — Amazon is adding subscribers to its music-streaming service at a faster rate than rivals such as Spotify, Apple and Google … | Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept: |
A US nonprofit org founded by Google and IBM is working with a company helping China's government secretly monitor phone and internet activity of 200M people — An American organization founded by tech giants Google and IBM is working with a company that is helping China's authoritarian …
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| Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News: |
Facebook is starting to show users which marketing and data companies have your data, how an ad was targeted, and how to opt-out — The new tool tells you how an ad was targeted and which third-party agency or data broker was used. It also links to pages to opt out.
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Study: 63% of UK VC firms have no senior women in their investment teams and women occupy just 13% of senior level roles, the same as in 2017 — Luciana Lixandru and Sonali De Rycker of Accel. — GETTY IMAGES FOR TECHCRUNCH — U.K. venture capital firms aren't doing enough to diversify … | Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Kuo: Apple's 2020 iPhone will include a smaller TrueDepth camera, reducing the size of the notch, and a rear-facing camera with a seven-piece lens system — Apple is expected to significantly decrease the size of iPhone's TrueDepth “notch” in 2020, modifying or potentially removing … | Meagan Simpson / BetaKit: |
Montreal-founded Sonder, an Airbnb competitor offering apartments-as-hotel rooms, raises $210M Series D at a $1B+ valuation — Montreal-founded Sonder (formerly Flatbook) has raised a $210 million USD ($274 million CAD) Series D funding round, surpassing a valuation of $1 billion.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
OneTrust, which builds tools to help companies navigate data protection and privacy policies, raises $200M Series A led by Insight Partners at a $1.3B valuation — GDPR, and the newer California Consumer Privacy Act, have given a legal bite to ongoing developments in online privacy and data protection …
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SEC approves the first-ever regulated token offering, letting blockchain startup Blockstack offer $28M in tokens under Regulation A+, an alternative to IPOs — The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) gave blockchain startup Blockstack the go-ahead today to conduct a $28 million digital …
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
German mobile banking startup N26 launches in the US, offering bank accounts with debit cards in partnership with Axos bank — European fintech startup N26 is now accepting customers in the U.S. The company is launching a bank account with a debit card that should provide a better experience compared to traditional retail banks.| E. Tammy Kim / New Yorker: |
A look at the practice of personalized learning, an individual-comes-first approach usually aided by tech, and how it is applied in many Rhode Island schools — Untangling the mixed record of the latest big-fix educational trend promoted by Silicon Valley.
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Lidar startup Luminar raises $100M, bringing its total raised to $250M+, and launches Iris, a compact lidar unit that costs under $1,000 for production vehicles — Luminar is one of the major players in the new crop of lidar companies that have sprung up all over the world, and it's moving fast to outpace its peers.Sponsor Posts
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