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Sources: Apple plans to fund original, exclusive podcasts and has reached out to media companies, in a bid to compete with Spotify — - Tech giant looks to use exclusives to compete with Spotify — Company has recently added new Podcasts Mac app, web interface
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Highlights from the Senate hearing with Facebook's David Marcus on the proposed Libra cryptocurrency, and what was left unanswered — Facebook will only build its own Calibra cryptocurrency wallet into Messenger and Whatsapp, and will refuse to embed competing wallets …
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| John Markoff / New York Times: |
Neuralink, which has received $158M in funding including $100M from Elon Musk, hopes to begin testing its brain-computer interface on humans by Q2 of 2020 — SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk aspires to make inserting a computer connection into your brain as safe and painless as Lasik eye surgery.
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| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
Four of the seven Google employees who organized a 20,000-person walkout in November have resigned from the company — FOUR OF THE seven Google employees who organized a 20,000-person walkout in November have resigned from the company, including two women who claimed Google retaliated against them for their internal activism.
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Sprint says hackers had access to customers' names, billing, device details, and more via Samsung's website, fails to disclose the number affected — Hackers had access to customer info such as names, billing, device details, and more. — US mobile network operator Sprint said hackers broke …
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Apple says it is sending out another silent update for macOS to fix a webcam vulnerability affecting apps using Zoom's tech including RingCentral and Zhumu — RingCentral and Zhumu are now patched — Apple informed us that it has sent out a silent security update to Macs to remove software …
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| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
A look at privacy-focused DuckDuckGo, which has ~1% share of the search engine market but says it handles ~40M searches a day, up 3x over the past two years — PAOLI, Pa. — Gabriel Weinberg is taking aim at Google from a small building 20 miles west of Philadelphia that looks like a fake castle.
Tweets: @eff, @imhassan, and @quatrainman
| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Trump threatens to “take a look” at Google for alleged China ties, in a tweet that cited claims Peter Thiel made at a conference and repeated on Fox News — President Trump on Tuesday appeared to threaten that his administration would “take a look” at Google … | BBC: |
Pearson, the world's largest education publisher, says all future releases of its 1,500 active US titles will be “digital first” and updated on an ongoing basis — The world's largest education publisher has taken the first step towards phasing out print books by making all its learning resources “digital first”.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC authorizes funding for ISPs to provide broadband access for 220,000+ unserved rural homes and businesses in 24 states as part of the Connect America Fund — Tens of millions of Americans still don't have broadband Internet. — More than 220,000 unserved rural homes and businesses …
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Inside a lawsuit against Girls Do Porn, one of Pornhub's popular channels, which 22 women allege post videos without proper consent, leading to doxxing and more — Pornhub is hosting videos that have been viewed hundreds of millions of times. The women in them say they thought the videos …
Tweets: @katiedrumm, @jason_koebler, @josephfcox, @barry, @samleecole, @josephfcox, @samleecole, @samleecole, @samleecole, and @jason_koebler
| Jeff Kauflin / Forbes: |
Finix, a payments infrastructure platform that lets companies own and control their payment processing, raises $17.5M Series A led by Bain Capital — In the U.S., electronic payments is a highly regulated business whose esoteric ins and outs can make your eyes glaze over.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google Maps will now show bike-sharing station information on Android and iOS in 23 new cities globally, more than a year after debuting the feature in NYC — Google Maps is bringing bike-sharing station information to global markets from today, more than a year after first debuting the feature in New York City.
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| Angel Krasimirov / Reuters: |
Bulgaria says hackers stole millions of taxpayers' financial data in June; an expert says nearly all adult citizens' personal records may have been compromised — SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's finance minister apologized to the country on Tuesday after admitting hackers had stolen millions … | Joe Maring / Android Central: |
LG Pay, with both NFC and magnetic stripe terminal support, is now available in the US for the LG G8, will expand to other LG phones in the coming months — LG Pay, LG's copy and paste alternative to Samsung Pay, has been available in South Korea ever since 2017.
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Highlights from the House's antitrust hearing, where Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook executives fought criticism that their companies dominate their markets — U.S. technology giants are headed for their biggest antitrust showdown with Congress in 20 years as lawmakers and regulators demand …
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Researchers shed light on how WeChat censors images in private chats automatically in real time by using a massive and growing index of MD5 cryptographic hashes — The super app instantly blocks even the images for over 1 billion users and growing. — WeChat is a window into the future of the internet in many different ways.| Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News: |
Google has banned Chinese app developer CooTek from its ad platforms and Play Store, removing 60+ CooTek Android apps for bombarding users with disruptive ads — Google is banning CooTek, a publicly traded Chinese app developer, from its Play store and ad platforms after BuzzFeed News … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Uber open sources Plato, a tool for developing and testing conversational AI across many deep learning frameworks including TensorFlow and PyTorch — Designing conversational AI isn't as Sysiphean as it sounds. Tools like Google's Dialogflow, Microsoft's Bot Framework …
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