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| Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac: |
Sources reveal sleep tracking features coming to Apple Watch: sleep quality monitoring, option to auto-disable alarms if user wakes up before they sound, more — There's been a lot of speculation about Apple Watch sleep tracking, especially after Apple acquired Beddit …
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| Jake Newby / RADII: |
Viral Chinese deepfake app Zao, which lets users put themselves in pre-selected scenes from popular movies and soap operas, sparks privacy concerns — The launch of deepfake-style face swap app ZAO has seen it leap up the download charts in China, but it's also raising a host of privacy concerns
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook confirms it is considering testing removal of Like counts — Facebook could soon start hiding the Like counter on News Feed posts to protect users' from envy and dissuade them from self-censorship. Instagram is already testing this in 7 countries including Canada and Brazil …
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| Seema Jayachandran / New York Times: |
A study of the fastest-growing startups established from 2007 to 2014 finds middle age is a typical starting point for the founders of successful tech companies — It took an entrepreneur to reimagine the mundane home thermostat as an object of beauty — and then to make a fortune based on that vision.
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| Rachel Cericola / Wirecutter: |
Review of Neighbors, Ring's neighborhood watch feature: great for locals concerned about crime but its privacy policy is lacking and it is not really “opt-in” — Security cameras and doorbell cameras can make people feel safer, but they also raise privacy concerns.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
How MuleSoft disclosed a critical security flaw, proactively contacting customers to verify patches were installed and openly responding to reporter questions — MuleSoft deals with a sensitive security issue and sets up an example for the whole industry to follow. — John is a software engineer and a pretty good one.Thanks:@campuscodi
| Gregory Barber / Wired: |
Profile of Lambda School, an online coding program that is free in exchange for a share of post-graduation income, has 2,700 students, and is growing 10%/month — Early this summer, the tech entrepreneur Austen Allred was on Reddit, as he often is, when he noticed something suspicious.
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Interview with Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri about the company's strategy to transform all of its products to “as-a-service” offerings — Exclusive: Neri tells Ars about the leap HPE is making—and why not everyone will make it. — It's been just over two years … | Song Jingli Tue / KrASIA: |
Tencent invests $125M in Kuaikan World, which runs a Chinese comics app and an online community for fans of comics; Kuaikan's app has 200M+ users and 40M+ MAUs — Beijing-based Kuaikan World, which runs a comic app and a community for comic fans, announced via its WeChat channel on Tuesday …
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| Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Reason: |
Sealed memos: FBI agents praised Backpage.com for its cooperation in child trafficking investigations, even as the government pursued its case against the site — Sealed memos fought over in federal court last week show authorities have known for years that claims about Backpage were bogus.
Tweets: @reason, @reason, and @rosealliance
| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Sources: Android and Windows have also been targeted by the websites that sought to infect iPhones of Uighur ethnic minority in China — The unprecedented attack on Apple iPhones revealed by Google this week was broader than first thought. Multiple sources with knowledge of the situation …
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| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
Inside Amazon's plans to integrate Alexa deep into in-car systems, as it prepares to announce the second version of the Alexa Auto SDK this week — Competing with Apple and Google when you don't have your own smartphone platform is tough. But Amazon has a plan—and lots of patience.Thanks:@technologizer
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