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Facebook Dating launches in the US as an opt-in feature integrated with Instagram, for users 18 and over, with a separate profile — Are Americans ready to trust Facebook with their dating life? Barely more than a month has passed since the U.S. Federal Trade Commission fined Facebook …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple launches a public beta of Apple Music on the web, available to all subscribers worldwide — Apple Music is coming to the web. Apple today is launching a public beta of its popular music streaming service on the web, which will be available to all Apple Music subscribers worldwide.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is developing in-screen fingerprint tech to work alongside Face ID for its 2020/2021 iPhones and a low-cost 4.7-inch iPhone for H1 2020 — - Company previously replaced fingerprint sensing with Face ID — New low-cost iPhone in the works for first half of next year
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google unveils Assistant Ambient mode that turns docked Android phones and tablets into smart displays with calendar info, weather, smart home controls, more — Why does Google make everything twice? — Today at IFA, Google is announcing a new feature for Google Assistant: Ambient Mode.
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| Klint Finley / Wired: |
Facebook, Microsoft, the Partnership on AI, and seven universities launch the “Deepfake Detection Challenge” to encourage better ways of detecting deepfakes — Deepfakes are improving. The contest, which will include deepfakes created by Facebook, is designed to help researchers keep up.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Google is open sourcing its differential privacy library, which it uses to securely draw insights from data sets containing sensitive user information — Google is making differential privacy available to anyone — Google today announced that it is open-sourcing its so-called differential privacy library …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: WeWork is considering seeking a valuation of ~$20B-$30B in its US IPO, marking a significant reduction from an earlier valuation of $47B — - Valuation would be a step down from earlier $47 billion — IPO plans have received criticism for ‘obfuscating’ details
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| MIT Technology Review: |
MIT Media Lab founder and former director Nicholas Negroponte defends Joi Ito's decision to accept Epstein's money post Epstein's 2008 conviction — At an internal meeting, Nicholas Negroponte shocked some people with his comments on funding from the alleged sex trafficker.
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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Samsung says the 512GB 5G model of Galaxy Fold will be available in Europe starting September 18 for ~$2,000; US launch will happen “in the coming weeks” — After its first attempt at a launch fizzled out in the spring, the Samsung Galaxy Fold is ready to try again at making a first impression.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Sonos announces its first portable speaker, the $399 Sonos Move with WiFi and Bluetooth and support for Google Assistant, Alexa, AirPlay 2, and Spotify Connect — Sonos finally has a speaker that you can take out of your house — Sonos is finally jumping into the world of portable speakers.
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| Katherine Rosman / New York Times: |
YouTube launches a fashion vertical, aggregating the platform's fashion content into one place, as it seeks to expand in the industry — The video platform woos the style set. Will it work? — It's not a “collabo.” It's a “collab.” And it's pronounced “/kəˌlab.”
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
In-depth Android 10 review: adds many oft-requested features, like a dark mode, and gesture navigation is great for a first try, but much work remains — Clear your schedule: this is our longest Android review ever. — It is once again time for Google's big yearly Android rollout.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Atlassian announces new pricing tiers, including a free tier for all services, and new tools, such as data residency controls for companies — At our TC Sessions: Enterprise event, Atlassian co-CEO Scott Farquhar today announced a number of updates to how the company will sell its cloud-based services.
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Google introduces personalized movie and TV show recommendations in mobile search using a swipe left/right interface like in dating apps — When you're settling in for a movie night, or figuring out which shows you might want to binge before they return this fall, it's not always easy to choose from all the options out there.| Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: |
Profile of Koch Disruptive Technologies, Koch Industries' tech fund, which has put ~$500M into startups over two years, as it navigates liberal Silicon Valley — Last year at Base Camp, the sleepaway summer gathering hosted by venerated venture firm Sequoia Capital, a surprise guest greeted …
Tweets: @mcbridesg and @blmohr
| Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast: |
How a high-school dropout added a Huawei router zero-day to the Mirai botnet to create the formidable Satori botnet, which experts say infected 500K+ devices — Teenager behind notorious Satori botnet was an Xbox player who joined an online community that got their kicks from exploiting vulnerabilities … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Palantir has approached several major investors, like SoftBank, about a large funding round as it postpones its expected 2020 IPO until 2022 or 2023 — - Peter Thiel's data company in talks with non-U.S. investors — IPO could be postposend until 2022 or 2023, sources say| Pew Research Center: |
Pew study of 4,272 US adults: 86% have heard about facial recognition tech, 56% trust law enforcement to use it responsibly compared to 36% for tech companies — The ability of governments and law enforcement agencies to monitor the public using facial recognition was once the province of dystopian science fiction.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Patreon CEO Jack Conte says the company is considering providing HR support, capital funding, health insurance, and other services to creators — Patreon, the subscription-based fan platform, is eyeing a range of new services to support creators — including potentially providing loans at some point, CEO Jack Conte said.| Paige Leskin / Business Insider: |
Instagram influencers in countries affected by the removal of likes see less engagement and slower growth in followers, causing posts to sink down in the feed — - Instagram has been testing in some countries what its platform would look like without likes appearing on posts.
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
In a testimony to House committee staffers, 8chan owner Jim Watkins says 8chan “has no intent of deleting constitutionally protected hate speech” — The private deposition lasted around four hours — Jim Watkins, the owner of 8chan, gave testimony to Congress on Thursday … | Jane Manchun Wong: |
Medium's app code shows the company is working on an Instapaper-like reader app function that would let users save articles from the web to a reading list — When Medium was first launched, it stood out among other blogging platforms for its minimalist design.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Stripe launches Stripe Capital, a service for advancing loans to customers that get repaid out of future sales made through Stripe's platform, in the US — A year ago we broke the news that payment giant Stripe was quietly making its first move into business finance by testing a service for advancing cash to existing customers.
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