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TiVo confirms it is planning to place pre-roll video ads before DVR recordings for all customers, even those with a lifetime subscription plan — Rolling out to TiVo's current devices over the next 90 days — So much for it being an early, experimental test.
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| Emily Stewart / Vox: |
Polling of US adults shows that most, across party lines, support breaking up Big Tech, such as reversing Facebook's Instagram purchase, to improve competition — One hundred cardboard cutouts of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg stand outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC … | Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
AMD says it is delaying release of its Ryzen 9 3950X until November due to high demand and the time needed to ensure sufficient stock availability — In a shock email late on Friday, AMD has released a statement to clarify the situation it is in with the manufacturing of its latest Ryzen processors.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook acquires Servicefriend, a startup that builds customer service AI chatbots for messaging apps; founders now work for Facebook's Calibra, per LinkedIn — As Facebook prepares to launch its new cryptocurrency Libra in 2020, it's putting the pieces in place to help it run.| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
Sources: many Airbnb employees are frustrated they can't sell company stock; to compensate, management has offered more perks to keep longtime employees happy — Tension has grown among a 6,000-person work force as it waits to sell company shares, people with knowledge of the situation said.
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| Patrick Flanary / Quartz: |
How Neil Young's reluctance to embrace streaming doomed his company PonoMusic, even as the company helped the industry to adapt high-resolution music — Toward the end of music legend Neil Young's recent memoir, he makes an admission: “I was wrong.” — The book, To Feel the Music … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
YouTube Music rolling out “Discover Mix”, a personalized playlist mostly focused on evergreen tunes and artists that the user might not have heard before — From the beginning, YouTube Music has relied on playlists from the service's curators to automated creations based on your listening history.
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| William Davies / The Guardian: |
Contrary to hype around big data, the explosion of available information amid eroding trust in media makes it harder, not easier, to achieve consensus on truth — It's not about foreign trolls, filter bubbles or fake news. Technology encourages us to believe we can all have first-hand access …
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Facebook says it has removed tens of thousands of apps from about 400 developers to date, as part of its investigation following the Cambridge Analytica scandal — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook indicated on Friday that the scale of its data privacy issues was far larger than it had previously acknowledged …
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| Sharanya Pillai / The Business Times: |
Singapore-based AI startup Advance.ai, which helps banks and other clients with fraud detection and credit scoring, raises $80M Series C to fuel Asia expansion — SHARANYA PILLAI hspillai@sph.com.sg @SharanyaBT — LOCAL artificial intelligence startup ADVANCE.AI has raised US$80 million …
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| Henry Chu / Variety: |
Netflix CEO warns of a “whole new world” when streaming services from Disney and Apple drop in November, reiterates that Netflix isn't in “acquisition business” — After dominating the subscription streaming scene for so long, Netflix is girding for a new phase …
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| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Sign in with Apple, which is available for users with iOS 13 for a small number of apps including Nike, Instacart, Bird, and Kayak at launch — Apple wants its new password killer to cut your dependency on Facebook and Google—if you can find it in the apps you use most
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