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EU's top court rules that Google does not have to apply “right to be forgotten” globally — Europe's top court has ruled that Google does not have to apply the right to be forgotten globally. — It means that firm only needs to remove references to articles and other material …
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Facebook buys CTRL-Labs, which makes a bracelet that measures neuron activity to detect movements the user is thinking about; sources: size of deal is $500M-$1B — - CTRL-Labs is said to fetch $500 million to $1 billion — Facebook may one day pair the technology with AR or VR glasses
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Kik says it is shutting down its messaging app and will reduce its headcount to 19 people, amid its heated legal battle with the SEC over its ICO — The Kik app is officially shutting down. The company will reduce its headcount to 19 people, and will focus solely on converting Kin users into Kin buyers …
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Microsoft is creating a new Data Dignity initiative in an attempt to help users control their own personal data, possibly to the point of buying and selling it — Microsoft is staffing up a new Data Dignity team in its CTO's office which could help users to control their own personal data …
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How massively popular short-video app TikTok holds our attention, using AI to churn through a deluge of images and sounds to deliver the best bite-size content — On the popular short-video app, young people are churning through images and sounds at warp speed, repurposing reality into ironic, bite-size content.
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The Spotify for Artists app on iOS and Android gets a big revamp with real-time listening stats, after Apple's artist dashboard exited beta last month — Spotify this morning is rolling out an updated version of its app for artists, across both iOS and Android.| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Xiaomi announces Mi 9 Pro 5G with Snapdragon 855+, 8 or 12GB RAM, 6.5-inch 1080p OLED display, and support for 30W fast wireless charging, starting at ~$520 — Full charge in 69 minutes, no wires required — Xiaomi has announced the Mi 9 Pro 5G, a new variant of its generally very good Mi 9 … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Fiddler raises $10.2M Series A, co-led by Lightspeed and Lux Capital, for AI that explains its reasoning, which it aims to launch next year — Explainable AI, which refers to techniques that attempt to bring transparency to traditionally opaque AI models and their predictions, is a burgeoning subfield of machine learning research.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Amazon announces the Voice Interoperability Initiative to improve voice assistant compatibility, with 30+ companies on board but not Google, Apple, and Samsung — A day ahead of its annual fall hardware event, Amazon is making a big partnership announcement: it has created …
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Alibaba closes the acquisition of 33% of Jack Ma's Ant Financial; Ant will now stop paying 37.5% of its pre-tax profits to Alibaba — - E-commerce giant now has 33% interest in the fintech giant — Ant will no longer pay 37.5% of its pre-tax profit to Alibaba| Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News: |
Facebook's content moderation policies are difficult to apply given the breadth of cases, and poor communication between contractors and FB cripples the system — When actor Burt Reynolds died last September, fans across Instagram and Facebook paid tribute to him by posting his 1972 Cosmopolitan magazine centerfold.
Tweets: @katienotopoulos
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Fundbox, which is building a B2B payment and credit network, raises $176M Series C from investors including Allianz X, bringing its total funding to $300M+ — Credit cards have become all but ubiquitous for consumer transactions, and it isn't hard to see why.
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Russian national Andrei Tyurin pleads guilty to stealing the data of 80M+ customers of JPMorgan and other US financial institutions from 2012-2015 — - Tyurin could face 15 to 20 years, will forfeit $19 million — Plea leaves unresolved case against alleged mastermind
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Disney's Bob Iger says he pulled the plug on Disney buying Twitter at the last minute because the nastiness on the platform is “extraordinary” — Hollywood's nicest C.E.O. on the great family dramas of Hollywood — and why he, too, is disturbed by Twitter.
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Fivetran, which helps companies move data from disparate repositories to data warehouses, raises $44M Series B led by a16z, bringing its total raised to $59M+ — Fivetran, a startup that helps companies move data from disparate repositories to data warehouses, announced $44 million Series B financing today …
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Q&A with Huawei CEO Richard Yu about shipping Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro without Play Store apps, its plans for luring developers to Huawei App Gallery, and more — As the world's second largest smartphone manufacturer, the growth of Huawei over the last decade has been immense.Thanks:@anandtech
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Tulip, which is building a no-code app development platform for manufacturers, raises $39.5M Series B led by machine tools manufacturer DMG MORI — Tulip, a software developer building a no-code app development platform tailored to manufacturers, today revealed that it's raised $39.5 million …
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Sentry, an open source application performance management platform, raises $40M Series C led by Accel, bringing its total raised to ~$70M — Application performance management, or APM, concerns tools that help to monitor and manage the performance and availability of software apps.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it is expanding its policies to explicitly prohibit financial scams on the platform and details the kind of scams it's banning — Twitter today says it's expanding its policies to prohibit financial scams on its platform — something you'd think would have already been banned …
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