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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
DoorDash confirms a data breach on May 4 affecting 4.9M customers, workers, and merchants, with last-four digits of payment cards, driver's license info stolen — DoorDash has confirmed a data breach. — The food delivery company said in a blog post Thursday that 4.9 million customers …
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blog.doordash.com, Engadget, Threatpost, CNN, The Hill, Gizmodo, CNET, Digital Trends, The Verge, BleepingComputer, TechSpot, NBC Bay Area, and Tom's Guide
Tweets: @williamturton, @chrisalbon, @malwarejake, @susanthesquark, @zackwhittaker, and @artemr
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber overhauls its app to become “the OS for everyday life”, merging ride-hailing and food delivery, boosting alternate modes of travel, and new safety features — The company unveiled the new app at a splashy, Apple-like event in San Francisco
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The Verge, The Next Web, The Guardian, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Telegraph, CNBC, CNN, Engadget, CBS San Francisco, PYMNTS.com, VentureBeat, Axios, and Curbed
| Major Nelson / Xbox Live's Major Nelson: |
Microsoft and Google announce Google Assistant support in English for the Xbox One in beta, with the ability to launch games, take screenshots, and more — On Team Xbox, we put customer choice at the forefront of our decision making and regularly use community feedback to help guide the experiences we deliver to gamers.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Tesla starts rolling out Software Version 10.0, featuring Smart Summon, a karaoke library, Spotify, Netflix, YouTube integration, and more — Plus a lot of improvements to other car features — Tesla has announced that version 10 of its in-car software has begun rolling out to Model S, Model X, and Model 3 owners.
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple support document says the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro can identify non-certified displays and will warn users about them — Apple has published today a new support document with more details on replacing iPhone parts through third-party repairs. More specifically …
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| New York Times: |
Report: number of countries using political disinformation campaigns more than doubled to 70 since 2017; Facebook remains #1 social network for disinformation — In Vietnam, citizens were enlisted to post pro-government messages on their personal Facebook pages.
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| Bloomberg: |
Peloton closes down 11% on its first day of trading, after raising $1.16B at a valuation of ~$8.1B — - Fitness startup opened at $27 after pricing shares at $29 — Disintegration of WeWork's IPO plans has rattled investors — Peloton Interactive Inc. fell as much nearly 15% Thursday …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Cloudflare, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox add support for HTTP/3, the next major version of the HTTP protocol — Next iteration of the HTTP protocol starts making its way into production systems. — HTTP/3, the next major iteration of the HTTP protocol, is getting a big boost today … | Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
YouTube says it will remove content that violates its guidelines regardless of who said it, including politicians, but will make exceptions depending on context — Context of videos is important, CEO says — YouTube will remove content from politicians using its platform if their content violates … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook to run a limited test hiding public like, reaction, and video view counts, first in Australia, starting tomorrow — If their post has lots of Likes, you feel jealous. If your post doesn't get enough Likes, you feel embarassed. And when you just chase Likes …
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| Tiffany Hsu / New York Times: |
Twitch updates its design, tied to an advertising campaign meant to emphasize that it is an all-purpose live-streaming platform, not just for gamers — Without video games, Twitch would not be what it is now: a live-streaming platform with millions of devoted viewers and broadcasters, some of them with tattoos of the company's logo.
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| Dave Gershgorn / onezero.medium.com: |
Rohit Prasad, VP and head scientist for Alexa, explains Alexa's new “Why did you do that?” feature, which gives users reason why it took a certain action — In an interview with OneZero, Amazon's chief Alexa scientist explains the voice assistant's complicated new feature| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Beyond Pricing, which takes 1% of bookings to help homeowners optimize how much they charge each day on platforms like Airbnb, raises $42.5M Series A — Most people just guess how to price their vacation rental based on minimal research, or take platforms like Airbnb's suggestions that just want to maximize their own revenue.| Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News: |
Google quietly removed at least 46 apps from the Play store belonging to iHandy, a major Chinese developer, but won't comment on the reason for the removals — Last week, Google quietly removed at least 46 apps from the Play store belonging to iHandy, a major Chinese mobile developer …
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft challenges a secrecy order preventing it from telling an enterprise customer that the US government issued a warrant for data belonging to it — - Company says it's challenging ‘secrecy order’ on data demand — Enterprise customer targeted in warrant isn't identified
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Microsoft on the Issues, OnMSFT.com, WinBuzzer, Ars Technica, and VentureBeat. Tweets: @dinabass
| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Amazon announces a new line of Alexa-enabled wearables equipped with mics and speakers, including the $180 Echo Frames eye glasses and $130 Echo Loop ring — Amazon is rolling out a new line of wearables that work with Alexa today including the Echo Frames eyeglasses and the Echo Loop smart ring.
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Tweets: @campuscodi, @mikalfm, @alexqgb, @fightfortheftr, @joannastern, @neilcybart, @backlon, @neilcybart, @caseynewton, @mcwm, @markgurman, @benedictevans, @benthompson, and @stshank
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
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| Craig Lloyd / iFixit News: |
iFixit teardown: 40mm Apple Watch Series 5 battery has a metal casing, instead of traditional foil pouch, which makes it physically stronger, and more compact — This week we tore down the 44mm Apple Watch Series 5 and discovered only a handful of minor differences from last year's Series 4.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Gatsby, a California-based company developing an open source website and Progressive Web App generator, raises $15M Series A led by CRV — Gatsby, a Berkeley, California-based company developing an open source website and Progressive Web App (PWA) generator, today revealed that it's secured $15 million in series A funding led by CRV.
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Oculus Quest will be updated in Nov. to be able to wire up directly to PCs, like the Rift, and in 2020 will get support for hand tracking, no controllers needed — Just before the annual VR/AR conference Oculus Connect 6, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg released a teaser video hinting …
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Engadget, Oculus Blog, Oculus, Oculus, Wareable, Adweek, Thurrott, Facebook, SlashGear, Android Central, and PYMNTS.com
| Scott Stein / CNET: |
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Nikkei Asian Review, Decrypt, Ars Technica, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Oculus Blog, Modern Consensus, Tom's Hardware, Android Central, VentureBeat, The Next Web, InsideBitcoins.com, Android Police, Crowdfund Insider, Coinspeaker, CoinDesk, Coinspeaker, Cointelegraph, CryptoGlobe, Social Media Today, Axios, Telegraph, and Engadget. Thanks:@iansherr
| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Google to shut down Bulletin, an app it launched in 2018 as a limited pilot to let users report and publish local news stories about their communities, in Nov. — Google launched a new hyperlocal news service in early 2018 called Bulletin. It's understandable if you don't remember … | Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
Public benefit corporation Summer, a platform to streamline student loan payments and debt forgiveness, raises $10M Series A led by QED Investors — $1.5 trillion. That's the amount of outstanding student loan debt held by American citizens according to the New York Fed.
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Mednition, an AI-powered system which tracks real-time data from electronic health records in emergency rooms and warns about anomalies, raises $10M Series A — Years ago, Steve Reilly had to take his daughter to the emergency room, something no parent ever wants to have to do.| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft, Mastercard, and Hewlett Foundation fund The CyberPeace Institute to defend public organizations, activists, and others from cyberattacks — - CyberPeace Institute to aid dissidents, vulnerable groups — Focus on civilians who become ‘collateral damage’ of attacks
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