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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Twitter says it has unintentionally used some email addresses and phone numbers provided for account security purposes for ad targeting — Twitter disclosed Tuesday that it “unintentionally” used some mail address and phone numbers for advertising even though the information was provided for account security.
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Blizzard bans player from Hearthstone competition for a year and rescinds $10K prize money, after he publicly supported Hong Kong's pro-democracy protestors — - Expressing sympathy for Hong Kong democracy push proves costly — Hearthstone player won't be allowed to compete for a year
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
As China exports its domestic standards, the US should treat China's leveraging of market access into self-censorship by US companies as trade violations — It all started with a tweet: — “It” refers to the current imbroglio surrounding Daryl Morey, the General Manager for the Houston Rockets …
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| Jeremy Burge / Emojipedia: |
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Google debuts a stream transfer feature that lets users move ongoing music and video streams between devices, coming first to Chromecast, Google Home, and Nest — At long last, Google is finally introducing a way for users of its smart speakers and streaming adapters to move media between those devices.
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| Washington Post: |
Bipartisan Senate report makes recommendations to prevent Russian election interference in 2020, saying Russia sowed social media discord to help Trump in 2016 — GOP-led panel endorses finding that Russia interfered to help Donald Trump — A bipartisan panel of U.S. senators Tuesday called …
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Facebook says its Workplace platform has 3M paid users, up 1M in the past eight months, and introduces new features, like Portal support and new analytics tools — Should Workplace by Facebook boost employee engagement and connect frontline workers, the company is likely to add more enterprise customers.
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| Zachary Evans / National Review: |
FISA court rules that an FBI foreign surveillance program violated Americans' civil liberties, deeming tens of thousands of searches from 2017-2018 illegal — The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has ruled that an FBI program intended to target foreign suspects violated Americans' constitutional right …
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| Theodore Schleifer / Vox: |
Sources: Postmates, which planned to go public this year, has recently told advisers that it is delaying its IPO due to market conditions — Can you smell the doom and gloom? — Tech startups imbibe cash and run on optimism. Lately they're running short on both.
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Tweets: @davidschawel, @ccchaircut, @teddyschleifer, @polina_marinova, and @gregbensinger
| Peter Rubin / Wired: |
Sony announces PlayStation 5 will launch in time for “holiday 2020”, featuring a new controller with haptic technology and triggers with varying resistance — Now that the name is official, we've got more details about Sony's next-gen console—from the haptics-packed controller to UI improvements.
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| Paul Wagenseil / Tom's Guide: |
D-Link won't patch a remote exploit in four of its routers, saying they are end-of-life, despite some being discontinued in 2018 and still being sold on Amazon — Models deemed end-of-life, although they're still sold online — A serious security flaw has been found in four D-Link routers.
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Threatpost, ZDNet, and TechNadu
Tweets: @jedisct1, @mr_internet, @dd42bb, @pblakez, and @kaspersky
| Lori Hawkins / Austin American-Statesman: |
Austin-based SparkCognition, which uses AI to monitor and predict when industrial systems may fail or be hacked, raises $100M Series C at a valuation of $725M — In one of the biggest Austin funding deals of the year, fast-growing SparkCognition has raised $100 million to accelerate its artificial intelligence platform.
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PR Newswire, Crunchbase News, and SiliconHills
Tweets: @johntchambers, @amirhusain_tx, and @lorichawkins
| Neha Malara / Reuters: |
Sensor Tower: Tencent's Call of Duty: Mobile had 100M game downloads in first week, breaking prior record of 26M set by PUBG, has yet to launch in China — (Reuters) - The mobile version of videogame franchise “Call of Duty” racked up 100 million downloads in its first week …
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Sensor Tower Blog, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, GamesIndustry.biz, and Android Headlines
Tweets: @charlieintel and @kalijvc
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Robinhood unveils Cash Management, which earns 2.05% APY interest on uninvested money in users' accounts, after 2018's botched roll out of its checking product — This time it actually has insurance. Zero-fee stock trading app Robinhood is launching Cash Management, a new feature …
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Under the Hood, Crowdfund Insider, Bankrate, Quartz, Android Police, Business Insider, and Fortune
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Arm announces consortium for autonomous vehicle tech, with General Motors, Nvidia, Denso, Toyota, Bosch, Arm, Continental, and NXP on board — Autonomous vehicles are exceedingly complex to develop, so Arm announced a consortium today to tackle the various safety and computing probles in a collaborative way.
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TechCrunch, Arm, Telegraph, Japan Today, AVCC, and Futurecar.com
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 review: nice touch-sensitive bezel and decent battery life, but it requires too many Samsung apps to work and Bixby is annoying — The best* smartwatch for Android users — I have been using the Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 for about a week now … | David Canellis / The Next Web: |
Report on Dapp's across six blockchains, including ETH, EOS, TRON: total transaction volume was $2.03B in Q3, down 40% QoQ, dapp user retention from Q2 was 36% — GAMBLING IS STILL THE NUMBER ONE USE-CASE — The total transactional volume of blockchain apps (dapps) across …
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Dapp.com, Decrypt, and Crowdfund Insider
Tweets: @alex_dreyfus, @justinsuntron, @dapp_com, and @tron_topia
| Austin Carr / Bloomberg: |
Interviews with 36 people shed light on Quintillion, a fiber internet company working in the Arctic whose co-founder, Elizabeth Pierce, forged $1B in contracts — When he discovered that the ship's underwater plow was stuck at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, 50 miles off Alaska's coast, Frank Cuccio thought of Ernest Shackleton.
Tweets: @karlbode, @silviakillings, @bbgvisualdata, @felixgillette, @joelwebershow, and @austincarr
| Amanda Capritto / CNET: |
Smart fitness company Mirror, maker of a reflective LCD device with two-way audio and video, launches in-home 1:1 personal training at $40 per 30-minute session — Mirror, the fitness equipment that's part full-length mirror and part LCD screen, took the home-workout world by storm in early 2019 …
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Business Insider, Business Wire, The Verge, POPSUGAR Fitness, Engadget, Gizmodo, and CNN
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Opera 64 desktop browser launches with inbuilt tracking protection using the EasyPrivacy Tracking Protection List, a powerful screenshot tool, and more — Opera doesn't want to miss the browser privacy bandwagon, and it's taking an unusual angle to sell it: it's promising a speed boost.
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Opera Desktop, Thurrott, PCWorld, Computerworld, BetaNews, and Windows Central
Tweets: @ericlaw, @privacyproject, and @opera
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple's Catalyst rollout with macOS Catalina has been muted, as devs say it's been more work than expected to port iPad apps, and consumers need to pay again — Last year, Apple Inc. software chief Craig Federighi said developers would be able to easily bring their iPad apps to Mac computers …
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Digital Trends, The Verge, CNET, Thurrott, Neowin, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, iMore, iPhone Hacks, and iDownloadBlog.com
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