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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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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 … | Alfred Ng / CNET: |
More than 30 civil rights groups sign an open letter asking mayors and city councils to cancel 500+ existing local police partnerships with Amazon's Ring — Ring has more than 500 police partnerships across the US, and a coalition of civil rights groups are calling for local governments to cancel them all.
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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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| 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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| 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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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google's Grasshopper, its learn-to-code mobile app for beginners, is now available on the desktop in the form of a web-based app — Google today announced that Grasshopper, its tool for teaching novices how to code, is now available on the desktop, too, in the form of a web-based app.| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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