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Facebook built a now discontinued internal app, report says between 2015 and 2016, that let employees identify colleagues and friends via facial recognition — Facebook , which has been under fire because of privacy concerns, said Thursday it built an internal app that allowed employees …
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Amazon filed its formal protest over JEDI on Friday, citing a Fox News segment and a Trump rally as evidence of improper political pressure from the White House — Amazon filed its formal protest over Microsoft's victory in a $10 billion Pentagon cloud computing contract …
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FCC bans carriers from using federal subsidies to buy equipment from Huawei and ZTE, considers ordering subsidy recipients to replace current Chinese equipment — The FCC is acting on its vow to keep Chinese technology out of American wireless networks. Commissioners have unanimously approved …
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Facebook says it has signed Jeremy Wang, aka Disguised Toast, a Twitch streamer with 1M+ followers, to Facebook Gaming, its live game streaming platform — New York (CNN)Facebook (FB) just nabbed a major player for its gaming platform as it continues to ramp up efforts to compete in the video game streaming wars.
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
REX, a real estate broker that claims its AI allows it to price homes more accurately and charge lower commissions, raises $40M, bringing total raised to $115M — REX, an Austin-based licensed residential real estate brokerage using AI and big data, has raised another $40 million in what it describes as a “C1” round.
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Every ad, political or commercial, should reveal its provenance, and all advertisers should stand by their ads and be held accountable for them — On Oct. 30, Twitter announced it would now prohibit political advertising on its platform. On Friday, it tried its best to explain exactly what that would mean.| Ernie Smith / VICE: |
As Slack gets criticism from power users for its WYSIWYG editor and plans an option to revert, a look at the history of Markdown, used by Slack's old interface — Slack just updated its longtime editor for its primary interface—and the rich-text result hints at a longstanding tension …
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There were 29.6B app downloads from 792K publishers globally in Q3 across App Store and Google Play; 1% of top publishers accounted for 80% of all downloads — New data from Sensor Tower's Store Intelligence platform reveals that the top-performing 1 percent of publishers globally accounted … | Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Profile of Dongtu, a China-based Giphy-like service that is baked into some 3,000 apps with chatting features, including WeChat, Alibaba's Taobao, and Weibo — With its own universe of homegrown social networks, e-commerce platforms and search engines, the Chinese internet is a world apart … | Alexandra Witze / Nature: |
Experts say ITU's newly agreed 5G radio-frequency standards will interfere with weather satellite readings of water vapor, impacting weather forecasts worldwide — Meteorologists say international standards for wireless technology could degrade crucial satellite measurements of water vapour.
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Inside Spotify's plan to dominate audio by spending hundreds of millions on exclusive podcasts and recruiting Jordan Peele, Mark Wahlberg and the Obamas — Having helped transform the music industry, Ek and content chief Dawn Ostroff set their sights (and your ears) on spending hundreds … | Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
About 200 Googlers protest placing of two of their colleagues on administrative leave over the actions they took opposing some of Google management's decisions — - Company denies wrongdoing with two employees placed on leave — Culture of openness battered by Google's staff rebellionSponsor Posts
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