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| Jillian D'Onfro / Forbes: |
Alphabet's Chief Legal Officer David Drummond is leaving on January 31; company says he will not be receiving an exit package — Alphabet's controversial chief legal officer, David Drummond, is leaving the company, effective January 31. — Drummond, an employee of nearly 20 years …
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| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Source: Microsoft contractors vetting Skype audio worked from home in China with “no security measures”; company says it now uses secure facilities not in China — Exclusive: former Microsoft contractor says he was emailed login after minimal vetting
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: SoftBank-backed Oyo has let go of 1,800 staff: 5% of its 12K employees in China and 12% of its 10K staff in India, plans to cut 1,200 more in India — - Oyo's ructions present yet another headache for SoftBank — Oyo Hotels is firing thousands of staff across China and India …
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| The Information: |
Sources: Quibi's projections from 2019 show the upcoming streaming service is expected to spend ~$1.5B in its first year; Quibi has raised $1.4B so far — If there's one thing to be said for Quibi, the short-form streaming service coming from Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman this spring …
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| Emily A. Vogels / Pew Research Center: |
Pew survey of 4,272 US adults: ~21% use a smart watch or fitness tracker, with women more likely than men to say they regularly use these devices (25% vs 18%) — As 2020 begins - and health-related New Year's resolutions take effect - roughly one-in-five U.S. adults (21%) …
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| Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: |
PitchBook: enterprise tech startups raised ~$30.4B in 2019, surpassing consumer tech startups, which raised ~$23.3B, for the first time in at least five years — With all eyes this week on the CES trade show in Las Vegas, famous for a mind-boggling array of personal gadgets …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers: cable modems with Broadcom chips, including an estimated 200M in Europe alone, are vulnerable to the remote exploit codenamed Cable Haunt — Cable modems using Broadcom chips are vulnerable to a new vulnerability named Cable Haunt, researchers say.| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
A look at sexual health and wellness companies at CES 2020, where they were allowed to exhibit their products for the first time — Sexual health and wellness companies were allowed to exhibit their wares for the first time this year. — If there was ever a metaphor for the newfound …
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| Rory O'Neill / World IP Review: |
Chinese court rules that a work generated by Tencent's automated news writing program, Dreamwriter, qualifies for copyright protection — A Chinese court has ruled that AI-generated works are entitled to copyright protection, in a win for tech giant Tencent.| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Uber to end operations in Colombia on January 31, after courts side with the local competition authority, which found that Uber broke market rules — - Uber will end operations in Colombia at the end of the month after local competition authorities found it to have violated market rules.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Mozilla patches an actively exploited Firefox zero-day flaw that could allow attackers to take control of computers by accessing sensitive memory locations — Flaw allows attackers to access sensitive memory locations that are normally off-limits. — Mozilla has released a new version …
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| Sankalp Phartiyal / Reuters: |
India's Supreme Court says the indefinite shutdown of the internet in Kashmir is illegal, rebuking the government for the communications lockdown — Sankalp Phartiyal, Fayaz Bukhari — NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR (Reuters) - India's Supreme Court said on Friday that an indefinite shutdown … | DJ Pangburn / Fast Company: |
Not one known arrest or prosecution stemmed from San Diego's 7-year facial recognition program, which compiled 65K face scans; the program ended Dec. 31, 2019 — Since 2012, the city's law enforcement agencies have compiled over 65,000 face scans and tried to match them against a massive mugshot database.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Cardiologs, whose clinical decision support system uses AI to help detect heart conditions, raises $15M Series A — Cardiologs, a French medical technology startup that's leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to help detect heart conditions, has raised $15 million in series A funding.Sponsor Posts
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