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A look at Clearview AI, a facial recognition app claiming it scraped 3B+ images from sites like Facebook, YouTube, and that 600+ law enforcement agencies use it — A little-known start-up helps law enforcement match photos of unknown people to their online images — and “might lead to a dystopian future or something,” a backer says.
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
FBI seizes the domain of WeLeakInfo, a site offering usernames and passwords from data breaches for sale; WeLeakInfo claims to have 12B+ usernames and passwords — Site aggregated 12 billion usernames and passwords from over 10,000 breaches. — On Wednesday, police in the Netherlands …
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Tile accused Apple of acting anti-competitively at a House antitrust hearing on Friday, while Sonos testified against Google, and PopSockets against Amazon — BOULDER, Colo. — Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google took a public lashing at a congressional hearing here Friday …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft knows about an actively exploited bug in Internet Explorer on all Windows versions, but likely won't have a fix until the next Patch Tuesday on Feb 11 — Microsoft has confirmed a security flaw affecting Internet Explorer is currently being used by hackers, but that it has no immediate plans to fix.
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Sources: Spotify in early talks to buy The Ringer, founded by Bill Simmons, which has a podcast network that had revenue of $15M+ in 2018 — The Ringer, founded in 2016 by former ESPN commentator Bill Simmons, has over 30 podcasts — Spotify Technology SA SPOT -2.31% is in talks to buy sports …
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| AnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon is working with Visa to test checkout terminals that let consumers pay for purchases with their palms — Tech giant plans terminals to let consumers link credit card information to their hands — Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -0.70% wants to make your hand your credit card.| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
The latest panic that the EU may force Apple to abandon Lightning is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of both the EC's intent and how charging works — It's all about chargers, and Apple already makes them — You might have read headlines today about how the EU is looking to force Apple to ditch the Lightning cable.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram removes the IGTV button from its home page; Sensor Tower: IGTV's standalone app was downloaded 1.1M times in the US since its launch in June 2018 — TikTok saw 80X more installs — At most, 7 million of Instagram's 1 billion-plus users have downloaded its standalone IGTV app in the 18 months since launch.| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
Airbnb to tie metrics like guest safety to employee bonuses, says it has created dedicated teams to serve all “stakeholders”, which include hosts and guests — Ahead of plans to go public, home-sharing platform emphasizes serving ‘stakeholders’ that include hosts, guests, investors, employees
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| Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu: |
Comtravo, which uses AI and NLP to offer an end-to-end solution for booking and managing business trips, adds €9M to its Series B, increasing it to €30M — Comtravo, a Berlin-based B2B traveltech startup, has announced a second close of its Series B round, adding €9 million … | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Containous, which says it has built a “multicloud networking platform” for containerized applications and microservices, raises $10M Series A — Cloud-native networking company Containous SAS today bagged $10 million in new funding. The Series A round was led by Balderton Capital …
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Sources: Eaze, an on-demand pot delivery startup with $166M in funding, raises $15M bridge round, amid struggles with cash and a pivot to selling its own brands — The Uber of pot is almost out of cash — The first cannabis startup to raise big money in Silicon Valley is in danger of burning out.
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