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Google CEO Sundar Pichai says AI is too important not to be regulated and there are real concerns about the potential negative consequences of AI — The writer is chief executive of Alphabet and Google — Growing up in India, I was fascinated by technology. Each new invention changed my family's life in meaningful ways.
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Samsung appoints Taemoon Roh to head its smartphone division, taking over from Koh Dong-Jin to run the world's largest mobile devices business — - Taemoon Roh will now steer the world's biggest mobile name — Samsung seeks to take the lead in 5G and foldables this year
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AR startup Mojo Vision shows off the first prototype of Mojo Lens, its contact lenses that display text, have an eye-controlled interface, and work in the dark — Mojo Vision's smart contacts put text in my eye and let me see in the dark. They're aiming for even more than that.
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Research: Opera, known for its web browser, allegedly issues predatory loans in Kenya, Nigeria, and India via Android apps, likely violating Play Store policies — GET OUR LATEST REPORTS DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX — Summary (NASDAQ: OPRA) — Opera went public in mid-2018 based largely on prospects for its core browser business.
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Sweden-based Tink, which offers open banking APIs, raises €90M co-led by Dawn Capital, HMI Capital, and Insight Partners at a post-money valuation of €415M — Tink, the European open banking platform, is disclosing €90 million in new funding, just 11 months … | Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Sources: ByteDance plans a foray into games, building a team of 1,000+ and buying game studios and title distribution rights; first big games coming this spring — - The TikTok proprietor shows ambition beyond short-form video — Hiring spree includes industry veterans and local game studios| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google announces a partnership with India's third-largest telecom operator Airtel to offer G Suite to SMBs — Google has inked a deal with India's third-largest telecom operator as the American giant looks to grow its cloud customer base in the key overseas market that is increasingly emerging …
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| Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
An unsecured facial-recognition database with info on thousands of children from 20 schools in China, half in areas with large Tibetan populations, found online — Information leak from facial-recognition database raises questions about school surveillance and cybersecurity in China
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| Douglas Busvine / Reuters: |
Report: European regulators have imposed €114M in fines for data breaches since GDPR came into force in 2018; France's €50M fine against Google is the biggest — MUNICH (Reuters) - European regulators have imposed 114 million euros ($126 million) in fines for data breaches since …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
With a new IP licensing deal with Apple in place, Imagination Technologies' CEO and other execs discuss trends and their RISC-V open source hardware strategy — Imagination Technologies has been through a lot of change in the past few years. Founded in 1985, it became a real player … | FinSMEs: |
eSSENTIAL Accessibility, an “Accessibility-as-a-Service” platform helping sites and apps be compliant with legal accessibility requirements, raises $16M — eSSENTIAL Accessibility, a Toronto, Canada-based provider of web accessibility-as-a-service, closed a $16m funding round.| David Z. Morris / Fortune: |
Experts say Yandex, Russia's most-used search engine, is lagging behind Google and Bing in implementing controls to cut down on images of child sexual abuse — Experts say the spread of images of child sexual exploitation online has reached unprecedented levels, calling the situation a major social crisis.
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