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Google's new look for desktop search results blurs the lines between ads and search results, leading many critics to identify it as a dark pattern — The latest desktop update blurs the lines — Last week, Google began rolling out a new look for its search results on desktop …
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| BuzzFeed News: |
NYPD disputes facial recognition firm Clearview AI's claim that it identified a terrorism suspect; company's founders have previous connections to the far right — Clearview AI, a facial recognition company that says it's amassed a database of billions of photos, has a fantastic selling point …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft starts rolling out developer kits and emulators for its dual-screen Surface Duo Android phone and Windows 10X-based Surface Neo — Microsoft is starting to roll out developer kits and emulators for both Android and 10X developers who want to build for coming dual-screen devices, starting with its own.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Match Group invests in safety app Noonlight to add features like a panic button, check-in, and photo verification to its dating apps, starting with Tinder — Match Group, the dating app giant and parent company to Match, Tinder, OKCupid, Plenty of Fish, and several other dating apps …
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| VICE: |
Leaked FTI Consulting report: investigators found a suspicious encrypted file on Jeff Bezos' iPhone, causing data transfers to jump by ~29,000%, but no malware — A report investigating the potential hack of Jeff Bezos' iPhone indicates that forensic investigators found a suspicious file but no evidence of any malware on the phone.
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| Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian: |
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| Paul Kiel / ProPublica: |
Inside the IRS's 8-year audit into Microsoft after the company sold its IP to a factory it owns in Puerto Rico to reduce tax rate on US profits from ~35% to ~2% — For years, the company has moved billions in profits to Puerto Rico to avoid taxes. When the IRS pushed it to pay, Microsoft protested that the agency wasn't being nice.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Niantic says it helped drive more than $249M in tourism revenue for the cities on its events list in 2019 through its walking games like Pokémon Go and Ingress — Niantic has revealed details of its lineup of event locations for its walking games — Pokémon Go, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite and Ingress — for 2020.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
TikTok signs licensing deal with music rights agency Merlin for indie label music in videos and, source says, in its upcoming music streaming service Resso — TikTok, the fast-growing user-generated video app from China's Bytedance, has been building a new music streaming service to compete … | Gregory Barber / Wired: |
Google helps publish largest high-resolution map of brain neurons of a fruit fly, using a machine learning technique called flood-filling networks — It took 12 years and at least $40 million to chart a region about 250 micrometers across—about the thickness of two strands of hair.
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HHMI.org, MIT Technology Review, The Verge, bioRxiv, Google AI Blog, Engadget, CNET, and TweakTown News
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| Politico: |
Interview with David Cicilline, the chairman of the House subcommittee on antitrust, on his approach to investigation of Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon — Practically everybody in Washington is mad at Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. David Cicilline might actually do something about it.
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BIG by Matt Stoller. Tweets: @matthewstoller, @politico, @danmcgowan, @johndepetroshow, @_andyboardman, @politicopress, @creativefuture, and @hleveyfriedman
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Twitter is rolling out a pop-up feature that lets users add an emoji reaction to a Direct Message, similar to a feature in iMessage — Twitter is taking a page out of Apple's playbook with its latest messaging feature. The social network announced today that it is rolling out support …
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help.twitter.com, iMore, Engadget, Yahoo Finance, Neowin, iDownloadBlog.com, Boing Boing, Social Media Today, MacRumors, TechSpot, The Verge, and iPhone in Canada Blog
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Hivebrite, a community management and engagement platform, raises $20M Series A led by Insight Partners, bringing its total raised to about $23M — Engaging and managing online groups can be the stuff of nightmares, but it is generally worth it — communities on average generate a 6,469% return … | Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Epic Systems, a leading provider of digital medical records, calls on large hospitals to oppose proposed US rules that would open up access to patient records — - Epic Systems is urging its health system customers to take a stand against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' proposed rules …
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