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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann launches Byte, a Vine-like short-form video app, on iOS and Android, aims to start its partner program to pay creators “soon” — Two years after Vine's co-founder Dom Hofmann announced he was building a successor to the short-form video app, today Byte makes its debut on iOS and Android.
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Report: Samsung's upcoming foldable smartphone, possibly called Galaxy Z Flip, to use “Ultra Thin Glass” with a Dynamic AMOLED display underneath — Samsung is preparing to launch its second foldable smartphone next month, and if you can believe it, more leaks are coming out for the device.
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| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
Leila Janah, founder and CEO of Samasource, an SF-based machine learning training data company with a large workforce in East Africa, dies at 37 — The startup community has lost another moral leader today. — Leila Janah, a serial entrepreneur who was the CEO and founder …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Google is backtracking on desktop search redesign which made it hard to distinguish ads from organic results, will experiment with favicon placements — The company says it will experiment with favicon placement — Google is backtracking on a controversial search engine redesign …
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| The California Sunday Magazine: |
An in-depth look at facial recognition technology, with a primer on how it works, who is using it in the US, and how to avoid it online and in public — The controversial and nearly ever-present technology that could replace the fingerprint — From iPhones and Snapchat filters …
Tweets: @joejerome, @calsunday, @dgambacorta, @kmontenegro, @calsunday, @calsunday, @privacyproject, @_meher, @senmarkey, @shallowbrigade, and @jasonleopold
| Bruce Schneier / New York Times: |
Laws that ban facial recognition miss the larger point: we need laws on all tech used for identification and to decide how much of our data should be surveilled — The whole point of modern surveillance is to treat people differently, and facial recognition technologies are only a small part of that.
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VentureBeat and Microsoft on the Issues
| Tad Walch / Deseret News: |
Clayton Christensen, the author of the theory of disruptive innovation, dies at 67 — Apple's Steve Jobs, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Netflix's Reed Hastings and Intel's Andy Grove looked to influential management thinker — SALT LAKE CITY — Clayton Christensen, whose theory of disruptive innovation …
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The Verge, Fast Company, HBR.org, Gizmodo, Digitopoly, Silicon Valley Business …, Yahoo Finance, Fortune, CNN, Slashdot, Axios, and Quartz
Tweets: @pmarca, @stevesi, @stevenlevy, @levie, @bill_fischer, @mikebutcher, @lum, @zaynakhayat, @paulg, @chandrarsrikant, @dalexgros, @harvardbiz, @harvardbiz, @nbashaw, @joepemberton, @ericries, @asmartbear, @sonicdeath, @shreef, @phildpp, @disruptivedean, @benthompson, @mmasnick, @garyshapiro, @mgsiegler, @mariaramirezny, @msquinn, @chiefmartec, @tsgiles, @carlquintanilla, @briansolis, @ncresq, @scobleizer, @repbenmcadams, @marksilva, @pankajontech, @_alexlawrence, @thogge, @tad_walch, and @deseretnews
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
YouTube gains exclusive streaming rights to Activision Blizzard's big esports events like Overwatch League, which was a Twitch exclusive for the past two years — As part of a multiyear partnership between the game publisher and Google — Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has entered …
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PR Newswire, VentureBeat, BBC, TechSpot, Input, SlashGear, Blue's News, Android Headlines, Tubefilter, Neowin, Wired, USgamer.net, Gamasutra, Engadget, 9to5Google, Android Central, Kotaku, Dot Esports, Polygon, IGN, and dexerto.com
Tweets: @moesch, @icyveins, @stadiadaily, @hstopdecks, @launcherwp, @pizzatcg, @theiceap, and @montecristo
| Kate Clark / The Information: |
Galvanize to be acquired by education company K12 Inc. for $165M in cash, according to an email to shareholders; some shareholders won't get proceeds — A wave of consolidation in the education technology market appears set to continue this year. — K12 Inc., a publicly-traded education company …
Tweets: @jasonlk, @kateclarktweets, @jhtscherck, @frankcatalano, and @kimmytaylor
| BBC: |
London police announce they will use live facial recognition cameras within a month for five to six hours at a time with bespoke lists of suspects each time — The Metropolitan Police has announced it will use live facial recognition cameras operationally for the first time on London streets.
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Mynewsdesk, New York Times, The Guardian, The Verge, Engadget, Washington Post, ExtremeTech, Wired, Financial Times, Sky News, Associated Press, TechSpot, ico.org.uk, Neowin, Tech.co, CNET, Business Insider, Computer Business Review, Mashable, VentureBeat, Boing Boing, TIME, KnowTechie, The Daily Dot, Gizmodo, and infosecurity-magazine.com
Tweets: @metpoliceuk, @hkesvani, @dannyshawbbc, @nxthompson, @kenroth, @penamerica, @pwafork, @skynews, @elleosiliwood, @sigfpe, @respectisvital, @davidjmadden, @privacyproject, @metpoliceuk, @carolinerussell, @sirwilliamd, @moltke, @markhorsleyuk, @noelsharkey, @fabiochiusi, @geoffwhite247, @chrishowdenld, @futureadvocacy, @thefishareloose, @edbott, @johnelton, @shonaghosh, @drewharwell, @markscott82, and @brokenbottleboy
| Chris Smith / Trusted Reviews: |
UK's science minister Chris Skidmore says the UK won't implement EU's Copyright Directive, which includes Article 13, after the country leaves the EU — One of the most intriguing aspects of Britain's departure from the European Union will be which elements of EU law will be dropped and retained … | New York Times: |
Google has started charging law enforcement agencies fees for legal demands of user information such as emails, location tracking information and search queries — The tech giant has begun charging U.S. law enforcement for responses to search warrants and subpoenas.Sponsor Posts
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