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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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: @calsunday, @joejerome, @calsunday, @calsunday, @privacyproject, @_meher, @dgambacorta, @kmontenegro, @senmarkey, @shallowbrigade, and @jasonleopold
| 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, BBC, VentureBeat, Input, SlashGear, Blue's News, Android Headlines, Tubefilter, Neowin, Wired, USgamer.net, Gamasutra, Engadget, 9to5Google, Android Central, Kotaku, Dot Esports, Polygon, dexerto.com, and IGN
Tweets: @moesch, @icyveins, @theiceap, @montecristo, @pizzatcg, @hstopdecks, and @launcherwp
| 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.| 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, ExtremeTech, The Verge, Wired, Engadget, Washington Post, Sky News, Financial Times, 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, @dannyshawbbc, @hkesvani, @nxthompson, @pwafork, @kenroth, @penamerica, @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 … | Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Sources: Accenture has sent a form to Facebook content moderators working at a European facility requiring them to acknowledge that their job could cause PTSD — Content moderators working at a European facility for Facebook have been required to sign a form explicitly acknowledging … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
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Futurism, TechSpot, Tubefilter, The Guardian, Gizmodo, CNET, Mashable, Business Insider, Android Central, and Slashdot
| Bob Davis / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: US withdrew proposed rules which would have made it harder for US firms to sell to Huawei from overseas facilities, following DOD, Treasury objections — Proposed rules making it harder for American firms to sell to Chinese company are withdrawn — The Commerce Department's efforts …
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Bloomberg, The Verge, TechCrunch, Gizchina, Input, CNET, Light Reading, and XDA Developers
Tweets: @technology, @bobdavis187, @danwwang, @jorge_guajardo, @dnvolz, @chorzempamartin, @jendeben, and @maawlaw
| 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: @jhtscherck, @frankcatalano, @kateclarktweets, and @kimmytaylor
| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
LA-based commercial real estate marketplace CRExi raises $29M, says it had $700B worth of transactions on its platform — Los Angeles is one of the most desirable locations for commercial real estate in the United States, so it's little wonder that there's something of a boom in investments … Sponsor Posts
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