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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Some users' Google Photos videos in Takeout backups were exported to strangers between November 21-25, 2019; those affected were notified by email — With Google Takeout, you can download your data from Google apps as a backup or for use with another service.
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Sources: Shadow, a company affiliated with Democratic digital nonprofit ACRONYM, built Iowa caucus app used by workers that caused delays in reporting results — Shadow, a Democratic digital firm, created the app that was supposed to deliver quicker caucus results.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Nvidia's GeForce Now game streaming service launches from beta with Steam, Epic Games Store, Battle.net, and Uplay support, rivaling Google Stadia at $5/month — The BYOG cloud gaming service with Steam, Epic, Battle.net, and Uplay support — For the past eight years …
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it has suspended “a large network of fake accounts” and many others for abusing an API feature that let them match phone numbers to usernames — Twitter announced today that over the holidays it identified and shut down “a large network of fake accounts,” … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Alphabet breaks out revenue numbers for YouTube ads for the first time: $4.7B in Q4 revenue and $15.15B in fiscal 2019, up from $11.16B YoY — We've never before known how much money YouTube generates — YouTube generated nearly $5 billion in ad revenue in the last three months …
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Facebook debuts more controls for parents in Messenger Kids like the ability to view recent chat history, a log of chat images, remote device logout, and more — We launched Messenger Kids in 2017 after meeting with thousands of parents, parenting organizations, child safety advocates …
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| Davey Alba / New York Times: |
Alphabet-owned Jigsaw is testing Assembler, a tool to identify doctored photographs, even ones created with the help of AI, with over a dozen news organizations — The company, owned by Google's parent, introduced a free tool it calls Assembler to sort out real images from fake ones.| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
Amid virus outbreak, authorities in China are using its vast surveillance network to identify potential carriers, ostracizing even those without the symptoms — The authorities hunt for people from Wuhan, the center of the outbreak, encouraging citizens to inform on others.
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| David McCabe / New York Times: |
A look at the big companies including Marriott, Disney, and IBM pushing to limit Section 230 of the CDA, challenging Facebook, Google, and the web as we know it — A motley group of powerful companies have their knives out for Section 230, which shields platforms from lawsuits over content posted by users.
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Sources: top antitrust official Makan Delrahim has recused himself from DOJ's Google probe over a conflict of interest related to his past work for the company — Makan Delrahim, the Justice Department's head of antitrust, removed himself from examining the search giant over a conflict of interest … | Robert Armstrong / Financial Times: |
Mastercard CEO details why the company pulled out of Libra, says he had concerns about how Libra went from an “altruistic idea” to Calibra, a proprietary wallet — - Money laundering questons on Facebook's digital currency — Banga does not understand how Libra makes money
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Finix, a SaaS startup selling payments tech to other businesses, raises $35M Series B led by Sequoia, bringing its total raised to over $55M — This morning Finix, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup selling payments tech to other businesses, announced that it has raised … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers detail EKANS ransomware, which is targeting industrial control systems and appears to be the work of cybercriminals rather than nation-state hackers — EKANS appears to be the work of cybercriminals, rather than nation-state hackers—a worrying development, if so.| Michael Santoli / CNBC: |
Tesla's stock, up ~15% today, has more than tripled in under 4 months, from $255 on Oct. 23 to ~$900; 12K+ Robinhood users bought TSLA for the first time Monday — Jim Cramer: Tesla is a tech company and must be valued as one — Yes, there's an entrenched short base that's getting torched …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Seattle-based Kaskada raises $8M Series A for its machine learning feature engineering platform — Feature engineering — the process of using domain knowledge to extract features from raw data — is essential to tuning machine learning performance. It's also typically arduous …
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Toronto-based Top Hat, which makes software tools for teachers in higher education, raises $55M Series D co-led by Georgian Partners and Inovia Capital — Toronto-based Top Hat, a company that makes a number of software tools for teachers in higher education, today announced that it has raised … | Ian King / Bloomberg: |
The chip industry had its worst slump in almost two decades as revenue fell 12% to $412B in 2019, the biggest drop since 2001, due to the US-China trade war — The semiconductor industry last year suffered its worst annual slump in almost two decades, hurt by a trade war between the largest chip producer …
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Asana says it has confidentially filed to go public via a direct listing; the startup has raised about $213M to date and was last valued at ~$1.5B in 2018 — Workplace productivity toolmaker Asana announced late Monday that they have confidentially filed their S-1 and said in a statement … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Freight marketplace Emerge raises $20M Series A, led by NewRoad Capital Partners, at a $100M+ valuation and says it has processed $1B+ in freight — Trucking is currently the most popular mode of transporting freight in the US, accounting for around $12.5 billion of the $17 billion freight market …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Koch Industries announces it's acquiring Infor, a provider of large-scale cloud ERP software founded in 2002, in a deal sources say is worth nearly $13B — Infor announced today that Koch Industries has bought the company in a deal sources peg at close to $13 billion.
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The White House says companies, including Dell, Microsoft, and AT&T, are working together to create an open standard for 5G tech to reduce reliance on Huawei — Companies including Dell, Microsoft and AT&T are part of the effort, White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow says
Tweets: @wsj, @kerpen, @ericgeller, and @mcwm
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: Byte, a short-form video app from Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann, had ~1.3M downloads during its first week, with 70% of installs happening in the US — New short-form video app Byte, heralded as Vine's successor, is off to a strong start despite its issues.
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