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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple adds universal purchases for iOS and macOS apps to the Xcode 11.4 beta, letting developers bundle apps — The new Xcode 11.4 beta update, released today alongside the iOS 13.4, tvOS 13.4 and macOS Catalina 10.15.4 betas, includes support for universal purchases …
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases the first iOS 13.4 beta, which includes a “CarKey” API, making it possible to unlock, lock, and start a car with an iPhone or Watch — Apple today released the first beta version of iOS 13.4 for developers, and now 9to5Mac has found evidences to a new feature …
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Yahoo Finance, MacRumors, AppleInsider, PYMNTS.com, iMore, iPhone Hacks, CNET, AppleInsider, SlashGear, Neowin, Pocket-lint, MacDailyNews, The Verge, BGR, TechRadar.com, Gotta Be Mobile, iDownloadBlog.com, Macworld, Wccftech, and VentureBeat. Tweets: @jasonogrady
| Nicholas Thompson / Wired: |
LinkedIn says CEO Jeff Weiner is stepping down in June after 11 years in the role, becoming executive chairman, to be replaced by SVP of Product Ryan Roslansky — After 11 steady years as the CEO of the professional networking company, Weiner is yielding the reins to deputy Ryan Roslansky.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft reorganizes its Windows software and hardware teams into one group, called Devices + Windows and led by Panos Panay, amid other reshuffling — It's reorg day in Microsoft's Experiences and Devices unit. Here's what's happening, including what's happening with Windows client and Surface.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Chrome's ad blocker will expand to target disruptive video ads in August, including long pre-roll ads, mid-roll ads, and overlays ads on video — Last year, Google made Chrome's standards-backed ad blocker fully available around the world. The Better Ads Standards today announced a …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Brave browser report: 198 local UK councils' websites are using real-time bidding advertising, which is the subject of a number of data protection complaints — On the same day that a data ethics advisor to the UK government has urged action to regulate online targeting a study conducted …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon launches Brand Voice, a fully managed service within Amazon Polly for letting brands work with Amazon's engineers to build custom text-to-speech voices — If Amazon has its way, companies will soon tap Amazon Web Services (AWS) en masse to create voices tailored to their brands.
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| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
After layoffs at 23andMe, Ancestry says it is laying off 6%, citing slowdown across entire DNA testing category, now that most of early adopters have enrolled — - Ancestry, following 23andMe, made the decision to lay off some employees. It confirmed to CNBC that the cuts affected 6% of its workforce.
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TechCrunch. Tweets: @chrissyfarr, @amyjohnsoncrow, @emilylmullin, @jakejakeny, @joemckendrick, and @hidrees. Thanks:@mattrosoff
| CNET: |
YouTube and Facebook send cease-and-desist letters to Clearview AI over photo scraping after a similar move by Twitter in January — In an interview with CBS This Morning, Clearview AI's founder says it's his right to collect photos for the facial recognition app.
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Lightning Labs, which wants to speed up bitcoin transactions, raises $10M Series A led by Craft Ventures and rolls out its first enterprise product — Elizabeth Stark stands out in the digital currency world. The 30-something entrepreneur is at ease among crypto's tribal subcultures …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Researchers discover a now patched vulnerability in Philips Hue smart light bulbs that could have let hackers infiltrate users' home or corporate networks — Might want to check if you've got firmware 1935144040 — Four years ago, security researchers showed how a flying drone could hack …
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Twilio announces Q4 revenue of $331.2M, up 62% YoY, 2019 total revenue of $1.13B, up 75% YoY, ends Q4 with 179K+ active customer accounts; forecasts loss in Q1 — Twilio is posting strong revenue growth but its earnings outlook for the first quarter and fiscal 2020 fall short of expectations.
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| Tom Foremski / ZDNet: |
Although Google disclosed many financial metrics for the first time in Q4, it removed cost-per-click, which has steadily declined, and the number of paid clicks — Google makes less money per click every quarter. Now, we won't know how much less. Is there trouble ahead in online advertising?| Peter Kafka / Vox: |
Spotify will buy The Ringer, the podcast-centric media company run and owned by Bill Simmons, and plans to hire Simmons and his approximately 90 employees — It's the fourth podcast deal Spotify has done in a year. — Spotify is making yet another big-budget purchase aimed at getting …
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Tweets: @billsimmons, @pitdesi, @samitsarkar, @marcoarment, @marcoarment, @pkafka, @seanfennessey, @neilcybart, @lucas_shaw, @realmikesmith, @wyshynski, @davegisaac, @neilcybart, @dhh, and @pkafka
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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| The Guardian: |
Dutch court rules that a surveillance system used to detect welfare fraud violates human rights; called SyRI, it used a secret algorithm to run risk modeling — Government told to halt use of AI to detect fraud in decision hailed by privacy campaigners — A Dutch court has ordered …
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Tweets: @info_aus, @jorisvanhoboken, @went1955, @astroehlein, @murakamiwood, @bigbrotherwatch, and @ruchowdh
| Robert Heaton: |
Software engineer finds that Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application opened on a user's computer and send the data to Google Analytics — Chapter 1: The discovery — I have a Wacom drawing tablet. I use it to draw cover illustrations for my blog posts, such as this one:| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it resolved an issue that caused Windows 10 Search, which is powered by Bing, to return blank results for several hours — Microsoft's Bing search was misbehaving in Windows 10 — Microsoft's built-in Windows search went down for many users for more than three hours today.
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Digital Trends, ZDNet, CNET, Microsoft Docs, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, Computerworld, LaptopMag, AskWoody, CNET, OnMSFT.com, Yahoo Finance, and Engadget
Tweets: @backlon, @chrisbhoffman, @tomwarren, @tim_stevens, @reckless, and @maryjofoley
| Linda Kinstler / protocol: |
An in-depth look at the role of ethicists within tech companies, spurred by scandals like Cambridge Analytica, and their somewhat limited power to effect change — Firms are adding ethical thinking to their processes, but ethical outcomes are optional. — Fifty-two floors below the top … | Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Child safety experts from 102 countries urge Facebook to halt plans for encrypted messaging across its apps until it addresses child exploitation concerns — Nearly 130 charities and academics around the world have urged Mark Zuckerberg to halt plans to introduce encrypted messaging across Facebook's trio … | Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Armis researchers find five serious vulnerabilities in Cisco's Discovery Protocol, affecting millions of enterprise products, including routers and desk phones — Five vulnerabilities in Cisco Discovery Protocol make it possible for a hacker to take over desk phones, routers, and more.| Janko Roettgers / protocol: |
Profile of Tom Conrad, a former Pandora and Snap executive who is now chief product officer at Quibi, as the streaming service gears up for launch — Tom Conrad is in charge of making a video service that gets people hooked. — Talk to Silicon Valley or Hollywood insiders about Quibi …
Tweets: @kerrymflynn, @protocol, and @joshconstine
| Corey Kilgannon / New York Times: |
The NYPD is replacing officers' handwritten patrol memo books, a fixture since the 1800s, with an iPhone app starting February 17 — Officers' most-used item since the 1800s isn't the gun or handcuffs, but the handwritten activity log. Now an iPhone app is replacing it.
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Tweets: @caseynewton and @chillmage
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