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| Natt Garun / The Verge: |
A roundup of the coronavirus outbreak's impact on the tech sector, from closures of offices, stores, and factories in China to affecting MWC attendance — The outbreak shows that what impacts China impacts everything — The tech sector is currently feeling the impact of the coronavirus …
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| Reuters: |
Coronavirus exposes China's surveillance state as apps show locations of the infected, cameras detect people with fevers and identify them even with masks, more — BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - When the man from Hangzhou returned home from a business trip, the local police got in touch.
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Filing indicates that Facebook has acquired London-based Scape, which is working on computer vision-based location tech it says is far more accurate than GPS — Scape Technologies, the London-based computer vision startup working on location accuracy beyond the capabilities of GPS …
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Yahoo Finance, Seeking Alpha, and Engadget
| Nirave Gondhia / Android Central: |
Motorola Razr review: front quick view display is useful but bumps can be felt while using the foldable screen, battery life is poor, and camera is lackluster — Too many compromises, for too much money. — Motorola RAZR: The review — Stunning design — Folding display — Average Battery
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| Alex Danco: |
Recurring revenue streams from SaaS startups may soon get securitized, ushering in various debt financing products that may upend the VC growth financing model — Ten years from now, what seismic change will we reflect back on and think, “well that was pretty obvious, in retrospect”?| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
A group calling itself OurMine briefly compromised Facebook's Twitter and Instagram accounts, seemingly via a third-party service called Khoros — OurMine is taking credit for the hacks — Several of Facebook's Twitter and Instagram accounts were hijacked this evening …
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Some ransomware rings have started stealing data before they encrypt to use stolen data as leverage, ensuring that even victims with backups make the payment — Ransomware operators stealing data before they encrypt means backups are not enough. — Not every ransomware attack is an unmitigated disaster.
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| New York Times: |
How predictive algorithms are increasingly being used to set police patrols, prison sentences, and probation rules in the US and Europe — Across the United States and Europe, software is making probation decisions and predicting whether teens will commit crime. Opponents want more human oversight.| Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg: |
Facebook agrees to improve its security procedures to settle a class action lawsuit over the 2018 data breach that exposed personal data of 29M users — Facebook Inc. pledged to improve security protocols to resolve a lawsuit blaming the company for a 2018 data breach that exposed personal data of 29 million users.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Cloud data warehouse vendor Snowflake announces $479M round, led by Dragoneer with participation from Salesforce, at a $12.4B valuation, up from $3.9B in 2018 — - Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman said the company generated well over $100 million in revenue in 2019.
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San Francisco Business Journal, Forbes, What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Blocks and Files, and GeekWire. Tweets: @jasonlk. Thanks:@mattrosoff
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 may end up raising less than half of the planned $108B, with nearly all of its capital coming from SoftBank itself — The new pool could end up being less than half its planned size, with nearly all of its capital coming from SoftBank itself
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The Information, Inc42 Media, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, Financial Times, Fortune, Forbes, Seeking Alpha, and New York Times
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| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Interviews with 25+ current and former Darktrace employees reveal the troubling influence of top Autonomy executives on the UK-based cybersecurity startup — Former Darktrace board member Sushovan Hussain (above) is appealing a five-year prison sentence for his role in the disastrous HP Autonomy deal.
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