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EU issues proposals to drive digitization across industries and sectors, including rules for high risk AI systems and a regulatory framework for data governance — European Union lawmakers have set out a first bundle of proposals for a new digital strategy for the bloc …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok announces new Family Safety Mode parental controls to limit kids' usage with screen time management, DM limits, and more, coming first to the UK — TikTok announced today the introduction of a new set of parental controls, called “Family Safety Mode,” designed to let parents set limits …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google officially launches Android 11 Developer Preview, arriving earlier than expected, with new display types, improved messaging, biometrics, and more — Following an inadvertent tease last week, Google today officially launched the Android 11 Developer Preview.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook is internally testing a tabbed version of News Feed for mobile that includes the Most Relevant, Most Recent, and Already Seen feeds — Facebook may make it easier to escape its ranking algorithm and explore the News Feed in different formats. Facebook has internally prototyped …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft launches a unified Office app for iOS and Android, combining Word, Excel, and PowerPoint into a single app; standalone versions will remain available — Even more mobile features are on the way soon — Microsoft is releasing its new unified Office app for iOS and Android today … | Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Twitter acquires Chroma Labs, which makes tools for video and photo creation, will split team across product, design, and engineering, shut down Chroma Stories — - Company builds photo, video-editing features for social media — Chroma will join Twitter to work on ‘conversations’ products
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| Dave Gershgorn / OneZero : |
Profile of Japan-based NEC, which has been a longtime provider of facial recognition services globally and garners less scrutiny than new entrants in the space — July 2018, the mayor of Irving, Texas, signed a contract that would dramatically expand how the city's police department could investigate crimes using facial recognition.| Michael del Castillo / Forbes: |
Coinbase becomes a Visa Principal Member, allowing it to issue bitcoin debit cards for other crypto companies and traditional firms — Credit card giant Visa has granted its principal membership to a cryptocurrency company for the first time. Officially awarded to cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google begins rolling out two Google Docs features: autocorrect, enabled by default, and Smart Compose, for paying customers — Last November, Google Docs started testing autocorrect and Smart Compose as part of leveraging machine learning to improve user productivity.
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| Nick Turner / Bloomberg: |
Groupon says it will shutter Groupon Goods, its e-commerce platform for physical products, after reporting worse-than-expected results; stock drops over 40% — - Company plans to abandon the business of selling goods — Groupon will focus on being marketplace for local experiences
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber introduces a new On-Trip Reporting feature, letting riders discreetly report non-emergency safety issues in real time, available now in the US and Canada — Is your driver texting — Uber updated its app to let riders “discreetly” report instances that may not rise to the level … | Richard Cooke / Wired: |
A tribute to Wikipedia, which is one of the few remaining places that retains the faintly utopian glow of the early World Wide Web — People used to think the crowdsourced encyclopedia represented all that was wrong with the web. Now it's a beacon of so much that's right.
Tweets: @alexhinojo, @wikimedia, @rgcooke, @wired, @jonnoxrevanche, @timsmithrx, @mondaystory, and @johnbirmingham
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Overview of recent security woes at Citrix, from slowly patching VPN flaws to hackers infiltrating its networks after brute forcing employees' passwords — Networking software giant Citrix Systems says malicious hackers were inside its networks for five months between 2018 and 2019 …
Tweets: @briankrebs
| Billy Steele / Engadget: |
As Photoshop turns 30, Adobe begins rolling out new desktop and mobile features, including bringing the Object Selection tool to iPad — Photoshop turns 30 today, and Adobe is celebrating with some worthwhile updates to the photo-editing app on both the desktop and iPad.| Katie Paul / Reuters: |
IRS lawsuit against Facebook, alleging the company owes $9B+ in taxes after shifting profits to Ireland, begins in San Francisco — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc is slated to begin a tax trial in a San Francisco court on Tuesday, as the Internal Revenue Service tries to convince …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Inside Founders Fund's deal process, where smaller investments only need limited partner approval, as it has raised its seventh fund and a $1.5B growth fund — Founders Fund has raised $3 billion for a pair of new funds, so expect a slew of headlines about how “Peter Thiel's venture capital firm” is now flush with cash.
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| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Wired: |
Study: the seven most-watched YouTube Gaming channels in Jan. streamed recorded, autoplaying videos advertising cheats that linked to credential-stealing sites — YouTube is littered with bot-driven videos promising big in-game riches—that also try to steal your personal information.
Tweets: @cecianasta
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Online learning marketplace Udemy, which offers over 150,000 courses, raises $50M from Japanese publisher Benesse Holdings at a $2B post-money valuation — The internet has, for better or worse, become the default platform for people seeking information, and today one of the companies leveraging … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Colorado-based Outrider, which operates a SaaS platform for fully- and semi-autonomous truck fleets, emerges from stealth with $53M in seed and Series A — Driverless vehicle technology has the potential to transform industries — and indeed, it already has.
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| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
SentinelOne, which provides autonomous, real-time, AI-based endpoint security protection, raises $200M Series E led by Insight Partners at a $1B+ valuation — SentinelOne has raised $200 million in a venture capital round that pushes its valuation past $1 billion as investors continue …
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| Cameron Wilson / BuzzFeed: |
Facebook has just seven fact checkers working for its partners in Australia, where it has 17M users, who completed 220 fact checks since April 2019 — “It's incredible the sheer speed at which lies travel, particularly when they're targeted at groups," one fact checker said.| Corbin Davenport / Android Police: |
Mozilla releases its VPN service Firefox Private Network on Android in a closed beta for $4.99/month — Mozilla, the organization behind the much-loved Firefox web browser, has experimented with creating a VPN service for some time. Unlike the VPNs packaged with browsers like Opera …
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XDA Developers, CNET, Chrome Unboxed, KnowTechie, 9to5Google, Yahoo Finance, Neowin, Windows Central, Technology Personalized, Pocket-lint, Softpedia News, The Next Web, Engadget, Input, SlashGear, Droid Life, and TechRadar.com. Tweets: @agilethumbs
| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Yodlee, America's largest financial data broker, says the data that it sells is anonymous, but a leaked Yodlee doc shows millions of people could be unmasked — Yodlee, the largest financial data broker in the U.S., sells data pulled from the bank and credit card transactions of tens …
Tweets: @josephfcox and @josephfcox
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Indian education platform Unacademy raises $110M Series E from General Atlantic, Sequoia Capital India, Facebook, and others — Unacademy, one of India's fastest growing education startups, has just received the backing of a major technology giant: Facebook.
Tweets: @gauravmunjal, @refsrc, and @aparanjape
| George P. Slefo / Ad Age: |
Consumer insights provider Hitwise is shutting down after 24 years, following allegations that it purchased sensitive user data from Avast's Jumpshot — The move underscores the growing impact consumer privacy is having in areas such as ad tech — Consumer insights company Hitwise … Sponsor Posts
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