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Apple agrees to pay up to $500M to settle a US class-action lawsuit accusing it of quietly slowing down older iPhones — (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has agreed to pay up to $500 million to settle litigation accusing it of quietly slowing down older iPhones as it launched new models … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google updates Pixel phones with new Motion Sense gesture controls, emoji, AR effects, car crash detection for its Personal Safety app, photo and video features — One of the benefits of owning a Pixel smartphone is that it improves over time as Pixels are first to receive updates that deliver the latest fixes and improvements.| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Report: Apple and its suppliers are among the 83 big companies benefitting from China's abusive labor transfer programs for Uyghur Muslims and other minorities — A report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute think-tank has named Apple among 83 other major companies benefiting …
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| Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Airbnb's long-planned IPO, previously scheduled for March or April, has been derailed by the coronavirus fallout and could be pushed back to 2021 — - Startup was targeting first half to kick off the process — Shares of rivals dive as travel bookings canceled globally
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
AT&T TV launches across the US after rolling out in over a dozen markets last year, with prices that start at $49.99/month but go up dramatically after a year — AT&T's next big TV play has a problem: pricing — AT&T TV is launching nationwide today after initially rolling out to over a dozen markets last year.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Verge survey of 1,123 US adults: 72% said Facebook has too much power; 51% said Google and YouTube should be split up into separate companies — Ahead of the election year, we polled Americans about which big tech companies they trust with their personal information — and which ones should be broken up
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Behind Facebook's rewrite of Messenger, going live today, that has shrunk the iOS app's size from 130MB to 30MB and its codebase from 1.7M to 360K lines of code — To make its iPhone messaging app run better—especially on older phones—Facebook rewrote it from the ground up. The new version is going live now.| Bloomberg: |
Robinhood says it has been experiencing a “system-wide outage” today that it is affecting “all functionalities” on the platform — - Issue has been identified and fix is under way, company says — Some customers of online broker couldn't access their accounts| Financial Times: |
Analysis: one-third of donations from employees at big tech firms went to Sens. Warren and Sanders, despite a lack of enthusiasm from tech executives — Progressive Democratic candidates receive most cash from tech workers ahead of Super Tuesday — Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders … | New York Times: |
A look at China's new system using color-coded QR codes to dictate people's movements and quarantines, that may be a template for social control beyond COVID-19 — A new system uses software to dictate quarantines — and appears to send personal data to police, in a troubling precedent for automated social control.
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Business Insider, The Daily Dot, PYMNTS.com, Maps Mania, and Discover and Read …
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| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Alphabet's X unveils Tidal, a moonshot project to track thousands of fish using computer vision and AI to protect the ocean and help feed humanity sustainably — Latest Division X project aims to help fish farmers, and the planet — Today Alphabet is announcing Tidal …
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| Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
Study: YouTube has reduced recommendations of some conspiracy theories like flat earth and QAnon but has let others flourish for topics like climate change — A new study examines YouTube's efforts to limit the spread of conspiracy theories on its site, from videos claiming the end times are near to those questioning climate change.
Tweets: @hshaban, @hshaban, @broderick, @slpng_giants, @kevinroose, @nytimesbusiness, @jacknicas, and @jacknicas
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Rajeev Suri to step down as Nokia CEO after over half a decade; Pekka Lundmark, outgoing President and CEO of energy firm Fortum appointed as President and CEO — Rajeev Suri, the chief executive of Nokia, is stepping down from his leadership role after overseeing the Finnish networking giant for more than 10 years.
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Spotify is making a big push for artists and record labels to pay to promote their music in its app, complicating talks over long-term music rights — - Music service needs ad revenue source to reach profitability — The three major record labels are balking at Spotify's plans| Steve Stecklow / Reuters: |
Internal Huawei documents from 2010 show that the company shipped prohibited US computer equipment to Iran's largest mobile-phone operator despite sanctions — LONDON (Reuters) - China's Huawei Technologies, which for years has denied violating American trade sanctions on Iran …
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