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| Leah Nylen / Politico: |
Sources: DOJ and state AGs investigating Google for alleged antitrust violations are considering forcing it to sell Chrome and parts of its ad business — Prosecutors for the Justice Department and state attorney general offices are discussing ways of curbing the search giant's market power as they prepare to sue the company.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Five Eyes governments, India, and Japan make new call for encryption backdoors — Another Five Eyes meeting, another call for encryption backdoors in modern tech. — Members of the intelligence-sharing alliance Five Eyes, along with government representatives for Japan and India …
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U.S. Department of Justice, Nikkei Asia, GOV.UK, GOV.UK, Cointelegraph, Agence France-Presse, Telegraph, SecurityWeek, and Forbes
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| Kevin McAllister / Protocol: |
Interview with Amazon Halo's principal medical officer Maulik Majmudar on the fitness band, its controversial body fat and emotional tone features, and more — Amazon Halo's Principal Medical Officer Dr. Maulik Majmudar says he hears your concerns about the company's newly unveiled Halo device — but not in a creepy way.
Tweets: @veenadubal, @evan_greer, @aaschapiro, @bindzbrain, and @chrisarvinsf
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Microsoft's beta cloud gaming service xCloud can't compete with Stadia, but it stands out with its Game Pass business model, mobile experience, and big catalog — The first time you boot up an Xbox One game on an Android phone can be surreal. Earlier this month, I opened the Game Pass app … | BR24: |
Investigation details how a hacking group called OceanLotus has been spying on Vietnamese opposition members and dissidents for years, including in Germany — A group of Vietnamese hackers has been systematically spying on dissidents for years, including in Germany.
Tweets: @campuscodi, @snlyngaas, @sienaanstis, and @hatr
| Lee Phillips / Ars Technica: |
A look at the key characteristics of the Julia programming language, as scientists increasingly adopt the language for tackling large-scale numerical problems — Fortran has ruled scientific computing, but Julia emerged for large-scale numerical work. — I've been running into a lot of happy and excited scientists lately.
Tweets: @tradediversion, @arstechnica, @kdpsinghlab, @arstechnica, @swmckay, @rickasaurus, @juliacomputing, @_lazappi_, @dff, @gvwilson, @j_perkel, and @matvil
| Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter: |
Live sports streaming service fuboTV raised $183M in its IPO on Thursday, valuing the company at $620.2M — The initial public offering raised $183 million and valued the company at $620.2 million. — The stock of streaming service fuboTV rose in its market debut on Thursday.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Bangalore-based Razorpay, which helps SMBs process and manage digital payments, raises $100M Series D co-led by GIC and Sequoia India at a valuation of $1B+ — Bangalore-headquartered Razorpay, one of the handful of Indian fintech startups that has demonstrated accelerated growth in recent years …
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| Sarah Jacob / Bloomberg: |
Google halts plans to launch News Showcase in Australia, says it isn't clear if the product will be viable under the country's draft News Media Bargaining code — Google has halted plans to launch its ‘News Showcase’ product in Australia as the tech company isn't clear if it will be viable under …
Tweets: @business
| Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: |
As deepfakes make their way into broadcast-quality productions, filmmakers and artists are facing new questions like how to cast the right actors for a deepfake — In 2019, two multimedia artists, Francesca Panetta and Halsey Burgund, set about to pursue a provocative idea.
Tweets: @dylanhuw and @_karenhao
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
HomeWAV, a video visitation provider used by prisons across the US, exposed private calls of inmates with their families and attorneys, on an unprotected server — Thousands of calls were spilling from an unprotected server. — Fearing the spread of coronavirus, jails and prisons remain on lockdown.
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Engadget. Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @fammfoundation, @zackwhittaker, @somilbtrivedi, @lorakolodny, @zackwhittaker, @campuscodi, and @zackwhittaker
| Igor Bosilkovski / Forbes: |
Airkit, a low-code customer engagement service for DTC businesses, comes out of stealth with $28M in funding from Accel, Emergence, and Salesforce Ventures — Low-code platform Airkit designed to improve customer engagement announced today that it is coming out of stealth … Sponsor Posts
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