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Nick Clegg defends Facebook, saying it is not in the company's interest, financially or reputationally, to push users towards ever more extreme content — In — a recent article for The Atlantic, Adrienne LaFrance compared Facebook to a Doomsday Machine: “a device built with the sole purpose of destroying all human life.”
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| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Study: Android and iOS transmit telemetry even when devices are idle or users opt out; Google collects 20x more data from Android than Apple from iOS — Academic research published last week looked at the telemetry traffic sent by modern iOS and Android devices back to Apple and Google servers …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google is rolling out FLoC, its alternative to third-party cookies and a crucial part of its Privacy Sandbox project for Chrome, as a developer origin trial — Google today announced that it is rolling out Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC), a crucial part of its Privacy Sandbox project for Chrome, as a developer origin trial.
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Biden announces $2T American Jobs Plan focused on improving US infrastructure, with $100B allocated for high-speed broadband access over eight years — It sets aside $100 billion for the effort — President Biden plans to announce a sweeping infrastructure plan Wednesday that includes $100 billion …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Deliveroo drops by as much as 30% on its LSE debut, after pricing shares at £3.90, valuing it at around £5.6B; poor debut likely due to labor practice issues — Update: It seems that the market is volatile indeed. After pricing its shares at the lower end of the range …
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| Ken Klippenstein / The Intercept: |
Leaked doc sheds light on “Veritas”, an Amazon FC Ambassador program conceived in 2018 that sought to train employees to defend Amazon and Bezos on social media — Amazon's small Twitter army of “ambassadors” was quietly conceived in 2018 under the codename “Veritas,” …
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Turing Award goes to Jeffrey Ullman and Alfred Aho for their work on compilers, which underpin computer programming languages — Jeffrey Ullman and Alfred Aho developed many of the fundamental concepts that researchers use when they build new software. — When Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman met … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn confirms it's working on a Clubhouse rival and will begin beta testing soon, but doesn't have an exact timeframe for its launch — Clubhouse's list of competitors is growing. LinkedIn has now confirmed it's also testing a social audio experience in its app which would allow creators …
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple leads $50M Series B in music distributor UnitedMasters, with a16z and Alphabet participating; UnitedMasters enters a strategic partnership with Apple — Independent music distribution platform and tool factory UnitedMasters has raised a $50M series B round led by Apple.
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Huawei reports 2020 revenue of $136.7B, up 3.8% YoY but slower than the 19%+ growth it saw in 2019, and net profit of $9.9B, up 3.2% YoY — - Huawei's revenue for 2020 totaled 891.4 billion yuan ($136.7 billion), a 3.8% year-on-year rise in yuan terms. That was slower than the more than 19% revenue growth Huawei saw in 2019.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Sponsor of Arizona's HB2005 bill, which allows alternative payment systems in app stores, says it won't get a hearing this year after being pulled last week — Arizona House Bill 2005, a hotly contested piece of legislation that would have imposed developer-friendly changes to Apple …
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| Politico: |
Sources: suspected Russian hackers stole thousands of State Department officials' emails last year; the classified network doesn't appear to have been accessed — Suspected Russian hackers stole thousands of State Department officials' emails last year, according to two Congressional sources familiar …
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| Reed Albergotti / Washington Post: |
User says ~$600K of bitcoin was stolen after using a fake app for cryptocurrency hardware wallet Trezor downloaded from the App Store; app was rated five stars — Recent scams show there are holes in Apple's safety net — Phillipe Christodoulou wanted to check his bitcoin balance last month …
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Uniphore, which uses AI to analyze and improve customer support provided over voice and video calls, raises $140M Series D, bringing its total raised to $210M — - Company working on technology that analyzes facial expressions — Startup looking to expand beyond call-center software| Molly Fischer / The Cut: |
A look at the downsides of virtual therapy apps like Talkspace and BetterHelp, which are booming amid high demand but seem to promise more than they can deliver — The summer of 2020, recalls Hillary Schieve, was hard. The pandemic was bearing down across the country …
Tweets: @hwinsider, @amandalitman, and @gvsmith
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces a virtual WWDC 2021 from June 7 to June 11, where iOS 15, macOS 12, watchOS 8, and more are expected — Apple has officially announced WWDC 2021. This year, the conference will take place completely virtually starting June 7. This marks the second year in a row that Apple …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Striim, which offers cloud integration, edge processing, and streaming analytics services, raises $50M Series C, bringing its total raised to $108M+ — Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — Striim, a startup specializing in streaming data integration …
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| Caitlin McCabe / Wall Street Journal: |
Robinhood says it will remove digital confetti, which appears when making a first trade and elsewhere, from its app after criticism that it “gamifies” investing — The confetti, which critics alleged was a gamification strategy, will be replaced with new designs
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Productiv, which helps businesses manage SaaS apps, raises $45M Series C, bringing its total raised to $73M — Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — Productiv, a platform for aggregating real-time engagement data and insights for apps and management …
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| Yonhap News Agency: |
South Korea's antitrust regulator to fine Apple Korea $265K and refer it for prosecution for allegedly impeding a probe into unfair business practices — (ATTN: ADDS Apple's reaction in paras 6-7; Minor edits) — South Korea's antitrust regulator said Wednesday it has decided to refer …
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Sources: Google plans to release “Pixel Buds A” in 2021, which will almost be visually indistinguishable from current Buds and offered in white and green colors — For a few years now, Google has offered affordable variants of its Pixel phones with the Pixel 3a and Pixel 4a.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Manticore Games, a Roblox-like platform to build and play games using Epic's Unreal Engine, raises $100M Series C led by XN Ventures — Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — Manticore Games has raised $100 million for user-generated games in the …
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| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Chinese cryptocurrency wallet imToken raises $30M Series B led by Qiming and says it has 12M users with over $50B in crypto assets — ImToken, a Chinese startup that built one of the most used cryptocurrency wallet apps, has raised $30 million from investors including Qiming Venture Partners and Breyer Capital.
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| Axios: |
Survey: trust in tech declined globally in 2020 due factors like misinfo and privacy concerns; in the US, tech fell from the “most trusted” in 2019, to ninth — Trust in tech — including companies specializing in AI, VR, 5G and the internet of things — fell all around the world last year … | Uri Berkovitz / Globes Online: |
Next Insurance, which offers digital insurance products to small businesses, raises $250M Series E at $4B+ valuation, bringing its total raised to $881M — The digital small business insurance company has doubled its valuation since its last financing round six months ago.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Source: Apple is planning to announce a mixed reality headset “sometime” in the next several months, possibly at an in-person event — Hi everyone—it's Mark. On Tuesday, Apple Inc. announced what will be at least its fifth virtual product launch in a row and one of its most important events … Sponsor Posts
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