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Sources: Essential, a startup co-founded by Android creator Andy Rubin, is considering selling itself and has canceled development of a new smartphone — - Company cancels development of second version of smartphone — Startup has spent over $100 million on product development
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Tweets: @arubin, @markgurman, @yoda, and @mhbergen
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Some US news sites like the LA Times and the Chicago Tribune are blocked in Europe as GDPR goes into effect — A number of high-profile US news websites are temporarily unavailable in Europe after new European Union rules on data protection came into effect.
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| David Meyer / Fortune: |
Digital privacy activist Max Schrems files official GDPR complaints against Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram over forced consent — Europe's sweeping new data privacy regime came into effect this morning, and privacy activists are not wasting time in flexing their muscles.
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| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
As Europe enacts GDPR, EU officials are encouraging countries like Brazil, Japan, and South Korea to adopt similar laws by tying data protection to trade deals — LONDON — The notices are flooding people's inboxes en masse, from large technology companies, including Facebook and Uber …
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| Gary Horcher / KIRO: |
After allegations Alexa recorded a private conversation and sent it to a person in contact list, Amazon says the case was extremely rare, is taking steps to fix — A Portland family contacted Amazon to investigate after they say a private conversation in their home was recorded by Amazon's Alexa …
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Tweets: @ktbenner, @geoffreyfowler, @arrington, @geoffreyfowler, @joepie91, @dymaxion, @pierce, and @zeynep
| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Amazon says the Echo that recorded a private discussion interpreted background conversation as action confirmation, leading to recording and sending to contact — A couple says their device secretly recorded a private conversation of theirs and sent it to an acquaintance.
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Apple wins $538.6M from Samsung in iPhone patent retrial: $533.3M for infringement of Apple's design patents and $5.3M for infringement of its utility patents — Nearly six years after a federal jury awarded Apple over $1 billion in damages against Samsung for infringing on iPhone design patents …
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Tweets: @markgurman, @shiraovide, @cnet, and @stshank
| Facebook: |
Facebook will check images and text, who is being targeted, and any linked websites in issue ads as it begins to apply new policies — Political advertising serves an important purpose. It helps candidates share their views with the public more broadly, and it can help encourage people to get involved in the political process.
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Valve says Apple revoked its approval of the Steam Link app for iOS due to “business conflicts with app guidelines” and denied Valve's appeal — So much for easily playing PC games on your iPhone. — If you were hoping to stream PC games from your powerful gaming rig to your iPhone or iPad …
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The Verge, Engadget, AppleInsider, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, Fortune, Neowin, VG247, Pocket Gamer.biz, Softpedia News, WIRED UK, VentureBeat, Ubergizmo, GeekWire, iPhone Hacks, Ars Technica, 9to5Mac, and Gamasutra. Tweets: @maxlynch. Thanks:@starfire2258
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
PayPal and Google partner to integrate PayPal into Google Pay, which can be used to pay bills and more, starting later this year — Google earlier this year rebranded all of its payment services under Google Pay to help it double down on making transactions across its platform more frictionless (and more used).
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| AppleInsider: |
Apple giving month-long free trials of its 50GB, 200GB, and 2TB iCloud storage plans to customers currently on the free 5GB tier — In a move designed to drive iCloud storage subscription upgrades, Apple is now promoting free month-long trials of 50GB, 200GB and 2TB plans to customers currently on the gratis 5GB tier.
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Cult of Mac, Ubergizmo, iPhone Hacks, Technology Personalized, and 9to5Mac
| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Unsealed indictment shows federal prosecutors have charged three men with crimes related to December death of a Kansas man fatally shot in a swatting prank — Gamers charged with obstruction for deleting possibly incriminating messages. — Federal prosecutors have unsealed an indictment …
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Engadget, U.S. Department of Justice, CNN, The Verge, Wichita Eagle, Gizmodo, NBC News, Reuters, and Variety. Tweets: @tsrblke
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat now gives users the option to send their real-time location to a friend or request theirs, which shows up on the Snap Map and within message threads — Snapchat is taking another shot at location after its always-on coordinate-broadcasting Snap Map proved a bit invasive for some users.
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SlashGear, iPhone Hacks, and 9to5Mac
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GDPR QUIZ: 13 Questions Every Marketer Should Answer — What is GDPR? — Why GDPR? — Who will be affected by GDPR? — No doubt you have already started answering these questions. But have you tried to infer how GDPR might affect your business when data flows between teams like sales, marketing and support?
GDPR QUIZ: 13 Questions Every Marketer Should Answer — What is GDPR? — Why GDPR? — Who will be affected by GDPR? — No doubt you have already started answering these questions. But have you tried to infer how GDPR might affect your business when data flows between teams like sales, marketing and support?Sponsor Post
| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
An API bug on T-Mobile's staff-facing website, since fixed, let anyone gain access to customer addresses, account PINs, and other details using a phone number — Exclusive: The exposed lookup tool let anyone run a customer's phone number — and obtain their home address and account PIN, used to contact phone support.
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Gizmodo, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Android Authority, Neowin, DSLreports, USA Today, SlashGear, TmoNews, MacRumors, The Verge, iPhone Hacks, Seeking Alpha, and Axios. Tweets: @karlbode. Thanks:@elysebetters
| Jason Koebler / Motherboard: |
Documents from a “bendgate” lawsuit show Apple's tests found iPhone 6 and 6 Plus were 3.3x and 7.2x more likely to bend than 5S; Apple later made changes to fix — Apple publicly maintained that there were no engineering issues with the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus …
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| City Attorney of San Francisco: |
San Francisco announces new regulations requiring scooter startups like Lime, Spin, and Bird, to halt operations by June 4 and apply for permits by June 7 — New city law halting unpermitted scooter operations in effect June 4, scooter permitting system now activated
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GDPR QUIZ: 13 Questions Every Marketer Should Answer — What is GDPR? — Why GDPR? — Who will be affected by GDPR? — No doubt you have already started answering these questions.
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