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Twitter to hide abusive tweets in conversations, add safe search, and try to keep banned users from rejoining the service — The company promised users more features around safety, so here they are. — A week ago, Twitter executives said that making the service safer for users was the company's …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Vizio settles FTC lawsuit accusing it of tracking customers' TV habits, agrees to pay $2.2M, obtain consent before collecting and sharing data, delete user data — Vizio will pay $2.2 million to settle a lawsuit alleging it collected customers' TV-watching habits without their permission.
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
YouTube opens up mobile livestreaming to all creators with more than 10,000 subscribers — Eight months after announcing it would support livestreaming capabilities, YouTube has started giving more people access to the service. Today, the video social network revealed that mobile livestreaming …
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| David Carnoy / CNET: |
BeatsX wireless earphones will will go on sale February 10 in Apple retail stores and online at Apple.com — Beats by Dr. Dre says its highly anticipated wireless neckband-style headphone and AirPods competitor will be in stores shortly — and two new colors are coming.| Will Strafach: |
Researcher finds 76 popular iOS apps vulnerable to interception of TLS-protected data while in use — During the development of our web-based mobile app analysis service verify.ly, it was essential to have a clear understanding of the most common security issues which plague mobile applications today.
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Snap's Spectacles, Pokémon Go, Slack, Otto, Twilio's Jeff Lawson, Forerunner VC Kirsten Green, AngelList's Naval Ravikant, others win at 10th Annual Crunchies — It's that time of year again. Silicon Valley has exchanged its standard hoodie-based uniform for something a bit …
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| John Eggerton / Multichannel News: |
House passes Email Privacy Act, an update to ECPA that will require law enforcement to get warrants for access to digital communications older than 180 days — Senate yet to vote on bill — The House Monday (Feb. 6) unanimously passed the E-mail Privacy Act.
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| Hamza Shaban / BuzzFeed: |
Hundreds of investors, startups, and VC firms say Trump's travel ban will harm the US startup community and country's ability to compete globally — More than 200 tech industry leaders signed a letter to be sent to President Donald Trump on Tuesday opposing the administration's refugee … | Kate Conger / TechCrunch: |
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| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Hashtags appeared in 30% of Super Bowl ads in 2017, down from a high of 57% in 2014; URLs were used in 41% of ads this year — From a high of 57% three years ago, hashtags are now in only about one-third of ads. — Hashtags were in 30% of Super Bowl 51 ads, down significantly from 45% last year.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google and H&M's Ivyrevel announce an Android app that can design a dress using your personal data from Awareness and Snapshot APIs — At last year's Google I/O developer conference, Googleintroduced a new Awareness APIthat would allow for smarter applications that could understand where you were … | Andrew J . Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber sues Seattle over law allowing drivers to unionize, hearing set for March 17 — Liberal city of the Northwest vs. global ride-hailing juggernaut — Late last month, Uber sued the city of Seattle, challenging the city's authority to implement a landmark law allowing drivers in the gig economy to unionize.
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| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Google adds anchor button on AMP pages, to help readers see and share publishers' real URLs — As promised, Google is making a change to how it displays Accelerated Mobile Pages, so that users can easily view and share links that lead directly to publishers' sites rather than to Google's copy of the content.Sponsor Posts
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