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| Adrianne Jeffries / The Outline: |
Google's featured snippets, presented as the “one true answer” in search and by Google Home, sometimes give false information from untrustworthy sources — The highlighted answers given prime placement over search results are often shockingly bad.
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Thanks:@ravichandrans25. | Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
Fitbit unveils Alta HR with heart rate monitoring, available at the end of March for $150; Alta HR, Blaze, and Charge 2 get improved sleep tracking — This might be the tracker you want to wear both day and night. — Fitbit's thin Alta tracker dropped around this time last year, and the company is already making an update to it.
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| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
As Facebook begins adding “disputed” labels, a look at how Facebook took a full week to label one made-up story from a fake news site as “disputed” — Coming to your feed: A “disputed” label for bogus stories. — That bogus story about Donald Trump your uncle posted on Facebook?
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Identity management firm Okta acquihires Stormpath, which provides identity and user management services to developers, acquires license to use Stormpath's tech — Okta, the $1.2 billion identity management startup for enterprises that some tip for an IPO this year, has made an acquisition …
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| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Federal prosecutors drop charges in another of 135+ Playpen child porn cases in order to keep the source code of its Tor hack secret — DOJ: “Disclosure is not currently an option.” — Rather than share the now-classified technological means that investigators used to locate a child porn suspect … | Sam Altman / Y Combinator: |
Y Combinator opens registrations for its free ten-week online Startup School online course featuring guest lectures, group office hours, and a Slack community — We're excited to announce our new online Startup School, with classes beginning on April 5. Anyone can sign up at StartupSchool.org …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook testing emoji reactions, including a thumbs-down button, on messages in Messenger — Facebook finally has a Dislike button, but it's not where you'd expect. — How do you reply to a specific message in a rapid-fire chat thread? Facebook wants you to attach emojis …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UK's mobile-only Atom Bank for millennials raises $102M at a $320M valuation led by the Spanish BBVA bank, which also led its previous $128M round in Nov 2015 — Atom Bank, a startup out of the U.K. that has built a mobile-only bank targeting consumers between the ages of 18 and 34 … | CNET: |
MWC 2017 recap: retro phones, no Samsung handsets, 5G hype, shrinking bezels, and less VR gear — Retro phones, shrinking bezels, 5G on deck and Samsung's no-show: That was the Mobile World Congress that was. — Autoplay: ON Autoplay: OFF — That's a wrap for another Mobile World Congress.
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| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
How an image of Chuck Schumer and Putin made it from Reddit to Trump's Twitter account in less than 24 hours — Twenty hours. That's about how long it took for a picture to make its way from the depths of Reddit to the Twitter account of the president of the United States.| San Francisco Chronicle: |
USCIS says it's temporarily suspending expedited processing of H-1B visas, an option often used by tech companies, for up to six months, beginning April 3 — The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will temporarily suspend expedited processing for all H-1B petitions starting April 3, according to the agency's website.
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Tweets: @uscis, @anylaurie16, @omojumiller, @prchovanec, and @roybahat
Thanks:@owenthomas| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Profile of Koko, a chat service that uses AI and crowdsourcing to provide basic cognitive therapy — Can an app that lets strangers — and bots — become amateur therapists create a safer internet? — Illustrations by Peter Steineck — In January 2016, police in Blacksburg, Virginia …
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