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Department of Justice indicts three Russians, including two intelligence agency employees, and a Canadian in connection with 2014 Yahoo breach — Two members of a Russian intelligence agency “protected, directed, facilitated, and paid” hackers to break into Yahoo's systems in 2014 …
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Google debuts Family Link in limited beta for Android, letting parents supervise web access, Gmail account creation, app downloading, more for kids under 13 — Google has its eye on your kids. — The tech giant is opening up its many online services to kids under 13 with a new tool called Family Link …
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Behind Genius' shift from web annotations to becoming a video-focused media company, after laying off a quarter of its staff last month — Genius, which raised $56.9 million on the promise that it would one day annotate the entire internet, has been losing its minds.| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Airbnb, Lyft, Dropbox, and 55 other tech firms file brief opposing Trump's revised travel ban, but Apple, Google, Microsoft, Uber don't sign, unlike in February — A group of 58 companies, including Lyft, Airbnb, and Dropbox, are protesting the revised travel ban on majority-Muslim countries … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook begins rolling out its Town Hall service, which identifies local government representatives, in the US — In Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's nearly 6,000-word manifesto published last month, he laid out a number of global ambitions he had for the social network in the days ahead …
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DeepMind researchers detail algorithm for training neural nets on multiple sequential tasks, allowing neural nets to retain knowledge while learning new tasks — Breakthrough should improve ability to learn sequence of tasks — Research may also have implication for study of brain synapses
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Report: US digital ad spend to rise 16% in 2017 to $83B, as ad revenue of Snapchat to rise 158%, Facebook by 32%, Google by 15%, and Twitter to drop by 4.7% — Snapchat poised for “explosive growth” but will remain a small piece of the entire digital ad pie, according to eMarketer's forecast| James Cook / Business Insider: |
Sirin Labs, makers of a $16K secure smartphone, lays off one third of its staff, around 30 people, and plans a pivot — Sirin Labs, the Israeli technology company that sells a secure $16,000 (£13,100) Android smartphone, has ended production of the phone and cut a third of its workforce.| Sam Rutherford / Tom's Guide: |
HTC U Ultra review: gorgeous design, great performance, and rich stereo audio, but no headphone jack, below-average battery life, and it's expensive — While HTC's Vive virtual-reality headset has generated lots of buzz, the company's latest batch of phones hasn't received nearly as much attention.| Shona Ghosh / Business Insider: |
Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Cisco file amicus brief to help Google in its fight against a court order to hand over emails stored on a foreign server — Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Cisco have filed an amicus brief in support of Google, after a Pennsylvania court ruled that the company … | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple found guilty of price-fixing iPhones in Russia, could be fined up to 15% of Russian sales — Last August, Russia opened an investigation into Apple over alleged price-fixing related to the iPhone. At the time, Apple denied any involvement and said that “retailers set their own prices” for the products.| Alex Spence / BuzzFeed: |
Google refuses request from MPs to remove anti-Semitic video that talked of “white genocide”, as exec tells UK committee hate speech guidelines weren't violated — Google, Facebook and Twitter were accused of creating ‘platforms for racists’ in a bruising Westminster hearing today.Sponsor Posts
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