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UK govt, Guardian, Sainsbury's, others pull ads from YouTube as Times of London investigation finds ads appearing with extremist videos; Google promises changes — Guardian newspaper also halts ads, citing ‘hate-filled videos’ — YouTube owner Google says it's ‘committed to doing better’
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Apple pledges to build two additional research and development centers in China, spend at least $507M on research institutions in the country — Company intends to spend at least $500 million on such centers — Tim Cook's attending a forum in Beijing over the weekend
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| David Kravets / Ars Technica: |
Minnesota judge orders Google to divulge information on anybody who searched for variations of financial fraud victim's name — Order seeks data for “any/all user or subscriber information” related to the searches. — Police in a small suburban town of 50,000 people just outside Minneapolis …
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| Natt Garun / The Verge: |
EU tells Facebook, Twitter, and Google to update their ToS and gives companies one month to propose measures to better protect consumers from scams — Navigating your way around the internet may seem intuitive if you've grown up with access to it most of your life — but for those who are just beginning …
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
FBI arrests person who allegedly tweeted seizure-inducing strobe at Newsweek's Kurt Eichenwald — An arrest has been made three months after someone tweeted a seizure-inducing strobe at writer and Vanity Fair contributing editor Kurt Eichenwald. The Dallas FBI confirmed the arrest to The Verge today … | Sebastian Anthony / Ars Technica UK: |
Google open-sources new JPEG encoder that reduces file sizes by around 35%, and is compatible with existing browsers, photo editing apps, and the JPEG standard — New algorithm is based on human psychovisual system. Images look better, too. — Google has developed and open-sourced …
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Tweets: @richklawson, @gsoc, @tomstafford, and @grigs
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
YouTube to discontinue video annotations editor May 2, encourages creators to use mobile-friendly End Screens and Cards features instead — To be replaced by Cards and End Screens — YouTube today announced that it will be replacing its annotations engine with what it calls End Screen and Cards … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Sources: WikiLeaks asks tech firms to agree to conditions before receiving details of CIA zero-days — Last week, WikiLeaks promised it would share the technical details and code of the hacking tools that the CIA has allegedly developed against Google, Apple, Microsoft and other tech companies.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
As MuleSoft closes up 45%+ on its first day of trading, valued at about $3B+, CEO Greg Schott talks about IPO timing, potential acquisitions, more — MuleSoft, a San Francisco-based SaaS integration company, last night priced the year's first big enterprise software IPO, raising $221 million.
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| Mike Wuerthele / AppleInsider: |
Chance the Rapper says Apple paid him $500K “plus a commercial” to exclusively stream his album Coloring Book on Apple Music for two weeks — After some criticism about the artist's integrity and independence, Chance the Rapper made a series of tweets and revealed …
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Tweets: @chancetherapper, @ericjackson, @chancetherapper, and @ow
| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
Internal docs: Uber's 43 self-driving cars drove 20,365 miles last week with human intervention every 0.8 miles and “critical interventions” every 200 miles — A first look at Uber's progress. — Some of Uber's self-driving cars aren't driving as smoothly as the company hoped they would.
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Tweets: @jeffcnyc, @recode, @daviottenheimer, and @shiraovide
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon debuts “Outfit Compare” feature in iOS app, helping Prime members decide between outfits after they upload two photos of themselves in different outfits — Amazon has been steadily pushing its way into fashion over the past several years, with investments in its own private labels …
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