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Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon say they don't sell customers' personal web browsing history, in response to cancellation of new FCC privacy rules — Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon published blog posts this morning responding to the backlash they've been receiving since Congress voted to revoke …
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Tweets: @brendansasso and @backlon
| Steve Kovach / Business Insider: |
Samsung's Galaxy S8 facial recognition feature can be fooled with a photo; Samsung suggests using fingerprint or iris scanning for more security — Samsung's newest security feature can easily be fooled. — The Samsung Galaxy S8, which launches April 21, has a new facial recognition feature …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Roundup of April Fools' Day gags by tech companies — Topsy-turvy day — April 1st — a day colloquially known as “April Fools' Day” or “the worst holiday ever” — isn't even until tomorrow, but because the month of April starts on a Saturday this year, all the #brands are already …
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OpenAI Blog, Recode, Yo, Google Cloud Platform Blog, The Official Roku Blog, 9to5Mac, The Verge, BuzzFeed, TechConnect, Ubergizmo, Network World, 9to5Google, BGR, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Engadget, Kik, Google Operating System, GeekWire, Windows Central, Newsroom, TechCrunch, Android Police, CNET, VentureBeat, NBC Bay Area, Business Insider, Computerworld, TechnoBuffalo, Axios, Digital Trends, AndroidHeadlines.com, USA Today, Google, Marketing Land, Android Central, Android Authority, PhoneDog.com, Pocketnow, YouTube, and TmoNews
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| Agam Shah / PCWorld: |
Memory standards organization JEDEC says DDR5 DRAM specification will be finalized next year and be twice as fast as DDR4 — More DDR memory is on the way, despite many predictions that its time would soon be up. — Development of specifications for the new DDR5 DRAM has started …
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| Siddhartha Mukherjee / New Yorker: |
AI in medicine: how deep learning algorithms can be used to augment doctors in diagnosis — In some trials, “deep learning” systems have outperformed human experts. — One evening last November, a fifty-four-year-old woman from the Bronx arrived at the emergency room at Columbia University's medical center with a grinding headache.
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Founder Andy Baio relaunches his events site Upcoming.org four years after Yahoo shut it down — Before events were posted on Facebook, the place to find social activities on the internet (back in the early 2000s) was Upcoming.org. Founded by Andy Baio, the site combined an event calendar …
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Daring Fireball, Kickstarter, and Laughing Squid
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| Tim Peterson / Marketing Land: |
Why chatbots on services like Messenger and Kik have struggled to live up to the hype, and how developers are trying to reverse their downward trend — Chatbots in apps like Facebook's Messenger and Kik have struggled to live up to the hype, but that might actually help them succeed.
Tweets: @joshconstine, @mgsiegler, and @caseynewton
| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft is shutting down CodePlex, its service for hosting repositories of open source software, on December 15 due to the dominance of GitHub — Microsoft today announced that it's shutting down CodePlex, its service for hosting repositories of open source software.
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Brian Harry's blog, On MSFT, SlashGear, Neowin, InfoQ, BetaNews, gHacks Technology News, Ars Technica, MSPoweruser, The Register, and Business Insider
Tweets: @stevesi, @chrismessina, @anildash, and @peteskomoroch
| Tony Romm / Recode: |
Sources say Trump's Office of Science and Technology Policy is sidelined and understaffed as office's director and other key leadership postions remain unfilled — As he cuts federal research and targets immigration, Trump has neglected and marginalized the White House's own team of experts.
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New York Times, Tech Narratives, Nextgov, and Washington Post
| Allegra Frank / Polygon: |
Gaming hardware and peripheral company Mad Catz shuts down and files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy after months of financial woes — Troubled hardware maker used up its ninth life — Mad Catz, Inc. has filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy in the United States. As of March 30, the company has shut … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat starts rolling out search for public Stories to users in select US cities; public Stories from all users could stay visible for up to several months — Snapchat is shifting from a social network limited to content shared by people you follow to an ephemeral, real-time database of what's going on now everywhere.
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CNET, Snap Inc., Social Media Today, Quartz, Softpedia News, Ubergizmo, Tech Times, Variety, BuzzFeed, iDownloadBlog.com, YouTube, Mashable, The Next Web, Tech Narratives, International Business Times, New York Magazine, Marketing Land, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, The Verge, and CNBC. Thanks:@joshconstine
| J.R. Wu / Reuters: |
Foxconn sees 30% rise in quarterly profit YOY, despite its first revenue decline in its 26 years as a public company — Taiwan's Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker and a key Apple Inc supplier, on Friday reported 30 percent growth in fourth quarter net profit from a year ago, defying expectations for a decline.Sponsor Posts
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