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| Sam Thielman / The Guardian: |
Interview with Tim Berners-Lee on his 2016 ACM A.M. Turing Award, the recent privacy vote, clickbait, and online advertisements — As the world wide web creator accepts the prestigious Turing award, he talks to Sam Thielman about the US Congress's rollback of privacy rules and fake news
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Tweets: @sundarpichai, @duckduckgo, and @w3c
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: NFL and Amazon strike $50M deal to stream 10 Thursday night games to Prime members; price is five times that of NFL's agreement with Twitter last year — Deal for 10 Thursday night games will be available only to Amazon Prime members — Amazon is ready for some football.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google Play Games Services to drop iOS support, remove Gifts, Requests, and more on Android by March 2018 — Google Play Games Services (GPGS) has long supported iOS with game analytics tools and social multi-player features. However, as part of a streamlining effort … | Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed: |
How Aadhaar, India's national ID program that includes citizens' biometric data, has reached ubiquitous integration into society and services, worrying critics — For seven years, India's government has been scanning the irises and fingerprints of its citizens into a massive database.| Dara Kerr / CNET: |
Recently unsealed exhibits in Waymo-Uber suit point to Otto co-founder Lior Ron as second executive facing legal action — A redaction error in court documents shows that Uber's head of autonomous vehicles might not have been acting alone. — A second Uber executive has been revealed in Waymo's lawsuit.
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Business Insider and The Daily Caller
| Elyse Betters / Pocket-lint: |
Twitch opens up its Steam-like game store, will give partnered streamers 5% of sales that originate from their channel — Amazon-owned Twitch is no longer just about streaming and watching games. It's now a place where you can buy games, too. — The game-streaming service …
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Tweets: @twitch and @hearthpwn
| Victor H. / PhoneArena: |
Battery life test shows Galaxy S8+ runs for 8 hours between charges, is second only to iPhone 7 Plus which runs for 9 hours, 5 minutes between charges — We already know that the Samsung Galaxy S8+ is an incredible phone: it has the stunning, futuristic design, it has the camera and it has the performance …
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| John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed: |
Apple will ship new iMacs later this year, including configurations targeted at the pro market; Phil Schiller confirms they will not feature a touchscreen — Apple's expected update to its iMac line will arrive later this year with some previously unexpected additions: pro models.| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
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Tweets: @gak_pdx, @dannysullivan, @donmcallister, @alex, @iampliny, @stroughtonsmith, @gartenberg, @ericflo, @neilcybart, @stevestreza, @nickwingfield, @stroughtonsmith, @stevetweedie, @claymill, @cabel, and @anildash. Thanks:@verhakselaar
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
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| Laura Stevens / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon ends a legal battle with FTC, will begin refunding consumers up to $70M for in-app purchases made by kids — A federal court decision last year found Amazon was liable for in-app purchases children made without their parents' authorization due to a lack of sufficient safeguards.
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Federal Trade Commission, Digital Trends, The Next Web, BuzzFeed, The Verge, ITworld.com, Ubergizmo, Engadget, CNET, and Consumerist
| Yevgeniy Sverdlik / Data Center Knowledge: |
VMware to sell its cloud business vCloud Air to French IaaS provider OVH; OVH to continue providing service as vCloud Air Powered by OVH — VMware has severed the final link that kept it in the business of providing cloud services and operating the data center infrastructure to support them.
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VMware, Inc., The Register, SiliconANGLE, Data Economy, channelweb.co.uk, NASDAQ.com, Fortune, The Register, and CRN
Tweets: @russreeder, @yvessandfort, and @nfonrose
| Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Trump administration considers vetting procedures that would require visa applicants disclose phone contacts, passwords to social-media accounts, more — Foreigners entering U.S. could be forced to hand over phones, answer questions on ideology; changes could apply to allies like France and Germany
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The Next Web, The Guardian, The Hill, The Intercept, CNN, Tech Times, Washington Post, ValueWalk, The Register, TechCrunch, ZDNet, CNET, Motherboard, Nextgov, Engadget, Hit & Run, Recode, Fortune, and Recode
| Bloomberg: |
Outsourcing firms with lower-skilled staff may get fewer H-1B visas, leaving more for big US tech firms; Google says changes won't affect its software engineers — The new way foreign worker visas are doled out in the U.S. is poised to benefit some of the biggest technology companies …
Tweets: @r_bolla, @robertjwash, @nathangenez, and @alantonelson
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
New York's top court rejects Facebook's challenge of 381 search warrants, writing it's up to targets of warrants, not third parties, to argue warrants' validity — New York state's highest court on Tuesday rejected Facebook Inc's (FB.O) challenge to 381 search warrants to uncover suspected … Sponsor Posts
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