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YouTube's $35/mo. TV streaming service debuts in Los Angeles, NYC, Chicago, Philadelphia, and San Francisco Bay area, with 4 major networks, 40+ cable channels — Young people in the United States have already made the switch from traditional television to streaming services.
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| Washington Post: |
FCC's Ajit Pai and FTC's Maureen Ohlhausen on why FCC's ISP privacy rules were bad, and how FTC's authority to police ISPs' privacy practices will be restored — Ajit Pai is chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Maureen Ohlhausen is acting chairman of the Federal Trade Commission.
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| The Verge: |
Verizon is primed to become ad-tracking giant and take full advantage of an impotent FCC, using consumer data without permission, as it's done with supercookies — Zombie adtech is coming to kill Google — Two seemingly unrelated things happened Monday that actually point directly at the future of the internet:
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google says its TPU chips are 15x to 30x faster on average for machine learning than a standard GPU/CPU combination and offer 30x to 80x better TeraOps/Watt — It's no secret that Google has developed its own custom chips to accelerate its machine learning algorithms.
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| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Facebook to allow flagging revenge porn for review and removal, prevent further sharing of removed images on Messenger and Instagram using photo-matching tech — Facebook has implemented a new photo-matching technology to ensure people can't re-share images previously reported and tagged as revenge porn …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft outlines diagnostics data collected by Windows 10 and introduces advanced settings to cut back collection, available in the Creators Update — Another attempt to ease privacy concerns — Microsoft has been responding to Windows 10 privacy concerns for nearly two years now …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon debuts a dashboard for Alexa Skills, letting developers track unique customers, and an API for requesting specific location data — Amazon this morning rolled out new tools for developers of Alexa apps, aka “Skills,” which aim to give them more insight into their app's users …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft launches 'Who's In,' a social event planning app for iMessage — Microsoft's name isn't exactly synonymous with social networking, though that hasn't stopped the company from finding angles into this space - generally, with more of a focus on the business side of socializing, as with its LinkedIn and Yammer acquisitions.
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| Harriet Taylor / CNBC: |
Facebook begins testing a free version of its Workplace enterprise tool, called Workplace Standard, aimed at smaller businesses — Facebook is introducing a free version of Workplace, its social networking tool for workers to chat and collaborate. — “We're making Workplace work for more companies …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Adblock Plus parent company Eyeo says it has acquired Sweden-based micropayment service Flattr — Eyeo, the Germany-based company behind perennially popular adblocking service Adblock Plus, has today announced that it has acquired Flattr, a micropayment and microdonation service headquartered in Sweden.| Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed: |
Profile of MicroChip, who claims he's a software developer in Utah leading a pro-Trump bot-infested Twitter network that sways trending topics — At 7:23 on Sunday evening, the conservative internet personality Mike Cernovich tweeted that former national security adviser Susan Rice had requested the …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Facebook Stories now shows friends who haven't posted, creating the impression of a ghost town on the little-used feature — Facebook launched a new story feature in its main app last week, adding a Snapchat-esque feed of ephemeral pictures and videos to the top of the News Feed.
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Cloud data warehouse vendor Snowflake Computing raises $100M led by Iconiq Capital — Snowflake Computing, a cloud data warehouse player led by former Microsoft exec Bob Muglia, raised money to expand its engineering team and European footprint. We talked shop with Muglia.| Daniel Thomas / BBC: |
British public to trial driverless shuttle bus in London over next three weeks; Oxbotica has developed the tech for the shuttle, which travels up to 10mph — Members of the British public are getting their first extended trial of a driverless shuttle bus. — Over the next three weeks …
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The Telegraph, TechSpot, Engadget, Silicon Republic, Inquirer, and The Verge. Tweets: @uniofgreenwich
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Canonical will discontinue its Unity desktop interface, focusing on GNOME instead, and will shutter its mobile projects — Ubuntu phones and tablets are dead, but the desktop, server, and cloud live on. — Six years after making Unity the default user interface on Ubuntu desktops … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Uber opens its Instant Pay debit card system to more drivers and says $1.3B in cash-outs were made in 2016 — Uber introduced Instant Pay last year, as a way to use the revenue from their Uber fares right away, without waiting for it to be deposited into their own bank account.
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