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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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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft outlines diagnostics data collected by Windows 10 and introduces advanced settings to stop 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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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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| 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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| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
An in-depth look at recent challenges to Google's search reputation, from fake news sites in results, to disturbing answers from Google Home — The past few months have been bad for Google's search reputation. Long considered the “gold standard” in search, Google has seen its search results questioned as never before.| 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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| 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.| 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.
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| 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 … | Jamie Rigg / Engadget: |
Huawei launches Honor 8 Pro flagship with 5.7-inch Quad HD display, 8-core Kirin 960 SoC, and 6GB RAM for £475, available to pre-order in UK today — There's Huawei, and then there's Honor. While both are technically the same company, the Honor brand takes some of the best bits …
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| 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 … | Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Aurora Innovation, founded by ex-CTO of Google's self-driving car project Chris Urmson, has raised $3.1M+ last month, according to an SEC filing — Aurora Innovation, the stealth startup founded by the former CTO of Alphabet's self-driving car project, has raised over $3 million in venture capital funding, according to an SEC filing.
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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.| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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