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Sources: Apple is testing using facial recognition powered by a new 3D sensor to unlock OLED iPhone and make payments; source: eye scanning also being tested — Company said to plan 3-D sensor for logins, approving payments — Technology being tested as replacement for fingerprint scanner
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KGI's iPhone predictions: OLED iPhone won't have fingerprint recognition, supports 3D sensing for facial recognition, all models have 64GB, 256GB options, more — Find out which companies are about to raise their dividend well before the news hits the Street with StreetInsider.com's Dividend Insider Elite.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Dave McClure resigns as a general partner of 500 Startups, following admission of inappropriate behavior toward women; he had already stepped down from CEO role — Dave McClure has resigned as a general partner of funds managed by 500 Startups, the seed investment group he founded in 2010, Axios has learned.
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Multiple accusations of unwanted physical advances by Dave McClure surface, as 500 Startups partner Elizabeth Yin resigns over lack of internal transparency — An email circulated to 500 Startups staffers by its Mountain View accelerator lead and partner Elizabeth Yin makes several claims …
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
US privacy suit alleging Facebook tracked logged out users is dismissed; judge ruled users failed to show economic harm or a reasonable expectation of privacy — A U.S. judge has dismissed nationwide litigation accusing Facebook Inc (FB.O) of tracking users' internet activity even after they logged out of the social media website.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft's Joe Belfiore says Windows 10 Timeline feature will be delayed until after Fall Creators Update — Microsoft revealed its new Timeline feature of Windows 10 earlier this year, noting it would arrive in the upcoming Fall Creators Update. Timeline is designed to allow Windows 10 users …
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| Jay Greene / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft reorganizes global sales group to focus on cloud services, according to internal email; source says the move will lead to layoffs in the thousands — Microsoft Corp. MSFT -1.10% reorganized its global sales group Monday to focus on cloud services, and a person familiar with the plans …
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| Sam Shead / Business Insider: |
UK's data protection watchdog rules that Google DeepMind's first deal with the NHS failed to comply with data protection law — The UK's data protection watchdog has ruled that a deal between DeepMind and an NHS trust “failed to comply with data protection law.”
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Tweets: @qhardy, @natalie_banner, @sarahjamielewis, @carolecadwalla, and @mustafasuleymn
| Aaron Pressman / Fortune: |
Profile of AMD CEO Lisa Su, who has helped the company return to revenue growth by reducing the company's dependence on PC sales — From the wide windows of her fourth-floor office, Lisa Su can look across the Austin campus of Advanced Micro Devices and see the laboratory building where the company's new chips get tested.| Sijia Jiang / Reuters: |
China's Tencent to impose play time and spending limits for kids on a top-grossing game Honour of Kings, after receiving complaints about game's addictiveness — Tencent Holdings, China's biggest gaming and social media firm by revenue, said it will limit play time for some young users of …
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| Tony Romm / Recode: |
Mark Pincus, Reid Hoffman launch Win the Future to rethink the Democratic Party; project's site will put political topics up for a vote, crowdsource proposals — It's called Win the Future, and Pincus is even courting potential WTF candidates like the frontman of '90s rock band Third Eye Blind.| Bloomberg: |
Profile of Tencent and its President Martin Lau as it plans to expand outside China, where it dominates user attention on smartphones by offering many services — The WeChat app has almost a billion users, and many of them use it all day. So why isn't the company everywhere by now?
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