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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
14M+ records of Verizon users who called customer service, including phone numbers, addresses, PINs, were left exposed for over week after telecom was notified — Customer records for at least 14 million subscribers, including phone numbers and account PINs, were exposed.
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| Thuy Ong / The Verge: |
Amazon, Reddit, Netflix, Airbnb, Spotify, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and many others in tech are rallying today in support of net neutrality — Amazon, Reddit, Facebook, Google and Twitter are fighting the FCC's changes — Technology giants like Amazon, Spotify, Reddit, Facebook, Google …
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| John Anon / Android Headlines: |
Google releases Backup and Sync as a single desktop backup app, eliminating need for individual uploader tools for Google Drive and Google Photos — Google has today announced the launch of its new Backup and Sync tool. This is a feature which is now available for both Windows and Mac … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft unveils new Outlook for iOS and Android with quick reply, improved sidebar, and improves search to include attachments, travel plans, deliveries, more — Microsoft today unveiled a redesigned version of its popular Outlook mobile app for iOS and Android, which most notably includes … | Dustin Volz / Reuters: |
US General Services Administration removes Kaspersky Lab from two lists of approved vendors used by government agencies to purchase IT — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Tuesday removed Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab from two lists of approved vendors used by government agencies …
| Lauren Thomas / CNBC: |
Amazon Prime Day drove record levels of Prime sign-ups and sales, with sales growing 60% YoY; the Echo Dot was the most popular purchase among Prime members — - Prime Day sales this year surpassed Amazon's Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the e-commerce giant says.
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| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
Source: Apple working on rear-facing 3D laser system for new iPhone which will enable better depth detection for AR apps and improved autofocus — The addition will make future iPhones far better suited to the AR experiences being created by developers using the ARKit development platform.| Bill Ready / PayPal: |
PayPal added as a payment option on iTunes, App Store, iBooks, and Apple Music in Canada and Mexico, with roll-out in US and other countries soon — Starting today in Canada and Mexico, and rolling out in other countries including the US soon after, PayPal customers will be able to pay for App Store …
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| Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic: |
New tech allows realistic superimposing of people's mouth movements in video, making them appear to say something they didn't, which could be used to deceive — The president was seething. — His problem was with the press, yes, but also with the technology they used. Electronic media had changed everything.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google acquires Indian AI startup Halli Labs, which was building AI tools to address “old problems and domains” — Some more M&A news in the world of artificial intelligence. Today it was made public that Google has acquired Halli Labs, a very young (its first public appearance …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Microsoft releases free Seeing AI app on iOS that uses AI to recognize people, objects, and scenes, and narrates the world to blind people — Microsoft has released Seeing AI — a smartphone app that uses computer vision to describe the world for the visually impaired.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Report: Amazon is considering giving Alexa developers access to transcripts of what people say when their applications are used — A substantial shift in Amazon's stance on consumer privacy — Amazon is considering granting third-party app developers access to transcripts of audio recordings saved …
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