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Android phones send nearby cell tower address data to Google even when location services are disabled; Google says it will end the practice by end of November — Many people realize that smartphones track their locations. But what if you actively turn off location services, haven't used any apps …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's HomePod, which is delayed and has limited features versus Amazon's Echo, started as a side project and was cancelled and revived several times — The Apple speaker started as a side project, was cancelled and revived several times and can't do as many things as the Echo.
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| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
FCC unveils its plan to repeal net neutrality rules, a move that would give ISPs broad powers to determine which websites and online services customers use — Federal regulators unveiled a plan Tuesday that would give Internet providers broad powers to determine what websites and online services their customers can see and use.
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| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
Apple removes “a number of voice over internet protocol apps”, including Skype, from its App Store in China for being non-compliant with local law — SHANGHAI — One of the last foreign-run tools for online communication in China appears to be in trouble with the authorities there.
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| Stan Higgins / CoinDesk: |
Tether, a service that offers dollar-backed digital tokens, says tokens worth $30M were stolen by hackers and it has suspended its back-end wallet service — Tether, the company behind a dollar-pegged cryptocurrency widely used in the market's exchange trade, is claiming that its systems …
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| Yuan Yang / Financial Times: |
Six students say school sent group of 3,000 to Foxconn for three months of “work experience”, routinely working 11-hour days on iPhone X, breaking overtime law — Apple's main supplier in Asia has been employing students illegally working overtime to assemble the iPhone X …
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| Jordan Pearson / Motherboard: |
Ethereum startup Confido, which pitched itself as a blockchain-based app for making payments and tracking shipments, goes dark after raising $374K in ICO — A startup on the Ethereum platform vanished from the internet on Sunday after raising $374,000 USD from investors in an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) fundraiser.
| Bret Kinsella / Voicebot: |
YouTube is back on Amazon Echo Show with some minor alterations to its UI, after being pulled from the device in September — YouTube is back on Amazon Echo Show today. This was a mini-controversy back in September when Google removed YouTube access from Echo Show.
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| ProPublica: |
Ads for housing that exclude demographics are still being approved by Facebook, a year after a study highlighted the illegal discriminatory practice on Facebook — After ProPublica revealed last year that Facebook advertisers could target housing ads to whites only, the company announced …
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| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic: |
As Zuckerberg concludes his 30-state tour, a look at how he's described Facebook and its mission since 2005 — There's a story that Mark Zuckerberg has told dozens of times over the years. Shortly after he'd launched Facebook in February 2004, he went to get pizza with Kang-Xing Jin …
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| Tamara Chuang / Denver Post: |
Colorado fines Uber $8.9M after investigation found Uber allowed drivers with suspended or revoked licenses and felony convictions — Competitor Lyft also was investigated but no violations were found — Colorado regulators slapped Uber with an $8.9 million penalty for allowing 57 people … | Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Justice Department charges Behzad Mesri, an Iranian citizen, for allegedly hacking HBO and demanding a $6M bitcoin ransom in July — The man, who allegedly went after HBO with a $6 million ransom this summer, has worked for the Iranian military and a hacking group, according to the US. — Enlarge ImageSponsor Posts
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