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Amazon rolls out “Announcements” feature for Alexa, which lets users send a short voice message to every Echo device in the house — Rolling out to customers in the US and Canada today, the new feature lets you send a short voice message to every Echo device under your roof with a single voice command.
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| Tom Spring / Threatpost: |
Intel discontinues Intel Remote Keyboard for iOS and Android after researchers discover keystroke injection vulnerability — Intel said Tuesday it was putting the kibosh on a popular Android and iOS app called Intel Remote Keyboard after researchers discovered that local attackers …
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| Becky Peterson / Business Insider: |
Nasdaq halts trading of Longfin, which soared 2400% after buying a blockchain firm in Dec, as SEC freezes $27M in unauthorized stock sales by CEO and others — - Longfin, a 1-year-old fintech company, is under fire following SEC allegations that its CEO and his associates sold $27 million in restricted company stock.
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| Simina Mistreanu / Foreign Policy: |
Life in Rongcheng offers inside preview of China's social credit system, which mixes credit scores with monitoring data of citizens, launches nationally in 2020 — RONGCHENG, CHINA — Rongcheng was built for the future. Its broad streets and suburban communities were constructed with an eye …
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Preparing for Mark Zuckerberg's congressional testimony, Facebook hired advisers who are coaching him and are role-playing members of congress in mock hearings — For Facebook, Tuesday is being seen as a kind of dreaded final exam. — That's when Mark Zuckerberg, the company's chief executive …
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| Zeynep Tufekci / Wired: |
Despite repeated apologies over 14 years from Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook has continued to violate users' privacy, driven primarily by its business model — IN 2003, ONE year before Facebook was founded, a website called Facemash began nonconsensually scraping pictures of students at Harvard …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Spotify invites media to press event on April 24 in New York City; offers that popped up inside the app suggest it might announce a music player for cars — Earlier today, Spotify announced it would be sharing news at an April 24th event. It's unclear whether the company is planning …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Skype unveils Content Creators mode, in preview on Windows 10 and Mac now, to record calls via NDI-compatible multi-user streaming software, out this summer — Here's a little trade secret: podcasters and radio show hosts use Skype a lot. It's helpful for adding remote guests with minimal fuss.
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| Blake Montgomery / BuzzFeed: |
US seizes classifieds site Backpage.com and related domains, raids founder's home, files 93 counts including money laundering and facilitating prostitution — Backpage.com, the popular classified ads website, went offline Friday after being seized and disabled by the federal government.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Some Snapchat users are seeing a reverse chronological Stories feed in tabs, which rolls back a notable change from Snapchat's controversial redesign last year — Snapchat has undone its controversial redesign's most significant change in an update to some users today.| Carl Meyer / National Observer: |
Facebook says it has suspended Canadian data firm AggregateIQ over alleged involvement with SCL and the Cambridge Analytica data misuse scandal — Facebook says it has suspended Canadian political consultancy AggregateIQ from its platform, after reports emerged alleging its involvement …
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| Recode: |
Interview with Tim Cook covering US tax reform, the changing job landscape, diversity, DACA, why everyone should learn to code, privacy as a right, free speech — Education, iPhones, privacy and Facebook were all big topics of discussion. — Recode's Kara Swisher and MSNBC's Chris Hayes …
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| Megha Rajagopalan / BuzzFeed: |
The Sri Lankan government and civil society groups say that Facebook has failed for years to monitor and remove accounts inciting ethnic violence in Sri Lanka — DIGANA, Sri Lanka — When the Sri Lankan government temporarily blocked access to Facebook last month amid a wave of violence against Muslims …
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