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Live blog and stream of Mark Zuckerberg's second hearing before Congress, titled “Facebook: Transparency and Use of Consumer Data” — More questions about data privacy, election security, and the Facebook's role in society
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| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
Questions Congress should ask Zuckerberg: tracking users outside of Facebook, prioritizing growth over privacy, Facebook's anti-competitive behavior, and more — Mark Zuckerberg testified for almost five hours Tuesday in a televised Senate hearing about Facebook's privacy practices and data abuse.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Highlights from first hearing: Zuckerberg asked about Facebook's monopoly power, hopes AI will flag bad content soon, says Facebook doesn't snoop on phone calls — Congress doesn't understand Facebook. Does anyone? — Mark Zuckerberg made his highly anticipated debut before Congress today during …
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Google emails G Suite customers to detail upcoming changes to Gmail web client: ability to snooze emails and save emails offline, Smart Replies, and more — Google sent an email to G Suite customers to tell them that the company has been working on a brand new version of Gmail for the web.
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A current moving against Facebook swept Zuckerberg before Congress, which has shown rare bipartisan support that something should be done about the company — “I thought something was going to get done,” lamented a friend, in reference to yesterday's Senate hearing that featured a single witness … | Stephen Marche / New Yorker: |
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Steam Spy, a service estimating games sales and other stats on Steam, shuts down after Valve makes privacy changes hiding users' gaming libraries by default — In light of Internet and social-media privacy landing at the top of major news outlets this week, another major online service announced …
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
FCC publishes filing from Snap that appears to show second generation Spectacles with 802.11ac WiFi support and more; report said Snap was planning Q3 debut — Snapchat's corporate parent Snap Inc. may be getting ready to release a new version of its Spectacles wearable device soon …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify and Hulu launch a combined subscription bundle for $12.99 per month for Spotify Premium users, available to all users later this summer — Last fall, Hulu and Spotify teamed up to offer students a bundle including both of their services for a discounted price, compared with paying for each subscription separately.| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Sources: Microsoft delays planned April 10 release of next major Windows 10 update, called Version 1803, after finding bug; roll out likely delayed by weeks — Microsoft has found a blocking bug that has temporarily postponed the planned release of Windows 10 Version 1803 to the public.
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Uber says it plans to integrate new forms of transportation into its app, including bikes and public transport, and debuts Uber Rent car-sharing in SF — Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is in Washington, DC today to extend the hand of friendship to cities and make some product news
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Blockchain Capital says it accepted $25M of Ripple's XRP coin to go alongside its newly raised $150M fund — This article originally ran in Term Sheet, Fortune's newsletter about deals and dealmakers. Sign up here. — Ripple, the fintech startup behind the XRP coin … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Trump signs sex trafficking-focused FOSTA/SESTA bill into law, to make sites liable for some user generated content, weakening online free speech protections — President Donald Trump has signed the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), a bill that aims …
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Qualcomm launches SoCs for vision intelligence and IoT, combining an image signal processor, AI, CPU, and GPU tech for camera apps, robotics, smart displays — The new QCS605 and QCS603 SoCs combine image signal processor, AI, CPU and GPU technology to accommodate a variety of camera applications, robotics and smart displays.
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