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| James Poniewozik / New York Times: |
Zuckerberg mostly gave bland, rehearsed answers to Congress that seemed designed to avoid going viral or creating further scandals — Social media lives and dies on engagement. You serve your audiences such provocative content — news, political hot takes, baby pictures — that they keep their eyes on you as long as possible.| Washington Post: |
Transcript of Mark Zuckerberg's second day of congressional hearings — REP. GREG WALDEN (R-ORE): OK. I'd ask our guests to please take their seats so we can get started. The Committee on Energy And Commerce will now come to order. — WALDEN: Before my opening statement … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Highlights from second hearing: Zuckerberg is asked how Facebook tracks people around the web and whether minors should have additional privacy protections — These members of Congress did their homework — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made his second of two appearances before Congress on Wednesday …
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
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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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
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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| 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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| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
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.| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
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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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram says it's building a tool for downloading “a copy of what you've shared on Instagram”, following Facebook, amid criticism of lack of portability — Yesterday we reported that Instagram lacked data portability, knocking the app for the absence of an equivalent to Facebook's Download Your Information too.
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| Polina Marinova / Fortune: |
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 … | 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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| 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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