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Sensor Tower: US iPhone users spent an average of $58 each on in-app purchases in 2017, up 23% YoY; entertainment apps spending up 57%, lifestyle apps up 110% — Games, dating apps and streaming services contributed to a rise in consumer spending in iPhone apps last year … | Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
Fallout from data collection scandal has not spread much beyond Facebook to include other platforms because it is hard to pinpoint harm from privacy violations — It is nearly four weeks since the Cambridge Analytica scandal erupted, and something surprising has happened. — Or rather, not happened.
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Google researchers showcase AI tech that can isolate individual voices within a noisy environment in videos with a single audio track by watching mouth movement — Google researchers try to replicate the “cocktail party effect” for computers. — Google researchers have developed …
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| Russ Juskalian / MIT Technology Review: |
How UN's Building Blocks program is using permissioned blockchain based on open source Ethereum code to distribute UN-facilitated food aid to recipients — A few times a month, Bassam pushes a shopping cart through the aisles of a grocery store stocked with bags of rice, a small selection of fresh vegetables, and other staples.| Chris Wood / BBC: |
Partial fingerprints in a picture of a hand holding drugs, found in a WhatsApp message on a phone, helped convict drug dealer in UK — A pioneering fingerprint technique used to convict a drugs gang from a WhatsApp message “is the future” of how police approach evidence to catch criminals.| Tom McKay / Gizmodo: |
Pentagon spokesperson says there has been a “2,000% increase in Russian trolls in the last 24 hours”, following Syria air strikes on Friday night — As Donald Trump's administration, backed by France and the UK, launched a series of missile attacks on Syrian installations allegedly used …
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Facebook should let users share their social graph with any competing network and offer friend lists in a useful, interoperable format from its data export tool — It's time to free the social graph — Twitter, Vine, Voxer, MessageMe. Facebook has repeatedly cut off competitors … | Noah Kulwin / New York Magazine: |
Silicon Valley insiders describe how the “growth at all costs” mindset undermined the dream of a networked utopia and led to resentment among users — Even those who designed our digital world are aghast at what they created. A breakdown of what went wrong — from the architects who built it.| Benjamin Herold / Education Week: |
Study finds ~3,337 free apps in Google Play's Designed for Families program that may violate COPPA, a federal law aimed to protect children from online tracking — Thousands of free apps available in the Google Play store are potentially violating a major federal data-privacy law intended …
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Tweets: @zubair_shafiq and @benjaminbherold
| Chris Bing / Cyberscoop: |
As US Cyber Command's split from NSA approaches, sources describe tensions between military and intelligence about who should lead offensive cyber-operations — Cyber-warfare specialists serving with the 175th Cyberspace Operations Group of the Maryland Air National Guard engage in weekend training …
Tweets: @howelloneill and @lukolejnik
| David Floyd / CoinDesk: |
Börse Stuttgart, Germany's second-largest stock exchange to launch Bison, a cryptocurrency trading app, in September via its subsidiary Sowa Labs — The fintech arm of Germany's second-largest stock exchange is set to launch a cryptocurrency trading app later this year.
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| Jillian D'Onfro / CNBC: |
Google Maps volunteers working to stop fake reviews, ghost listings, impersonators, and other scammers say abuse is getting worse and Google isn't doing enough — - Fraud on Google Maps is not a new problem but a group of Maps advocates say that the number of fake reviews seems to have increased unfettered.
Tweets: @cnbc and @lutherlowe
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