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Jeff Bezos says Prime has 100M+ members worldwide in his annual shareholder letter, the first time Prime membership numbers have been shared by Amazon — - Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has released his latest annual shareholder letter. — Bezos has published a shareholder letter every year since 1997.
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Facebook says it will change ToS in May for 1.5B users outside EU; US, Canada to be governed by US instead of Ireland ToS, limiting GDPR impact to 400M users — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - If a new European law restricting what companies can do with people's online data went into effect tomorrow …
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Facebook is building a team to design its own AI chips, according to job listings and sources, joining a trend among tech giants to lower reliance on chipmakers — Social network could use semiconductors for consumer devices — Move follows Apple's chip efforts, early work by Google
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| Aaron Tilley / The Information: |
Sources: Intel to shut down its New Devices Group, which was formed in 2013 and made fitness trackers and smart glasses — Intel's long-failing foray into wearables and augmented reality is officially dead. — The chip giant's new devices group will shut down, according to people familiar with the situation.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Researchers: 3rd-party JavaScript trackers embedded on sites using Login With Facebook can grab Facebook user data; abusive scripts found on 434 of top 1M sites — Facebook confirms to TechCrunch that it's investigating a security research report that shows Facebook user data can be grabbed …
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| Dell Cameron / Gizmodo: |
TaskRabbit's app and website are back online after security breach, CEO says certain personally identifiable information may have been compromised — TaskRabbit, the handyman-for-hire app, is back online after being intentionally taken down on Monday following an apparent data breach.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Translator gets full offline support on Android and iOS; third-party Android developers can now pay to use Translator in their own apps — Chances are you mostly need a translator app on your phone while you are traveling. But that's also when you are most likely to not have any connectivity.
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| M.G. Siegler / 500ish Words: |
Silicon Valley's tech industry appears increasingly out of touch with reality, the latest example being Facebook's response to recent scandals, as IQ trumps EQ — As we slip out of touch with reality... There's something that has been in the back of my mind for some time now.
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| Kate Conger / Gizmodo: |
Google pulls five Chrome Web Store extensions posing as ad blockers that had scripts enabling them to hijack browsers; extensions had 20M+ users combined — A researcher with AdGuard discovered five fake ad-blocking extensions in the Chrome Web Store that used hidden scripts to manipulate users' browsers.| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Filing with Russia's EEC database shows several unreleased iPhone models; previous filings of suspected Apple products appeared 1-2 months before official debut — French website Consomac has discovered a new Russian-language regulatory filing in the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
London-based BenevolentAI, which is developing AI tech for drug discovery and more, announces $115M funding round at a $2.1B post-money valuation — In the ongoing race to build the best and smartest applications that tap into the advances of artificial intelligence, a startup out of London … | Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Researcher finds a public and unprotected AWS storage bucket, belonging to data firm Localblox, containing 48M individuals' records scraped from public profiles — Exclusive: Profile data was scraped without user consent or knowledge to “build a three-dimensional picture” on millions of people.
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| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Eightfold.ai, an AI-based talent acquisition and management platform, raises $24M Series B led by Lightspeed and Foundation Capital — Two former product wizards from Facebook and Google are combining Silicon Valley's buzziest buzz words — search, artificial intelligence, and big data … | Richard Gao / Android Police: |
Google Pay, formerly Android Pay, passes 100M installs on the Google Play Store — Nowadays, several phone manufacturers have their own payment services. There's Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, the upcoming LG Pay, and of course, Google Pay. After experiencing two rebrands and retaining …
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| David Floyd / CoinDesk: |
SF-based crypto exchange Kraken won't respond to NY AG's inquiry because it already got “the hell out of New York” after 2015 BitLicense regulations, says CEO — San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken isn't planning to respond to the New York Attorney General's newly-unveiled inquiry into the ecosystem.
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| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
Interview with Susan Fowler, who exposed Uber's toxic workplace culture, on her new mission: ending forced arbitration for all workers, starting in California — The Uber whistleblower is working with the California Labor Federation to help bring awareness to a new bill.
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| David Gelles / New York Times: |
Interview with Marissa Mayer, her first since leaving Yahoo, on her new Lumi Labs project, time at Google, thoughts on #MeToo movement, and more — The former Yahoo chief is renting Google's original office, where “there's a lot of good juju,” and planning her next act. She just won't say what it is.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google's Area 120 incubator launches Grasshopper, a learn-to-code mobile app for beginners, with an initial curriculum teaching JavaScript — Google's internal incubator, Area 120, is today releasing its next creation: a learn-to-code mobile app for beginners called Grasshopper.
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| Julia Alexander / Polygon: |
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki addresses monetization concerns, says company will pilot a new video upload flow to decrease false positive demonetizations — “We are working to make this faster,” Susan Wojcicki said — YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki today addressed ongoing frustration and anger within …
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Florida man, who the FCC claimed made 96M robocalls during a three-month period in 2016 and said should pay a $120M fine, denies wrongdoing before US Senate — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Florida man alleged to have made almost 100 million robocalls to trick consumers with “exclusive” …
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