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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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| Eugene Kim / CNBC: |
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. — In the letter, Bezos stressed the importance of having high standards in running a business.
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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.| Bloomberg: |
Profile of data mining company Palantir, cofounded by Peter Thiel, which works with government agencies and law enforcement to help track US citizens — Peter Thiel's data-mining company is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens. The scary thing? Palantir is desperate for new customers.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Qualcomm is cutting ~1,500 jobs, mostly in California, in an effort to cut costs by $1B; the company employs 34K people globally — Company to reduce California workforce by about 1,500 — Management acting in response to shareholder pressure — Qualcomm Inc. has begun cutting …
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| Cameron Johnson / Netflix Media Center: |
Netflix launches 30-second preview videos on iOS shown in vertical format, to be displayed like a slideshow, and coming soon to Android — One of the best ways to know if you'll like a new series or movie is to watch a quick trailer. Today, we are excited to introduce mobile previews … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon introduces Alexa Blueprints that let anyone create custom Alexa skills and responses without coding — Amazon this morning is introducing “Alexa Blueprints,” a new way for any Alexa owner to create their own customized Alexa skills or responses, without needing to know how to code.
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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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| Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
Profile of “Terms of Service; Didn't Read”, launched in 2012, which crowdsources summaries of ToS and then rates them — MOST PEOPLE SPEND very little time thinking about the terms of service that govern life online. The agreement appears in a flash, we affirm that … | Bloomberg: |
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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| 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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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Android does a better job of corralling notifications than iOS by prioritizing, grouping, and letting users jump directly to that app's notification settings — Because they aren't going away — Everybody hates smartphone notifications. They're interruptive, distracting, annoying, and increasingly less valuable.
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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 …
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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.| 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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| Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal: |
The world's tech giants are betting big on India as more people go online and e-commerce grows, but low incomes and patchy connectivity remain major challenges — The world's largest internet companies are betting big on the nation of 1.3 billion, where challenges are as big as the opportunities
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: cryptocurrency firms and VCs, including a16z and Union Square Ventures, are lobbying SEC to seek exemption from federal oversight of cryptocurrencies — Andreessen Horowitz and other venture-capital backers of digital-currency firms lobby regulators
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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.| 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.Sponsor Posts
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