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Sources: Amazon is working on a domestic robot codenamed Vesta that can navigate inside homes like a driverless car — Prototypes can navigate from room to room like driverless cars — Company hopes to start testing bots in homes later this year — Ten years ago, Amazon introduced … | Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed: |
In interview Kogan admits he broke Facebook's ToS but his app was within norms, says he worked on 10+ papers with Pete Fleming, now Instagram's head of research — Aleksandr Kogan, the Cambridge University academic whose app has set off the firestorm about online user data, says he's considering suing Facebook.
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the many ways Google harvests user info via Gmail, apps on devices, its Analytics service, more; Google likely knows more about us than Facebook — Google gathers more personal data than Facebook does, by almost every measure—so why aren't we talking about it?
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| Reuters: |
Iran's central bank bans the country's banks from dealing in cryptocurrencies over money-laundering concerns, as the country tries to halt a currency crisis — DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's central bank has banned the country's banks from dealing in cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Avast outlines how hackers hid a backdoor in its PC cleanup tool CCleaner, which tainted ~2.27M downloads in 2017, as part of a targeted attack on tech firms — IN SEPTEMBER, SECURITY researchers at Cisco Talos and Morphisec made a worst nightmare-type disclosure: the ubiquitous computer …
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Data of 14M customers and drivers of Middle Eastern ride-hailing service Careem has been stolen in a cyberattack which company became aware of on January 14 — - Careem, the Middle East rival to Uber, had the data of its 14 million customers and drivers stolen in a cyberattack, the company said on Monday.
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Careem Official Blog, Khaleej Times, and HackRead
| Nicholas Megaw / Financial Times: |
TransferWise becomes first non-bank firm to get direct access to Bank of England's interbank payment systems to process payments without intermediary banks — TransferWise has become the first fintech group to gain direct access to the Bank of England's interbank payment systems …
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Sources: as Tencent Music prepares for a potential H2 2018 IPO, recent private deals have valued the firm at $25B+, double the $12.5B valuation of late 2017 — It would be the fourth-biggest U.S.-listed tech IPO on record — Tencent Music Entertainment Group, China's largest music-streaming company … | Mark Mulligan / Music Industry Blog: |
At $7.4B, streaming revenue was 43% of all recorded music revenues in 2017; revenue for artists selling directly via platforms like Bandcamp grew 27.2% YoY — 2017 was a stellar year for the recorded music business. Global recorded music revenues reached $17.4 billion in 2017 in trade values …
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| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Gary Gensler, CFTC's head from 2009 to 2014, thinks Ethereum and Ripple's respective currencies may have been issued and traded in violation of securities laws — SAN FRANCISCO — Gary Gensler was one of the top financial regulators in the Obama administration, the finance chief … | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Glowforge raises $10M in new funding from existing investors Foundry Group and True Ventures and starts selling its $2,495 3D laser printer — Glowforge has raised more investment dollars as the Seattle startup starts selling its 3D laser printer to the general public and continues …
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Vodafone exec: company now serves 65M IoT connections, including 14.4M connected vehicles and 5M medical devices, generating~€235M in Q4 2017, up 18.8% YoY — The claim that connectivity is a commodity has existed in the mobile industry for some time and has recently extended itself to the Internet of Things.
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