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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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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 …
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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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| 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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| 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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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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| Julia Alexander / Polygon: |
Valve acquires Firewatch developer Campo Santo, which will be left intact as a team, weeks after CEO said Valve will return to “making and shipping games” — Dev team will continue to make its own games — Firewatch developer Campo Santo announced today that it's joining Valve.
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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 … | 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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| Alan Boyle / GeekWire: |
EarthNow comes out of stealth with backing from Bill Gates, Airbus, and SoftBank, plans to operate a satellite constellation providing real-time video of Earth — The latest spinout from Intellectual Ventures, EarthNow, says it's coming out of stealth mode with backing from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates …
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| Alexandra Lange / New Yorker: |
Profile of Susan Kare, designer of the classic Macintosh suite of icons, whose influential work lives on in modern art museums — Every fifteen minutes or so, as I wrote this story, I moved my cursor northward to click on the disk in the Microsoft Word toolbar that indicates “Save.”
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| Wall Street Journal: |
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 … Sponsor Posts
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