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UK regulator orders Cambridge Analytica to hand over data it has on a US voter who brought a complaint, including how the data was obtained and how it was used — In landmark cross-border decision, Information Commissioner's Office gives company 30 days to comply with David Carroll's request
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Office of the Director of National Intelligence report: NSA collected 534M metadata records from US communications providers in 2017, up more than 3x from 2016 — The National Security Agency revealed a huge increase in the amount of call metadata collected, from about 151 million call records …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Email management service Unroll.me will stop serving EU users and delete all EU user accounts by May 24 as it's unable to comply with EU's GDPR — Put on your best unsurprised face: Unroll.me, a company that has, for years, used the premise of ‘free’ but not very useful ‘email management’ services … | Cade Metz / New York Times: |
A look at universities' struggles to retain AI researchers as Facebook opens new AI labs in Seattle and Pittsburgh after New York, Paris, and Montreal — SAN FRANCISCO — At a conference in Silicon Valley this week, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, vowed that his company would …
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
What to expect from Microsoft Build 2018: more info about Windows ML and Windows Mixed Reality, Cortana updates, Windows 10 updates, and a lot of Azure talk — Fresh off of Windows 10's major April update, Microsoft is gearing up for its Build conference in Seattle Monday.
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| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Analysis of Alibaba's earnings report shows the company's financial affiliate Ant Financial posted ~$1.4B in pretax profit in the year ended March, up 65% YoY — - Jack Ma's Ant is said to seek private funding of $10 billion — Ant Financial posted full year profit of 9.18 billion yuan
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The National Freedom of Information Coalition asks Google to disable the self-destruct feature on government Gmail accounts to preserve public records — Activists have asked Google to disable the feature on government accounts. — A new update rolling out for Gmail offers a “self destruct” … | Mark Lowenstein / Tech.pinions: |
Regulators should approve the T-Mobile-Sprint merger because the US is better served with three strong carriers than with two giants and two weaker carriers — On the heels of the T-Mobile/Sprint merger announcement (Round 3), the market has been pessimistic, with consensus on the Street …
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Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent are investing heavily in short videos as the format explodes in China; analyst says the top four apps had 582M users last quarter — The rapid growth of short-video start-ups has prompted China's biggest technology groups to plough funds into the sector, as Baidu …
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| Dara Kerr / CNET: |
NYC comptroller's report: Airbnb is responsible for ~10% of citywide rental increases between 2009-2016; Airbnb says not true as hosts are mostly sharing homes — New York City officials say rising rents across the city are partially Airbnb's fault. — The city's comptroller, Scott Stringer … | Sankalp Phartiyal / Reuters: |
Sources: Flipkart board approved in-principle to engaging Walmart on ~$15B bid with Alphabet investing too; Amazon bid unlikely to win due to competitive issues — MUMBAI/BENGALURU/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian e-commerce firm Flipkart's board is yet to finalize a deal to sell a controlling stake …
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| Brittany A. Roston / SlashGear: |
Lyft partner Aptiv adds 30 self-driving cars with human safety drivers to Lyft's network in Las Vegas, with riders required to opt-in, expanding on its pilot — Aptiv has announced the launch of 30 self-driving cars in Las Vegas, all of them operating under the Lyft ridesharing network.
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