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Snap begins rolling out redesign to “majority” of iOS users that undoes some previous changes, like putting Snaps and Chats back in chronological order — It's currently rolling out to ‘the majority’ of iOS users — Snapchat says it is currently rolling out yet another redesign to its app to iOS users.| Rani Molla / Recode: |
YouGov survey finds Snapchat brand's user sentiment declined 73% among US consumers aged 18-34 following redesign; satisfaction levels similarly declined — Their opinion of Snapchat's brand has taken a major hit. — Snapchat users have a much more negative view of the brand since Snap redesigned the app in January.
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| William Malcolm / The Keyword: |
As part of GDPR compliance, Google updates its privacy policy for more clarity, improves controls to manage your data, adds more services under data portability — Last year, we outlined Google's commitment to comply with Europe's new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) …
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| David Ruiz / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Lawmakers introduce a bipartisan bill, The Secure Data Act, which aims to block government from mandating encryption backdoors — This welcome piece of legislation reflects much of what the community of encryption researchers, scientists, developers, and advocates have explained for decades …
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| Jennifer Valentino-Devries / New York Times: |
Securus Technologies, which provides phone service to thousands of prisons, allows the police to track any phone's location within seconds without a warrant — Thousands of jails and prisons across the United States use a company called Securus Technologies to provide and monitor calls to inmates.| Alex Heath / Cheddar: |
Sources: Facebook is exploring creation of its own cryptocurrency to facilitate payments among its users, but the plans will likely take years to materialize — Facebook is exploring the creation of its own cryptocurrency, a virtual token that would allow its billions of users around the world …
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Google says it's designing features using Duplex voice assistant tech to have “disclosure built-in” and will “make sure the system is appropriately identified” — The search giant's lifelike AI will identify itself to callers. — Earlier this week …
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| Brandon Kochkodin / Bloomberg: |
Companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Alphabet stopped mentioning overseas cash in quarterly reports after tax overhaul required them to pay tax on such holdings — - New law requires companies to pay taxes on money held abroad — Other corporations also drop mention of overseas holdings| David Skok: |
Interview with Google News VP Richard Gingras on data privacy, Google's internal culture and politics, criticism ahead of the GDPR, and rethinking journalism — The head of Google News discusses the news ecosystem, responds to GDPR criticism, and answers the question: Is Google really a child of the open web?| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Silver Lake to buy ZPG, owner of UK property portals Zoopla, PrimeLocation, and SmartNewHomes, for about £2.2B, a 30% premium on its Thursday closing price — The UK housing market has cooled down on the heels of the EU/Brexit referendum vote, but that hasn't stopped M&A activity around property market companies.| Jeran Wittenstein / Bloomberg: |
Nvidia says it earned $289M from sales of its chips to cryptocurrency miners in Q1 of 2018, but expects crypto revenue to decline by two-thirds in Q2 — Nvidia Corp. revealed for the first time how much revenue it generated from chip sales to the cryptocurrency market — and said that figure will be much smaller in the second quarter.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Lithium Technologies to shut down Klout website and the Klout score on May 25, is planning a new social impact scoring methodology based on Twitter — Klout, the online social influence platform founded way back in 2008, is closing down on May 25. — The San Francisco-based startup …
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox reports first financial results since IPO, with Q1 revenue of $316.3M, up 28% YoY, vs $308.7M est., as paying users reach 11.5M, up from 9.3M last year — Dropbox made its debut as a public company earlier this year and today passed through its first milestone of reporting its results … | Aaron Boyd / Nextgov: |
White House announces Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence, comprised of AI researchers in government, to advise on R&D priorities, partnerships, more — The new interagency group will coordinate artificial intelligence programs and research across government.
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| Dan Rys / Billboard: |
Spotify removes R. Kelly and rapper XXXTentacion from the service's playlists, including-algorithmically generated ones, as part of new “hateful conduct” policy — YOUTUBE — Beginning today (May 10), Spotify users will no longer be able to find R. Kelly's music …
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