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A bug in the website of LocationSmart, which sells real-time phone location data, let anyone track people's locations across North America without consent — The bug allowed one Carnegie Mellon researcher to track anyone's cell phone in real time. — A company that collects the real …
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Google declines to provide the names of hair salon and restaurant used in controversial Google Duplex demo, or say whether the calls were edited — Google made headlines by demonstrating an AI-powered voice assistant that made haircut and restaurant reservations, without betraying that it isn't human.
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Analysis of 1,450 ICOs finds 271 have red flags including plagiarized white papers, fake execs, promised returns; investors poured $1B+ into these 271 offerings — A Wall Street Journal analysis of 1,450 cryptocurrency offerings reveals rampant plagiarism, identity theft and promises of improbable returns
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Strategy Analytics: in Q1, Amazon shipped 4M Echos globally, taking 43.6% of the market, as Google shipped 2.4M Home speakers, and Apple shipped 600K HomePods — Apple sold an estimated 600,000 HomePod speakers during the first quarter of 2018, according to new estimates shared this morning by Strategy Analytics.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
PayPal confirms it is acquiring Swedish payments company iZettle for $2.2B in an all-cash deal, making it PayPal's biggest-ever transaction — PayPal is taking its biggest bet yet on point-of-sale transactions, small businesses, and markets outside of the US, as it looks to raise its game against Square …
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| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Intel's Mobileye has started testing 100 self-driving cars in Jerusalem with plans to deploy the fleet in the US and other regions in coming months — Intel and its subsidiary Mobileye have started testing 100 self-driving cars in Jerusalem. In the “coming months,” the plan is to deploy … | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Instagram will now let users share posts from their own and public accounts to Stories as a sticker on Android; coming to iOS next week — The line between posts and stories is getting even thinner — The line between Instagram posts and stories is getting even thinner today.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google plans to remove the green “Secure” text for HTTPS in September in Chrome and add a red “Not secure” label to sites without HTTPS starting in October — Google today announced its next steps for how Chrome labels HTTP and HTTPS sites.
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| Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: |
Special purpose acquisition company Landcadia buys food delivery startup Waitr in a $308M deal that will make Waitr a public company when the acquisition closes — - Landcadia Holdings agrees to pay $300 million for Waitr — Tilman Fertitta has been looking for deals since 2016
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| Washington Post: |
US federal immigration officials have abandoned pursuit of a controversial machine-learning technology to help with “extreme vetting” of foreign visitors — Federal immigration officials have abandoned their pursuit of a controversial machine-learning technology that was a pillar …
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| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Uber's chief product officer Jeff Holden, who helped to develop Uber Pool and oversaw its flying-taxi initiative, is leaving the company on Thursday — Company had hired Holden from Groupon in 2014 — Uber Technologies Inc.'s chief product officer, Jeff Holden, who helped develop Uber Pool … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook to start testing ads in Stories today in the US, Mexico, and Brazil, says Stories has 150M daily users, defines a user as anyone who watches one story — After 14 months of silence since launching, Facebook Stories has finally announced a 150 million daily active user count for its Snapchat Stories clone.| Peter Aldhous / BuzzFeed: |
Parabon NanoLabs says it has loaded DNA data from ~100 crime scenes to genealogy database GEDmatch and has found matches to suspect's relatives in ~20 cases — “I think there is going to be press around this very soon,” a company scientist told BuzzFeed News.
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