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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Civil rights groups concerned as FOIA request shows cities' law enforcement adopted Amazon's Rekognition facial recognition tech without prior public discourse — Amazon has been providing facial recognition tools to law enforcement agencies in Oregon and Orlando for only a few dollars a month …
| European Parliament EPTV: |
Live stream of European Parliament's hearing on privacy with Mark Zuckerberg — Disclaimer: The interpretation does not constitute an authentic record of proceedings. — The simultaneous interpretation of debates provided by the European Parliament serves only to facilitate communication amongst the participants in the meeting.
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| Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed: |
Instagram is rolling out a new feature that allows users to mute others in their feed without having to unfollow them — Instagram just announced a desperately needed feature: a mute button. … Previously, it was possible to mute someone's Stories (tap and hold their profile icon), but not their photos in your main feed.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: US and China reach broad outline of a deal to settle ZTE controversy that would lift US sales ban in exchange for major management changes and fines — Deal would lift the ban on U.S. companies selling components and software to ZTE — The U.S. and China have agreed on the broad outline …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
eMarketer: Starbucks' mobile payment service had 20.7M US users in 2017, over Apple Pay's 19.9M and Google Pay's 9.3M, and is expected to keep outpacing them — People really love getting their coffee more quickly. Starbucks, which has operated its own mobile payments service since 2011 …
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Sources: Trump has rebuffed efforts to improve security around his phone use, has gone as long as five months without having phone checked by security experts — The president has kept features at risk for hacking and resisted efforts by staff to inspect the phones he uses for tweeting.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft shows off how its social chat bot Xiaoice, which is in use across platforms in China, can place phone calls to humans, similar to Google's Duplex — Similar to Google Duplex, but only in China — Google demonstrated a jaw-dropping new capability in Google Assistant earlier this month …
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| Dani Deahl / The Verge: |
Twitter announces it is killing off its apps for Xbox, Roku, and Android TV on May 24 — Probably for the best — Today Twitter announced it is killing off several of its apps, including Twitter for Android TV, Twitter for Roku, and Twitter for Xbox. — Twitter for Xbox allowed …
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Counterpoint Research: in Q1 2018, US smartphone sales dropped 11% YoY to 38.7M, yet Apple shipped a record 16M iPhones, an increase of 16% YoY — Six out of the top ten smartphone model SKUs were from Apple with iPhone 8 & X 64 GB versions the most popular.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Slack debuts action buttons, which let 3rd-party devs make Slack messages actionable with a click, with Asana, Jira, Pocket, Zendesk among launch partners — Turning messages into starting points — Slack is giving developers tools to build new integrations that turn clicks on messages into actions on their own platforms.
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| Will Oremus / Slate: |
The scandals around LocationSmart and Securus, dealers of millions of Americans' real-time cell location data, should be a bigger deal than Cambridge Analytica — Wireless carriers are sharing your real-time location with shady third parties—and a bug lets anyone use that data to track you.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft and Google disclose Speculative Store Bypass CPU flaw that exploits speculative execution and is similar to Spectre and Meltdown — New firmware updates are on the way — Microsoft and Google are jointly disclosing a new CPU security vulnerability that's similar to the Meltdown …
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| Kashmir Hill / Gizmodo: |
Inside WhiteBoxDating, the “wordpress for dating” catering to any niche, comes pre-loaded with many fake “users”, and is home to Trump.dating, NeverTrump.dating — Earlier this year, the media got very excited about Trump.dating, a site for the pro-Donald set that promised to “make dating great again.”
Tweets: @joshconstine, @cariatidaa, @mawnikr, @malwarejake, @redlightvoices, and @tedonprivacy
| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Researcher Karan Saini finds a bug in Comcast's website that leaks Xfinity users' info, including home address where the router is located and Wi-Fi credentials — Exclusive: A bug in Comcast's website leaks sensitive customer information. — A bug in Comcast's website used …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
London-based Realeyes, which uses AI and a front-facing camera to read viewers' emotions, raises $16.2M Series A led by Draper Esprit — One of the more interesting applications of AI to the world of advertising and marketing has been in how it's being used to help measure and ultimately shape campaigns.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
LG G7 ThinQ review: very bright 6.1" IPS LCD display with notch, the wide angle camera has improved, but battery life is mediocre and the software is not great — LG's new G7 ThinQ has a horrendous name, but the phone itself is pretty important. It's not a stretch to call this a restart for the company.
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Uber plans to launch its first taxi-hailing pilot service in Japan that will connect passengers to other taxi providers; the pilot will run through March 2019 — TOKYO (Reuters) - Uber Technologies plans to launch its first taxi-hailing pilot service in Japan that will connect passengers …
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| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
Adobe announces $1.68B deal to buy e-commerce platform Magento Commerce alongside a $8B common stock buyback program through 2021 — - Company also announces $8 billion share repurchase plan — Acquisition will help it compete against Salesforce, Oracle| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram is testing a mid-feed alert that tells users they are caught up on all new posts from the past 48 hours — Without a chronological feed, it can be tough to tell if you've seen all the posts Instagram will show you. That can lead to more of the compulsive, passive …
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Tidelift, which provides firms with professional-grade support of open source software and pays part of proceeds to software maintainers, raises $15M Series A — Tidelift Inc. is raising $15 million as it looks to boost its unique open-source software model that sees companies pay …
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| Cat Ferguson / The Verge: |
In the murky world of online rehab promotion, marketers find captive audiences in addiction groups on Facebook, sometimes running groups without full disclosure — Huge groups of vulnerable people looking for help are a rehab marketer's dream — When Laurie Couch first joined the Affected … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
American Customer Satisfaction Index: customer satisfaction of streaming video services is 75% on average, far better than cable, satellite, telco TV rivals — U.S. cable and satellite TV sector falls to 11-year low on ACSI's index — This won't come as a huge shock … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Email authentication service Valimail raises $25M Series B led by Tenaya Capital, bringing its total amount of funding raised to $38.5M — Valimail helps businesses ensure that nobody can impersonate them over email. That's not a sexy business to be in, but very much a necessary one.
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