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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 …
| 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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Tweets: @twittersupport and @luca
| 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.| 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 … | 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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The Hill, Cyberscoop, Reuters, Android Authority, CNBC, New York Times, The Verge, Android Beat, TechSpot, Gizmochina, FierceWireless, 9to5Google, Fortune, Axios, Engadget, Android and Me, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Seeking Alpha, ZDNet, and Android Central
Tweets: @marcorubio, @stevesi, @evanperez, and @davidgura
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
In European Parliament, Zuckerberg was barraged with questions on Facebook's power and conduct, but the format let him cherry-pick the ones he wanted to answer — Mark Zuckerberg got to cherry-pick the questions he wanted to answer from EU Parliament after it spent an hour taking turns rattling off queries …
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| Politico: |
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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Tweets: @juddapatow, @anandwrites, @lorenzofb, @janinezacharia, and @danpfeiffer
| 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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| Reuters: |
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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Engadget, Bloomberg, Seeking Alpha, Ubergizmo, Tech in Asia, Japan Times, and Channel NewsAsia
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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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| 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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Tweets: @eff, @joshconstine, @stevekovach, and @willoremus
| 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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| 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.| Lily Katz / Bloomberg: |
Circle adds a Buy the Market feature that lets users easily buy seven different crypto coins at once, weighted by market value; CEO says none are securities — - With a few clicks, users can buy seven different coins at once — None of the tokens on firm's platform are securities, CEO says| 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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Digital Trends, Wired, and Mashable
| 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: @cariatidaa, @joshconstine, @mawnikr, @malwarejake, @redlightvoices, and @tedonprivacy
| 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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PE Hub Blog and GeekWire
| 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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Tweets: @redhat, @alfredwkng, @tomwarren, @tomwarren, and @bitfield
| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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