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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 …
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| 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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| Rhett Jones / Gizmodo: |
A list of more than 40 questions that Mark Zuckerberg was asked before the European Parliament but failed to answer with specifics — For a moment, Mark Zuckerberg's appearance before members of the European Parliament looked like it was going to be a very bad day for the Facebook CEO.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's manufacturing partner TSMC has started mass production of 7nm processors for iPhones launching later this year — - More-efficient 7-nanometer processors coming later this year — Samsung is also working on the next-generation chip technology
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9to5Mac, The Verge, AppleInsider, MacRumors, SiliconANGLE, CNET, Cult of Mac, SlashGear, and iPhone Hacks
| Devlin Barrett / Washington Post: |
FBI's claim that investigators were locked out of nearly 7,800 devices connected to crimes last year is inflated; sources say number likely between 1,000-2,000 — The FBI has repeatedly provided grossly inflated statistics to Congress and the public about the extent of problems posed …
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The Register, AppleInsider, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Engadget, New America, 9to5Mac, ZDNet, TechCrunch, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, CNET, Axios, and reddit.com
Tweets: @zackwhittaker and @josephfcox
| 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.
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Tweets: @buzz, @liorakern, @taylorlorenz, and @r
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
AgileBits releases 1Password 7 for Mac with new security features, easier access to vaults, and refreshed redesign — Following two months of beta testing, AgileBits has announced that 1Password 7 for Mac will be released for all users at some point on Tuesday.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft makes its business AR apps Layout and Remote Assist available in preview and rolls out its first Windows 10 feature update for HoloLens since 2016 — Microsoft is starting to roll out its first Windows 10 feature update for HoloLens since 2016, and is making previews …
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Windows Blog, Microsoft Docs, Neowin, MSPoweruser, Windows Central, The Register, and On MSFT
| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Average tenure of Facebook's top 14 execs is more than 9 years, most have been at Facebook since before its IPO, few top execs have left despite controversies — This month was the perfect month to leave Facebook. — The social giant, which has been under fire over the past 18 months …
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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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Tweets: @twittersupport, @jcenters, and @luca
| 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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MacRumors, ZDNet, Recode, Axios, Quartz, Android Police, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, and NFC World
Tweets: @axios, @ericfriedman, and @donaldrichard
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Twitter for mobile web, Twitter Lite, and Twitter for Windows now support night mode, real-time updates on replies, likes, and retweets, have newer compose box — Twitter's other clients now have some of the features you take for granted using its main apps.| 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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South China Morning Post, ZDNet, BGR, VentureBeat, Gizmochina, SiliconANGLE, YouTube, Daring Fireball, LinkedIn, USA Today, Mashable, and On MSFT
| Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / ZDNet: |
LastPass integrates Yubico SDK in its app on iOS, enabling the use of the $50 YubiKey NEO for two-factor authentication via NFC on iPhone 7 and newer devices — Popular password manager LastPass delivers the first iOS app with support for the YubiKey NEO hardware-based authentication key with NFC support.
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The Next Web, MacRumors, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Tom's Hardware, TechRadar.com, and 9to5Mac
| Alex Heath / Cheddar: |
Tesla has hired Snap's vice president of monetization engineering, Stuart Bowers, as vice president of engineering — Tesla has hired Snap vice president of monetization engineering, Stuart Bowers, to be the electric carmaker's vice president of engineering, people familiar with the matter told Cheddar.
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Reuters, Silicon Valley Business …, Electrek, Axios, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @halfrebel, @alexeheath, @markbspiegel, and @davezatz
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Facebook partners with safety orgs in Australia, Canada, the UK, and the US to expand revenge porn reporting tool that asks users to submit photos proactively — People shouldn't be able to share intimate images to hurt others — By Antigone Davis, Global Head of Safety
| 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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Slack, The Next Web, TechCrunch, GeekWire, SiliconANGLE, Recode, ZDNet, and CNET. Tweets: @slackhq
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
NewsDog, a news aggregator in India which offers news in English and various regional Indian languages, has raised $50M Series C led by Tencent — The growth of China's Bytedance, an ambitious $30 billion tech firm, and its highly addictive Toutiao news aggregator app has set off a search …
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The Economic Times, DealStreetAsia, Livemint, VCCircle, and Seeking Alpha
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Baidu to spin out and sell majority stake in its Global DU unit that runs some Baidu-owned apps and its ads business outside of China — Baidu, the Chinese search giant, is spinning out its business unit responsible for utility apps and its mobile ad business to sharpen its focus on artificial intelligence.
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Reuters, MarketWatch, StreetInsider.com, TMTPost, and China Money Network
| Paul Smith / Financial Review: |
Australia-based SafetyCulture, which makes apps for workplace safety inspections and real-time incident reporting by workers, raises ~$45.5M Series C — Share via Email — Post on facebook wall — Post to Linkedin — SafetyCulture, a technology company founded in a Townsville garage …
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Startland News, SmartCompany, and VentureBeat
| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Sweden-based Amuse, whose music distribution service helps new artists get music on streaming services and keep 100% of the royalties, raises $15.5M Series A — Amuse, the Swedish startup that offers a free distribution service for artists wanting to get their music on Spotify, Apple Music et al. … Thanks:@juliewiener
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