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After allegations Alexa recorded a private conversation and sent it to a person in contact list, Amazon says the case was extremely rare, is taking steps to fix — A Portland family contacted Amazon to investigate after they say a private conversation in their home was recorded by Amazon's Alexa …
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| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Amazon says the Echo that recorded a private discussion interpreted background conversation as action confirmation, leading to recording and sending to contact — A couple says their device secretly recorded a private conversation of theirs and sent it to an acquaintance.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Essential, a startup co-founded by Android creator Andy Rubin, is considering selling itself and has canceled development of a new smartphone — - Company cancels development of second version of smartphone — Startup has spent over $100 million on product development
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Apple wins $538.6M from Samsung in iPhone patent retrial: $533.3M for infringement of Apple's design patents and $5.3M for infringement of its utility patents — Nearly six years after a federal jury awarded Apple over $1 billion in damages against Samsung for infringing on iPhone design patents …
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| Facebook: |
Facebook will check images and text, who is being targeted, and any linked websites in issue ads as it begins to apply new policies — Political advertising serves an important purpose. It helps candidates share their views with the public more broadly, and it can help encourage people to get involved in the political process.| Rob Leathern / Facebook: |
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Documents from a “bendgate” lawsuit show Apple's tests found iPhone 6 and 6 Plus were 3.3x and 7.2x more likely to bend than 5S; Apple later made changes to fix — Apple publicly maintained that there were no engineering issues with the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus …
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| Sean Hollister / CNET: |
Valve says Apple revoked its approval of the Steam Link app for iOS due to “business conflicts with app guidelines” and denied Valve's appeal — So much for easily playing PC games on your iPhone. — If you were hoping to stream PC games from your powerful gaming rig to your iPhone or iPad …
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Vevo is shuttering its Android, iOS, and Windows Mobile apps and website to refocus on YouTube following resignation of several execs and significant layoffs — Major-label owned Vevo is giving up on plans to build its own music video platform outside of YouTube's control …
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
An API bug on T-Mobile's staff-facing website, since fixed, let anyone gain access to customer addresses, account PINs, and other details using a phone number — Exclusive: The exposed lookup tool let anyone run a customer's phone number — and obtain their home address and account PIN, used to contact phone support.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: DOJ and CFTC have opened a criminal probe into alleged market manipulation of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies — - Justice Department opens investigation into illicit trading — Agency is working with CFTC, which oversees crypto futures — The Justice Department … | AppleInsider: |
Apple giving month-long free trials of its 50GB, 200GB, and 2TB iCloud storage plans to customers currently on the free 5GB tier — In a move designed to drive iCloud storage subscription upgrades, Apple is now promoting free month-long trials of 50GB, 200GB and 2TB plans to customers currently on the gratis 5GB tier.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat now gives users the option to send their real-time location to a friend or request theirs, which shows up on the Snap Map and within message threads — Snapchat is taking another shot at location after its always-on coordinate-broadcasting Snap Map proved a bit invasive for some users.
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
US NTSB report on Uber's self-driving car that killed a pedestrian in March in AZ says the car failed to identify the pedestrian or brake until it was too late — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] self-driving vehicle that struck and killed a woman in Tempe …
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| Natt Garun / The Verge: |
YouTube brings its previously mobile-only messaging feature to the web, letting logged in users share and talk about videos in a chat window with friends — Because we have not yet reached peak messaging on Google products, YouTube is now bringing its previously mobile-only messaging feature to the web.
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9to5Google, Ubergizmo, and Tubefilter
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft begins rolling out update to Mixer, its Twitch competitor, that includes a visual refresh and an expanded developer toolkit called MixPlay — Microsoft is celebrating the one-year anniversary of its game streaming service and Twitch competitor, Mixer, with a host of new features …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
PayPal and Google partner to integrate PayPal into Google Pay, which can be used to pay bills and more, starting later this year — Google earlier this year rebranded all of its payment services under Google Pay to help it double down on making transactions across its platform more frictionless (and more used).
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| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Unsealed indictment shows federal prosecutors have charged three men with crimes related to December death of a Kansas man fatally shot in a swatting prank — Gamers charged with obstruction for deleting possibly incriminating messages. — Federal prosecutors have unsealed an indictment …
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Netflix topped Walt Disney Co. in market value Thursday after surpassing Comcast on Wednesday; the company's stock is up 82% in 2018 — - Stock, up more than 80%, leads S&P 500 Index again this year — Investors focus on subscriber growth over burgeoning cash burnSponsor Posts
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