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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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Tweets: @arubin, @markgurman, @yoda, and @mhbergen
| BBC: |
Some US news sites like the LA Times and the Chicago Tribune restrict access from EU as GDPR goes into effect — A number of high-profile US news websites are temporarily unavailable in Europe after new European Union rules on data protection came into effect.| David Meyer / Fortune: |
Digital privacy activist Max Schrems files official GDPR complaints against Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram over forced consent — Europe's sweeping new data privacy regime came into effect this morning, and privacy activists are not wasting time in flexing their muscles.
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| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
As Europe enacts GDPR, EU officials are encouraging countries like Brazil, Japan, and South Korea to adopt similar laws by tying data protection to trade deals — LONDON — The notices are flooding people's inboxes en masse, from large technology companies, including Facebook and Uber …
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| Gary Horcher / KIRO: |
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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Tweets: @ktbenner, @geoffreyfowler, @arrington, @geoffreyfowler, @joepie91, @dymaxion, @pierce, and @zeynep
| 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.
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Wired, Inquirer, BGR, Bloomberg, Vanity Fair, ZDNet, CNET, and Boing Boing
Tweets: @epicureandeal, @cathyyoung63, @nxthompson, @mims, and @heatherkelly
| 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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Tweets: @markgurman, @shiraovide, @cnet, and @stshank
| 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.
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| Rob Leathern / Facebook: |
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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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The Verge, Reuters, Engadget, Windows Central, AppleInsider, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, Fortune, Neowin, VG247, Pocket Gamer.biz, MacDailyNews, Softpedia News, WIRED UK, VentureBeat, Ubergizmo, GeekWire, iPhone Hacks, Ars Technica, 9to5Mac, and Gamasutra. Tweets: @maxlynch. Thanks:@starfire2258
| Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News: |
Sign up now for Techmeme's new newsletter, which goes out daily at 5pm Pacific — Today we're launching Techmeme's first newsletter. Sign up here! It goes out Sunday through Friday around 5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern and, like Techmeme.com, summarizes the day's top tech news and commentary … | 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.
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Cult of Mac, iPhone Hacks, Technology Personalized, Ubergizmo, and 9to5Mac
| 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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Engadget, U.S. Department of Justice, CNN, The Verge, Wichita Eagle, Gizmodo, NBC News, Reuters, and Variety. Tweets: @tsrblke
| City Attorney of San Francisco: |
San Francisco announces new regulations requiring scooter startups like Lime, Spin, and Bird, to halt operations by June 4 and apply for permits by June 7 — New city law halting unpermitted scooter operations in effect June 4, scooter permitting system now activated
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TechCrunch, CNET, Motherboard, The San Francisco Examiner, NBC Bay Area, San Francisco Chronicle, and Axios
Tweets: @dennisherrera and @martinsfp
| 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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PayPal, Inc., PCMag, Engadget, The Keyword, BetaNews, CNET, TheStreet, SlashGear, NFC World, 9to5Google, PYMNTS.com, Ubergizmo, ZDNet, and Android Police
| 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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