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| BuzzFeed: |
Tech CEOs from Apple, Facebook, Google, Airbnb, Twitter, and others have spoken out against the Trump administration's “zero-tolerance” immigration policy — “It's heartbreaking to see the images and hear the sounds of the kids,” Tim Cook said.
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| Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: |
In internal open letter to CEO Satya Nadella, more than 100 Microsoft employees protest the firm's work with ICE and ask that it stop working with the agency — SAN FRANCISCO — In an open letter posted to Microsoft's internal message board on Tuesday, more than 100 employees protested …
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| Satya Nadella / LinkedIn: |
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says new US border policy to separate immigrant children from parents is abhorrent and “simply cruel and abusive” — Below is an e-mail I sent to all Microsoft employees today sharing my views on U.S. immigration policy. This is an incredibly important topic and one I care deeply about.
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| Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed: |
Medium and GitHub scrub posts and database containing ICE employee LinkedIn data citing rules against doxxing; Twitter suspends bot tweeting info from database — Medium and GitHub say posting the LinkedIn data of a targeted group of employees constitutes doxing. The artist who made the database disagrees.
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
After Senator Wyden's probe into whom the US carriers sell real-time location data to, Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint say they are reexamining the practice — Carriers forced to make changes after leak of real-time phone location data. — Verizon and AT&T have promised to stop selling …
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| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
Bithumb, one of South Korea's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, suspends asset deposit and withdrawal services after ~$31M hack, promises full reimbursement — Bithumb, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchange in South Korea by trading volume, is halting asset deposit and withdrawal services …
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Tweets: @bithumbofficial and @business
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook debuts game show platform that lets creators add quizzes, polls, and more to live and on-demand video; Facebook tests ability to award prize money — Rather than build its own HQ trivia competitor, Facebook is launching a gameshow platform. Today the company announced a new set …
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Tweets: @joshconstine, @mikeisaac, @mgsiegler, @hshaban, and @joshconstine
| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Facebook says it's opening Watch to more types of content, including non-episodic long-form, in bid to capture YouTube stars, and is adding polls, quizzes, more — Facebook is taking another jab at YouTube by expanding its video ad opportunities to more social media stars.
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TechCrunch, Tubefilter, Social Media Today, Digiday, Digiday, and Digital Trends
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| Michael Moritz / Financial Times: |
Chinese tech companies now surpass almost all their global rivals in size and value, even US giants, which will fundamentally reshape the world — Cast your eyes down the list of the world's most valuable private technology companies and you might be put in mind of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Tweets: @patrickc, @soundboy, @calebwatney, and @sub8u
| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Symantec: a hacking campaign launched from China, with the likely intention of espionage, breached satellite and defense companies in the US and Southeast Asia — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A sophisticated hacking campaign launched from computers in China burrowed deeply into satellite operators …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
EU Parliament committee votes for tougher copyright rules that could force tech firms to bear liability for copyright infringement in user generated content — In a key vote this morning the European Parliament's legal affairs committee has backed the two most controversial elements …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google Cloud and Unity to build managed services and tools for creating connected games; Unity moving infrastructure for its current services to Google Cloud — Unity's engine and technology is playing a big role in the current wave of 3D and virtual reality games.
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| Alex Heath / Cheddar: |
Sources: AT&T in talks to acquire AppNexus, which operates one of the largest independent ad exchanges; source says AppNexus won't sell for less than $2B — AT&T is in talks to acquire the advertising company AppNexus, Cheddar has learned. — Privately-held AppNexus operates … | Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Oppo announces Find X with 6.4-inch display and front and rear cameras housed in slide-up section above the display to avoid a notch; price and release TBD — The latest volley in the war against notches is a motorized camera — Photography by Amelia Holowaty Krales; video by Phil Esposito, Alix Diaconis
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Tweets: @dcseifert, @mkbhd, and @reneritchie
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
VirusTotal launches Monitor aimed at helping developers mitigate false positives by letting them upload and scan new code against their 70+ antivirus partners — It's been six years since Google acquired VirusTotal, a service that allows users to upload any file to check it for malware …
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Privacy-focused Brave browser is testing its own tech for ads that will eventually pay users with its Basic Attention Tokens for viewing or interacting with ads — Brave, a browser that blocks conventional online ads and strips privacy-invading trackers off the web, has begun testing its own technology for supplying advertisements.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Google Podcasts launches for Android with personalized recs and listening progress auto-sync; closed captions and language translation features are planned — Finally taking podcasts seriously — Google today is introducing its first standalone podcast app for Android.
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The Keyword, International Business Times, Firstpost, 9to5Google, XDA Developers, Android and Me, Ubergizmo, Axios, 9to5Google, Android Authority, Softpedia News, Engadget, and BuzzFeed
Tweets: @laurengoode and @backlon
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Anchor brings its free suite of mobile podcasting tools to the iPad, following its relaunch earlier this year as a podcast creation platform — Following its relaunch earlier this year as a podcast creation platform, Anchor today is bringing its suite of mobile podcasting tools to the iPad.
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Engadget, Anchor, BGR, and Cult of Mac
| IDC: |
IDC: global shipments of AR and VR headsets down 30.5% YoY to 1.2M units in Q1 2018, mostly due to vendors unbundling free headsets from smartphone purchases — Worldwide shipments of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) headsets were down 30.5% year over year … | Shona Ghosh / INSIDER: |
Sources: Snap held talks to buy AR startup Blippar before Blippar closed its California office; SAP also considered acquiring Blippar's computer vision team — - Snap held talks to buy Blippar just months before the augmented-reality startup shut down its Californian office in an urgent bid to cut costs.
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