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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Sen. Wyden, whose probe led Verizon to shun sending location data to aggregators, rebuked AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile for weak stances; all have now pledged to stop — The scandal erupted after one company claimed to be able to track any cell phone in the US “within seconds.”
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| Frank Bajak / Associated Press: |
Verizon pledges to stop selling customers' location data to aggregators, like LocationSmart and Zumigo, which it says passed along the info to ~75 other firms — Verizon is pledging to stop sales through intermediaries of data that pinpoints the location of mobile phones to outside companies, the Associated Press has learned.
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| 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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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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| 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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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Facebook is testing autoplay video ads inside Messenger, after it started selling static ads in the service 18 months ago — The big question: Do users want to see video ads next to their private messages? — Facebook found a new place to sell video ads: Inside Messenger …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Amazon is rolling out Alexa for Hospitality, a version of Alexa for hotels that can help order room service, request housekeeping, and more, by invite — Order room service, request housekeeping, or play some tunes — Amazon is today introducing Alexa for Hospitality …
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| 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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| 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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| Ben Fox Rubin / CNET: |
Amazon officially announces Hub, its package delivery lockers, and says over 500,000 have access to them as more roll out across US — Amazon on Tuesday talked up some of the early successes of its new delivery lockers for apartments, called Hub. — The e-commerce giant last July launched the program …
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
San Francisco-based Peek raises $23M Series B and inks partnership with Google in push to digitize travel activities — Peek, a U.S. startup aiming to digitize the travel activities industry, has pulled a $23 million Series B round of financing and uncorked a partnership with Google that will help increase its visibility.
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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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| 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.
Tweets: @jake_kanter and @shonaghosh
| Gideon Lewis-Kraus / Wired: |
Inside the crypto world's biggest scandal: how the Tezos story unfolded into a fiasco after raising $232M in what was the largest ICO at the time — Arthur and Kathleen Breitman thought they held the secret to building a new decentralized utopia. On the way, they plunged into a new kind of hell.
Tweets: @henryfarrell, @wired, @lucas_lclc, @wired, @pkafei, and @laurashin
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Cisco buys location services company July Systems, which was founded in 2001 and has raised almost $60M from Sequoia Capital, Intel Capital, and others — Customer experience management is about getting to know your customer's preferences in an online context, but pulling that information … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo updates Yahoo Mail for mobile web and releases an app for Android Go, as it seeks new users on lower-end devices — The days for Yahoo Messenger are now numbered, but Yahoo and its parent Oath (which also owns TC) are still counting on growth for other communications services, specifically Yahoo Mail.
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IBM unveils IBM Debater, an AI-powered debating program six years in the making that can perform tightly structured debates with humans on around 100 topics — SAN FRANCISCO — A match between an Israeli college debate champion and a loquacious IBM computer program demonstrated on Monday …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Tech giants and automakers form Partnership for Transportation Innovation and Opportunity (PTIO) group to explore the impact of self-driving cars on human jobs — A crisis in labor is brewing, and the big AV companies are on it — Driverless vehicles could eliminate millions of jobs in the future … | 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 … | Peter Rudegeair / Wall Street Journal: |
PayPal to buy Hyperwallet, which helps individuals and small firms receive payments for goods and services they sell on online marketplaces, for about $400M — Hyperwallet helps individuals and small firms receive payments for goods and services that they sell on online marketplaces
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