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European Parliament votes against controversial Article 11 and Article 13 copyright reform proposals, meaning they will now be open for debate and amendments — A 318-278 majority of MEPs in the European Parliament has voted to reopen debate around a controversial digital copyright reform proposal …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Ming-Chi Kuo report: 6.5" OLED iPhone should cost ~$1K and come in three colors; 6.1" LCD model should cost ~$700 and come in five colors including blue and red — Ming-Chi Kuo released a report today that ups his estimates for the new 2018 iPhone sales, as well as detailing a few changes to expect.
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| Renee DiResta / Wired: |
A look at how “keyword voids”, social recommendations, and paid promotions can lead to tragic misinformation in top search results for health-related queries — IN THE FIRST few hours of a newborn's life, doctors administer a vitamin K shot. This is because infants …
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| Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: |
A look at how Samba TV collects viewing data from 13.5M smart TVs in the US to make personalized show recommendations and enable ad targeting — The growing concern over online data and user privacy has been focused on tech giants like Facebook and devices like smartphones.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Tinder is officially rolling out Loops, GIF-like two second looping videos that users can add to their profiles, on iOS — If you're a dating app regular, you know that a photo only says so much about yourself. But do you really want to go to the trouble of recording a whole video for people …
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| Dan Strumpf / Wall Street Journal: |
ZTE says it has named Xu Ziyang, former head of its business in Germany, as CEO alongside a new CTO, CFO, and head of HR, to comply with US demands — New CEO is 20-year veteran of company; naming new leadership is condition for the U.S. to lift a ban on buying American-made parts
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Israeli indictment says an employee allegedly stole source code of NSO Group's powerful smartphone hacking tools before attempting to sell it for $50M — NSO sells its potent iPhone malware to governments, including Mexico and the United Arabs Emirates. But according to a newly released indictment …
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| Hans Lee / Bloomberg: |
IBM secures AU$1B contract to be the central technology partner to Australian government over the next five years, providing automation and blockchain services — - Contract comes 2 years after playing role in bungled census — Government savings from 5-year agreement estimated at A$100m| Daniel Funke / Poynter: |
A look at the challenges of fact-checking on China's WeChat, which has ~1B MAUs, and the handful of “guerrilla” projects trying to debunk fake news — Grace Xu doesn't make any money fact-checking. She's not a journalist and she has a day job as a computer scientist in the San Francisco Bay Area.| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Profile of Chinese online healthcare platform WeDoctor, which has created powerful marketing tools for drug makers by leveraging unfettered access to user data — - WeDoctor leverages user data for marketing to drug makers — Billion-dollar startup backed by Tencent, AIA, New World
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Following CTO's departure in June, TiVo loses its CEO Enrique Rodriguez to Liberty Global after just eight months amid broader uncertainty about its future — After less than a year in the role, the CEO of Tivo is leaving the troubled company and jumping to Liberty Global, where he will become its CTO.
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