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WhatsApp to test limiting the forwarding of messages to 20 chats globally and 5 chats in India in a bid to stop the spread of fake news — The social messaging service has been blamed for its role in spreading dangerous and inaccurate information. — Facebook-owned WhatsApp is making changes …
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| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Facebook executives struggle to describe a coherent strategy to deal with misinformation on the site; it's a hodgepodge of “exceptions to the exceptions” — Facebook was once the most nimble company of its generation. The speed at which it adapted to every challenge was legendary.
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter launch the Data Transfer Project, a data portability platform for users to move data between online service providers — An open-source collaboration for “the future of portability” — Today, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter joined to announce …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Cyberattack on Singapore's largest healthcare institution SingHealth steals details of 1.5M patients, including the Prime Minister — Local media say the hack is believed to be state-sponsored — Singapore has been hit by what local media is calling the country's worst ever cyber attack.| Microsoft: |
Microsoft Q4: $30.1B in revenue, up 17% YoY; operating income up 35% YoY to $10.4B; Intelligent Cloud revenue up 23% YoY to $9.6B and Azure revenue up 89% YoY — Microsoft Cloud Drives Record Fourth Quarter Results — REDMOND, Wash. — July 19, 2018 — Microsoft Corp. today announced …
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| BuzzFeed News: |
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg called Trump to congratulate him after his election victory; Facebook has privately praised Trump campaign's use of its platform — In the days following Donald Trump's election victory over Hillary Clinton, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg placed a secret …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: SoftBank's Vision Fund is seeking to invest almost $1B in Chinese AI company SenseTime, which has raised more than $1.2B this year — - A deal would be SenseTime's third major funding in past year — SenseTime uses artificial intelligence for facial recognition
| Eugene Kim / CNBC: |
Internal documents show Amazon's struggles to fix Prime Day outages as an internal system broke down and engineers scrambled to scavenge hardware — - Amazon wasn't able to handle the traffic surge and failed to secure enough servers to meet the demand on Prime Day, according to expert review of internal documents obtained by CNBC.
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Facebook's plans for a nationwide rollout of WhatsApp payments service in India is being held up by government concerns over storage of user data — - Officials are said to have concerns about where data's stored — The social media giant had geared up for a nationwide launch
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
San Francisco says it expects to issue permits for its 24-month electric scooter pilot program sometime in August, selecting from 12 applicants — You would think that Amazon, Reddit, Wikipedia and other highly popular websites would by now tell you that “password1” or “hunter2” is a terrible password — just terrible.
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| Daven Mathies / Digital Trends: |
HumanEyes unveils Vuze XR, a compact, dual-lens camera that can record 360-degree 2D and 180-degree 3D at 5.7K resolution; coming later this year for ~$400 — HumanEyes announced details on a new consumer 360-degree camera, the Vuze XR. It's a compact, dual-lens camera with an integrated handle … | Zero Hedge: |
Study: up to 95M Instagram users may be bots, or 9.5% of its total user base, up from 7.9% in 2015 — Up to 95 million Instagram users may be bots, according to a new study conducted by research firm Ghost Data for The Information. … Ghost Data reached their conclusion after buying 20,000 bots to analyze their behavior.Sponsor Posts
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