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In a test conducted by the ACLU, Amazon's Rekognition facial recognition tech erroneously matched 28 members of Congress, 6 of them black, to criminal mugshots — ACLU: “And running the entire test cost us $12.33—less than a large pizza." — The American Civil Liberties Union …
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Qualcomm says it will drop its $44B offer and pay a $2B breakup fee to NXP as the deadline passed with no approval from China — SAN FRANCISCO/BEIJING (Reuters) - The deadline for Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) to buy NXP Semiconductors (NXPI.O) passed at midnight U.S. eastern time without any word …
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Amid patent dispute, Qualcomm says it believes Apple intends to solely use modems from a competitor, likely Intel, for the next iPhone release — Apple appears to be making some big changes to the chips in its upcoming iPhones — and that could mean your next iPhone downloads data slower than rival Android devices.
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| Andrew Martonik / Android Central: |
Samsung announces it is developing flexible OLED display certified as “unbreakable” by Underwriters Laboratories, that survived 26 4-foot drops — This is the direction the industry is heading. — Samsung Display has announced that it has developed a truly “unbreakable” … | Facebook: |
Facebook reports Q2 revenue of $13.23B, up 42% YoY, 1.47B DAUs, up 11% YoY, and net income of $5.1B, up 31% YoY — Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) today reported financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2018. — “Our community and business continue to grow quickly,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO.
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| Dona Sarkar / Windows Blog: |
Microsoft releases Windows 10 test build with Flashlight, to let VR users look at their physical environment, and a predictive model for starting device updates — Hello Windows Insiders! — Today, we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17723 (RS5) to Windows Insiders …
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| Jon Levine / The Wrap: |
Twitter CEO addresses claims about some Republican leaders not appearing in search auto-suggestions, points to a thread that offers explanation and vows changes — The latest allegations of shadow banning on the platform were sparked by a Vice News report — Twitter has hit …
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Spotify adds 8M paid subscribers in Q2, up 40% YoY, for a total of 83M subscribers and 180M MAUs, with revenue of €1.27B, up 26% YoY, and operating loss of €90M — For its second ever earnings report, Spotify said it now has 83 million paid subscribers, up 8 million … | Paul Hill / Neowin: |
ProtonMail introduces full PGP support and address verification, which uses the encrypted contact feature to protect users against man-in-the-middle attacks — In the latest update of ProtonMail, users can now take advantage of the full (Pretty Good Privacy) PGP support and address verification tools, for added security.| Jared Newman / Fast Company: |
Amazon announces Alexa Cast, a new feature that lets users control tracks playing on Alexa-enabled speakers from the Amazon Music app on a phone — Listening to Amazon Music on Echo speakers just got easier with a new feature called Alexa Cast. While using Amazon Music on a phone or tablet …
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Members of Google Assistant's personality team, which includes comedians, empathy experts, and others, describe development of tricky features and Easter eggs — Voice assistants are like sleep, magnets, or Advil: We're happy to have them, even if we don't really get how they work.| Reuters: |
Sources: Chinese social commerce startup Pinduoduo raises $1.63B after pricing its US IPO at $19/share, the high end of the range, valuing the company at $23.8B — HONG KONG (Reuters/IFR) - Chinese online group discounter Pinduoduo Inc (PDD.O) priced its U.S. initial public offering (IPO) …
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A look at how Google treats its contract workers, some of whom write code, recruit staff, and manage teams, yet don't have access to the firm's celebrated perks — About half of Google's workers are contractors who don't receive the same benefits as direct employees
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Facebook acquires Redkix, the email startup that combines email, messaging, and calendar features into one app, plans to integrate it with Workplace — The email startup is joining Workplace, the social network's enterprise offering. — Facebook has acquired Redkix, an email startup that combines email …
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Scandit raises $30M Series B led by GV to bring AR and computer vision to mobile barcode scanning for enterprises — Scandit, a Swiss barcode scanning platform for mobile enterprise apps, has raised $30 million in a series B round of funding led by Alphabet's venture capital (VC) arm GV.
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Coinbase partners with WeGift to let Coinbase customers in Australia and select EU countries convert their tokens to digital gift cards at popular stores — It's still quite hard to buy physical goods using bitcoins or ethers. Coinbase plans to (partially) solve that issue with a new partnership with WeGift.Sponsor Posts
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