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| Ryan Nakashima / Associated Press: |
Investigation finds some Google apps on Android and iPhones automatically store time-stamped location data even when the location history setting is paused — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google wants to know where you go so badly that it records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to.
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| Anton Shilov / AnandTech: |
Lenovo unveils ultra-thin ThinkPad P1 with a 15.6-inch 4K display, Intel 8th Gen/Xeon CPUs, up to 64GB RAM, 4TB SSD in a carbon fiber chassis starting at $1,949 — Lenovo on Monday introduced its new ThinkPad P1 workstation, which brings together a 4K 15.6-inch display, high performance, and portability.
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| Tanya Dua / Business Insider: |
Vimeo has joined YouTube and others in removing InfoWars from its platform; sources say removal came after employee dissatisfaction that it hadn't been banned — - Vimeo is the latest platform to removed InfoWars' account from its platform, following Facebook and YouTube.| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
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| Kevin Collier / BuzzFeed News: |
As attendees of Defcon's Voting Village, including an 11-year-old, successfully hack voting machines, vendors and officials try to downplay the problems — Veteran hackers have tried for years to get the world to notice flaws in voting machines. Now that they've got it, they have to wrestle with scaring people away from voting.
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| Check Point Research: |
Check Point shows how hackers could infiltrate networks via all-in-one printers using just a fax number, points to attack on HP model that HP has since patched — Research By: Eyal Itkin and Yaniv Balmas — Fax, the brilliant technology that lifted mankind out the dark ages of mail delivery …
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| Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab: |
Report: Facebook exec Campbell Brown told Australian media execs Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about publishers, implied papers would die “in hospice” without FB — The Australian — the Murdoch-owned national paper — has an interesting (and aggressively paywalled) … | Nick Summers / Engadget: |
Results of Alphabet's research with UK's Moorfields Eye Hospital shows Deepmind AI examines OCT scans and makes diagnoses with the accuracy of human clinicians — DeepMind has successfully developed a system that can analyze retinal scans and spot symptoms of sight-threatening eye diseases.
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| Steve Kovach / CNBC: |
Netflix says its CFO David Wells, who led the service's international expansion to 190 countries, is leaving the company after 14 years — Netflix chief financial officer David Wells will step down, the company announced Monday. — The company said Wells will stay on the job until he can help choose a successor.| Shira Ovide / Bloomberg: |
Snapchat's loosened standards for video and changes to advertising, like its use of consumer data and computerized auctions, make it less of an internet rebel — It loses luster, though, as it discards the elements that set it apart. — Snapchat has defined itself in opposition to the internet establishment.| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Rigetti Computing, one of the companies trying to build a practical quantum computer, discloses that it has raised a $50M round in late 2017 — Few corners of the tech industry are as tantalizing or complex as quantum computing. For years evangelists have promised machines capable of breaking …
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
India-based startup Observe.AI raises $8M Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners to use AI to improve call centers — Being stuck on the phone with call centers is painful. We all know this. Observe.AI is one company that wants to make the experience more bearable … | Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Researcher details vulnerabilities in police body cams, like possibility for outsiders to track individual cams, alter video footage, plant malware, and more — AS THEY PROLIFERATE, police body cameras have courted controversy because of the contentious nature of the footage they capture … | BuzzFeed News: |
State Dept. cable says a five-day-long attack on 9+ major Swedish news sites in 2016 was part of a Russian disinformation campaign to destabilize NATO alliances — According to a newly released State Department cable, the attack was part of a Russian campaign to sow disinformation about NATO.
Tweets: @ericgeller and @buzzfeednews
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Deloitte: since 2015, China has outspent the US by $24B in 5G infrastructure and has built 350K new cell sites, compared to less than 30K in US — - China has built 350,000 new cell sites, while the U.S. has built fewer than 30,000 since 2015, according to Deloitte.
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