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Sources: Facebook is contesting DOJ's demand to make end-to-end encrypted Messenger voice conversations available for wiretapping in a case against MS-13 gang — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The U.S. government is trying to force Facebook Inc (FB.O) to break the encryption in its popular Messenger app … | Bloomberg: |
Source: Amazon is working on a DVR that will record live TV, wirelessly connect to Fire TV boxes, and stream the video to smartphones — - Box would record live TV and stream that video to smartphones — Device competes with offerings from TiVo, Dish's Slingbox
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Reports indicate Sergey Brin only recently learned about Dragonfly, Google's censored search project for China, which may be further along than execs claim — On Thursday afternoon, a critical meeting at Google was derailed by a handful of tweets. Employees who had been pressing top executives …
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Tweets: @kenroth, @joshrogin, @kateconger, @nytimestech, @senrubiopress, and @ldignan
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Sources: Google is preparing to launch its own smart speaker with a display for the holiday season; 3M units are planned for first batch — Taiwan suppliers told to prepare for hardware blitz to challenge Amazon — TAIPEI — Google is preparing to release a smart speaker equipped …
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| Bruce Brown / Digital Trends: |
Amazon updates Alexa with skill to show last recorded event from Ring, Arlo, August, and Cloud Cam security cameras on its devices in the US, releases skill API — As of today, Amazon Alexa devices with displays can play video stream recaps from select smart home cameras, Amazon announced.
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| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
JD.com announces the launch of its blockchain-as-a-service platform alongside its first live blockchain app that tracks invoices for China's Pacific Insurance — Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com has launched a blockchain-as-a-service platform alongside its first app - one that digitally …
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| Sean Hollister / CNET: |
After Valve registered Steam.tv domain today, the site is now live as a game streaming website currently only showing its annual Dota 2 international tournament — Over the past couple hours, we've seen a smattering of reports that PC gaming giant Valve had registered a new domain name: Steam.tv.
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| Craig Timberg / Washington Post: |
DOJ opposes Facebook's efforts to dismiss fair housing groups' lawsuit claiming discriminatory ad targeting, says Communications Decency Act doesn't apply — The Department of Justice on Friday formally opposed an effort by Facebook to dismiss a lawsuit by several housing groups … | Allison Levitsky / Palo Alto Daily Post: |
Federal judge in San Francisco orders a man accused of hacking Electronic Arts to post his $750K bail in Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency — High-tech criminal charges call for high-tech bail in Silicon Valley. — A man charged with hacking the Redwood City video game company Electronic Arts …
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CNET, CoinDesk, The Next Web, CCN, Gizmodo, PYMNTS.com, Hacker Noon, Crypto Briefing, and Bitcoinist.com
| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Facebook faces continuing calls for regulation of microtargeted ads in US and Europe after probes of Internet Research Agency and Cambridge Analytica data use — Facebook has made a mint by enabling advertisers to identify and reach the very people most likely to react to their messages.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: 6M users installed third party Twitter apps on mobile between 2014 and 2018; there were 560M official Twitter app installs during that period — Twitter tried to downplay the impact deactivating its legacy APIs would have on its community and the third-party Twitter clients preferred …
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| Oscar Williams-Grut / Business Insider: |
German startup Deposit Solutions, which lets bank customers get better rates from other banks for their deposits, raises $100M at $500M valuation — - Deposit Solutions has raised $100 million at a $500 million valuation. — The German startup lets banks access capital from rival lenders … Sponsor Posts
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