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Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is better prepared to fight election interference, catalogs the steps the company has taken to prevent a repeat of 2016 — SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg began the year by promising to make Facebook safer from election interference around the world.
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| Antonia Woodford / Facebook: |
Facebook expands fact-checking efforts to photos and videos, targeting those that are manipulated, out of context, or presented with false audio or text — We know that people want to see accurate information on Facebook, so for the last two years, we've made fighting misinformation a priority.
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Engadget, Washington Post, Digital Trends, CNBC, CNET, TechCrunch, and Facebook
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
The iPhone XR is neatly segmented primarily by virtue of being close enough to the best to be a force in the market for years to come — Apple released a new flagship iPhone yesterday, the iPhone XS. This isn't exactly ground-breaking news: it is exactly what the company has done for eleven years now …
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The Verge, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacDailyNews, The Mac Observer, Softpedia News, The Verge, MacRumors, and Telegraph
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources describe Larry Page as more withdrawn than ever, with his immersion in tech solutions of tomorrow distracting him from the problems Google faces today — Larry Page was a no-show. The co-founder and de facto leader of Google is famous for his wild bets on airborne taxis and space elevators …
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| Jillian D'Onfro / CNBC: |
Breitbart posts leaked video of Google execs responding in dismay to Trump's election; Google says employees' personal views do not influence its products — - A leaked video shows Google's leaders responding in dismay at an all-hands meeting after the 2016 presidential election.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Breitbart's leaked Google all-hands video, while innocuous, is another example of employee dissatisfaction on public display, following James Damore and others — What the leak of a video says about this moment at Alphabet — It's an unhappy time at Google.| Ainsley Harris / Fast Company: |
Profile of Arlan Hamilton, founder of Backstage Capital, which is focused on underrepresented founders and is launching a $36M fund for black women founders — Backstage in the greenroom of the podcast festival where she's scheduled to appear, Arlan Hamilton is quietly singing the lyrics to Janet Jackson's “Control.”
Tweets: @arlanwashere, @levie, @nakisnakis, @adammarx13, @nakisnakis, and @ainsleyoc
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Four major US carriers detail “Project Verify” for letting web sites authenticate users via data unique to a customer's phone and mobile subscriber account — The four major U.S. wireless carriers today detailed a new initiative that may soon let Web sites eschew passwords …
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The Verge, 9to5Mac, AT&T, FierceWireless, AndroidHeadlines.com, and Droid Life
Tweets: @lorenzofb and @wolfiechristl
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Walmart acquires on-demand delivery marketplace Cornershop, which operates in Mexico and Chile, for $225M — Walmart is ramping up its grocery delivery business on the international stage with today's announcement that it has acquired the crowdsourced, on-demand delivery marketplace Cornershop for $225 million.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announces $2B Bezos Day One Fund, which will create a network of nonprofit preschools and fund charities that help homeless families — A year after asking for suggestions on philanthropy, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is unveiling his first projects.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
European Court of Human Rights rules that some aspects of a former UK mass surveillance regime, including bulk data collection, violated human rights law — In another blow to the UK government's record on bulk data handling for intelligence purposes the European Court of Human Rights …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
For Curated Our Stories, Snapchat enlists 20 news partners, including CNN, Cosmopolitan, and NBC, to aggregate user-generated content in the Discover section — Snapchat is letting more than 20 news partners create curated “stories” with user-generated content from its platform as part …
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Digiday, TechCrunch, The Verge, Engadget, Deadline, Variety, Recode, Ad Age, and Adweek
Tweets: @moneyries, @yoda, and @joshconstine
| Heather Somerville / Reuters: |
Uber says it will spend $150M over five years to boost its Toronto-based engineering hub and expand self-driving car operations — Uber Technologies Inc is spending millions of dollars in Toronto to open an engineering hub and expand its self-driving car operations, the strongest indication yet …
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BetaKit, Canadian Press, and TechCrunch
| Rob Copeland / Wall Street Journal: |
Profile of Olaf Carlson-Wee, who turned $14K into $150M by betting on cryptocurrency, and his fund Polychain Capital, which earned investors 2,303% last year — Now running the world's largest crypto hedge fund, the 29-year-old says he is undeterred by recent losses
Tweets: @mims, @whalepanda, @sqeeqee, @wsj, @gzuckerman, and @coindesk
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: two years before it was hacked, Equifax told the FBI of suspicions that company data including code and HR files may have been stolen by Chinese spies — The credit-reporting company went to the FBI with its suspicions—then the investigation stalled| New York Times: |
A look at how game apps track kids' data as a lawsuit accuses Google and Twitter ad businesses, and a popular app maker, of violating children's privacy law — A lawsuit by New Mexico's attorney general accuses a popular app maker, as well as online ad businesses run by Google and Twitter, of violating children's privacy law.
Tweets: @jenvalentino, @nickconfessore, @manjusrii, @jugander, @jason_kint, @leoniehaimson, and @profcarroll
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
2018 iPhones to support eSIM later this year via an update, will work with Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile in the US at launch, Sprint to support in the near future — The new iPhone XS, XS Max, and iPhone XR models all come equipped with support for dual-SIM functionality through the inclusion …
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Nvidia announces the Tesla T4 for faster AI inference in data centers, claims it offers up to 12x the performance of previous-gen Tesla P4 for the same power — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took to the stage at GTC Japan to announce the company's latest advancements in AI, which includes the new Tesla T4 GPU.
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NVIDIA Newsroom, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, The Tech Report, and Engadget. Tweets: @marchamilton
| Olivia Beavers / The Hill: |
Russian hacker Peter Levashov, who was arrested by Spanish authorities last year, pleads guilty in a US District Court for his involvement in the Kelihos botnet — A renowned Russian hacker on Wednesday pleaded guilty in a U.S. District Court for his involvement in the Kelihos botnet …
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U.S. Department of Justice, Ars Technica, Dark Reading, The Hacker News, and ZDNet
| Douglas Busvine / Reuters: |
Brave, with two co-plaintiffs, file GDPR complaints in UK and Ireland against Google and “others”, seeking probe into behavioral ad practices exposing user data — COLOGNE, Germany (Reuters) - Brave, a privacy-focused web browser set up by Silicon Valley engineering guru Brendan Eich …
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Indonesian startup Moka, which helps SMEs with payment and business operations, raises $24M Series B led by Sequoia India — Indonesia's Moka, a startup that helps SMEs and retailers manage payment and other business operations, has pulled in a $24 million Series B round for growth.
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| Amy X. Wang / Rolling Stone: |
Spotify says users can now download 10,000 tracks on up to five devices for offline listening, up from 3,333 tracks on up to three devices — Streaming service expands number of songs that can be downloaded for offline listening — A common gripe among Spotify users is that the app limits …
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Android Police, Gizmodo, Engadget, Digital Trends, MacRumors, TechSpot, 9to5Google, The Verge, Lifehacker, AndroidHeadlines.com, and Android Authority
Tweets: @annemariebridy and @chriswelch
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
A look at the trend of crypto projects running private sale ICOs for accredited and strategic investors only, excluding ordinary retail investors — Legal concerns have limited opportunities for the man on the street — The rollercoaster-get-rich ICOs of 2017 are over …
Tweets: @mayazi
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