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Sources: Google made staff delete memo that said Dragonfly required logins to search, tracked location, and gave Chinese partner unilateral access to data — Google bosses have forced employees to delete a confidential memo circulating inside the company that revealed explosive details …
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Teardown reveals iPhone XS has a notched L-shaped battery, iPhone XS Max has an extended logic board with an Apple-designed power management chip — Tools Featured in this Teardown … Introduction — Last year's iPhone X had a weird name and the most advanced internals we'd ever seen in a teardown.| Megan Farokhmanesh / The Verge: |
Telltale Games, which makes games based on franchises such as Jurassic Park and Batman, lays off most of its staff, keeps 25 to begin “majority studio closure” — Telltale Games, creators of episodic adventure games like The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, and Batman …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it fixed a bug that sent some users' direct messages from their interactions with business accounts to third-party developers, since May 2017 — Twitter said that a “bug” sent user's private direct messages to third-party developers “who were not authorized to receive them.”
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
PayPal says it has banned all Infowars-related sites for promoting hate or discriminatory intolerance against certain communities and religions — PayPal will no longer do business with Infowars, according to a post on the conspiracy theory site this morning.
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| Jonathan Huang / Google Developers Blog: |
Google announces new experimental Daydream VR features for developers: support for all Android apps, new 6DoF controllers, and a see-through mode — Posted by Jonathan Huang, Senior Product Manager, Google AR/VR — Since we first launched Daydream, developers have responded by creating virtual reality …
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| GeekWire: |
A roundup of all the major announcements from Amazon on Thursday, from a new microwave to a subwoofer to new Alexa skills and developer tools — Microwave. Subwoofer. Smart plug. In-car device. — Those are just a handful of the new devices Amazon debuted on Thursday …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
In letter to Congress, Google confirms it continues to allow third-party apps to scan and share data from Gmail accounts, though Google itself stopped doing so — Lawmakers had asked company to explain policy in wake of WSJ report — WASHINGTON—Google Inc. told lawmakers it continues …
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| Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya appears unconcerned about the string of exits from the firm and says it will no longer raise outside capital — - Chamath Palihapitiya told his employees he would be diverting much of the “carry” — the portion of investment returns traditionally given …
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Tweets: @ericnewcomer, @chamath, @alexisohanian, @ahhensel, @jasonlk, @willoremus, @pt, @mdudas, @sallyshin, @karaswisher, and @jessicalessin
| Colin Harper / Bitcoin Magazine: |
Ethereum-based decentralized exchange Bancor to launch BancorX, an extension of its protocol to EOS blockchain that will allow cross-blockchain conversions — In a bid to extend the reach of its services, Bancor is opening up shop on another blockchain. — The decentralized exchange protocol …
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Tweets: @bancor, @bancor, @alanizbtc, @finchify, and @icodrops
| Alex Heath / Cheddar: |
Sources: Facebook plans to unveil its “Portal” video chat device for home with Alexa support next week; it will come in two screen sizes for ~$400 and ~$300 — Facebook plans to finally unveil its Portal video chat device for the home next week, Cheddar has learned.
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Tweets: @yoda, @sandofsky, @ldrogen, and @jason_kint
| Jennifer Pak / Marketplace: |
China's “pay-for-knowledge” economy, primarily podcasts with subscription fees, is estimated at $7.3B in 2017, compared to US ad-driven podcast revenue of $314M — Listen To The Story — Marketplace — Chen Jun, 34, rents a small apartment in Shanghai.
Tweets: @kaifulee
| Jon Reid / bna.com: |
NYT sues FCC for records that NYT alleges may reveal Russian government interference in FCC's comment period before rollback of Obama-era net neutrality rules — REQUEST A TRIAL — Keep up with the latest developments and legal issues in the telecommunications and emerging technology sectors …
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| Isobel Asher Hamilton / Business Insider: |
Investigation finds that Instagram's IGTV recommended disturbing and potentially illegal videos in the UK; Instagram took five days to remove some of the videos — - Exclusive: Instagram's new TV service, IGTV, recommended videos of what appeared to be child exploitation and genital mutilation …
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Tweets: @shiraovide, @mat, @shiraovide, and @nichcarlson
| Douglas Soltys / BetaKit: |
Patents, ads in NYC and Toronto, and a source indicate that wearables startup Thalmic is about to launch smart glasses under the new brand North — Earlier this week, BetaKit first reported that Kitchener-Waterloo wearables startup Thalmic had been issued multiple patents pertaining … | Mark Coppock / Digital Trends: |
Review: HP's Chromebook x2 has outstanding build quality, great performance, very good battery life, but screen is a little wobbly in laptop mode — The HP Chromebook x2 takes Chrome to the next level … Research Center: — HP Chromebook x2 — Outside the Pixelbook …
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| Dan Thorp-Lancaster / Windows Central: |
Bing rolls out AMP support for searches on the mobile web two years after adding support for the protocol to its mobile apps — Two years after adding support for the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) protocol in its mobile apps, Bing is now rolling out AMP support for searches on the mobile web.| Rob Price / INSIDER: |
How Facebook is turning M Suggestions, its AI virtual assistant in Messenger, into a real-time conversation translator, currently supporting Spanish and French — - It's using M Suggestions, its virtual assistant in Messenger, to translate real-time conversations, and has just added support for French.
Tweets: @sai
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram app code shows new potential features like adding hashtags without including them in captions, geofenced posts, quiz stickers, and video tagging — Geofenced sharing, Quiz stickers, Stories Highlight stickers, and a separate interface for adding hashtags to posts are amongst a slew …
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