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White House: draft EO ordering probes into practices of Facebook and Google is not an official document; sources: Yelp sent email with the draft EO to WH aides — The White House sought to distance itself Saturday from reports that President Trump is considering an executive order …
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| Alyssa Hertig / CoinDesk: |
Bitcoin Core client, patched earlier this week, contained a second vulnerability that let attackers create new bitcoins above the 21M hard cap — This week's major bitcoin bug was even worse than developers initially let on. — The bug originally rocked the bitcoin world when it was reported …
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Sources: Apple delayed launch of a streaming video service twice, most recently until March, and spiked a Dr. Dre series as it seeks less edgy content — The tech giant wants to make scripted shows for streaming, only without violence, politics and risqué story lines
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Sources shed light on how Qualcomm's nascent server chip unit withered amid Broadcom takeover saga that resulted in cost cuts and key executive departures — - Nascent server chip unit whithered amid dealmaking, cost cuts — SoftBank-backed management buyout is said to have fizzled| New York Times: |
As it gets ready to launch its first commercial robot, Boston Dynamics is still struggling to articulate what the big application for its robots is — WALTHAM, Mass. — Moving like a large dog, knees bent and hips swaying, the robot walked across a parking lot and into a rain puddle.
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| 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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| Lux Alptraum / The Verge: |
A look at SASS, which provides anonymous online counseling on abortion pills and helps women avoid prosecution in states where self-managed abortion is illegal — For many people, the phrase “illegal abortion” calls to mind images of back alley clinics, medical providers with questionable credentials … | Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
Museums around the world, including the Smithsonian, are increasingly using augmented reality technology to engage visitors at the exhibits — MAE JEMISON, THE first black woman to go into space, stood in the center of the room and prepared to become digital.
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| Steven Sinofsky / Learning By Shipping: |
Amazon increasingly looks like a traditional retailer, with Prime as a loyalty program, Basics as its house brand, and seller ad placements via search results — The narrative of Amazon's total disruption of traditional retail and ultimate dominance is well-known.| New York Times: |
Doctors and scientists at Sloan Kettering Cancer Center strongly object to its for-profit deal with AI startup PAIGE for exclusive rights to patient data — An artificial intelligence start-up founded by three insiders at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center debuted with great fanfare in February … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Latvian hacker sentenced to 14 years in prison for creating and running Scan4You service that allowed malware authors to check the detection rates of their code — Ruslan Bondars run a “VirusTotal-for-crooks” operation from 2009 to 2017. — Ruslan Bondars, a 37-year-old man from Latvia …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
In internal email after WSJ report, Google CEO Pichai denied efforts to politically bias search results, reaffirmed Google should remain politically neutral — Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent a company-wide email Friday, which Axios obtained, denying any effort to politically bias …
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