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| Parmy Olson / Forbes: |
WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton talks about why he gave up $850M to quit Facebook early and his differences with Zuckerberg and Sandberg over monetization — hatsApp cofounder Brian Acton, 46, sits in a cafe of the glitzy Four Seasons Hotel in Palo Alto, California, and the only way you'd guess …
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| David Marcus / Facebook: |
David Marcus repudiates WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton's Forbes interview, defending Facebook and calling Acton's attacks a new standard of “low-class” — [Disclaimer: no one at Facebook asked me to post this. I just had to do it. And these are my personal views exclusively.]
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Oculus announces the standalone Oculus Quest, shipping next spring for $399 with touch controllers and 50+ games at launch — Opening up the Oculus Connect 5 keynote with some announcements, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that its newest headset, called Oculus Quest …
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Oculus updates its Go headset with fixed foveated rendering to improve image quality, YouTube VR, and more — Alongside other announcements today at its Connect 5 event, Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus announced a number of new features for its Oculus Go standalone VR headset …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Oculus announces updates to its platform, including a revamped Home with improved avatars and more, and developer-focused Hybrid Apps for porting 2D games — This year's Oculus developer conference — Oculus Connect 5 — was chock full of hardware, software, and games announcements …
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| Will Oremus / Slate: |
Sources at media outlets say they're seeing little to no ad revenue from Apple News despite huge traffic growth — The world's most valuable company is wooing the media with a human touch and a huge audience. One thing it hasn't delivered: money. — In the years leading up to the 2016 U.S. election …
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| U.S. Senate Committee On Commerce …: |
Video stream of US Senate hearing on “Examining Safeguards for Consumer Data Privacy” with testimony from AT&T, Amazon, Google, Twitter, Apple, and Charter — U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation … | Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Google Maps for Android and iOS now helps you plan group events by adding places to a shortlist, sharing it via messaging services, and voting on the choices — If you've ever tried to settle on a place to eat, you know how time-consuming it can be. If you're not trying to describe each …
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| Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: |
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison says the company has raised $245M at a $20B valuation, up from $9B in November 2016 — The famed Silicon Valley venture capitalist Reid Hoffman often says that his biggest investing whiff was passing on Stripe Inc. As each year ticks by, it's becoming easier … | Zach Koch / The Keyword: |
Google says that in Chrome 70, coming mid-October, it will allow users to disable linking Google website and Chrome sign-ins — We recently made a change to simplify the way Chrome handles sign-in. Now, when you sign into any Google website, you're also signed into Chrome with the same account.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Circle launches USD Coin (USDC), its dollar-backed stablecoin first announced four months ago, initially available to partner institutions — Four months after first announcing the creation of a dollar-backed stablecoin, cryptocurrency finance firm Circle is releasing it to the world.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Inside Facebook's attempts to keep its Facebook and Messenger Stories original, including rolling out its Music feature for adding songs as a soundtrack — There's a secret Facebook app called Blink. Built for employees only, it's how the company tests out new video formats its hoping will become the next Boomerang or SuperZoom.| Austin Carr / Bloomberg: |
Iowa's attorney general says Uber will pay $148M to settle claims from all 50 states related to its 2016 data breach that exposed info of 25M+ US users — Uber Technologies Inc. will pay $148 million to settle claims related to a large-scale data breach that exposed the personal information …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces that it is enabling keyboard and mouse support on the Xbox One, rolling out first to Xbox Insiders in the coming weeks — Game developers will have to enable the support — Microsoft is enabling keyboard and mouse support on the Xbox One.
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| Daniel Roberts / Yahoo! Finance: |
Coinbase announces a new process to more rapidly list digital assets compliant with local law and will now publicly announce new listings only at or near launch — announced on Tuesday a new policy for adding assets, and it constitutes a major change for America's biggest cryptocurrency brokerage.
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| Kim Zetter / New York Times: |
Two years after many voter-registration networks were penetrated by hackers, voting infrastructure in US remains largely unchanged, despite officials' warnings — As the midterms approach, America's electronic voting systems are more vulnerable than ever. Why isn't anyone trying to fix them?
Tweets: @kimzetter, @kimzetter, @justinhendrix, @ilvestoomas, @kimzetter, and @jakesilverstein
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
A close look at USAReally, a pro-Kremlin, pro-Trump site with overt Russian ties and frequent links on the /r/the_donald subreddit as it depicts a declining US — To an untrained eye, USAReally might look like any other fledgling news organization vying for attention in a crowded media landscape.| Sean Captain / Fast Company: |
Alphabet's DeepMind partners with Unity to accelerate machine learning by building virtual environments to develop and test AI algorithms — Intelligent design versus evolution isn't just a divide in people's worldviews. It's also been a divide in the artificial intelligence community.
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber says it will spend $10M over three years to support eco causes in cities it operates in and will install bike charging stations starting in Sacramento — Including $1 million to support congestion pricing in New York City — Uber made a series of announcements Wednesday designed …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Facebook, Google, Twitter, and others sign up to the EU's Code of Practice, a form of voluntary self-regulation aimed at curbing the spread of fake news — The European Union's executive body has signed up tech platforms and ad industry players to a voluntary Code of Practice aimed at trying …
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EU Press Room and CNET
| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Female-focused digital health startup Maven raises $27M Series B, co-led by Sequoia and Oak HC/FT, and launches breastmilk delivery service Maven Milk — Despite the increase in women in the U.S. workforce and public pledges from several high-profile CEOs to close the gender pay gap, women …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Instana, an application performance monitoring (APM) service with a focus on modern containerized services, raises $30M Series C led by Meritech Capital — Instana, an application performance monitoring (APM) service with a focus on modern containerized services, today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series C funding round.
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SiliconANGLE, Tech.eu, and VentureBeat
| Motherboard: |
Former Facebook content moderator sues the company for allegedly failing to protect her and others as they viewed violent videos and images, says it led to PTSD — In the class action lawsuit, the woman says that thousands of content moderators are subjected to “highly toxic” content as part of the job.
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The Next Web and PR Newswire
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| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Cloudflare enlists Microsoft, Google, Automattic, Backblaze, and other cloud companies in the Bandwidth Alliance, promising cheaper cloud networking costs — With one notable exception, Cloudflare has brought several major cloud and data center companies together in a new industry group called …
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SiliconANGLE and TechCrunch
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