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| Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg: |
UK Parliament publishes redacted copies of sensitive, internal Facebook documents seized last month from a company suing Facebook — - Documents were released by U.K. parliamentary committee — Lawmaker Collins says publication was lawful in U.K. — Internal emails at Facebook Inc. …
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Facebook responds to UK Parliament document dump, giving an explanation for API whitelisting, scraping Android call and SMS records, how it uses Onavo, and more — As we've said many times, Six4Three — creators of the Pikinis app — cherrypicked these documents from years ago as part …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Months after Facebook was shown to surreptitiously collect Android call and SMS records, emails show Facebook's growth team added the feature over “PR” fears — Internal emails show Facebook weighing the privacy risks of collecting call records — then going ahead anyway
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| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
Internal Facebook docs show how Facebook worked out data sharing agreements with companies and how Zuckerberg personally approved shutting off access for Vine — The UK Parliament today released a 250-page cache of previously sealed Facebook documents, revealing internal deliberations …
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| BuzzFeed News: |
Internal Facebook emails show how the company used VPN app Onavo, which it later acquired, to closely track WhatsApp's rise before its $19B acquisition — In February 2014, Facebook purchased the messaging service WhatsApp for $19 billion. The acquisition price was staggering for an app …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Impressions from a test ride in Waymo One, the first commercial self-driving taxi service launching next week in Phoenix for members of its Early Rider program — Going on a coffee run with Waymo One — It is late afternoon in Chandler, a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona …
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| BuzzFeed News: |
Sources and chat logs show Facebook's internal tensions are reaching a boiling point, as one ex-employee says staff are “hoping for a Sundar or Dara moment” — “It's the bunker mentality. These people have been under siege for 600 days now. They're getting tired, getting cranky …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft refreshes Outlook for iOS with a new design and other subtle changes, available today, with a dark mode coming in a future update — A dark mode is coming in a future update — Microsoft is launching a new version of its Outlook mobile app for iOS today.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Qualcomm gives details on Snapdragon 855, its smartphone chipset: X24 modem, which isn't 5G compatible, 7 nanometer for 20% better graphics, and AI improvements — Qualcomm calls it an AI powerhouse — Qualcomm officially took the wraps off the Snapdragon 855, its next generation processor, yesterday at the SnapDragon Tech Summit.
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| Jessica Dolcourt / CNET: |
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 12.1.1, macOS Mojave 10.14.2, and tvOS 12.1.1 with some FaceTime enhancements, bug fixes, and improvements to security — Apple has released iOS 12.1.1 for iPhone and iPad today with a handful of notable improvements. The latest software update includes improvements to FaceTime …
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| Gerrit De Vynck / Bloomberg: |
In an open letter, a group of Google employees demand more equitable conditions for part-time and contract workers, after last month's changes for full-timers — - ‘TVC’ workers describe second-class status at Google — Some workers say they weren't told of vital safety information
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| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Microsoft study of US internet usage shows 162.8M people don't use the internet at broadband speeds, while the FCC says broadband is not available to 24.7M — Ferry County in northeastern Washington spans more than 2,200 square miles of mostly forestland, rivers and lakes.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Facebook's ranking drops from No. 1 to No. 7 in Glassdoor's 2019 list of best places to work in the US chosen by employees; Google is 8th and Microsoft is 34th — Career website Glassdoor today released its 11th annual Employees' Choice Awards, a list of the 100 best companies to work for in the coming year.| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Google brings its Cloud Security Command Center to beta with new features to more quickly identify vulnerabilities and limit damage from threats or attacks — Google Cloud today announced availability of its Cloud Security Command Center beta — with a series of new features designed …
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| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Ming-Chi Kuo: Google and Amazon will launch AirPods competitors in H2 2019; Apple could add health sensors to AirPods and integrate them with the Apple Watch — There are already a number of AirPods alternatives on the market - but noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes we're about to get more.| Jay Stanley / American Civil Liberties Union: |
US Secret Service to test facial recognition in and around the White House according to a document released by DHS last week — In yet another step toward the normalization of facial recognition as a blanket security measure, last week the Department of Homeland Security published details …
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| Mark Harris / Wired: |
Behind EyeDetect, a controversial eye-scanning lie detector powered by a proprietary algorithm that its makers claim has 86% accuracy, higher than the polygraph — SITTING IN FRONT of a Converus EyeDetect station, it's impossible not to think of Blade Runner.
Tweets: @wired, @marion_infolaw, @jaycstanley, and @andreawiggins
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Russian search giant Yandex launches Yandex.Phone, its first smartphone, with 5.65-inch display, 4GB RAM, Android, and Snapdragon 630 for ~$270 — Yandex, the internet titan often referred to as the Google of Russia, has launched its first smartphone. — Yandex.Phone, as the device is called …
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Indiana-based “customer success” SaaS startup MetaCX, led by Salesforce's ex-marketing cloud boss, raises $14M Series A from Upfront Ventures while in stealth — In 2013, the Indianapolis tech scene scored a massive outcome when Salesforce acquired marketing software maker ExactTarget for $2.5 billion.Thanks:@alexrkonrad
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Online pharmacy Alto, which offers same-day deliveries and medication management apps, raises $50M Series C from Greenoaks Capital and others — Next-gen pharmacy Alto Pharmacy has raised $50 million in a series C round of funding from Greenoaks Capital, Zola Capital, and Jackson Square Ventures.
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PRWeb, Xconomy, PYMNTS.com, and VatorNews
| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
Amazon and Comcast partner to bring Prime Video to Comcast Xfinity X1 set-top boxes, rolling out over the next week — Amazon and Comcast are teaming up to bring the tech giant's video streaming service into the Xfinity cable universe. — Amazon Prime Video will launch on the Comcast Xfinity X1 boxes … Sponsor Posts
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