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Google to shut down consumer version of Google+ in Apr. 2019 instead of Aug. and retire Google+ APIs within 90 days, after finding API bug impacting ~52.M users — After discovering another security issue potentially impacting 52.5 million users, Google today announced that the consumer version … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram launches a walkie talkie-like voice messaging feature, rolling out globally on Instagram Direct today — You'd think Facebook would be faster at copying itself. Five years after Facebook Messenger took a cue from WhatsApp and Voxer to launch voice messaging …
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| David McCabe / Axios: |
House Judiciary Committee posts Sundar Pichai's prepared testimony, where he talks about leading without political bias, taking users' privacy seriously, more — Google CEO Sundar Pichai will tell lawmakers Tuesday that the company takes user privacy seriously, doesn't bake political bias …
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| Abigail Geiger / Pew Research Center: |
Pew: one in five US adults say they frequently get their news from social media, surpassing the number who get theirs from print (16%) for the first time — Social media sites have surpassed print newspapers as a news source for Americans: One-in-five U.S. adults say they often get news via social media …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
A group of ten US tech companies, including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Twitter, have collectively denounced Australia's anti-encryption law — A group of U.S. tech giants, including Apple, Google and Microsoft, have collectively denounced the new so-called “anti-encryption” …
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Washington Post, Telegraph, AppleInsider, Reform Government Surveillance, 9to5Mac, Patently Apple, The Next Web, and ZDNet. Tweets: @zackwhittaker
| Tom McKay / Gizmodo: |
An overview of responses to Jack Dorsey's tone-deaf tweets about a trip to Myanmar that failed to mention the region's genocide, which social media enabled — Jack Dorsey, CEO of social media platform Twitter—the company now emblazoned in the public eye as one of the primary mouthpieces …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
House report finds that Equifax's security practices and policies were subpar and that patching vulnerable systems could have prevented last year's data breach — A House Oversight Committee report out Monday has concluded that Equifax's security practices and policies were sub-par …
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| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Plaid, which makes tools to let other apps connect to users' bank accounts, raises $250M Series C led by Mary Meeker, source says at a $2.65B valuation — - The San Francisco-based company announced its latest $250 million funding round led by venture capital veteran Mary Meeker, who is also joining Plaid's board.
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| Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
Verizon says 10K+ employees, or about 7% of its workforce, have accepted its voluntary severance packages which were offered to ~44K employees in September — - The program offered eligible employees and managers up to 60 weeks of salary, bonus and benefits, depending on length of service.
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| BBC: |
Huawei debuts Honor View 20 with a 48MP rear camera and Samsung unveils A8s with a 6.4" Infinity-O display, both with a hole-punch camera cutout in the screen — Two smartphone-makers have unveiled handsets featuring a “hole-punch” selfie camera. — The screens of the Samsung A8s …
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Engadget, The Verge, TechCrunch, CNET, SamMobile, SamMobile, XDA Developers, Android Police, Android Police, The Verge, Android and Me, Gizmodo, Phandroid, GSMArena.com, Forbes, Android Police, The Indian Express, Forbes, Livemint, 9to5Google, Mashable, Tom's Guide, BGR, and VentureBeat. Tweets: @richardlai
| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Latest recommendations for EU's Article 13 seek to appease both the legacy copyright industries and the tech companies without actually addressing key concerns — As we've been discussing the “Trilogue” negotiations between the EU Commission, EU Council and EU Parliament over the EU's Copyright Directive …
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Electronic Frontier Foundation and TorrentFreak
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon begins rolling out features that allow US Alexa users to set location-based routines and reminders, find and call local businesses, check email, and more — Amazon's Alexa is getting a slew of useful new features ahead of the holiday season. The Seattle company announced this morning …
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