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Robinhood deletes tweets about launching checking and savings accounts, scrubs the page from its website, and now calls the offering a “cash management” program — After a backlash around the marketing of its newest product, Robinhood Financial LLC has rebranded the service …
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| Aisha Hassan / Quartz: |
Profile of MindGeek, which owns 9 of the top 15 porn sites worldwide, has 125M visits per day, and whose bandwidth use exceeds that of Facebook or Amazon — The biggest and perhaps best source of data about what people like to watch on the internet and what they would pay for doesn't come … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says that between Sept. 13 and Sept. 25 a photo API bug gave user-approved apps access to photos that were uploaded but never shared by ~6.8M users — Reset the “days since the last Facebook privacy scandal” counter, as a Facebook has just revealed a Photo API bug gave app developers …
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Report: Facebook renamed Building 8, its hardware skunkworks lab, to Portal after the device launched, moved more experimental projects to Facebook Reality Labs — The hardware group is now focused on Portal and other projects, while far-off ideas are part of Reality Labs
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Report: Cloudflare has foreign terrorist organizations as customers, possibly violating US laws; Cloudflare says it works with US to meet legal obligations — At a moment when free speech online and moderation policies are more controversial than ever, Cloudflare is facing accusations …
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How Jolla's Sailfish has survived as an independent mobile OS by targeting government and enterprise sectors in Russia and China which are wary of Google — Alternative mobile operating systems have come and gone over the years, but only Sailfish has survived the iOS and Android duopoly.
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Amazon's Echo Wall Clock, which connects to nearby Echo devices over Bluetooth to track and display timers via LEDs around its rim, is now available for $29.99 — After you've set an Alexa timer do you ask, “Alexa, how much time is left on the timer?” several times while it's running?| Klint Finley / Wired: |
Data shows GraphQL, a Facebook-developed open source data query language, has seen a sharp rise in adoption among JavaScript developers over the past two years — THE CODE THAT runs the web is a melting pot of programming languages and technologies. JavaScript, the most popular language on the web … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Propel raises $12.8M Series A from a16z, Kleiner Perkins, Omidyar, others for its Fresh EBT app to check food stamp/SNAP balances and find stores to use them — Propel, maker of the Fresh EBT app for managing food stamps and other benefits, announced today that it has raised $12.8 million in Series A funding.| Reuters: |
Sources: T-Mobile and Sprint expect prompt merger approval from CFIUS after SoftBank, Deutsche Telekom agree to consider curbing the use of Huawei's equipment — WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - T-Mobile US Inc and Sprint Corp expect their merger to be approved by a U.S. national security panel …
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The recklessness of Uber and Tesla in their development of autonomous cars risks alienating a public already wary of self-driving vehicles — Autonomous vehicles were supposed to make driving safer, and they may yet—some of the more optimistic research indicates self-driving cars could save tens … | Timothy McLaughlin / Wired: |
How WhatsApp fuels fake news and violence in India, where a police officer says people can live without oxygen, “but without WhatsApp they will die” — BY THE TIME police arrived in the hamlet of Rainpada on July 1, 2018, the village council office was the scene of a massacre.
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