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Sources: Zuckerberg plans to add end-to-end encryption to Instagram and Messenger and integrate their messaging infrastructure and WhatsApp's by end of the year — SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, plans to integrate the social network's messaging services …
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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
YouTube says it will no longer suggest videos with “borderline content” or those that “misinform users in a harmful way” even if they don't violate guidelines — SAN FRANCISCO — Whether it is a video claiming the earth is flat or the moon landing was faked …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Google confirms that I/O 2019 will take place from May 7 to May 9 at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View after a developer solves the I/O puzzle — If you're a fan of all things Google, you already have a date to mark on your calendar for 2019. Developer Till Kottmann …
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| Nathan Halverson / Reveal: |
Unsealed documents show Facebook orchestrated a multi-year effort that duped children who played video games into spending their parents' money — Facebook orchestrated a multi-year effort that duped children and their parents out of money, in some cases hundreds or even thousands of dollars …
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| Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's first beta of iOS 12.2 for developers includes images of a magazine subscription service, rumored since Apple first bought Texture — There have been rumors about an Apple News subscription service since mid-2018, starting with a report by Bloomberg that said Apple was planing …
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Study of registered US voters in 2016: 6.7% of all news consumed on Twitter was fake news, 1% of users were exposed to 80.0% of it, and 0.1% shared 79.8% of it — There was a proliferation of fake news during the 2016 election cycle. Grinberg et al. analyzed Twitter data by matching Twitter accounts … | Dami Lee / The Verge: |
Tinder settles class action about charging users over 30 double the standard Tinder Plus fee, will pay class members $11.5M+ and stop the practice in California — Tinder last week settled a class action lawsuit for $17.3 million over charging users 30 and older double the standard fee for one of its subscription services.
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
HMD says it will soon sell its Nokia smartphones through Verizon and Cricket Wireless in US and Rogers in Canada — Nokia's parent company, HMD Global, chose to put its US ambitions in the back burner to focus on markets where the brand has been enjoying a resurgence these past few years.
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| Manish Singh / VentureBeat: |
Counterpoint Research: India was the world's fastest growing smartphone market in 2018 with ~145.2M smartphones shipped, up 10% YoY; Xiaomi was the top vendor — As smartphone shipments drop globally and in most individual markets, including the U.S. and China, at least one region is reporting an unusual …
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| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Sources: BuzzFeed and Group Nine have discussed merger; companies have ties via BuzzFeed's chairman Ken Lerer and his son Ben Lerer, CEO at Group Nine — BuzzFeed is cutting costs and getting leaner, but it still wants to get bigger — by exploring a deal with Group Nine.| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Microsoft acquires Citus Data, which develops an open-source extension for PostgreSQL that turns it into a distributed database — Databases continue to be one of the most competitive areas of cloud computing, and Microsoft strengthened its database story Thursday with the acquisition of Citus Data.| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic: |
How resellers are making money from Amazon returns via liquidation sites, like Liquidity Services, which has 3M+ users and generated $626.4M in sales last year — With a couple hundred dollars and a few minutes, you could go to a liquidation website right now and buy a pallet full of stuff that people have returned to Amazon.
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| Jessica Guynn / USA Today: |
How black women founders, long underestimated and overlooked in tech, are now raising millions in venture capital and forcing Silicon Valley to pay attention — SAN FRANCISCO - In the early days of Zume Pizza, visitors to Julia Collins' robotic food prep company in Silicon Valley … | Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Amazon's Rekognition mistakes women as men 19% of the time, and darker-skinned women as men 31% of the time, more than similar services from IBM and Microsoft — In new tests, Amazon's system had more difficulty identifying the gender of female and darker-skinned faces than similar services from IBM and Microsoft.
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| Sean O'Neill / Skift: |
Airbnb has acquired Denmark-based startup Gaest, which helps businesses book off-site spaces for meetings and events — An example of a meetings space bookable through Gaest, a startup that Airbnb acquired on Friday. Gaest — Skift Take: Airbnb's move to offer more meetings spaces represents … | The California Sunday Magazine: |
A collection of stories from US tech workers about how they organize among themselves with tools like Slack, Signal, and Google Docs, for political activism — They Slacked. They messaged on Signal. They circulated pledges on Google Docs. They talked on the phone.
Tweets: @pocket, @calsunday, @lnaturale, and @bentarnoff
| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
Responding to reports of a planned streaming video service, T-mobile hints it will just launch a “snackable content app” on its Metro brand next month — What you'd heard was wrong — T-Mobile is gearing up to launch a free mobile TV streaming service … Sponsor Posts
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