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Staff from Toronto's Citizen Lab, behind exposés of government hacking tool vendors like NSO, describe meetings likely arranged to get compromising quotes — NEW YORK (AP) — The researchers who reported that Israeli software was used to spy on Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi's inner circle …
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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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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
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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| 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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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Conversations with execs at the World Economic Forum reveal that many are racing toward automation to stay ahead of competition regardless of impact on workers — DAVOS, Switzerland — They'll never admit it in public, but many of your bosses want machines to replace you as soon as possible.
Tweets: @dabeard, @nytimes, @simonestolzoff, @dealbook, and @nytimesbusiness
| 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 … | Billy Perrigo / TIME: |
Researchers say India's political parties are using armies of volunteers to spread misinformation and hate speech via WhatsApp group chats ahead of elections — On Monday, in an effort to stop the spread of fake news, WhatsApp announced that users around the world would only be allowed … | 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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| Science: |
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 … | 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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| 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 … | 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.
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