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| Robbie Gonzalez / Wired: |
To truly understand how screen time affects our mental health, independent researchers need to get data from the tech giants about how people use their devices — TO ANYONE READING this on a phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop (so, you know, basically all of you): We need to talk about how we talk about screen use.
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
How satellite data startups like Orbital Insight and SpaceKnow track businesses, illegal mining, oil tankers, and more for clients like hedge funds and banks — SAN FRANCISCO — In October, the Chinese province of Guangdong — the manufacturing center on the southern coast that drives 12 percent …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Dropbox is buying San Francisco-based electronic signature startup HelloSign for $230M, in the company's largest acquisition since its founding in 2007 — Dropbox on Monday said it's acquiring electronic signature start-up HelloSign for $230 million in cash.
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
US court dismisses lawsuit from RIAA labels against foreign YouTube-ripping sites, citing lack of jurisdiction since no US users or businesses were targeted — YouTube rippers are seen as the largest piracy threat to the music industry, and record labels are doing their best to shut them down.| Scott Shane / New York Times: |
Distributed Denial of Secrets, a WikiLeaks-like online repository launched last month by transparency advocates, publishes 175 GB of leaked Russian documents — A group of transparency advocates on Friday posted a mammoth collection of hacked and leaked documents from inside Russia …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Testing GDPR's “Right of Access”, a reporter received 138GB of raw personal data from Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google, much of which was very hard to parse — 138GB of data and no real answers — If the numerous tech scandals of recent years have taught us anything … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
References are found in iOS 12.2 to four new iPad models without FaceID, two of which are WiFi-only, and a new iPod Touch without FaceID or TouchID — Earlier today, registration info for seven new iPad models was discovered in the Eurasian Economic Commission Database …
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| Jane Zhang / South China Morning Post: |
Research: 97 startups attained a unicorn status in China in 2018, bringing the total number of unicorns to 186, with a combined estimated valuation of ~$736B — China fostered 97 unicorns - start-ups valued at least US$1 billion - last year, despite an economic slowdown and a prolonged trade war … | Randy Nelson / Sensor Tower: |
Sensor Tower: mobile users spent an estimated $1.27B in the top 10 US streaming video apps in 2018, up 62% from $781M spent in 2017 and 3x the spending in 2016 — Mobile users in the United States spent an estimated $1.27 billion in the top 10 subscription video on demand (SVOD) apps last year …
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| TechCrunch: |
Naspers invests $1.16B in Avito, Russia's top classifieds site, taking its ownership to over 99% and valuing the company at $3.85B — South African internet conglomerate Naspers is best known for backing Chinese tech giant Tencent, but it also operates a vast network of online classifieds businesses.
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Forbes Africa, GlobeNewswire News Room, and Naspers
| Angela Shah / Xconomy: |
Austin-based legal tech services startup Disco raises $83M Series E, bringing the total raised to $135M, to expand beyond AI-powered e-discovery — Austin—Legal tech startup Disco announced Thursday it has raised $83 million in new funding. — The round was led by Toronto-based Georgian Partners …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Japan amends law to let government staff scan 200M+ IoT devices and hack the ones with weak passwords, so they can then be secured ahead of 2020 Olympics — Japanese government wants to secure IoT devices before Tokyo 2020 Olympics and avoid Olympic Destroyer and VPNFilter-like attacks.Sponsor Posts
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