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Sources: after a wave of opposition in New York, Amazon execs have had internal discussions recently to reassess the situation and explore alternatives for HQ2 — Amazon.com is reconsidering its plan to bring 25,000 jobs to a new campus in New York City following a wave of opposition from local politicians …
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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Sprint sues AT&T over its “5G Evolution” branding, claims it is false and deceptive advertising that is damaging the reputation of actual 5G — After AT&T decided to start rolling out “5G Evolution” branding on phones and networks that use 4G LTE Advanced technology …
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Jeff Bezos publishes letters from National Enquirer owner AMI that he says show threats to publish his nude photos unless he stops probing AMI's reporting — Something unusual happened to me yesterday. Actually, for me it wasn't just unusual—it was a first. I was made an offer I couldn't refuse.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Google warns about two iOS zero-day vulnerabilities that hackers have been actively exploiting; the vulnerabilities have been fixed in iOS 12.1.4 update — iOS users are advised to update to iOS 12.1.4; release which also fixes infamous FaceTime bug. — A Google top security engineer …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches Amazon Live, a streaming site, and Amazon Live Creator, a free iOS app, for hosts from Amazon and brands to showcase available products — Amazon is taking on QVC with the launch of Amazon Live, which features live-streamed video shows from Amazon talent as well as those from brands … | The Moscow Times: |
Report: Google pulls government-banned sites from Russian search results, blocking ~70% of sites blacklisted by Russia's communications regulator Roskomnadzor — Google has started to remove certain entries from its search results in Russia in compliance with long-standing demands from the authorities …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google unveils Adiantum, a new form of encryption for data on lower-end smartphones and other devices with insufficient processing power — Google officially unveiled a new form of encryption today, designed to secure data stored on lower-end smartphones and other devices with insufficient processing power.
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| Roger Parloff / Yahoo! Finance: |
Alex Stamos and 19 people who knew him professionally over the course of his career talk about his work at various startups, Yahoo, Facebook, and now, Stanford — Alex Stamos, whose highest degree is a BS in computer science and electrical engineering, delivered his first academic lecture.| Sarah Schmid Stevenson / Xconomy: |
Everdays, which lets users create and share memorial announcements and build private social networks to commemorate loved ones, raises $12M Series A — Mark Alhermizi first found startup success with Gas Station TV, a Birmingham, MI-based company that broadcasted from gas station pumps …
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| Brendan Nyhan / Medium: |
Research comparing 2016 and 2018 suggests Facebook's efforts to limit the reach of fake news are working, but the platform's scale remains an alluring target — After the shock of the 2016 presidential election, many Americans found psychological refuge in a simple explanation for why Donald Trump won: “fake news.”| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
JUMP says 63K+ people took 625,000 rides on its bikes in San Francisco in the past year and each bike saw an average of seven rides per day — In the past year, more than 63,000 people took 625,000 rides on JUMP bikes in San Francisco, JUMP announced today.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Facebook acquires visual shopping app GrokStyle; Ikea's app uses GrokStyle's AI-based tech to let users find furniture similar to that in their photos — Facebook Inc. said it acquired visual shopping and artificial intelligence startup GrokStyle Inc. in a move to bolster the social-media company's own AI work.
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| Brian Dowling / Xconomy: |
Data backup and storage company Carbonite to buy Webroot, provider of AI-powered cloud security software for networks and endpoint devices, for $618M — Data backup and storage company Carbonite has bought endpoint cybersecurity provider Webroot in a $618 million deal designed to stitch … | Securelist: |
Kaspersky Lab's DDoS trends report: number of DDoS attacks dropped 13% YoY in 2018, but the average duration of attacks grew from 95 min in Q1 to 218 min in Q4 — News overview — In Q4 2018, security researchers detected a number of new botnets, which included not only Mirai clones for a change.
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Dixa, which employs a smart routing system to let companies provide consistent customer service across multiple communications channels, raises $14M Series A — Dixa, a Copenhagen-based startup that offers a platform to help companies provide better and more consistent customer service …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon joins Microsoft in expressing support for regulating facial recognition tech, offers guidelines for the “responsible use” of the technology — Amazon supports the creation of a “legislative framework” covering facial recognition technology.| Jason Hiner / CNET: |
Google Fiber to shut down in Louisville on April 15 after an experimental “nanotrenching” technique to deploy fiber in trenches only two inches deep, failed — Google's trick to more rapidly and cheaply deploy its super-speedy Google Fiber project has hit a wall …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
After Twitter lost monthly active users for the past three quarters, the company will stop disclosing the number from Q2, will report daily active users instead — Twitter's monthly user count has fallen for three quarters in a row, so to address the issue, Twitter has decided to stop announcing how many users it keeps losing.
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