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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple Music appears as a supported service in the Google Home iOS app, suggesting Apple Music integration is coming to Google Home devices — Apple Music may be soon be available as an option on Google Home devices, according to an image that was shared by MacRumors reader Jason.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has been testing a sleep tracking feature for the Watch for several months in California and could add it to a future version by 2020 — - Company holding studies at headquarters to track sleep habits — Function would compete with wearables from Fitbit and Withings
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers find that weaknesses in Supermicro hardware would let an attacker leave a persistent and hidden backdoor on IBM's cloud “bare-metal” servers — Other providers of bare-metal cloud computing might also be vulnerable to BMC hack. — More than five years … | The Guardian: |
UK far-right activist Tommy Robinson has been permanently banned from Facebook and Instagram for repeatedly breaking policies on hate speech — Far-right founder of English Defence League repeatedly breached hate speech rules — Tommy Robinson, the far-right founder of the English Defence League …
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| Sahil Patel / Digiday: |
Sources: Facebook has been telling news publishers that it will only renew about a third of the existing news shows that it has funded for Facebook Watch — Facebook is showing a greater willingness to ax news programming that's not working on Facebook Watch.
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| Hadas Gold / CNN: |
DC appeals court rejects the Department of Justice's bid to overturn a ruling that cleared the way for AT&T's acquisition of Time Warner — London (CNN Business)An appeals court has rejected the Justice Department's bid to overturn a ruling that cleared the way for AT&T's acquisition of Time Warner.
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| CNN: |
Amid employee pushback, Satya Nadella defends Microsoft's $479M US Army contract for HoloLens, says Microsoft will not withhold tech from democratic governments — Barcelona (CNN Business)Satya Nadella has defended Microsoft's $479 million contract to supply augmented reality systems …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
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| Lindsey Bever / Washington Post: |
Suicide tips and other dark and dangerous content was found spliced in kids' cartoon videos on YouTube and YouTube Kids — Free Hess, a pediatrician and mother, had learned about the chilling videos over the summer when another mom spotted one on YouTube Kids.
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| Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
HTC Exodus 1 adds ~20 decentralized blockchain apps, integrates with Opera browser for crypto micropayments, and can be purchased for $699 from March — Now you can buy the HTC blockchain phone with regular cash — HTC's blockchain phone is getting several new apps today …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
YieldStreet, which provides a platform for making alternative investments in areas like real estate and shipping, raises $62M Series B led by Edison Partners — There has been a wave of fintech startups emerging that make different kinds of investing more accessible to a wider pool of people …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Walmart acquires Israel-based startup Aspectiva, which analyzes UGC and browser activity using AI to recommend products to shoppers, for an undisclosed sum — Walmart, the world's biggest brick-and-mortar retailer, today made an acquisition that speaks to its ongoing efforts to build …
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| Jim Salter / Ars Technica: |
Independent researcher finds that SEDC, which claims to provide billing software to 250+ US utility companies, was storing customers' passwords in plain text — “It's ridiculous vendors are replying to researchers via general counsel, not bug bounty.” — In September of 2018 … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Pandora launches Stories, a new marketing tool allowing artists to build music playlists combined with voice tracks, available for all users to stream — In an effort to one-up Spotify and Apple Music, Pandora this morning announced the launch of a new marketing tool for artists, called Pandora Stories.
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| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
Sources: US Cyber Command disrupted internet access for Russia's Internet Research Agency during the midterms, as the US becomes more assertive — The U.S. military blocked Internet access to an infamous Russian entity seeking to sow discord among Americans during the 2018 midterms …
Tweets: @andrewbhanna, @kimzetter, @kimzetter, and @kimzetter
| Variety: |
Spotify's launch in India hits a snag as Warner Music Group files an injunction to bar Spotify's access to Warner/Chappell's library of 1M+ songs — UPDATED: Spotify's long-anticipated launch in India could be days away, but the Swedish company is taking its licensing negotiations with the three major music groups to the wire.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
ThirdLove, which sells female lingerie and underwear in a variety of shapes and sizes, raises $55M Series B, source says at a $750M+ valuation — Direct-to-consumer startups — making products that leverage the internet to bypass third-party marketplaces and retailers to engage …
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| Robert Hackett / Fortune: |
Coinbase says that XRP, the third-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, will be added to the Coinbase Pro exchange beginning tomorrow; XRP price jumps ~10% — Coinbase plans to add XRP, one of the world's most controversial cryptocurrencies, to the list of virtual coins traded on its exchange, the company said Monday.
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Tweets: @coinbasepro, @haileylennonbtc, @jason, @lawmaster, @jeffjohnroberts, @coindeskmarkets, @alistairmilne, @mdudas, and @twobitidiot
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Vast Data emerges from stealth, raising $40M Series B, for “exabyte-scale” enterprise storage — Smartphones, tablets, laptops, PCs, and internet of things devices generate more data today than at any time in history — close to 2.5 quintillion bytes, some say.Sponsor Posts
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