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Airbnb says it is acquiring discount hotel booking app HotelTonight for an undisclosed sum; HotelTonight was valued at $463M in a March 2017 funding round — Airbnb is buying HotelTonight, the San Francisco-based service that lets people book discounted hotel rooms last minute in 40 countries around the world.
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| Clement Lecigne / Google Online Security Blog: |
Google says the Chrome zero-day it patched last week was used with a zero-day impacting Windows 7 32-bit systems and that Microsoft said it's working on a fix — On Wednesday, February 27th, we reported two 0-day vulnerabilities — previously publicly-unknown vulnerabilities …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Researchers find unprotected database owned by an email validation company with 150 GB of plaintext marketing data, including 763M unique email addresses — Last week, security researchers Bob Diachenko and Vinny Troia discovered an unprotected, publicly accessible MongoDB database containing …
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| Sydney Johnson / EdSurge: |
Turnitin, a developer of AI software that checks for plagiarism, will be acquired by media conglomerate Advance Publications, reportedly for nearly $1.75B — A company best known (and sometimes rebuked) for its plagiarism checker has just received one of the biggest checks in the education technology industry.| Monika Bickert / Facebook: |
Facebook will curb vaccine misinformation by reducing the ranking of anti-vaccine Pages and groups, halting recommendations for those pages, rejecting ads, more — We are working to tackle vaccine misinformation on Facebook by reducing its distribution and providing people with authoritative information on the topic.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Twitter adds new options to its reporting process for tweets that contain personal information, allowing users to specify what type of info was shared — New options will let users flag the specific type of personal information that is being reported — Twitter is adding new options …
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| Variety: |
Spotify, Google, Pandora, and Amazon have filed to appeal a copyright ruling that increases payouts to songwriters by 44%; sources: Apple not planning to appeal — Amazon is filing a separate appeal against the ruling, which would increase writer rates by nearly 50%.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple to start manufacturing its AR headset between Q4 2019 and Q2 2020; the headset will rely on iPhone for rendering and connectivity — Apple talks about augmented reality at any opportunity it gets, but so far its fierce ambition has only materialized to consumers as ARKit apps on the iPhone and iPad.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft rolls out new Skype for Web with HD video calling, built-in call recording, and redesigned notifications — Hate installing Skype? Good news: Microsoft's revamping the messaging app's browser-based client with a slew of new features. The Seattle company today announced the rollout …
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| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Sony launches PS4 Remote Play app for iOS, four and a half years after it first landed on Android and three years after it arrived on PC and Mac — The latest update to the PlayStation 4 operating system has a feature that some users have craved since 2014.
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| BBC: |
Facebook says it has removed 23 Pages, 74 accounts, 5 Groups, and 35 Instagram accounts that were part of a UK-based, domestic-focused misinformation network — Facebook has removed more than 130 accounts, pages and groups it says were part of a UK-based misinformation network.
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Tweets: @damiancollins, @hadas_gold, and @martinsfp
| Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook: |
A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking — My focus for the last couple of years has been understanding and addressing the biggest challenges facing Facebook. This means taking positions on important issues concerning the future of the internet. In this note, I'll outline our vision …
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
London-based PolyAI, which develops “conversational AI agents” for use in customer support contact centers, raises $12M Series A led by Point72 Ventures — PolyAI, a London startup founded by experts in the field of “conversational AI” — including CEO Nikola Mrkšić …
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