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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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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is working on rebuilding its messaging services to be more interoperable, ephemeral, privacy-focused, with end-to-end encryption — A major new blog post about Facebook's future — Facebook will increasingly shift its focus away from public posts to encrypted …
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| Nicholas Thompson / Wired: |
Mark Zuckerberg on the need for a “privacy-focused platform” focused on messaging to complement “public platforms”, the challenge of monetization, and more — ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, described a sweeping new vision for his platform.
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| Casey Newton / The Interface: |
If Facebook pivots to privacy, News Feed becomes a legacy product, its new business model will likely be commerce, and misinformation will be harder to track — By 2015, Mark Zuckerberg had grown uncomfortable with his messaging history. His old instant messages had gotten him into trouble in the past …
| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News: |
A senior Facebook source says the company has no plans to enter China, after Zuckerberg says Facebook won't build data centers in countries that violate privacy — Facebook does not see any path forward in China, a senior source inside the company told BuzzFeed News on Wednesday …
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| CNN: |
Huawei sues the US government, challenging a law that bans federal agencies from buying the company's products — Shenzhen, China (CNN Business)Embattled Chinese tech giant Huawei is suing the US government in its most aggressive move yet to fight back against accusations that its technology poses a global security threat.
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| Kimberly Adams / Marketplace: |
Edison Research estimates Facebook has 15M fewer US users today compared to 2017, with the biggest drop seen in the 12 to 34 age group — Listen To The Story — Marketplace — All the bad press about Facebook might be catching up to the company. New numbers from Edison Research show …
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| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic: |
An analysis of 105 “Uber for X” US companies, representing $7.4B in VC investment: four have reached unicorn status, 19 were acquired, and 28 have shut down — In March 2009, Uber was born. Over the next few years, the company became not just a disruptive … | Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Sources: a common practice among bounty hunters and stalkers is to impersonate cops and claim there's a crisis to get real-time cell location data from telcos — In several cases, a stalker impersonated a US Marshal and reported a fake kidnapping in order to get telecom companies to give them real-time cell phone location data.
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| Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
NSA releases free public version of Ghidra, a set of tools developed internally for software reverse engineering, to excitement among malware researchers — The National Security Agency released a free, public version of Ghidra, a set of tools developed internally for software reverse engineering.
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| Todd Haselton / CNBC: |
Amazon says it will close all 87 of its US pop-up stores in April; the kiosks, in Whole Foods and other stores, let customers try Amazon products and services — - The company is also planning to open dozens of grocery stores and potentially thousands of Amazon Go stores, according to earlier reports.
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Nintendo announces VR kits for its Labo line of Switch DIY cardboard accessories; they cost $40 and $80 and will be available on April 12 — Nintendo is getting into the virtual reality game — Nintendo's getting into virtual reality, but not in the way you might expect.
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Bird plans to rollout Bird Platform, which outsources the scooter-sharing business to aspiring entrepreneurs, to New Zealand, Canada, and Latin America — Bird is outsourcing the scooter-sharing business to aspiring entrepreneurs in countries outside the US and Europe
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Watch Active review: comfortable to wear with good fitness-tracking features but pairs poorly with non-Samsung phones and Bixby is wanting — Samsung's latest smartwatch drops the rotating bezel, but it gets most basics right — Samsung's Galaxy Watch Active is the follow … | The Information: |
Sources: Bytedance is planning to launch a Slack-like work collaboration app; Bytedance had a $1.2B loss last year after mixed results of its TikTok expansion — In 2017 ByteDance, owner of such popular apps as newsfeed service Toutiao, made a slim profit.| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Apple says it will bring 1,200 employees to its San Diego offices over three years, with as many as 200 coming in 2019, and will add new labs and office space — - Apple announced it will bring 1,200 employees to San Diego over three years as it reportedly tries to bring its modem engineering in-house.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
SoftBank launches the Innovation Fund, starting with a $2B commitment to invest in Latin American tech startups in e-commerce, fintech, healthcare, and more — While SoftBank continues to make big bets on startups out of its $100-billion Vision Fund, it has also launched another investment vehicle …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it is making its Windows calculator app open source, available now on GitHub — Windows developers can help build the calculator now — Microsoft is making the source code for its Windows calculator available on GitHub today. The software maker wants to …
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Google announces TensorFlow Lite 1.0, a framework for developers deploying AI on mobile and IoT devices, says TensorFlow Lite is running on 2B+ mobile devices — Google today introduced TensorFlow Lite 1.0, its framework for developers deploying AI models on mobile and IoT devices.
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| Gregory Barber / Wired: |
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