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| Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: |
Spotify files an anti-trust complaint against Apple with the European Commission, claiming App Store rules limit choice and stifle competition — Spotify is filing a complaint against Apple with the European Commission, accusing the latter company of anticompetitive behaviour in the way it manages …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google debuts the first preview of Android Q to devs, available on all Pixel devices, with granular privacy settings, better support for foldable devices, more — Google today launched Android Q Beta 1, available for download now at google.com/android/beta.
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| Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
Facebook says it is working to bring its services back online as users around the world report issues with Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Oculus, and WhatsApp — While you can open the apps, they're missing major functions — Facebook and Instagram appear to be partially down for some users around the world today.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Twitter's mobile app is rolling out a Snapchat-style camera designed to promote sharing photos, videos, and live footage when users swipe left on their timeline — Twitter is rolling out the redesign to its camera feature TechCrunch reported on a month ago that's designed to let you capture photos …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Verizon's 5G service to launch on April 11 in Chicago and Minneapolis and cost $85-$105 for its unlimited plans — The first phone available will be the Moto Z3 with the 5G Moto Mod — Verizon's 5G network is coming. After months of vague statements, the carrier has finally announced …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft demos its Project xCloud game streaming service with Forza Horizon 4 streaming to an Android phone, ahead of Google's “future of gaming” event — Entering public trials later this year — Microsoft has provided a live demonstration of its upcoming Project xCloud game streaming service.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's video service will feature mostly content from partners at launch, with the first slew of its own shows coming later in the year — - IPhone maker is said to push for HBO, Showtime and Starz deals — Magazine bundle, Apple Pay upgrades are also coming this month| Nick Bastone / Business Insider: |
Sources: Google has moved dozens of employees out of its laptop and tablet division, scaling back the size of its in-house hardware group — - Google appears to be trimming the size of its laptop and tablet hardware group, telling dozens of engineers and program managers to find other roles … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Google quietly adds DuckDuckGo and other privacy-focused search engines as an option for Chrome users in more than 60 markets — In an update to the chromium engine, which underpins Google's popular Chrome browser, the search giant has quietly updated the lists of default search engines …
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| Bloomberg: |
Court documents: Larry Page worried he would lose control of Google in 2011 and seemed to make a “veiled threat” to quit over the issue — - Page feared co-founder Brin might sell voting shares in 2011 — Court documents shed new light on controversial class C stock
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| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
TPG Growth places Bill McGlashan, a managing partner who championed social responsibility, on leave after DOJ charges him in the college admissions scandal — “The way the world works these days is unbelievable.” — One of Silicon Valley's most prominent private equity investors …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Researchers find mobile adware, dubbed SimBad, hidden in over 200 Android games, with more than 150M downloads — Security researchers have found a new kind of mobile adware hidden in hundreds of Android apps, and downloaded more than 150 million times from Google Play.| Peter Rubin / Wired: |
An early look at Facebook's Codec Avatars, extremely life-like representations of individuals made by applying machine learning to data collected in a studio — “There's this big, ugly sucker at the door,” the young woman says, her eyes twinkling, “and he said, ‘Who do you think you are, Lena Horne?’
Tweets: @jlax and @ddiakopoulos
| Nathaniel Mott / Tom's Hardware: |
US CPSC announces expanded recall of 78,500 HP laptops due to battery issues; announcement was delayed from January due to government shutdown — The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that HP expanded its recall of the batteries used in some of its notebooks and mobile workstations due to “fire and burn hazards.”
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
AT&T is upping DirecTV prices, with a base package hike of $10/month, for the second time since it argued its Time Warner merger would allow it to lower prices — - AT&T Confirms DirecTV Now Price Hikes, Launches New ‘Slimmer’ Bundles With HBO That Omit Many Cable Channels| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
Discord, a chat app first designed for gamers, has become popular among influencers, YouTubers, and others by letting them create customized private communities — Over the past few months, seemingly all the pet- and animal-themed Instagram accounts I follow have begun interspersing their videos with pleas.
Tweets: @blakeir, @greylockvc, @gregisenberg, and @taylorlorenz
| Mayank Parmar / Windows Latest: |
Windows 10 can now automatically uninstall problematic updates that can cause boot up failures — If your computer runs into Windows problems and automatic recovery attempts are unsuccessful, Windows 10 will now automatically remove the botched updates. — In a new support document …
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| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
Allen Institute study of 2M+ AI research papers shows Chinese scholars have out-published US scholars every year since 2005, but questions remain about quality — AT THE WORLD'S top computer-vision conference last June, Google and Apple sponsored an academic contest that challenged algorithms … | Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
ACLU releases documents showing ICE lets over 9,200 employees access a controversial license plate database with little oversight — The ACLU published the emails today — Immigration and Customs Enforcement allows thousands of employees to access a controversial license plate database …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Determined AI, which wants to make AI development easier using its software, exits stealth and announces $11M Series A led by GV — Deep learning involves a highly iterative process where data scientists build models and test them on GPU-powered systems until they get something they can work with.| Olivia Solon / NBC News: |
IBM and other companies are using Creative Commons Flickr photos to train facial recognition software without the consent of people in the photos — People's faces are being used without their permission, in order to power technology that could eventually be used to surveil them, legal experts say.
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