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A 3rd-party Facebook app by Cultura Colectiva left 540M+ records of users' FB info exposed on AWS; Amazon was notified in Jan., but data was online until today — The UpGuard Cyber Risk team can now report that two more third-party developed Facebook app datasets have been found exposed to the public internet.
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Google rolling out Duplex AI restaurant booking assistant to non-Pixel Android devices and iOS in the US — Get ready, the ability to get your Google Assistant to call your local eateries to make reservations is now rolling out to non-Pixel devices and iOS in the United States.| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Verizon launches its mobile 5G network in parts of Chicago and Minneapolis, with a 5G-enabled Moto Z3 — Though South Korea's government expected its three cellular carriers to be the world's first to offer commercial 5G services with smartphones based on the 3GPP's official 5G standard … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google debuts Android Q Beta 2 with multitasking overlay elements called Bubbles, foldables emulator, and precise audio recordings with zoomable microphone API — Google today launched the second Android Q beta with multitasking Bubbles, a foldables emulator, zoomable microphones, and more.
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WeWork acquires GV-backed Managed by Q, a platform for office management services that was recently valued at $249M, for an undisclosed sum — - WeWork has acquired Managed by Q, a platform for office tenants to hire on-demand service workers for office-management tasks like cleaning or staffing reception desks.| Ivan Mehta / The Next Web: |
WhatsApp now allows users to control who can add them to group chats — WhatsApp's group conversations can be awfully annoying when you're dragged into them without your consent. It's finally rolled out a fix for that, in the form of a new setting that lets you choose who can add you to group chats …
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Hands-on with Powerbeats Pro, Beats' new $250 wireless earbuds with Apple's H1 chip, 9 hours of battery life, “Hey Siri”, and physical controls, shipping in May — Coming in May for $250 — A couple of weeks after Apple shipped its second-generation AirPods …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
HR software startup Rippling, led by ex-Zenefits CEO Parker Conrad, raises $45M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins, source says at a valuation of $270M — Parker Conrad's last startup Zenefits drowned in busy work. Now with Rippling, he wants to boil that ocean.
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| Brady Dale / CoinDesk: |
SEC issues a “no-action” letter to TurnKey Jet, saying that tokens used by the business-travel startup are not securities, a first that clears token sales in US — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a “no-action” letter to TurnKey Jet, Inc. …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Facebook says it will stop asking for email passwords to verify new accounts; previously, it used them to verify accounts whose email addresses didn't use OAuth — Responding to criticism, Facebook says it will stop asking users for their email passwords as a means of verifying some new accounts.
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo spinout Altaba, which was formed after AOL's 2017 Yahoo acquisition as a holding company, is selling its entire Alibaba stake and closing down — Bye-bye, Altaba . The Yahoo spin-out created to house Yahoo's lucrative stake in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan announced today that it will sell …
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Clearbanc launches “The 20-Min Term Sheet”, a new campaign to fund 2,000 e-commerce startups with $1B in non-dilutive capital by the end of 2019 — Raising venture capital isn't easy; for some, it's impossible. — Clearbanc offers startups a fundraising alternative …
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Proto, Whatsapp's Indian partner, says the misinformation “tip line” announced on Tuesday is primarily for research, not to help users who find misinformation — One day after WhatsApp launched a tip line to combat misinformation ahead of a general election in India … | Andrew Liszewski / Gizmodo: |
Adobe's After Effects adds Content-Aware Fill for videos, which can intelligently remove and replace objects in a scene — Your browser does not support HTML5 video tag.Click here to view original GIF — In 2010, Adobe introduced one of Photoshop's first true ‘smart’ features …
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Crypto exchange Liquid says it is now valued at over $1B after raising an undisclosed sum in an ongoing Series C, with IDG Capital and Bitmain participating — Crypto has a new unicorn after exchange Liquid announced today it has raised capital from investors at a valuation of more than $1 billion …
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Wayve claims its autonomous car uses only AI, cameras, and GPS, unlike others, like Waymo, that need HD maps, sensors, and hand-coded rules — Projects like Google's Waymo, Uber, Cruise and Aurora are developing autonomous vehicles by throwing engineers at the problem …
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| Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
Inside the DNC's plan to replace its aging data repository Vertica with the Data Warehouse, a more powerful BigQuery-based system, before the 2020 election — IN JULY OF 2017, as Raffi Krikorian settled into his new office at the Democratic National Committee, Hillary Clinton's words were still ringing in his ears.
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| Eugene Kim / CNBC: |
Sources: in recent weeks Amazon has been quietly removing or relocating promotional spots on its site that gave special treatment to its private label products — - Amazon has significantly scaled down or relocated promotions of its private label products in recent weeks.| Kim Zetter / Washington Post: |
Researchers create malware that places fake cancerous nodes in CT scans to fool radiologists, showing what high-profile attacks on hospital gear could look like — Researchers in Israel created malware to draw attention to serious security weaknesses in medical imaging equipment and networks.
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Singapore introduces draft bill that requires sites to take down fake news, raising concerns among human rights advocates over repression — HONG KONG — Singapore introduced draft legislation on Monday that it said would combat false or misleading information on the internet …
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| Elizabeth Dilts / Reuters: |
Vestwell, which manages employer-sponsored retirement plans for SMBs, raises $30M Series B from Goldman Sachs and others — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Vestwell Holdings Inc, a tech platform for retirement plans, said on Tuesday it raised $30 million from Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Point72 Ventures and the Bank of New York Mellon Corp.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
In January, Huawei patched a bug in its PCManager software, discovered by Microsoft, which acted like NSA-style malware and affected some MateBook laptops — The bug was patched back in January — Huawei has patched a bug in some of its MateBook laptops that could have allowed an attacker to take control of the system.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Sources: Affirm, the online lending startup led by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, has raised ~$300M Series F at a post-money valuation of $2.9B — Affirm, the consumer credit startup led by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, has raised around $300 million in Series F funding, Axios has learned.Sponsor Posts
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