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With Snap Kit, Snap moves on from being a “Camera company” and becomes a camera platform, enabling developers to embed, not copy, its best features — Evan Spiegel has finally found a way to fight back against Mark Zuckerberg's army of clones. For 2.5 years, Snapchat foolishly tried … | Jason Schreier / Kotaku: |
Following Anthem's rough launch, current and former BioWare employees say its development was hampered by EA's Frostbite engine and poor leadership — It wasn't even supposed to be called Anthem. Just days before the annual E3 convention in June of 2017, when the storied studio BioWare …
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UK whitepaper proposes “code of best practice” for how internet platforms should deal with harmful content, suggests expanding liability to tech company execs — Internet sites could be fined or blocked if they fail to tackle “online harms” such as terrorist propaganda and child abuse, under government plans.
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Facebook and Google have placed op-eds and dozens of paid “native ad” articles across major publications, amid other media efforts, to steer future regulations — Three years on from the US election, tech firms are seeking rules that won't hit their profits| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
How fraud-detection services like Sift and SecureAuth use thousands of signals and opaque algorithms to generate user-trustworthiness scores — When you're logging in to a Starbucks account, booking an Airbnb or making a reservation on OpenTable, loads of information about you is crunched instantly …
Tweets: @mims, @profgalloway, @mims, @elizabeth_joh, @wsj, and @wsj
| Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
Founder of Change My View subreddit, which has 700K+ subscribers, launches Change A View, a site with paid moderators and some funding from Alphabet's Jigsaw — A FEW MONTHS shy of his high school graduation, Kal Turnbull came to a realization: Conversations on the internet are broken.
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Tweets: @roschkekj, @jeffweiner, @mehatch, @kevinakwok, and @pardesoteric
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Hands on with Android Q Beta 2: deep dive into an early version of Bubbles multitasking UI, a look at the changes to notifications and gesture navigation, more — Android's Bubbles feature can actually completely replace the notification panel. — Android Q Beta 2 is out!
Tweets: @stevesi and @benedictevans
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
How Waze is working with Transport for London through its Connected Citizens program, which has 900 partners, to launch the city's new Ultra Low Emission Zone — As cities look for new ways to combat congestion and toxic fumes, technology is playing an increasingly big part in the problem-solving …
Tweets: @medicalquack, @lbonesini, and @tombamonte
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Q&A with France's new digital minister Cédric O on regulating big tech, moderating content through a neutral central repository, tech industry in France, more — An interview with Cédric O — What happens when you're working behind the scene with French President Emmanuel Macron and you suddenly become a minister?
Tweets: @romaindillet and @techcrunch
| Katie Fustich / Built In Colorado: |
Cybersecurity startup deepwatch raises $23M Series A to fuel expansion and R&D, says it's grown to 130 employees and over 100 customers — On Wednesday, Denver-based deepwatch announced it has secured $23 million in a Series A funding round. The cybersecurity provider will use … | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Automotive company Lear acquires connected-car software maker Xevo, which runs an in-car e-commerce platform called Xevo Market, for $320M — Global automotive giant Lear today announced that it will acquire Seattle-area connected car startup Xevo for $320 million.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
VSCO sues photo editing app PicsArt alleging false advertising and violations of its ToS, claims PicsArt reverse engineered 19 filters from VSCO — Photo-editing app-maker VSCO has filed a lawsuit against competitor PicsArt. — The suit focuses on 19 PicsArt filters that were supposedly …
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