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Sources describe Amazon Alexa's AI-training process, where workers transcribing voice clips see customer account numbers and hear private conversations — Tens of millions of people use smart speakers and their voice software to play games, find music or trawl for trivia.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
In his annual shareholder letter, Jeff Bezos challenges retail rivals to match or raise their minimum wage above Amazon's $15 per hour — Target plans to move to $15 per hour by end of 2020 while Walmart lags behind at $11 an hour — In his annual letter to shareholders …
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Apple says it now has 44 suppliers, including Foxconn and TSMC, that have committed to run their Apple production on 100% clean energy — Company Spends $2.5 Billion in Environmental Initiatives — Cupertino, California — Apple today announced it has nearly doubled the number of suppliers …
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| Josh Dzieza / The Verge: |
Interviews with Wisconsin residents about Foxconn's slow progress with its investments in the state seem to indicate Foxconn has no idea what it's doing — Last summer, Foxconn announced a barrage of new projects in Wisconsin — so we went looking for them| Aoife White / Bloomberg: |
Dutch antitrust authority will examine whether Apple abuses a dominant market position by giving preferential treatment to its own apps, may widen it to Google — - Probe focuses on Apple and news apps, may be widened to Google — EU is separately weighing Spotify complaint on Apple| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Coinbase launches Coinbase Card, a Visa debit card for UK customers to spend cryptocurrencies in-store and online, will expand to other EU countries in months — When you buy cryptocurrencies on Coinbase, many users simply don't know what to do with them. Customers in the U.K …
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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
DOJ charges Julian Assange with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion for allegedly assisting Chelsea Manning in an attempt to crack a DOD password — For years, it has been publicly reported that Julian Assange offered to help Chelsea Manning break into a classified computer system.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Security researchers disclose Dragonblood, a group of vulnerabilities impacting WiFi Alliance's recently launched WPA3 WiFi security and authentication standard — Dragonblood vulnerability discovered by the same security researcher who discovered the KRACK attack on WPA2.
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Sources: Bezos to meet with federal prosecutors, signaling an escalation of the inquiry into whether Saudi Arabia gained private information from his phone — (CNN)Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is scheduled to meet with federal prosecutors in New York as soon as this week, according to people familiar with the matter.| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Archive.org says European agencies sent it 500+ takedown notices falsely identifying terrorist content, showing pitfalls of proposed EU terrorist content law — We've been trying to explain for the past few months just how absolutely insane the new EU Terrorist Content Regulation will be for the internet.
| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Lemonade, which uses an AI-powered bot to digitize the insurance buying experience for renters and homeowners, raises $300M Series D led by the SoftBank Group — Lemonade, the insurance startup founded by Daniel Schreiber and Shai Wininger, has today announced a $300 million Series D financing led …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google launches Currents in beta as its enterprise replacement for Google+, the second time an app has been named Google Currents — With Google killing its social network for consumers and brands last week, the service is now solely focussed on enterprise customers.
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Tweets: @rene_mobile, @vladpetrosyan, @armandsalmon, @dan_jenkins, @benedictevans, and @epro
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Triplebyte, which offers personalized online coding tests and technical interviews to help employers screen candidates, raises $35M Series B — LinkedIn, with nearly 600 million users, dominates the market today for recruiters headhunting suitable candidates for knowledge worker roles.| Stephen J. Dubner / Freakonomics: |
Interview with Daniel Ek about Spotify's history, running a $25B company, Sweden's subsidies for internet and computers, Napster, his love of music, and family — Listen now: — Daniel Ek, a 23-year-old Swede who grew up on pirated music, made the record labels an offer they couldn't refuse …
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| Gretchen McCulloch / Wired: |
A brief look at why most programming languages are based on English and why on a technical level it doesn't have to be that way — THIS YEAR MARKS the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web, so there's been a lot of pixels spilled on “the initial promises of the web”—one of which was the idea …
Tweets: @vrandezo, @wired, @janesolomon, and @hegenderfer
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Rasa, which is building an open source platform to design and manage AI chat bots, raises $13M Series A led by Accel — Conversational AI and the use of chatbots have been through multiple cycles of hype and disillusionment in the tech world. You know the story: first you get a launch … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
GoFundMe launches GoFundMe.org Causes, which accepts donations for verified charities that support general causes like animal rescue and mental health — GoFundMe.com has made a name for itself as a wildly successful platform for people to raise awareness virally and collect money for their personal causes …
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| John Herrman / New York Times: |
Twitter's ephemerality, searchable archive, and the rise of deletion services raises the question: why doesn't Twitter easily let users mass-delete tweets? — Twitter borrows most of its best ideas from users. Except the idea to set our feeds on fire. — The most generous interpretation …
Tweets: @choire, @haleymlotek, @jwherrman, @jwherrman, @jamestitcomb, @jwherrman, @n_srnck, @jwherrman, and @kerrymflynn
| Donna Fuscaldo / Forbes: |
Extend, which partners with card issuers like Visa and MasterCard to let companies issue and control virtual corporate credit cards, raises $11M Series A — Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. — Share to facebook — Share to twitter — Share to linkedin| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Armis, which helps companies protect IoT devices on their networks, raises $65M Series C led by Sequoia Capital, bringing its total raised to $112M — Armis is helping companies protect IoT devices on the network without using an agent, and it's apparently a problem that is resonating with the market … Sponsor Posts
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