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Phil Schiller, in an email to a user, says screen-time apps Apple restricted used MDM feature only intended for enterprises, creating privacy and security risks — Earlier today, a report from The New York Times highlighted Apple's removal of a number of App Store apps that had allowed users …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google hasn't updated Android distribution data, which details the adoption of Android versions and which it used to update every month, in the last six months — The Android developer website hosts a distribution dashboard that details the adoption of Google's mobile operating system versions.| Kiran Stacey / Financial Times: |
Industry veterans say the US ceded its supremacy in telecom equipment to companies like Huawei with choices that the government and companies made in the '90s — The UK's decision to allow Huawei to supply equipment for its 5G networks has disappointed officials in Washington.
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| Alison Griswold / Oversharing: |
Study of 40 DC Uber drivers over a two-year period finds some still don't know what they actually earn because of how often Uber changes the rules — CLII — Hello and welcome to Oversharing, a newsletter about the proverbial sharing economy. If you're returning from last week, thanks!
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| Bloomberg: |
Profile of Laurene Powell Jobs' Emerson Collective, an LLC that is part charity and part VC firm with investments in 30+ startups, including Pinterest — In the seven years since the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, his 55-year-old widow, Laurene Powell Jobs, has become one of the most high-profile philanthropists in the world.| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Docker discovers unauthorized access to a Hub database that exposed info of ~190K users; the info included access tokens for GitHub and Bitbucket repositories — An unauthorized person gained access to a Docker Hub database that exposed the the user names and hashed passwords for approximately 190,000 users.| steve cheney: |
Advances in 3D image processing and image sensors, which are progressing at a Moore's Law-like pace, will make lidar redundant for self-driving cars in 3 years — Last week when Tesla launched its dedicated autonomy ASIC, a lot of the focus was on this new hardware which allowed redundancy and incredibly fast neural processing.
Tweets: @stevecheney, @stevecheney, @stevecheney, and @stevecheney
| Dave Gershgorn / Quartz: |
After Partnership on AI issues a report condemning the use of algorithms to assess bail, only Microsoft agrees to publicly comment on it — The Partnership on AI, a trade organization founded by Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, IBM, and Microsoft to set best-practice standards on AI research …
Tweets: @davegershgorn
| Clive Thompson / Wired: |
Profile of Up & Go, a worker owned on-demand house cleaning service in New York, which takes only a 5% cut and lets its cleaners decide the design of the app — Rating drivers on Lyft. Three stars? Five stars? I know Lyft wants to feed the ravenous maw of its machine intelligence …
Tweets: @wired, @isabel_pedersen, @aprilrinne, and @kierandhanrahan
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
PayPal to buy $500M worth of Uber shares at $47/share, says the companies will work on future payment collaborations, including developing Uber's digital wallet — Uber's announcement of its IPO pricing earlier today came with a $500 million belated Easter egg.| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Affirm, an online lending company led by former PayPal CTO Max Levchin, spins out Resolve, an automated payments platform focused on B2B e-commerce — Resolve takes Affirm's buy now, pay later approach and applies it to business purchasing. — Affirm, a financial services company led … | Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Dyndrite, which is building a new geometric modeling kernel that is used in CAD or design applications, raises $10M Series A led by Gradient Ventures — Most of us don't know what a geometric modeling kernel or solid modeling kernel is, but every CAD or design application uses one to create shapes.
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