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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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| Nicholas Thompson / Wired: |
Yuval Noah Harari and Fei-Fei Li discuss the challenges AI poses to society as the merger of biological knowledge and tech may enable hacking of humans at scale — THIS WEEK, I interviewed Yuval Noah Harari, the author of three best-selling books about the history and future of our species …
Tweets: @alexjohnlondon, @wired, and @drfeifei
| Roger Parloff / Yahoo Finance: |
Profile of Chris Cox, who, despite being chief product officer for years, never drew the attention for Facebook's scandals that Zuckerberg and Sandberg did — In late 2003, during his senior year at Stanford, Chris Cox, the future Chief Product Officer at Facebook (
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Business Insider. Tweets: @hkanji, @zooko, @hardcorevalue, @agisilaosts, @sfiegerman, @mathewi, @alexeheath, @mikeisaac, @yahoofinance, and @jason_kint
| New York Times: |
How the boom in Chinese bike-share companies like Ofo and Mobike was quickly followed by a bust, wiping out many investors and littering towns with unused bikes — Bike-sharing start-ups brought prosperity to Wangqingtuo. Now residents are dealing with the mess they left behind.
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Reuters. Tweets: @drinksolapop, @absurdistwords, @gregcipes, @jotted, @nytimesbusiness, @jotted, @sanjay__bakshi, and @jotted
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Sources: Uber will pitch an Amazon-like growth story during IPO roadshow, but a filing shows Q1 revenue growth was 20%, less than half of what it was a year ago — SAN FRANCISCO — Pop quiz: Which technology company does Uber, the ride-hailing giant on the cusp of an initial public offering, consider itself to be the most like?
Tweets: @nytimes, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @danprimack, @boztank, @mikeisaac, @tejeshwi_sharma, and @mikeisaac
| 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: @louisgray, @stevecheney, @stevecheney, @stevecheney, and @stevecheney
| Kieren McCarthy / The Register: |
Hertz sues Accenture for delays, poor design, security vulnerabilities and performance problems of its website and mobile app redesign, for which it paid $32M — Rental firm fuming after consultancy ‘never delivered a functional site or mobile app’ — Car rental giant Hertz is suing over a website redesign from hell.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
GoDaddy resets passwords for several hundred compromised accounts and takes down 15,000+ subdomains of otherwise-legitimate sites, used by hackers for scams — GoDaddy resets passwords for several hundred compromised accounts. — Web hosting provider and domain registrar GoDaddy has taken … | Vivian Wang / New York Times: |
New York City's Board of Elections has posted voter enrollment lists, including party affiliation, full names, and home addresses, to its election website — The city's Board of Elections posted its voting rolls to its website, allowing anyone to access people's home addresses and party affiliation.| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
A new French law grants regulated blockchain-related projects the right to a bank account, putting the burden on banks to justify refusals to open an account — The Takeaway: — France's new crypto law grants blockchain-related projects the right to a bank account, provided they opt in to being regulated
Tweets: @mishalederman, @tokenmarket, and @crypto_bobby
| Nikkei: |
Hitachi says it is buying US factory robotics system integrator JR Automation for $1.42B, hoping to expand its IoT business in North America — Japanese industrial conglomerate hopes to expand IoT business in North America — TOKYO — Hitachi will buy U.S. robotic system integrator JR …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Brazilian startup Omie raises $20M Series B to expand its QuickBooks-like business management cloud platform; Riverwood Capital was the round's sole investor — Omie, a Brazilian startup focused on providing SMBs (small and medium-sized businesses) with a business management platform, has closed on a $20 million Series B.Sponsor Posts
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