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| Heather Kelly / CNN: |
Facebook will now ban anyone who violates its “most serious policies” from using Facebook Live for a set period of time, starting with their first offense — San Francisco (CNN Business)Two months after the mass shooting at a mosque in New Zealand was live-streamed by the accused gunman …
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Tweets: @luca, @donie, and @heatherkelly
| Washington Post: |
WH will not sign Christchurch Call to Action, a commitment by governments and social media companies to fight online extremism, citing free speech concerns — The White House will not sign an international call to combat online extremism brokered between French and New Zealand officials …
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| Facebook: |
Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, Google, and Amazon sign on to the Christchurch Call to Action, commit to a 9-point plan to stop spread of terrorist content online — Today, Facebook's Vice President for Global Affairs and Communications Nick Clegg joined G7 government and industry leaders …
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Tweets: @bradsmi, @carlfranzen, @kent_walker, and @justintrudeau
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Several security researchers say iOS security controls have made it really hard to analyze whether an iPhone has been compromised without jailbreaking it first — A recent vulnerability in WhatsApp shows that there's little defenders can do to detect and analyze iPhone hacks.
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| Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeed News: |
Behind Twitter's plan to fix the problems like disinformation, harassment, and outrage through its new prototype app twttr — In March, Twitter cofounder Biz Stone tweeted a screenshot of an iPhone homescreen along with a message: “Notice our new prototype? ...
Tweets: @caseynewton, @aaainsley, @bborrman, @sarahintampa, @sarahintampa, @mattnavarra, and @buzzfeedben
| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Ajit Pai proposes a new rule that would allow carriers to block robocalls by default and lets customers block calls from numbers not on their contacts list — ‘The American people are fed up with illegal robocalls’ — On Wednesday, the Federal Communications Commission announced a new measure …
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| Paul Ford / Wired: |
Why I (Still) Love Tech: In Defense of a Difficult Industry — We have graduated, along with oil, real estate, insurance, and finance, to the big T. Trillions of dollars. Trillions! Get to that number any way you like: Sum up the market cap of the major tech companies, or just take Apple's valuation on a good day.
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Report details Apple's “long and painful divorce” with Intel, says Apple's custom 5G modems may not arrive until 2025 — The Information is out today with a detailed report on the falling out between Intel and Apple over the last few years that led to settling with Qualcomm …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google says a bug in its Titan Security Keys' Bluetooth pairing protocols is exploitable by hackers in close physical proximity, provides free replacement keys — Google today disclosed a security bug in its Bluetooth Titan Security Key that could allow an attacker in close physical proximity …
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| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft releases its SPTAG algorithm, used to answer questions on Bing, as MIT-licensed open source on Github — Search engines today are more than just the dumb keyword matchers they used to be. You can ask a question—say, “How tall is the tower in Paris?”—and they'll tell …
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The AI Blog, TechCrunch, and OnMSFT.com
| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
San Francisco passes a ban on the use of facial recognition technology by city agencies, the first ban of its kind for a major American city — On Tuesday, San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted to approve a ban on the use of facial recognition tech by city agencies.| Owen Bowcott / The Guardian: |
UK Supreme Court finds in favor of civil rights organizations and rules that GCHQ's powers to hack into internet services should be subject to judicial review — Supreme court says GCHQ's hacking powers should be subject to judicial review — Government security decisions will in future … | Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance says it is back online and has resumed trading activity, after being hacked for $40M+ in bitcoin — Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has resumed trading activity. Users can now cancel open orders, deposit crypto assets into their Binance account, and of course buy and sell cryptocurrencies.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Uber is rolling out new options for Uber Black, its luxury car service, including a “quiet preferred” mode, help with luggage, and preferred temperature — Tired of chatty drivers? Uber is finally giving users its most requested feature: an in-app way to request minimal conversation during your ride.
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Tweets: @marshallk, @mariosundar, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, and @joshconstine. Thanks:@joshconstine
| Sam Ouimet / CoinDesk: |
Brian Armstrong says Coinbase Custody, which launched about a year ago, has $1B in assets under management, with 70 institutions using the service — Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announced the exchange's custody product, Coinbase Custody, already has $1 billion in assets under management (AUM) in just 12 months after launch.| Daniel Palmer / CoinDesk: |
| Peter Kafka / Vox: |
Explaining the Hulu/Disney/Comcast breakup: as media companies get bigger to compete with tech, many shows will scatter from Netflix and Hulu to rival services — All the big media companies want their own streaming service. Big question: Do you want to subscribe to lots of streaming services?
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Digiday, Business Insider, The Verge, and Washington Post
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| Natt Garun / The Verge: |
Google is combining its travel-related products, including Google Trips, Google Flights, and Google Hotel Search, under a singular tool called Trips — Not to be confused with Google Trips, its offline travel app — Google is combining its travel-related products — the mobile Google Trips app …
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The Keyword, Engadget, Thurrott, Android Police, The Next Web, MSPoweruser, Geek.com, and PYMNTS.com. Tweets: @brianfagioli
| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Indian online grocery delivery service Grofers raises $200M+ led by SoftBank Vision Fund at a valuation of almost $1B — Masayoshi Son isn't losing his appetite for backing money-losing startups. — Son's SoftBank Vision Fund is leading an investment round of more than $200 million in Grofers … | The Keyword: |
Rivet, a free app from Google's workshop for experimental projects, helps kids learn to read with speech processing, AI, and a library of 2,000+ free books — Reading is one of the most important skills students will learn in their lives. After the third grade, students who have mastered reading use …
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Engadget, The Next Web, 9to5Google, iPhone in Canada Blog, SlashGear, and TechCrunch
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Big data startup Tealium raises $55M Series F, bringing the total raised to $160M, says it is close to profitability and expects revenues of $100M this year — The average enterprise today uses about 90 different software packages, with between 30-40 of them touching customers directly or indirectly.
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| Cale Guthrie Weissman / Fast Company: |
American Express is acquiring restaurant reservation platform Resy, which says it is used by 4,000 restaurants in 154 US cities and 10 countries — Though Anthony Bourdain championed the idea that reservations aren't necessary, at most popular restaurants, you still need them.
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TechCrunch, Digital Trends, Associated Press, New York Times, and Philly.com. Tweets: @sldgmachine. Thanks:@laurakb
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Solera Health, which integrates with employers' health plans and matches doctors and patients with wellness programs, raises $42M Series C — Solera Health, a Phoenix, Arizona-based company that connects customers with evidence-based, non-medical wellness programs, today announced …
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| Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed News: |
A 14-year-old girl with 800,000 YouTube followers is sharing far-right content, highlighting how the platform can push kids to extremism as they build audiences — “Soph” has nearly a million followers on the giant video platform. The site's executives only have themselves to blame.
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The Verge. Tweets: @clarajeffery, @randfish, @johnpaczkowski, @katienotopoulos, @rvawonk, @rvawonk, and @bernstein
| Matthew Leising / Bloomberg: |
Chainalysis research estimates that about 376 users, known as “whales”, control a third of all Ether, compared to 448 people who own 20% of all Bitcoin — - New study says so-called whales don't move Ether prices much — Bitcoin price found to be good indicator of where Ether trades
Tweets: @lisaabramowicz1
| Nicholas Thompson / Wired: |
Q&A with AI pioneer and Turing Award winner Geoffrey Hinton on the evolution of neural networks, consciousness, teaching computers to dream, future plans, more — Geoffrey Hinton is one of the creators of Deep Learning, a 2019 winner of the Turing Award, and an engineering fellow at Google.
Tweets: @jgvfwstone, @skdh, and @nxthompson
| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Tencent beats estimates with Q1 profit of $3.95B, up 17% YoY, on revenue of $12.42B, up 16% YoY; WeChat had 1.11B MAUs, up 6.9% YoY — Tencent Holdings Ltd.'s quarterly earnings beat estimates, boosted by gains on investments, giving shareholders much-needed assurance the Chinese gaming behemoth is bound for a revival.
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