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Source: Amazon is working on a wearable voice-activated health and wellness device that works with a mobile app and can recognize human emotions — - Described as a health product, it would work with a mobile app — Machines that can understand emotions are a sci-fi staple
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Multiple sources and emails describe how Snap employees used internal tools like SnapLion to access user data several years ago, before Snap restricted access — Multiple sources and emails also describe SnapLion, an internal tool used by various departments to access Snapchat user data.
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| Guy Rosen / Facebook: |
Facebook releases an update on enforcing its community standards, saying it banned 2.19B fake accounts in Q1 2019, up from 1.2B in Q4 2018 — Today, we're publishing our third Community Standards Enforcement Report, covering Q4 2018 and Q1 2019. This report adds a few additional data points:
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Samsung researchers detail a machine learning method that can recreate lifelike motion from just a single image of a person's face — Machine learning researchers have produced a system that can recreate lifelike motion from just a single frame of a person's face, opening up the possibility …
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Instagram says IGTV will now support landscape video, following feedback from creators and users, as the service struggles to gain traction — The vertical video experiment is over — Instagram is no longer all-in on vertical video. The company announced today that its longform video offshoot …
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Google says it has partnered with delivery services including DoorDash and Postmates to let users order food via Google Search, Maps, or Assistant in the US — French fries, lettuce wraps, massaman curry, chicken wings, cupcakes—I could go on. When I was pregnant with my son last year, my cravings were completely overpowering.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
GitHub launches Sponsors, a tool that lets users pay their favorite open source contributors; developers can opt in to a “Sponsor me” button on repositories — GitHub today launched Sponsors, a new tool that lets you give financial support to open-source developers through recurring monthly payments.
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| Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News: |
As Twitter tests an increased ad load, users report a higher number of spammy or malicious promoted tweets — Twitter is running a test that has increased the number of promoted tweets showing up in people's timelines — and it has resulted in a range of user complaints about their new prevalence … | Aislinn Keely / The Block: |
AT&T says customers can now pay their mobile bills in cryptocurrency via BitPay — Cryptocurrency is taking another step towards the mainstream as mobile carrier AT&T announced it would accept payments in crypto today, according to a release from the company.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Rotten Tomatoes says it will now calculate the Audience Score using only ratings or reviews from users whose ticket purchase has been verified through Fandango — Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes is taking additional steps to confirm that audience members actually see a movie before leaving a rating or review.
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Google researchers say they used 2,000 “mannequin challenge” YouTube videos as a training data set to create an AI model for depth prediction from videos — Google AI researchers today said they used 2,000 “mannequin challenge” YouTube videos as a training data set to create … | Biz Carson / Forbes: |
Food delivery app DoorDash raises $600M led by Darsana Capital Partners at a $12.6B valuation, just three months after it raised $400M at a $7B valuation — The investor feeding frenzy around food-delivery startups hasn't stopped. Just three months after raising $400 million …
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| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
Interviews with Marc Benioff and 18 associates and current and former Salesforce employees show his instinctual and sometimes mystifying M&A strategy — Marc Benioff's acquisitions have kept the software giant growing at an incredible rate. He's also made some costly errors.
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Business Insider. Tweets: @mattmday, @bradstone, @shiraovide, @ericjackson, @jimaley, @mhbergen, @mrp, @dinabass, @charles_norton1, and @melinanders
| Peter Kafka / Vox: |
Q&A with Neal Mohan, YouTube's chief product officer, about how the service deals with objectionable content, YouTube remaining an open platform, and more — A Q&A with Neal Mohan, YouTube's chief product officer. — YouTube, the world's largest video site, has 2 billion users.| Tom Angell / Forbes: |
Square quietly launches an invite-only beta to process payments for some CBD products — Companies that sell cannabis products—even those consisting of CBD derived from hemp, which was legalized in the U.S. through the Farm Bill late last year—are continuing to have trouble accessing basic … | Mark Scott / Politico: |
GDPR has helped big tech companies cement their dominance in the data economy while smaller companies have suffered from relatively high compliance costs — The region's data protection overhaul was supposed to help citizens. Instead, it's helped Big Tech.
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Digiday. Tweets: @politicoryan, @hbsmktg, @dries, @marietjeschaake, @jimmy_wales, and @leojtravis10
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Future, a $150/month fitness app which assigns users a human trainer who builds personalized workouts and proactively checks progress, raises $8.5M Series A — Push button, get healthy — The only way to beat laziness is with guilt, so that's what Future sells.| Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook says it won't pay commissions to employees who sell political ads; source: Zuckerberg decided to keep selling political ads after an internal debate — Company leaders considered dropping such ads, which are now viewed as a headache — Facebook Inc. said it stopped paying commissions …
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Software maker Panic unveils Playdate, a Game Boy-like device with a hand crank control and 12 bundled games released over time, coming in 2020 for $149 — Little, yellow, different — Panic made its name through high-end Mac software, but more recently, the company moved into gaming …
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Tweets: @playdate, @playdate, @playdate, @playdate, @camposanto, @playdate, @mrgan, @rands, @anildash, @viticci, @dens, @egoraptor, @kchironis, @playdate, @kelslewin, @kevinsavetz, @frankcifaldi, @hamburger, and @obskyr
| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Google adds group video calls for up to eight people to its Duo video calling app for iOS and Android users worldwide — Google's Duo video call app today introduced group video calls for up to 8 people for iOS and Android users worldwide. At launch, Duo group video calls will not be available … | Dave Lee / BBC: |
Leaked memo: ARM has told staff it must suspend business, including all active contracts, support entitlements, and pending engagements, with Huawei — UK-based chip designer ARM has told staff it must suspend business with Huawei, according to internal documents obtained by the BBC.
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| Brady Dale / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase says Coinbase Commerce, its app to help merchants easily accept crypto, has exceeded $50M in transactions since launching in February 2018 — People really do seem to be buying things with cryptocurrency. — Announced today, Coinbase Commerce - the exchange unicorn's app for online retailers … Sponsor Posts
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