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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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Tweets: @jason_koebler, @annaroseiovine, @aiddya, @josephfcox, @samleecole, @ashk4n, @lorenzofb, and @jgage718
| Szu Ping Chan / BBC: |
Sources: Facebook is planning to launch its own cryptocurrency and a digital payments system in about a dozen countries by Q1 2020 — Facebook is finalising plans to launch its own crypto-currency next year. — It is planning to set up a digital payments system in about a dozen countries by the first quarter of 2020.
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| Alan Boyle / GeekWire: |
SpaceX successfully launches first batch of 60 Starlink satellites of nearly 11,000 planned into a low orbit above Earth to provide global internet connectivity — After two postponements, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket executed a mission that dealt out 60 Starlink broadband data satellites in low Earth orbit.
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
A distorted video of Speaker Pelosi, in which her speech is made to appear slurred, has 2M+ views on Facebook; YouTube says it has removed uploads of the video — Distorted videos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), altered to make her sound as if she's drunkenly slurring her words … | Will Sommer / The Daily Beast: |
Twitter permanently bans Brian and Ed Krassenstein, who frequently shared anti-Trump sentiments, alleging they ran fake accounts and purchased fake interactions — Ed and Brian Krassenstein are banned for life after ‘operating multiple fake accounts and purchasing account interactions,’ a Twitter spokesman said.
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| 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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| Biz Carson / Forbes: |
Lime shuffles leadership, with co-founder Brad Bao taking over as CEO from co-founder Toby Sun, who will now focus on R&D; COO Joe Kraus promoted to president — Lime cofounder Brad Bao is stepping in as CEO, replacing his cofounder Toby Sun.LIME — Scooter startup Lime is shuffling …
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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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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
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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| 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 … | 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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| The Keyword: |
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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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Automattic acquires Prospress, the company behind WooCommerce Subscriptions and other automated tools; the 20-person Prospress team will join Automattic — Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Longreads, Simplenote and a bunch of other cool things, is acquiring a small startup called Prospress.
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WooCommerce, WordPress Tavern, Post Status, Matt Mullenweg, Prospress, and PYMNTS.com. Tweets: @mark_forrester
| 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 …
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The Keyword, The Verge, SlashGear, Neowin, Thurrott, Droid Life, and Engadget. Tweets: @juberti
| 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 … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Shopify quietly acquired Handshake, an e-commerce platform for B2B wholesale purchasing, source says for less than $100M; Handshake was last valued at ~$54M — E-commerce platform Shopify has quietly made an acquisition to continue its expansion of the services and products that merchants can sell and purchase through its platform.| 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.| 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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CNET, BBC, The Register, Business Insider, VICE, Technology Personalized, Synced, Pocket-lint, The Verge, The Daily Dot, Telegraph, Gizmodo, and YouTube
| Randy Nelson / Sensor Tower Blog: |
Sensor Tower: Valve's Steam Link reaches 2M+ installs on Android and iOS, with 330K+ downloads on iOS in its first week, 71% of which were from China and Japan — A year after it was initially rejected for release on the App Store, Valve's Steam Link app, which enables computer gamers using …
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