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FAQ on how Sign In with Apple works based on information at WWDC, including details about two-factor authentication support and private email relay service — One of the bigger security announcements from Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference this week is Apple's new requirement …
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Apple's sign-in button, built for a post-Cambridge Analytica world, is a sign of how much tech infrastructure needs to be rebuilt as privacy expectations change — Protection against developers, not hackers — In 2019, Facebook isn't just a homepage; it's a passport.| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
How 12,000+ videos watched by a young man on YouTube since 2015 first pulled him into a far-right rabbit hole and more recently into a left-wing universe — Over years of reporting on internet culture, I've heard countless versions of Mr. Cain's story: an aimless young man — usually white …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 13 shows a pop-up with a map of location data an app has tracked and its reasons for needing the data, when asking permission for background location access — Apple continued its strong focus on privacy with the announcement of iOS 13 this week. The update includes several new privacy features … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Xbox Game Pass for PC will be available for $4.99/month with access to at least 10 games during beta, according to Microsoft's website ahead of its E3 event — A beta might be launching today — Microsoft has published its Xbox Game Pass for PC pricing ahead of the company's E3 event later today.
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Quibi to launch on April 6 2020 with a $7.99/mo ad free tier and a $4.99/mo tier with pre-roll ads, will pay costs plus 20% for up to $6M/hour to show creators — Quibi founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and CEO Meg Whitman offered an in-depth look at their new short-form video service during … | Andrew Myers / Stanford News: |
Researchers have developed an algorithm that allows video editors to modify human speech in “talking head” videos by altering text in transcripts — A new algorithm allows video editors to modify talking head videos as if they were editing text - copying, pasting, or adding and deleting words.| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Former Unity VP Anne Evans has filed a lawsuit against the company for retaliation and wrongful termination, alleging CEO John Riccitiello sexually harassed her — Unity Technologies, the multibillion-dollar gaming engine, is facing a lawsuit from its former VP of global talent acquisition …
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Sources: China summoned US and global tech giants to warn of dire consequences if they cooperate with Trump bans, hinting US companies should lobby against bans — SAN FRANCISCO — The Chinese government this past week summoned major tech companies from the United States and elsewhere to warn …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers find that only 4,183 security flaws from a total of 76K vulnerabilities discovered between 2009 and 2018 had been exploited in the wild — Most vulnerabilities that are exploited in the wild have a CVSS severity score of 9 or 10. — New research published this week has shed … | Shira Ovide / Bloomberg: |
How MTN and Orange, two of the biggest mobile carriers in Africa, are trying to expand internet access in the continent by selling ~$20 phones powered by KaiOS — About half of humanity don't have internet access, and a lot of those people are in Africa. Enter a $20 device with smartphone brains and a five-day battery.
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Luminous Computing, which aims to build a photonic chip, raises $9M seed round led by Bill Gates, with Dara Khosrowshahi, Travis Kalanick, others participating — Luminous Computing, a one-year-old startup, is aiming to build a photonics chip that will handle workloads needed for AI at the speed of light.Sponsor Posts
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