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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
US CBP says photos of travelers into and out of the country were accessed in breach of subcontractor, first learned of on May 31, fails to say how many affected — U.S. Customs and Border Protection has confirmed a data breach has exposed the photos of travelers and vehicles traveling in and out of the United States.
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| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: |
The US government and airlines are scanning faces of people not suspected of crimes, normalizing faces as data that can be kept, tracked, and inevitably, stolen — What's face recognition at the airport really about? Immigration policy and efficiency. — NEW YORK — You won't need …
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| Jeff Jarvis / Whither news?: |
Publishers, lobbying for laws around the world that will help them extract payments from platforms like Google for linking to news, are ruining the internet — Around the world, news industry trade associations are corruptly cashing in their political capital — …
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Larry Page and Sergey Brin made an appearance at Google's “Thank God It's Friday” event on May 30 after a six month absence from the weekly meetings — Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have long been the stars of the search giant's weekly “TGIF” town hall meetings.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce to buy data visualization company Tableau for $15.7B in all-stock deal, a big premium to the company's market cap of $10.8B at Friday's trading close — On the heels of Google buying analytics startup Looker last week for $2.6 billion, Salesforce today announced a huge piece …
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Amazon will shut down its Amazon Restaurants food delivery service in the US on June 24, after closing in the UK late last year — Amazon will shutter its Amazon Restaurants food delivery service in the U.S. later this month, GeekWire has learned. — Amazon Restaurants first launched in Seattle back in 2015.
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Facebook has quietly made changes to limit Graph Search over the weekend, following privacy scandals, says it will work with researchers affected by the changes — Facebook's Graph Search allowed anyone to search a wealth of public data on Facebook in very specific ways …
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki apologizes to the LGBTQ community, says that demonetizing but leaving Steven Crowder's channel on the platform was the right decision — ‘Context really, really matters’ — YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is apologizing to the LGBTQ community in the wake …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it has no plans to add more backward compatible titles for Xbox One, but says Project Scarlett will run games from all four Xbox generations — No more Xbox 360 and Xbox additions to the catalog — Microsoft is winding down new additions to its Xbox backward compatibility catalog.| The Keyword: |
Google is rolling out Assistant in Waze on Android phones in English in the US — Think about the last time you were stuck in traffic—the minutes you spent staring at a long line of red taillights probably didn't feel productive. The Assistant can already help with navigation in Google Maps …
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| Lewis White / MSPoweruser: |
Microsoft announces updates to Xbox gamertags, including ten new alphabets and Discord-like hashcodes that will allow gamers to select any gamertag — MrStark#0528, I don't feel so good. — Major Nelson has confirmed that Xbox's iconic Gamertag system will be changing in the future.| Tushar Mehta / XDA Developers: |
Google seems to be testing a new feature for Maps in India that alerts users every time their taxi or ride goes off route by 500 meters — Getting driving directions from Google Maps is one of its most vital and useful features. To make navigation more effective for the drivers … | CNBC: |
Digital imaging company Shutterfly says it has agreed to be acquired by private equity firm Apollo Global Management, in a deal that values the company at $2.7B — This is breaking news. Please check back for updates. — TRENDING NOW — Subscribe to CNBC PRO Licensing & Reprints Join …
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| Jacob Passy / MarketWatch: |
Amazon Credit Builder debuts as a secured retail credit card aimed at Prime members with poor credit; a refundable security deposit will represent card's limit — Amazon's newest credit card is designed to appeal to consumers who are looking to improve their credit score.
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
AMD announces its first 7nm Navi GPUs: the $379 Radeon RX 5700 and the $449 RX 5700 XT, with speeds of up to 1.9GHz and up to 9.75 teraflops, available July 7 — After unveiling its first 7-nanometer “Navi” GPUs a few weeks ago at Computex, the Radeon RX 5000 series, AMD finally gave us more details at E3.
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Ubisoft announces UPlay+, a $14.99/month subscription service with access to Ubisoft's full library of 100+ games, launching on PC on Sept. 3 and Stadia in 2020 — $14.99/month service includes all DLC, “earliest access” to new Ubisoft titles. — LOS ANGELES—At its E3 press conference today …
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| BBC: |
UK man sentenced to four years for involvement in hacks including the breach of TalkTalk that affected 150,000 users, was alleged to have blackmailed victims — A man who was involved in a major hack attack of telecoms firm TalkTalk has been sentenced to four years' detention.| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Intel acquires Barefoot Networks, which specializes in making programmable networking chips; Barefoot had raised ~155M from Tencent, Alibaba, HPE, and others — When it launched out of stealth just three years ago, Barefoot Networks was hailed as a company that would transform the way a generation …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Mozilla CEO says a premium version of Firefox is being developed with features like VPN and “secure storage”, may come this fall with monthly subscription plan — Browser maker working on premium version of Firefox with extra features like VPN access and secure storage.
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
New form factors for Portal video chat devices are coming this fall, Facebook VP of AR/VR Andrew “Boz” Bosworth says — KEY POINTS — Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, Facebook vice president of AR/VR, spoke on stage at the Code Conference in Phoenix. — A LinkedIn photo of Facebook exec Andrew “Boz” Bosworth.Sponsor Posts
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