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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: Apple to introduce a new scissor switch keyboard that supposedly offers durability and longer key travel, in the 2019 MacBook Air and the 2020 MacBook Pro — Apple is apparently set to ditch the butterfly mechanism used in MacBooks since 2015, which has been the root of reliability issues …
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| Allie Funk / Wired: |
Until the US Biometric Exit Program prioritizes privacy and resolves technical and legal shortcomings, airport travelers should opt out of facial recognition — Last month, I was at Detroit's Metro Airport for a connecting flight to Southeast Asia. I listened as a Delta Air Lines staff …
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| Rahul Vohra / Superhuman: |
Superhuman says it is removing location tracking, deleting location data, turning read statuses off by default, and building an option to disable remote images — I'm Rahul Vohra, founder and CEO of Superhuman. Over the last 24 hours, we have seen vigorous debate on pixel tracking within email …
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| Brendan Pierson / Reuters: |
Federal appeals court rules Amazon can be held liable for defective third-party seller products, says it enables vendors to conceal themselves from the customer — (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled against Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) in a case that could expose the online retailer …
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| Tom Westbrook / Reuters: |
Australian consumer watchdog sues Samsung for allegedly misleading consumers by promoting water-resistant Galaxy phones as suitable for use in non-fresh water — SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's consumer watchdog has sued Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's (005930.KS) Australian unit … | Jason Del Rey / Vox: |
Sources: Walmart is projecting losses of $1B+ for its US e-commerce division this year; e-commerce CEO Marc Lore is exhausted by internal politics — Walmart bought Jet.com to compete with Amazon, but Jet founder Marc Lore is feeling the heat as e-commerce losses surpass $1 billion.
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Unknown attackers are spamming OpenPGP certificates, breaking a core component of encryption software PGP and showing a fundamental weakness known for a decade — A new wave of spamming attacks on a core component of PGP's ecosystem has highlighted a fundamental weakness in the whole ecosystem.
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| Aishah Hussain / Legal Cheek: |
Legal chatbot service DoNotPay raises a £3.7M seed round led by Felicis Ventures, with a16z, Founders Fund, and others participating — Joshua Browder secures big financial boost — A British lawtech entrepreneur has received a hefty cash injection from a string of high-profile Silicon Valley investors.
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
European e-scooter startup Dott, currently live in Brussels, Paris, Lyon, and Milan, raises $34M led by EQT Ventures and Naspers — European micro-mobility startup Dott is about to raise a $34 million Series A round (€30 million). Compared to many scooter companies out there …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo granted permit to take part in California's autonomous vehicle passenger service pilot program; it can't charge riders and must have human safety drivers — Only Waymo employees and guests will get to ride at first — Waymo was awarded a permit by the California Public Utilities Commission …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Facebook says it has resolved outages that began at ~8am ET across News Feed, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger that caused issues loading images and more — The issue caused some images and features to break across all of Facebook's apps — Facebook had problems loading images, videos …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
EU member states veto new rules mandating a WiFi-based standard for internet connected cars, opening the way for 5G tech backed by BMW, Qualcomm, others — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union states opened the way to competing technologies for internet connected cars on Thursday … Sponsor Posts
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