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Highlights from the Senate hearing with Facebook's David Marcus on the proposed Libra cryptocurrency, and what was left unanswered — Facebook will only build its own Calibra cryptocurrency wallet into Messenger and Whatsapp, and will refuse to embed competing wallets …
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he has serious concerns about Facebook's Libra, joining Trump and other officials including the Federal Reserve chairman — - Treasury Secretary says he has serious concerns about coin — Facebook executive says crypto won't launch without approvals
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Trump threatens to “take a look” at Google for alleged China ties, in a tweet that cited claims Peter Thiel made at a conference and repeated on Fox News — President Trump on Tuesday appeared to threaten that his administration would “take a look” at Google … | Bloomberg: |
Meredith Whittaker, who helped lead employee protests at Google over its military and AI work, and sexual harassment policies, is leaving the company — Meredith Whittaker, who helped lead employee protests at Google over the search giant's military work, artificial intelligence and policies, is leaving the company.
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| Aoife White / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon faces a full-blown EU antitrust probe within days; Qualcomm could face a second hefty EU penalty as soon as next week for underpricing chips — - EU to escalate investigation targeting Marketplace platform — Qualcomm also set to face further EU fine in coming days
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Newsletter platform Substack raises $15.3M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, says Substack newsletters now have 50,000 paying subscribers — Andreessen Horowitz is betting that there's still a big opportunity in newsletters — the venture capital firm is leading a $15.3 million Series A in Substack.| VICE: |
Inside a lawsuit against Girls Do Porn, one of Pornhub's popular channels, which 22 women allege post videos without proper consent, leading to doxxing and more — Pornhub is hosting videos that have been viewed hundreds of millions of times. The women in them say they thought the videos …
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| Eric Peckham / TechCrunch: |
Patreon, which helps content creators manage paid membership communities for fans, raises $60M Series D led by Glade Brook Capital — Patreon, the San Francisco-based platform that helps over 100,000 online content creators manage paid membership communities for their most dedicated fans, has raised $60 million in Series D funding.| Press Association: |
Facebook introduces a scam ads reporting tool in the UK and donates £3M to Citizens Advice for Scams Action, a dedicated online anti-scam service — Social media firm to investigate users' complaints and take down violating posts — Fresh efforts to tackle scam adverts across Facebook …
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| Robert Lee Hotz / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the Apollo 11's guidance computer, the first digital general-purpose, multitasking, interactive portable computer, with about 145K lines of code — The moon landing was one of the most important moments in the history of computing, laying the foundations of much of our digital world
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| Kate McKenna / CBC News: |
Study of 3,800 young people over four years: high levels of social media usage showed an increase in depressive symptoms, while playing video games did not — Study examined mental-health implications of high levels of screen time — Screen time — and social media in particular …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook makes its first changes to Workplace pricing, raising the premium tier by $1/person/month and introducing a new $8 Workplace Enterprise tier — Three years into its life with 2 million paying users signed up, Workplace — Facebook's platform for businesses and and other organizations …
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| Austin Carr / Bloomberg: |
Disney's theme parks have not faced the same level of scrutiny as tech companies over their data mining because the parks are real-world walled gardens — We're in the heat of the summer blockbuster season, when Walt Disney Co. is taking over theaters with releases like Toy Story 4 and live-action versions of Aladdin and Lion King.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Sprint says hackers had access to customers' names, billing, device details, and more via Samsung's website, fails to disclose the number affected — Hackers had access to customer info such as names, billing, device details, and more. — US mobile network operator Sprint said hackers broke … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Uber open sources Plato, a tool for developing and testing conversational AI across many deep learning frameworks including TensorFlow and PyTorch — Designing conversational AI isn't as Sysiphean as it sounds. Tools like Google's Dialogflow, Microsoft's Bot Framework … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
In the next Windows 10 update, expected to arrive in September, Microsoft will allow voice assistants like Amazon's Alexa to activate on the lock screen — New changes coming later this year — Microsoft is opening up Windows 10 even further to third-party digital assistants.
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| Alan Levin / Bloomberg: |
Alphabet's Wing launches OpenSky, an air traffic control app for drones, currently available for free in Australia, joining a crowded field — - Wing unit's drone flight control app has Australian approval — Air traffic seen as first step for deliveries, other commerce| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Flybits, which develops personalized recommendations for customers of financial institutions, raises $35M Series C led by Point72 Ventures — Knowing when and where a person is, was, and will be can enable magical customer experiences. That's the founding premise of Toronto …
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Arm launches Flexible Access, a new licensing option that makes it easier for startups to access a range of Arm's IP without any upfront licensing costs — Arm today launched Flexible Access, a new licensing scheme in addition to its existing model, that will make it easier for startups … | Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News: |
Feeling unwelcome to share opinions within Google, its conservative staffers have leaked internal info to generate pressure on Google from Republican lawmakers — On Jan. 16, Republican lawmakers turned on one of the world's biggest tech companies. — A month earlier, Google CEO Sundar Pichai told …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Near, an AI-based platform that merges online and offline behavior to build anonymized user profiles, raises $100M Series C from Great Pacific Capital — One of the holy grails in the world of advertising and marketing has been finding a way to accurately capture and understand what consumers …
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| Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeed News: |
Researcher: software from RingCentral and Zhumu, which license Zoom's tech, is affected by the same flaw in Zoom that could give attackers access to Mac cameras — The fallout from Zoom's massive webcam vulnerability continues. In a report published today, security researcher Karan Lyons shows …
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