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Goldman Sachs reveals Apple Card customer agreement, says jailbreaking as well as purchasing cryptocurrency, casino chips, and lottery tickets is forbidden — Apple has revealed more details about its upcoming credit card, and the Apple Card will come with one unique restriction and one not-so-unique restriction.
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| Alex Heath / The Information: |
Facebook to rebrand Instagram and WhatsApp to “Instagram from Facebook” and “WhatsApp from Facebook”, sources say causing surprise and confusion internally — In a big shift, Facebook plans to signal its control of Instagram and WhatsApp by adding its name to both apps …
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Amazon says it will let users opt out of human review of the voice recordings picked up by Alexa, following similar moves by Apple and Google — - Alexa reviewers transcribe, annotate some voice recordings — Apple, Google suspended human voice review programs this week
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| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
Inside “Instabeach”, Instagram's annual invite-only party in Malibu for 500 of its top creators, which has become a who's who of young Hollywood — At 3:30 p.m. on a recent Tuesday, hundreds of Instagram influencers descended on Gladstones Malibu, an old-timey seafood restaurant …
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| Melanie Ehrenkranz / Gizmodo: |
UK data science company DataSparQ has developed “AI Bar”, an AI-powered facial recognition system to help bartenders check IDs, fill orders faster and fairer — Facial recognition systems have, to date, proven to be biased, unjust, flawed, and deeply powerful.
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Former Building 8 employees shed light on Facebook's challenges in trying to break into consumer hardware, as it struggles to turn Portal into a success — KEY POINTS — Building 8, the laboratory she started, turned into a costly failure for Facebook, and Dugan was gone in less than two years.| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Google will let Android users in Europe choose their default search engine starting in 2020; inclusion on the choice screen will be determined via auction — Only the top-three bidders will appear alongside Google on the choice screen — Starting in early 2020, Google will present …
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| Zen Soo / South China Morning Post: |
Hong Kong startup Tink Labs, which has raised $160M to provide free-to-use smartphones in hotel rooms, is shutting down in many markets, undergoing mass layoffs — Handy is a smartphone service operated by Tink Labs that equipped hotels globally with in-room handsets for guests Tink Labs informed employees …
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| Mark Harris / The Guardian: |
FCC filing: Pentagon tests high-altitude balloons in Midwest for a “surveillance system to locate and deter narcotic trafficking and homeland security threats” — Exclusive: the high-altitude balloons promise a cheap monitoring platform that could follow multiple cars and boats for extended periods
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Turkey's TV and radio watchdog granted oversight of online content, including streaming services; online content providers must now get broadcasting licenses — ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey on Thursday granted its radio and television watchdog sweeping oversight over all online content … | Mark Wilson / Fast Company: |
Interview with Snap CTO Bobby Murphy on augmented reality, visual communications, Lenses, Spectacles, and a future world in which the camera dominates — When Snapchat first became a phenomenon among teens in 2012, the focus understandably was on such distinguishing features as its promise …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
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