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Apple announces changes to its Siri audio clip review process, making it opt-in for users, bringing the work in-house, and saying it won't retain recordings — The top line news is that Apple is making changes to the way that Siri audio review, or ‘grading’ works across all of its devices.
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| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Sources: when Telegram raised $1.7B in 2018, it told investors it will deliver Gram by Oct. 31, 2019, or give back the money, and now says it is still on track — While Facebook's big cryptocurrency plans have hit a wall with regulators, another big social network, Telegram, is charging ahead with its own digital currency.
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Hands-on with Fitbit Versa 2, an Alexa-enabled AMOLED smartwatch with an upgraded processor, Spotify integration, available to order on September 15 for $200 — I really liked the Fitbit Versa when I reviewed it last year. For just $200, it offered a robust set of health-tracking tools in an attractive …
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| Alexandra Ma / Business Insider: |
Report: US officials are trying to block an undersea cable backed by Google and Facebook connecting Los Angeles to Hong Kong over national security concerns — - An 8,000-mile undersea cable connecting Los Angeles to Hong Kong is at risk of being abandoned over national-security threats, The Wall Street Journal reported.| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Facebook tightens rules on political advertisers, requiring further identity proof such as tax-identification number or Federal Election Commission registration — Facebook on Wednesday announced it would tighten some of its rules around political advertising ahead of the 2020 presidential election …
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| Colin Campbell / Polygon: |
LCG Entertainment, a new company formed by game industry veterans, to buy defunct studio Telltale Games, sell some of their back catalog, and work on new games — A new attempt to relaunch the episodic adventure company — Telltale Games, which shut down last year, is coming back after its assets …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Peloton's public S-1 shows revenue of $915M in fiscal 2019, up 110% YoY, and an annualized subscriber growth of ~144% over the past 3 years, to 511K this June — Today, Peloton, the maker of pricey in-home bicycles and treadmills paired with on-demand fitness classes, filed its S-1 …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Dutch data protection agency says it found that Windows 10 may still be unlawfully collecting user data, refers Microsoft to its EU privacy regulator in Ireland — The Dutch data protection agency has asked Microsoft's lead privacy regulator in Europe to investigate ongoing concerns it has attached to how Windows 10 gathers user data.
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| Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
Report: Google plans to move some production of Pixel 3A from China to Vietnam later this year and aims to have shipped 8M-10M smartphones by the end of 2019 — According to a report from Japanese news outlet Nikkei, Google is set to move production of the Pixel from China to Vietnam amid the growing US-China trade war.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google says its Nest Hello video doorbell can now detect package deliveries and notify US users who are subscribed to its $5/month Nest Aware service — So you can stop checking every time the camera detects passersby — Google says that, starting today, its Nest Hello video doorbell …
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| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Google to shut down Google Hire, a job application tracking system for small to medium sized businesses it launched two years ago, in September 2020 — Add another one to the Google Cemetery. — Google has disclosed that it will shut down Google Hire, the job application tracking system it launched just two years ago.
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Tweets: @michaelfreedman and @surasshu
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
CBP searched 30,000 devices last year without a warrant, up ~4x from three years prior, and increasingly denies entry to people over content sent by others — Travelers are increasingly being denied entry to the United States as border officials hold them accountable for messages …
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Amazon's Ring has partnerships with over 400 US police forces, granting them access to footage by request, higher than previously believed — The doorbell-camera company Ring has quietly forged video-sharing partnerships with more than 400 police forces across the United States …
Tweets: @tomgara, @grummz, @asteadwesley, @drewharwell, @iamthewarax, @amyargetsinger, @jdawsey1, and @drewharwell
| Renee Dudley / ProPublica: |
Investigation finds cyber insurers often prefer to pay the ransom for ransomware attacks, even when backup files could be recovered, to save claim costs — Even when public agencies and companies hit by ransomware could recover their files on their own, insurers prefer to pay the ransom. Why?| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
US government charges Anthony Levandowski, a former star engineer at Google and Uber, with 33 counts of theft and attempted theft of Google trade secrets — SAN JOSE, Calif. — Anthony Levandowski, one of Silicon Valley's foremost technologists on self-driving cars, was charged …
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Tweets: @meganrosedickey, @kateconger, @chr1sa, @nytimestech, @lutherlowe, @rizzn, @mikeisaac, @jmbooyah, @mikeisaac, @lam_barrett, @sallyshin, and @mikeisaac
| Monica Melton / Forbes: |
ThoughtSpot, a business intelligence and data analytics startup, raises $248M Series E led by Lightspeed Ventures at a $1.95B valuation — ThoughtSpot, the business intelligence startup that offers data analytics searches as simple to use as Google, hit unicorn status on Wednesday … | The Social Science Research Council: |
Unless Facebook delivers promised data to researchers by Sept. 30, consortium of funders will recommend Social Science Research Council wind down the project — Statement from Social Science Research Council President Alondra Nelson on the Social Media and Democracy Research Grants Program| Bloomberg: |
German data protection authority is probing Facebook over transcribing audio of its users, adding to an investigation into Google's speech assistant — - Social network is facing intense regulatory scrutiny in Europe — Speech recognition forms new front for tech privacy probes| Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo: |
Following a US ban, ZTE returns to the US smartphone market with the Axon 10, featuring Snapdragon 855 and 256GB storage for $550, shipping in mid-September — The ZTE Axon 7 was one of the most underappreciated phones of its generation. However, following the ambitious but flawed Axon M …
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| Rita El Khoury / Android Police: |
YouTube Kids introduces a new content filtering tier for preschoolers, ages four and under, and will launch a web version “later this week” — When it first launched, YouTube Kids had a one size fits all approach for all kids. But since children are interested in different things … Sponsor Posts
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