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| Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac: |
Sources reveal sleep tracking features coming to Apple Watch: sleep quality monitoring, option to auto-disable alarms if user wakes up before they sound, more — There's been a lot of speculation about Apple Watch sleep tracking, especially after Apple acquired Beddit …
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| Jake Newby / RADII: |
Viral Chinese deepfake app Zao, which lets users put themselves in pre-selected scenes from popular movies and soap operas, sparks privacy concerns — The launch of deepfake-style face swap app ZAO has seen it leap up the download charts in China, but it's also raising a host of privacy concerns
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook confirms it is considering testing removal of Like counts — Facebook could soon start hiding the Like counter on News Feed posts to protect users' from envy and dissuade them from self-censorship. Instagram is already testing this in 7 countries including Canada and Brazil …
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Jane Manchun Wong. More:
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Tweets: @wongmjane, @ekp, @mayazi, @rizzn, @martinsfp, and @nmasc_
| Seema Jayachandran / New York Times: |
A study of the fastest-growing startups established from 2007 to 2014 finds middle age is a typical starting point for the founders of successful tech companies — It took an entrepreneur to reimagine the mundane home thermostat as an object of beauty — and then to make a fortune based on that vision.
Tweets: @seema_econ, @joyclee, @mdudas, @carnage4life, @michaelperry, @seema_econ, @jonsteinberg, @sotarauta, @drjohnbeard, and @johncarreyrou
| Isabella Steger / Quartz: |
A look at the growing interest in Twitter among the protesters in Hong Kong and the struggles new users face getting on to the platform — For over two months, Hong Kong's protesters have shown an uncanny ability to learn and adapt, whether it's figuring out how to deal with tear gas … | Gregory Barber / Wired: |
Profile of Lambda School, an online coding program that is free in exchange for a share of post-graduation income, has 2,700 students, and is growing 10%/month — Early this summer, the tech entrepreneur Austen Allred was on Reddit, as he often is, when he noticed something suspicious.
Tweets: @nathanmart, @gregoryjbarber, and @austen
| Rachel Cericola / Wirecutter: |
Review of Neighbors, Ring's neighborhood watch feature: great for locals concerned about crime but its privacy policy is lacking and it is not really “opt-in” — Security cameras and doorbell cameras can make people feel safer, but they also raise privacy concerns.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
How MuleSoft disclosed a critical security flaw, proactively contacting customers to verify patches were installed and openly responding to reporter questions — MuleSoft deals with a sensitive security issue and sets up an example for the whole industry to follow. — John is a software engineer and a pretty good one.Thanks:@campuscodi
| Song Jingli Tue / KrASIA: |
Tencent invests $125M in Kuaikan World, which runs a Chinese comics app and an online community for fans of comics; Kuaikan's app has 200M+ users and 40M+ MAUs — Beijing-based Kuaikan World, which runs a comic app and a community for comic fans, announced via its WeChat channel on Tuesday …
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| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Sources: Android and Windows have also been targeted by the websites that sought to infect iPhones of Uighur ethnic minority in China — The unprecedented attack on Apple iPhones revealed by Google this week was broader than first thought. Multiple sources with knowledge of the situation …
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TidBITS, Forbes, The Guardian, Volexity, Boing Boing, Engadget, BGR, iMore, InfoQ, Gizchina, Softpedia News, TechSpot, iPhone in Canada Blog, Inquirer, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Business Insider, Daring Fireball, MSPoweruser, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, The Overspill, The Next Web, AppleInsider, SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS.com, Gizmodo, Slashdot, Firstpost Tech, TechCrunch, iOS Hacker, The Daily Dot, TechCrunch, and Born's Tech and Windows World
| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Interview with Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri about the company's strategy to transform all of its products to “as-a-service” offerings — Exclusive: Neri tells Ars about the leap HPE is making—and why not everyone will make it. — It's been just over two years … | Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
Inside Amazon's plans to integrate Alexa deep into in-car systems, as it prepares to announce the second version of the Alexa Auto SDK this week — Competing with Apple and Google when you don't have your own smartphone platform is tough. But Amazon has a plan—and lots of patience.Thanks:@technologizer
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