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Sources: Apple is developing in-screen fingerprint tech to work alongside Face ID for its 2020/2021 iPhones and a low-cost 4.7-inch iPhone for H1 2020 — - Company previously replaced fingerprint sensing with Face ID — New low-cost iPhone in the works for first half of next year
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Dating launches in the US as an opt-in feature integrated with Instagram, for users 18 and over, with a separate profile — Are Americans ready to trust Facebook with their dating life? Barely more than a month has passed since the U.S. Federal Trade Commission fined Facebook … | Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Samsung says the 512GB 5G model of Galaxy Fold will be available in Europe starting September 18 for ~$2,000; US launch will happen “in the coming weeks” — After its first attempt at a launch fizzled out in the spring, the Samsung Galaxy Fold is ready to try again at making a first impression.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Google is open sourcing its differential privacy library, which it uses to securely draw insights from data sets containing sensitive user information — Google is making differential privacy available to anyone — Google today announced that it is open-sourcing its so-called differential privacy library …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: WeWork is considering seeking a valuation of ~$20B-$30B in its US IPO, marking a significant reduction from an earlier valuation of $47B — - Valuation would be a step down from earlier $47 billion — IPO plans have received criticism for ‘obfuscating’ details
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Microsoft acquires Seattle-based cloud migration company Movere for an undisclosed amount; Movere is Microsoft's third Azure-related acquisition since July — Microsoft didn't have to go far for its latest acquisition. The Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant today announced that it acquired Movere … | Katherine Rosman / New York Times: |
YouTube launches a fashion vertical, aggregating the platform's fashion content into one place, as it seeks to expand in the industry — The video platform woos the style set. Will it work? — It's not a “collabo.” It's a “collab.” And it's pronounced “/kəˌlab.”
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Google introduces personalized movie and TV show recommendations in mobile search using a swipe left/right interface like in dating apps — When you're settling in for a movie night, or figuring out which shows you might want to binge before they return this fall, it's not always easy to choose from all the options out there.| Klint Finley / Wired: |
Facebook, Microsoft, the Partnership on AI, and seven universities launch the “Deepfake Detection Challenge” to encourage better ways of detecting deepfakes — Deepfakes are improving. The contest, which will include deepfakes created by Facebook, is designed to help researchers keep up.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Atlassian announces new pricing tiers, including a free tier for all services, and new tools, such as data residency controls for companies — At our TC Sessions: Enterprise event, Atlassian co-CEO Scott Farquhar today announced a number of updates to how the company will sell its cloud-based services.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Android 10 review: notifications and privacy permissions easier to manage, but Digital Wellbeing features confusing, and most phones won't get this update soon — More mile marker than milestone - Android 10 is an operating system update that, like all Android updates …
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| Reuters: |
Prudential Financial to buy Assurance IQ, which uses data science and AI to sell insurance policies from 20+ providers online, for $2.35B — (Reuters) - U.S. insurer Prudential Financial Inc has agreed to acquire online insurance startup Assurance IQ Inc for $2.35 billion …
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| MIT Technology Review: |
Scholars have resigned from MIT Media Lab over post-2010 financing from Jeffrey Epstein; its founder, Nicholas Negroponte, says it was right to take the money — At an internal meeting, Nicholas Negroponte shocked some people with his comments on funding from the alleged sex trafficker.
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| Aaron Smith / Pew Research Center: |
Pew study of 4,272 US adults: 86% have heard about facial recognition tech, 56% trust law enforcement to use it responsibly compared to 36% for tech companies — But the public is less accepting of facial recognition technology when used by advertisers or technology companies
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| Michael Novinson / CRN: |
Palo Alto Networks to acquire IoT security startup Zingbox for $75M; Zingbox has 70 employees and has raised $23.5M in outside funding — Palo Alto Networks Chief Product Officer Lee Klarich said the proposed $75 million purchase of Zingbox will allow customers to get IoT security capabilities without any additional hardware required.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Stripe launches Stripe Capital, a service for advancing loans to customers that get repaid out of future sales made through Stripe's platform, in the US — A year ago we broke the news that payment giant Stripe was quietly making its first move into business finance by testing a service for advancing cash to existing customers.| Jack Stubbs / Reuters: |
Sources: Chinese hackers compromised telecom operators in countries including Turkey, India, Thailand, and Malaysia to track Uighur travelers there — LONDON (Reuters) - Hackers working for the Chinese government have broken into telecoms networks to track Uighur travelers in Central and Southeast Asia … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
New York-based BigID, which helps monitor and protect enterprise customers' private data, raises $50M Series C; BigID has raised over $96M, per Crunchbase — It turns out GDPR was just the tip of the privacy iceberg. With California's privacy law coming on line January 1st and dozens … | FinSMEs: |
Olivela, a platform for luxury fashion, jewellery, and more from 400+ brands that gives 20% of sales to charity, raises $35M Series A led by Morgan Stanley — Olivela, Inc., a luxury fashion and beauty retail company, raised $35m in Series A financing. — The round was led by Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc.
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Google will pay a $136M fine to the FTC and $34M to the New York Attorney General to settle claims that it violated child privacy laws on YouTube — - Google marketed itself as the “leader” for content for children ages 6 through 11, the allegations claim.
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