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| Richard Gingras / The Keyword: |
Google says it changed how it ranks stories and updated guidelines for evaluation of search results to help better identify and surface original news reporting — Google Search was built to provide everyone access to information on the web—and with tens of thousands of web pages …
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| Theodore Schleifer / Vox: |
Sources: federal investigators, including the FBI, are probing the conduct and practices of Mithril Capital, the VC firm co-founded by Peter Thiel — Mithril Capital raised over $1 billion on the name of Thiel, one of Silicon Valley's biggest celebrities. Now federal investigators are looking under the hood.
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SiliconANGLE, Business Insider, Boing Boing, and Politico
Tweets: @karaswisher, @dbreunig, @voxdotcom, and @teddyschleifer
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Google Photos starts rolling out Memories, a tool that brings back old photos and videos on their anniversaries in an Instagram Stories-like format — A new feature to help you reminisce, plus same-day printing — Google Photos is adding features to encourage reminiscing …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Slack launches a dark mode for macOS, Windows, and Linux, with dark mode variants of all existing sidebar themes and a new “Nocturne” dark mode theme — Updated dark mode themes are available today — Slack is introducing a new dark mode for desktop versions of its workplace chat app.
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Tweets: @slackhq, @caseynewton, @samsheffer, and @ow
| April Glaser / Slate: |
Kickstarter has fired two union organizers in eight days; sources: both were fired for what management said were performance-related issues — On Thursday morning, Kickstarter fired Taylor Moore, an employee who was one of the organizers of a unionization effort within the company.
Tweets: @aprilaser, @mariskreizman, @grmpyprogrammer, @grimkim, @tobiasbuckell, @lam_barrett, and @jamieson
| Jared Newman / Fast Company: |
Amazon launches Alexa Answers, a crowdsourcing platform that lets any user answer questions asked by other users, in the US — The Alexa Answers crowdsourcing platform is now open to everyone in the United States. Amazon says it has measures in place to prevent misuse.
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| Anthony Cuthbertson / The Independent: |
French Economy and Finance Minister says the country will block the development of Facebook's Libra in the EU as it poses a threat to “monetary sovereignty” — French Finance Minister says: ‘We cannot authorise the development of Libra on European soil’
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| Claudia Koerner / BuzzFeed News: |
Facebook takes down fact-check of anti-abortion video following complaints from GOP senators alleging bias; Facebook's fact-checking partner is investigating — Facebook on Wednesday removed a fact-check conducted by doctors of an anti-abortion activist's video, which falsely claimed abortion …
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The Interface, Los Angeles Times, and The Daily Dot
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| Lindsey O'Donnell / Threatpost: |
Researchers: “SimJacker”, a widespread SIM card-based vulnerability, is being exploited by a private actor “that works with governments to monitor individuals” — A vulnerability discovered in mobile SIM cards is being actively exploited to track phone owners' locations …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Walmart's Vudu is launching family-friendly features, like Family Play, which lets viewers automatically skip or mute “objectionable” content, and a kids' mode — Vudu, Walmart's video-streaming unit, is promising parents new tools to evaluate and control what their kids watch …
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple says it is tweaking changes announced at WWDC to App Store policies around Sign in with Apple and the rules around children's app categories — Originally announced in June, changes to Apple's App Store policies on its Sign in with Apple service and the rules around children's app categories are being tweaked.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Walmart plans to reach 50%+ of the US by year end with “Delivery Unlimited”, its grocery delivery membership program that costs $98/year or $12.95/month — Walmart is expanding its brand-new “Delivery Unlimited” grocery delivery membership program to more stores across the U.S. …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber says drivers will remain contractors under AB5, as they aren't core to its business which serves as a platform for several types of digital marketplaces — The ride-hail company shrugs off a new bill in California, but legal challenges loom — Uber won't be reclassifying its drivers …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Google won't need to admit wrongdoing in a NLRB settlement over complaints of restricting employees' speech, but will need to inform employees of speech rights — Google will affirm that employees can discuss workplace issues, following a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
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Tweets: @sethdillon, @roncoleman, and @econ_marshall
| Facebook: |
Facebook lays out four values that guide its Community Standards, in order to promote freedom of expression: authenticity, safety, privacy, and dignity — Today, we're expanding the values that serve as the basis for our Community Standards — the guidepost for what is and isn't allowed on Facebook.| Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times: |
Apple, Facebook, and Google did not sign a letter from 145 CEOs, including those of Lyft, Twitter, Airbnb, and Uber, urging Senate action on gun violence — “Doing nothing about America's gun violence crisis is simply unacceptable," the corporate chiefs urged senators in a letter.
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| Alan Ohnsman / Forbes: |
Self-driving car startup Voyage, the Udacity spinoff operating taxi fleets in two retirement communities, raises $31M Series B led by Franklin Templeton — Voyage, a Silicon Valley self-driving vehicle startup focused on using the technology to provide transportation at retirement communities …
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| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Spotify updated its ToC in August, requiring Premium Family subscribers to provide location data “from time to time” to ensure users live at the same address — Spotify knows a lot about its users — their musical tastes, their most listened-to artists and their summer anthems.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Simbe Robotics, which builds autonomous inventory robots for the retail industry, raises $26M Series A led by Venrock — Robots are coming for the grocery aisle, and that's because they promise to save storeowners invaluable time by inventorying shelves of stock quickly and accurately.
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TechCrunch, Business Wire, FinSMEs, ZDNet, and The Robot Report
| Simon Carraud / Reuters: |
Google has agreed to pay a €500M fine and €465M in additional taxes in France to settle a fiscal fraud probe that began four years ago — PARIS (Reuters) - Google agreed to pay a 500 million euro ($548 million) fine in France to settle a fiscal fraud probe that began four years ago …
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SiliconANGLE, The Verge, TechCrunch, CNBC, and WinBuzzer
| Corbin Davenport / Android Police: |
Android 10 allows multiple apps to access a phone's microphone at once, in a way designed to benefit accessibility services and Google Assistant — Android 10 is now available in its final form on a few phones, but some of its more interesting changes flew under the radar.
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| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
Seattle-based Swiftly, which develops tech offerings for supermarkets to help compete with Amazon and Walmart, raises $15.6M seed round — Swiftly raised a $15.6 million seed round to help grocery stores and other retailers up their technology offerings to keep up with Amazon and Walmart.Sponsor Posts
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