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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google Play Pass unveiled as a $4.99/mo. subscription for access to 350+ unlocked Android apps and games that are free of ads and IAPs; first year to be $2/mo. — No ads, no in-app purchases. $1.99 introductory price — Today, Google is launching a new service called “Google Play Pass …
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Viral selfie app ImageNet Roulette demos biases in AI by surfacing labels applied by anonymous workers to a database of 14M photos, used to train AI for 9 years — ImageNet Roulette, a digital art project and viral selfie app, exposes how biases have crept into the artificial-intelligence technologies changing our lives.
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| Eugene Kim / CNBC: |
Sources: Amazon is developing Alexa-enabled wireless earbuds with an accelerometer that monitors things like calories burned and the pace and distance of runs — - Amazon is working on wireless earbuds that can track things like the distance run, calories burned, and pace of running, CNBC has learned.
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Code deployment toolmaker Chef says it will not renew contracts with ICE and CBP, after an ex-employee deleted his open-source code leading to customer downtime — Last week, a former employee deleted open-source code he wrote for a tool called Chef in protest over an ICE contract.
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| Popular Information: |
Facebook page with 1.1M followers called “I Love America” is one of many Ukrainian-run pages now pushing pro-Trump propaganda and recycling 2016-era IRA memes — This is the online version of the Popular Information newsletter. You can get independent accountability journalism in your inbox every week.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it is expanding its policies to explicitly prohibit financial scams on the platform and details the kind of scams it's banning — Twitter today says it's expanding its policies to prohibit financial scams on its platform — something you'd think would have already been banned … | Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Samsung says Galaxy Fold will go on sale in the US on September 27 for $1,980 and will be available at AT&T, Best Buy, and Samsung stores — Months after it failed to launch, the Galaxy Fold is finally arriving in the United States later this week. Unfortunately, the Galaxy Fold US launch …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Facebook's competitors are talking to FTC about the company's hardball tactics, some of which Snap compiled in a dossier called Project Voldemort — Antitrust investigation gives competitors chance to air complaints about Facebook's hardball tactics
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon debuts a feature called Show and Tell, which helps blind and low vision customers with an Echo Show smart display identify common household pantry goods — As part of a continued mission to make its Alexa intelligent assistant more accessible for everyone, Amazon today introduced …
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| New York Times: |
China's social credit system extends to businesses, with 33M recently rated; some US firms were warned ratings may be affected by their stances, like on Taiwan — Beijing hopes its social credit system will use vast troves of data to quickly punish companies accused of wrongdoing.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Cloudflare enables a new “bot fight mode” as a opt-in feature for all accounts, which will frustrate bots via computationally intensive challenges — Cloudflare is ratcheting up its fight against bots with a new “fight mode,” which it says will frustrate and disincentivize bot operators from their malicious activity.
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| Nino Tasca / The Keyword: |
Google says it doesn't retain Assistant audio recordings by default and it is increasing privacy protections for the transcription process used with a small set — Senior Product Manager, Google Assistant — We believe you should be able to easily understand how your data is used and why …
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| Joe Fedewa / XDA Developers: |
Samsung Galaxy S10 gets the Galaxy Note 10's camera features like AR Doodle and DeX for PC support with an update — Some companies can be stingy with what new features they bring to older devices. Samsung is generally good about this, launching devices with features that eventually trickle down to the rest of the lineup.
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| CNBC: |
Apple says it will assemble the new Mac Pro in Austin, TX, after it received federal product exclusions enabling it to import some parts without paying tariffs — - Apple will manufacture the new version of its Mac Pro desktop computer in Austin, Texas, the company announced on Monday.
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| Reuters: |
Hyundai Motor Group to invest $1.6B in cash and $400M in R&D in a $4B self-driving vehicle joint venture with Dublin-based Aptiv, with both owning 50% stakes — SEOUL (Reuters) - Hyundai Motor Group will invest $1.6 billion in a joint venture to develop self-driving vehicle technologies with Aptiv …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Drum, a marketplace connecting businesses to customers through an on-demand network of salespeople, raises $11M seed round — It's often said that smaller businesses get the short end of the stick when it comes to technology solutions: they are more high-maintenance than consumers …
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Business Wire, Hypepotamus, FinSMEs, and PE Hub Blog
| Yun Li / CNBC: |
Netflix, which has faced new streaming rivals and disappointed on subscriber numbers recently, has seen its stock drop from $380+ in early July to $265.92 today — - Shares of Netflix erased all of its 46% gain for the year at its peak and officially entered negative territory on Monday.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
A look at Peloton, which may raise $1.2B in this week's IPO and sells $2.3K iPad-equipped stationary bikes and $40/mo. cycling video subscriptions to 510K+ subs — 13 reasons this bike has a cult — It makes lazy people like me work out. That's the genius of the Peloton bicycle.
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