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EU's top court rules that Google does not have to apply “right to be forgotten” globally — Europe's top court has ruled that Google does not have to apply the right to be forgotten globally. — It means that firm only needs to remove references to articles and other material …
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WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann is resigning as CEO, will be nonexecutive chairman of We Co.; source: his voting shares will be reduced in power from 10:1 to 3:1 — - The executive has been under pressure since WeWork released its S-1, amid concerns about its corporate governance and valuation.
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Facebook buys CTRL-Labs, which makes a bracelet that measures neuron activity to detect movements the user is thinking about; sources: size of deal is $500M-$1B — - CTRL-Labs is said to fetch $500 million to $1 billion — Facebook may one day pair the technology with AR or VR glasses
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| Meagan Simpson / BetaKit: |
Kik says it is shutting down its messaging app and will reduce its headcount to 19 people, amid its heated legal battle with the SEC over its ICO — The Kik app is officially shutting down. The company will reduce its headcount to 19 people, and will focus solely on converting Kin users into Kin buyers …
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| Jia Tolentino / New Yorker: |
How massively popular short-video app TikTok holds our attention, using AI to churn through a deluge of images and sounds to deliver the best bite-size content — On the popular short-video app, young people are churning through images and sounds at warp speed, repurposing reality into ironic, bite-size content.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Amazon announces the Voice Interoperability Initiative to improve voice assistant compatibility, with 30+ companies on board but not Google, Apple, and Samsung — A day ahead of its annual fall hardware event, Amazon is making a big partnership announcement: it has created …
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Xiaomi announces Mi 9 Pro 5G with Snapdragon 855+, 8 or 12GB RAM, 6.5-inch 1080p OLED display, and support for 30W fast wireless charging, starting at ~$520 — Full charge in 69 minutes, no wires required — Xiaomi has announced the Mi 9 Pro 5G, a new variant of its generally very good Mi 9 … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Built-in Google Assistant is no longer exclusive to “Made by Google” Chrome OS devices, begins rolling out to more Chromebooks — Google Assistant first debuted on the Pixelbook in 2017 and later came to the Pixel Slate last year. The smart assistant is now coming to non-Made by Google Chromebooks starting today.
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Comscore settles with SEC on charges the firm and its ex-CEO made false statements, engaging in a fraudulent scheme to overstate revenue by ~$50M from 2014-2016 — Media analytics firm is accused of overstating revenue by $50 million, making false statements about performance| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft is creating a new Data Dignity initiative in an attempt to help users control their own personal data, possibly to the point of buying and selling it — Microsoft is staffing up a new Data Dignity team in its CTO's office which could help users to control their own personal data …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
The Spotify for Artists app on iOS and Android gets a big revamp with real-time listening stats, after Apple's artist dashboard exited beta last month — Spotify this morning is rolling out an updated version of its app for artists, across both iOS and Android.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Apple says a bug in iOS 13 and iPadOS may grant “full access” to third-party keyboards by mistake, says it's working on a fix — Apple is warning users of an iOS bug involving third-party keyboards. — In a brief advisory posted Tuesday, the tech giant said the bug impacts …
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Meme editor Kapwing, which has grown from ~100,000 to ~1M since launching a year ago, raises $11M Series A led by CRV — Kapwing is a laymen's Adobe Creative Suite built for what people actually do on the internet: make memes and remix media. Need to resize a video? Add text or subtitles to a video?| Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News: |
Facebook's content moderation policies are difficult to apply given the breadth of cases, and poor communication between contractors and FB cripples the system — When actor Burt Reynolds died last September, fans across Instagram and Facebook paid tribute to him by posting his 1972 Cosmopolitan magazine centerfold.
Tweets: @miriamelder, @buzzfeednews, and @katienotopoulos
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Fiddler raises $10.2M Series A, co-led by Lightspeed and Lux Capital, for AI that explains its reasoning, which it aims to launch next year — Explainable AI, which refers to techniques that attempt to bring transparency to traditionally opaque AI models and their predictions, is a burgeoning subfield of machine learning research.
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Early look at Amazon's $50 screen-less Echo Auto: doesn't offer step-by-step driving directions but has voice commands for music, checking traffic, and calls — I love the idea of a voice assistant in my car: Hands-free calling, music requests, directions — it seems like everything would become easier and safer.
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Alibaba closes the acquisition of 33% of Jack Ma's Ant Financial; Ant will now stop paying 37.5% of its pre-tax profits to Alibaba — - E-commerce giant now has 33% interest in the fintech giant — Ant will no longer pay 37.5% of its pre-tax profit to Alibaba| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Amazon launches Amazon Care, a virtual primary care clinic with an option for nurses to visit employees in the home, as a pilot for employees in Seattle — - Amazon just launched Amazon Care, a virtual primary care clinic with an option for nurses to visit employees in the home.Thanks:@varun_mathur
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Acquia, a cloud CMS provider for the open source Drupal project, gets acquired by Vista Equity Partners in a deal valued at $1B — Vista Equity Partners, which likes to purchase undervalued tech companies and turn them around for a hefty profit, has purchased web content management … | Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
Fundbox, which is building a B2B payment and credit network, raises $176M Series C from investors including Allianz X, bringing its total funding to $300M+ — Credit cards have become all but ubiquitous for consumer transactions, and it isn't hard to see why.
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| Christian Berthelsen / Bloomberg: |
Russian national Andrei Tyurin pleads guilty to stealing the data of 80M+ customers of JPMorgan and other US financial institutions from 2012-2015 — - Tyurin could face 15 to 20 years, will forfeit $19 million — Plea leaves unresolved case against alleged mastermind
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Fivetran, which helps companies move data from disparate repositories to data warehouses, raises $44M Series B led by a16z, bringing its total raised to $59M+ — Fivetran, a startup that helps companies move data from disparate repositories to data warehouses, announced $44 million Series B financing today …
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