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Researchers find bugs in Google and Samsung camera apps from before July 2019 that could record video, take pictures, and extract GPS data without permission — A new vulnerability has been found in the Camera apps for millions, if not hundreds of millions, of Android devices that could allow …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify launches Your Daily Podcasts, a personalized podcast playlist, featuring trailers, older evergreen episodes, and more, to help listeners discover shows — Spotify is taking the personalization technology that powers its music playlists, like Discover Weekly and Daily Mix, and turning it to podcasts.
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Amazon's Ring says police can request 12 hours of video footage from users near suspected crime scenes, keep the video forever, and share it with anyone — Police officers who download videos from homeowners' Ring doorbell cameras can keep them forever and share them with whomever …
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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
WhatsApp says a recently-patched flaw in the way the messaging app handled video files could have let attackers remotely execute code on users' devices — The buffer overflow flow bug has been disclosed by Facebook. — Facebook has disclosed the existence of a severe vulnerability leading …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google announces Your News Update, an Assistant-powered audio feature that chooses stories based on interests, location, and more, available first in the US — It plays from a variety of sources instead of just the few you hand-pick — Google is rolling out a new service for Google Assistant that it's calling “Your News Update.”
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
DC attorney general brings charges against DoorDash, accusing it of pocketing tips meant for workers and misleading customers about where their money was going — - D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine is suing DoorDash over its tipping model that his office called “deceptive.”
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft claims 20M DAUs for Teams, up from 13M in July, extending its lead over Slack, which in October said it had 12M; Slack closes down 8.35% — - The new 20 million daily active user count is up from 13 million, which Microsoft announced in July. — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says its F8 developer conference will take place on May 5-6 in San Jose — Facebook announced its plans for its F8 annual developer conference, which is where the company shows off its latest technology, apps and its vision for the future. The company says the next event …
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Amazon unveils $34.99 Fire TV Blaster, a new infrared device that brings more TV voice commands for those with a Fire TV and Echo — The Streamable is reader-supported and may earn an affiliate commission when you sign up with our links. — Amazon today announced their new Fire TV Blaster … | Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Apple's integrated approach is fostering monopolistic behavior and has started to stifle innovation resulting in user-hostile keyboards and no NFC based apps — When I started Stratechery in 2013, the conventional wisdom was that modularized ecosystems were best.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple launches a dedicated mobile app for its developer community, replacing the existing WWDC app, with video resources, news, account management, and more — Apple today is introducing a new resource for the over 23 million registered members of its developer community, with the launch of a dedicated Apple Developer mobile app.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Salesforce launches Cloud Voice, which integrates telephony inside Service Cloud, a revamped Einstein Voice Assistant, and a voice app development toolkit — Salesforce's annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco is in full swing, as evidenced by the steady clip of product- and service-related announcements.
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| Robert Hackett / Fortune: |
Abnormal Security, whose product detects fraudulent emails that impersonate company employees via hacked or spoofed accounts, raises $24M Series A from Greylock — In spring of 2017, Asheem Chandna was sitting in a meeting at the Silicon Valley offices of Greylock Partners … | Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Patreon says it has paid out $1B+ to creators since its 2013 launch, up from $500M in Q4'18, has 4M+ members, up from 3M in Jan., and plans European expansion — Membership services startup Patreon has paid out over $1 billion to creators since its launch in 2013, the company announced Tuesday.
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| Garett Sloane / Ad Age: |
Snap pledges $750,000 to its top AR creators in 2020, 3x its 2019 commitment; 600,000+ Lenses, used 15B+ times, have been created by Snapchat creators — At its annual Lens Fest, Snapchat displays the future of creating augmented reality for the platform — Snapchat is promising $750,000 … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
DeepMind outlines collaboration with Google on the Play Store's recommendation engine, claims app recommendations are now more personalized than they used to be — AI and machine learning model architectures developed by Alphabet's DeepMind have substantially improved the Google Play Store's discovery systems, according to Google.| Robert Stevens / Decrypt: |
Blockchain startup Bison Trails, a founding member of Libra Association, raises $25.5M Series A led by Blockchain Capital with Coinbase, Consensys participating — The raise follows Bison Trails commitment to take part in Facebook's Libra Association. — A founding member of the Libra Association … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
The Indian government says it is “empowered” to intercept, monitor, or decrypt any digital communication on a citizen's device in India, citing a law from 2000 — The Indian government said on Tuesday that it is “empowered” to intercept, monitor, or decrypt any digital communication … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Antivirus vendors and non-profits including Avira, the EFF, and Kaspersky form the Coalition Against Stalkerware to fight secretly installed snooping apps — New cross-industry initiative forms to bring an end to commodity stalkerware apps and victim abuse.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
BlueVine, which offers financing and other banking services to SMBs, raises $102.5M Series F, bringing its total raised to between $240M and $250M — When it comes to fintech plays, small and medium businesses are not often the target audience: they're too small and fragmented compared … Sponsor Posts
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