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| Shenaz Zack / The Keyword: |
Google says it will add new features to Pixels in “feature drops”, starting this month with auto call screening on Pixel 4, a post-snap portrait mode, and more — Your phone should get better over time. Your Pixel automatically updates regularly with fixes and improvements.
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| Gregory Barber / Wired: |
Analysis shows five cities, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, San Diego, and Boston, gained the lion's share of “innovation industry” US jobs from 2005 to 2017 — Five coastal cities—San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, San Diego, and Boston—gained the lion's share of lucrative “innovation industry” jobs from 2005 to 2017.
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| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Oculus Quest becomes the first VR set with native hand tracking, available to users as an experimental feature this week and with an SDK for devs next week — Goes live “this week;” promising October tease has us cautiously optimistic. — 3 with Starting this week …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google brings incognito mode for Google Maps, where users' activity is not saved to their Google Account, to iOS — Soon, iOS users will be able to tap Google Maps for navigation and location searches without revealing their personal data. In a blog post, Google today announced that Incognito Mode …
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| Yuan Yang / Financial Times: |
GitHub COO says the company is considering a China-based branch as Chinese developers worry about losing access to open-source software amid US sanctions — GitHub, the world's biggest software development platform, is looking to open a subsidiary in China, as the Chinese government tries …
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Facebook ads with millions of views have pushed misinfo about HIV prevention drugs; LGBT advocates say FB's refusal to take them down is harming public health — Fifty-two top LGBT advocates say the company has ignored their calls to action, creating a major public-health concern that puts patients at risk.
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| Miles Kruppa / Financial Times: |
Dog walking startup Wag says SoftBank no longer has board seats; source: SoftBank has sold its stake back to Wag at a loss after investing $300M in January 2018 — SoftBank Group agreed to sell its nearly 50 per cent stake in Wag back to the dog walking company, ending a disappointing investment …
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| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
The Archive Team, which wants to save Yahoo Groups content by uploading it to Internet Archive, says Verizon has blocked the email addresses of its volunteers — Verizon says the archivists it has blocked breached its terms of service. — Verizon, which bought Yahoo In 2017 …
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Cofounders of US bitcoin derivatives exchange LedgerX, CEO and COO Paul and Juthica Chou, placed on administrative leave by Ledger Holdings' board of directors — LedgerX CEO and COO Paul and Juthica Chou are no longer running the company they founded. — A press release Monday announced …
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| Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
TikTok posts a list of videos, makers, memes, dance trends, more that shaped the fastest-growing platform in 2019, and its North America chief talks TikTok fame — TikTok says it's ready to help its stars get rich. — TikTok has released the TikTok 100, a year-in-review list that names the top videos …
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TikTok. Tweets: @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, @alyssabereznak, @lucas_shaw, @taylorlorenz, @nytimesbusiness, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, and @nytstyles
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
752,000+ applications for US birth certificate copies are exposed on AWS; neither Amazon nor the firm that collected the data took it down after being alerted — An online company that allows users to obtain a copy of their birth and death certificates from U.S. state governments has exposed …
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Yahoo Finance, SiliconANGLE, Threatpost, and Mashable
Tweets: @chadloder, @_mwc, and @zackwhittaker
| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Avast explains how it has been monetizing browsing habits of its users since 2013, after Mozilla and Opera removed some Avast tools from their add-on stores — Avast, the multibillion-dollar Czech security company, doesn't just make money from protecting its 400 million users' information.
Tweets: @lorenzofb, @forbes, and @iblametom
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