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Google's new look for desktop search results blurs the lines between ads and search results, leading many critics to identify it as a dark pattern — The latest desktop update blurs the lines — Last week, Google began rolling out a new look for its search results on desktop …
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NYPD disputes facial recognition firm Clearview AI's claim that it identified a terrorism suspect; company's founders have previous connections to the far right — Clearview AI, a facial recognition company that says it's amassed a database of billions of photos, has a fantastic selling point …
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Tech executives and employees, particularly from Facebook, have become increasingly common targets for swatting; Adam Mosseri was swatted in November — Online forums carry personal details of potential targets like industry leaders and their families. The police are struggling to find a solution.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Match Group invests in safety app Noonlight to add features like a panic button, check-in, and photo verification to its dating apps, starting with Tinder — Match Group, the dating app giant and parent company to Match, Tinder, OKCupid, Plenty of Fish, and several other dating apps …
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| Shannon Vavra / CyberScoop: |
Experts say FTI's report on the hack of Bezos' phone does not explain why FTI wasn't able to decrypt the malicious file or perform actions like jailbreaking — (National Museum of American History / Flickr) — A cybersecurity forensics team has concluded with “medium to high confidence” …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft starts rolling out developer kits and emulators for its dual-screen Surface Duo Android phone and Windows 10X-based Surface Neo — Microsoft is starting to roll out developer kits and emulators for both Android and 10X developers who want to build for coming dual-screen devices, starting with its own.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Dataset Search, Google's search engine for datasets, is now out of beta, with a mobile version, new tools to better filter searches, and access to ~25M datasets — Dataset Search is now out of beta with improved search tools — Google's search engine for datasets, the cunningly named Dataset Search …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Broadcom signs 2 new multi-year agreements with Apple, says it expects to generate $15B by supplying wireless chips for Apple devices released through mid-2023 — - Broadcom put its RF chip business up for sale last year — Chipmaker to supply components for Apple devices into 2023
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon claims Prime Video has 65K titles, but 66% of those are user uploaded, including thousands of short instructional clips and conspiracy-theory videos — Streaming service touts its large collection of titles, but a majority are uploads—and questionable films are in the mix
Tweets: @edbott and @bruno_j_navarro
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Intel beats with Q4 revenue of $20.2B, up 8% YoY, vs. $19.2B est., and Data Center Group revenue of $7.2B, up 19% YoY; stock up 6%+ after hours — Intel reported strong fourth-quarter earnings and 8% revenue growth, hitting Wall Street's targets for financial performance thanks to strong datacenter revenues.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
TikTok signs licensing deal with music rights agency Merlin for indie label music in videos and, source says, in its upcoming music streaming service, Resso — TikTok, the fast-growing user-generated video app from China's Bytedance, has been building a new music streaming service to compete …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Niantic says it helped drive more than $249M in tourism revenue for the cities on its events list in 2019 through its walking games like Pokémon Go and Ingress — Niantic has revealed details of its lineup of event locations for its walking games — Pokémon Go, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite and Ingress — for 2020.
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Niantic, iPhone in Canada Blog, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @benbajarin, @daveleeft, @in_thestl, @sameer_singh17, @herrhana, and @projectreaper
| Paul Kiel / ProPublica: |
Inside the IRS's 8-year audit into Microsoft after the company sold its IP to a factory it owns in Puerto Rico to reduce tax rate on US profits from ~35% to ~2% — For years, the company has moved billions in profits to Puerto Rico to avoid taxes. When the IRS pushed it to pay, Microsoft protested that the agency wasn't being nice.
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