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Apple disables the iOS developer account of Clearview AI for using the Developer Enterprise Program to distribute its app among its reported 2,200+ customers — Apple has disabled the iOS application of Clearview AI — the facial recognition company that claims to have amassed a database …
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| Sean Endicott / Windows Central: |
Microsoft adds productivity features to Cortana, drops consumer skills including music, connected home, and third-party skills in the upcoming Windows 10 update — Cortana is converting to a productivity assistant, meaning Cortana skills are on the way out. — What you need to know
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Amazon restricts employee travel in US, Google restricts travel to Italy, Iran, Japan, and South Korea as a Google employee in Zurich is diagnosed with COVID-19 — A Google employee in Switzerland has a confirmed case of the virus — Google is preventing employees from traveling to Italy …
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Microsoft says it will not attend Game Developers Conference due to coronavirus concerns and will make sessions and experiences available in a digital event — The move follows Sony, Facebook, and Unity. — What you need to know — Microsoft Game Stack announced it's pulling out of GDC due to coronavirus concerns.
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Twitter verified the account of a fake candidate for Congress created by a 17-year-old to test its election integrity efforts; the account is now suspended — New York (CNN Business)Andrew Walz calls himself a “proven business leader” and a “passionate advocate for students.”
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook to start rolling out a redesign for Messenger next week that removes the Discover tab, reorients the People tab around Stories, and hides chat bots — Chat bots were central to Facebook Messenger's strategy three years ago. Now they're being hidden from view in the app along with games and businesses.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Bernie Sanders introduces a bill that would tax stock options at vesting, not at exercise, for those making $130K+ and vesting $100K+ worth of stock per year — 'Sens. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) introduced legislation that would tax nonqualified stock options at vesting …
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FCC proposes fines of $91M for T-Mobile, $57M for AT&T, $48M for Verizon, and $12M for Sprint for sharing customers' location information with outside parties — The Federal Communications Commission proposed fines totaling more than $200 million against the nation's biggest wireless carriers …
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| Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: |
Amazon says it has barred 1M+ products from sale in recent weeks that had inaccurately claimed to cure or defend against the coronavirus — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc has barred more than 1 million products from sale in recent weeks that had inaccurately claimed to cure or defend against the coronavirus …
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TikTok, with 145M US downloads, claims Chipotle-sponsored #boorito hashtag had 3.9B views; Captiv8: hashtag campaigns cost ~$150K, homescreen takeover $50K/day — Popular creators are paid to promote hashtags as mobile video app develops more targeting tools for advertisers| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google Stadia's APK shows Stadia may get a free tier and features like YouTube streaming, family game sharing, and more — Google Stadia received an update today, bringing it to version 2.7, and introducing a few minor tweaks to the UI. Below the surface though, we find that Google …
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A profile of Stripe and Y Combinator-backed digital bank Monzo, which has $1.6B+ in customer deposits, 3.8M customers, and says 40K are signing up every week — - Tom Blomfield started Monzo in 2015. Five years later, the digital bank's bright coral pink cards are now a common sight in London.Sponsor Posts
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