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Google announces a licensing program to pay publishers for content for a new news product, launching later this year, as part of the Google News Initiative — In a major departure from its long-standing practice of not paying publishers directly to distribute their work …
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| Pavel Alpeyev / Bloomberg: |
SoftBank's Masayoshi Son steps down from Alibaba's board, a post he had held since 2005 — - Son steps down as Alibaba director, a post he held since 2005 — Jack Ma is also leaving SoftBank's board after 13 years — SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son ended … | Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Michael Hawley, whose work at MIT Media Lab helped lay the groundwork for IoT, and who helped Steve Jobs and Larry Page write commencement speeches, dies at 58 — A man of manifold interests, his achievements ranged from developing ideas behind the so-called Internet of Things to publishing the world's biggest book.
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| Douglas Busvine / Reuters: |
Wirecard collapses and files for insolvency facing an almost complete wipeout; source says creditors are owed nearly $4B — Douglas Busvine, Jörn Poltz, Arno Schuetze — BERLIN/MUNICH/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German payments company Wirecard collapsed on Thursday after disclosing …
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| Joe Fedewa / XDA Developers: |
Google makes its ARCore Depth API available for developers on Android and Unity to build AR experiences — ARCore is Google's SDK for creating augmented reality experiences on Android and iOS. On Android devices, it's delivered as part of the Google Play Services for AR app.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Hey opens its email service to everyone and says Apple has approved its update with proposed changes to meet App Store guidelines — The $99-per-year email app no longer needs an invite to be used — Hey — the new email service from Basecamp that's been the subject of the latest fight …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
AWS announces Honeycode, a cloud-based tool that it hopes will help non-coders build apps — - Amazon already leads the cloud infrastructure market, and now it's expanding its cloud product lineup with a tool for people who don't code. — The Honeycode service will compete with offerings …
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| Justin Sherman / Wired: |
DOJ has objected to Facebook and Google's 8,000-mile cable to Hong Kong, claiming it offers “unprecedented opportunities” for Chinese government espionage — The DOJ's opposition to Facebook and Google's 8,000-mile cable to Hong Kong highlights how physical infrastructure is as contentious as the virtual world.
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| New York Times: |
Sources say the DOJ has made the antitrust inquiry into Google its top priority and the case is moving swiftly, spurred by the personal interest of AG Barr — Attorney General William Barr's attention to the Justice Department investigation shows the high stakes for the agency and for him.
Tweets: @eisingerj, @b_fung, and @charlie_savage
| OneZero : |
Inside DayLife Army, a social media cult, spun off from a Facebook group, that seduces young people with empty promises of a better world — The DayLife Army always seemed like a troll. Then it became a nightmare. — started with a tweet. In the fall of 2013, Matthew had recently turned 18 …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok launches a new site, TikTok for Business, as a home for marketing products and resources and launches a new AR ad format to rival Snapchat — TikTok is announcing to advertisers that it's open for business. The company is today officially introducing a new brand and platform called … | David Jeans / Forbes: |
ScaleFactor, which developed a financial SaaS for automating bookkeeping tasks and raised ~$100M in 12 months, is shutting down after COVID-19 decimated sales — By the end of last year, software startup ScaleFactor had emerged as a buzzy financial services company, raising $100 million … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon forms Counterfeit Crimes Unit, made up of former federal prosecutors, investigators, and data analysts, to fight counterfeiters on its site — Amazon has formed an internal “Counterfeit Crimes Unit” to bolster its fight against knock-off products on Amazon.com, as the company seeks to show customers …
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| Zachary Basu / Axios: |
The DOJ says it's charging Julian Assange in a superseding indictment with recruiting and conspiring with hackers affiliated with LulzSec and Anonymous — The Justice Department announced on Wednesday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been charged in a superseding indictment … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Sony launches a bug bounty program for the PS4, the PlayStation Network, and other Sony properties, paying from $100 to $50K+ for critical PS4 vulnerabilities — Sony will pay security researchers for bugs in the PlayStation 4 gaming console, its operating system, official PS4 accessories … | John Koetsier / Forbes: |
Apple's Identifier for Advertisers, critical to tracking mobile ad spend, will become opt-in with iOS 14, a privacy boon for users and a big loss for marketers — That tremor in the Force you felt yesterday probably wasn't shock at being able to text your car keys in Apple's new iOS 14 or do real-time offline translation with Siri.
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Google says it will auto-delete location and search data by default for new users after 18 months, as part of a broader expansion of its privacy options — A compromise between privacy and ad-targeting data — On Wednesday, Google announced broad changes in its default data practices for new users …
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| Los Angeles Times: |
Stories from tech workers who are women, people of color, and LGBTQ-identifying, describe discrimination, microaggressions, feelings of isolation, and more — A Black career IT professional put himself forward for a promotion but was instead asked to help recruit another candidate, who was white.
Tweets: @miscadooch and @cdiaz916
| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Hopin, a London-based startup developing virtual events technology, raises $40M Series A led by IVP with Salesforce Ventures and others participating — This morning Hopin, a London-based startup building virtual events technology, announced that it has raised a $40 million Series A led by IVP.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
SevenRooms, which provides guest management software to restaurants, hotels, and other public venues, raises $50M Series B from Providence Strategic Growth — Restaurants, hotels and other public venues where we spend leisure and business time have started to reopen in many parts of the world …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Comcast is the first ISP to join Firefox's Trusted Recursive Resolver program to deploy encrypted DNS lookups on the Firefox browser — Comcast/Mozilla deal follows dispute over ISP snooping and DNS encryption. — Comcast is partnering with Mozilla to deploy encrypted DNS lookups on the Firefox browser … | Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Boston passes an ordinance to ban government use of facial recognition, with minor caveats, joining cities like San Francisco, Oakland, and Cambridge — Boston joined cities like San Francisco, Oakland, California, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Wednesday in passing a vote to ban facial recognition technology for municipal use.
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WBUR, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Input, and IT Management
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