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Matt Day / Bloomberg: Source: Amazon is working on a wearable voice-activated health and wellness device that works with a mobile app and can recognize human emotions -
Joseph Cox / VICE: Multiple sources and emails describe how Snap employees used internal tools like SnapLion to access user data several years ago, before Snap restricted access -
Guy Rosen / Facebook: Facebook releases an update on enforcing its community standards, saying it banned 2.19B fake accounts in Q1 2019, up from 1.2B in Q4 2018 -
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Samsung researchers detail a machine learning method that can recreate lifelike motion from just a single image of a person's face -
The Keyword: Google says it has partnered with delivery services including DoorDash and Postmates to let users order food via Google Search, Maps, or Assistant in the US -
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: GitHub launches Sponsors, a tool that lets users pay their favorite open source contributors; developers can opt in to a “Sponsor me” button on repositories -
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News: As Twitter tests an increased ad load, users report a higher number of spammy or malicious promoted tweets — Twitter is running a test that has increased … -
Aislinn Keely / The Block: AT&T says customers can now pay their mobile bills in cryptocurrency via BitPay — Cryptocurrency is taking another step towards the mainstream as mobile carrier … -
Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: Google researchers say they used 2,000 “mannequin challenge” YouTube videos as a training data set to create an AI model for depth prediction from videos -
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Rotten Tomatoes says it will now calculate the Audience Score using only ratings or reviews from users whose ticket purchase has been verified through Fandango -
Biz Carson / Forbes: Food delivery app DoorDash raises $600M led by Darsana Capital Partners at a $12.6B valuation, just three months after it raised $400M at a $7B valuation -
Nico Grant / Bloomberg: Interviews with Marc Benioff and 18 associates and current and former Salesforce employees show his instinctual and sometimes mystifying M&A strategy -
Peter Kafka / Vox: Q&A with Neal Mohan, YouTube's chief product officer, about how the service deals with objectionable content, YouTube remaining an open platform, and more -
Tom Angell / Forbes: Square quietly launches an invite-only beta to process payments for some CBD products — Companies that sell cannabis products—even those consisting of CBD derived from hemp … -
Mark Scott / Politico: GDPR has helped big tech companies cement their dominance in the data economy while smaller companies have suffered from relatively high compliance costs -
Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Future, a $150/month fitness app which assigns users a human trainer who builds personalized workouts and proactively checks progress, raises $8.5M Series A -
Andrew Webster / The Verge: Software maker Panic unveils Playdate, a Game Boy-like device with a hand crank control and 12 bundled games released over time, coming in 2020 for $149 -
Dave Lee / BBC: Leaked memo: ARM has told staff it must suspend business, including all active contracts, support entitlements, and pending engagements, with Huawei -
Bloomberg: Sources: US is considering blacklisting as many as five Chinese video surveillance companies, including Hikvision and Dahua Technology, from buying US tech