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Facebook's Continuous Live Video removes 90 min. limit on streams, but does not allow for replay or rewind, lets broadcasters target viewers by location and age — Live mobile video is evolving beyond selfie-stream rants and citizen journalism. Facebook will now allow non-stop …
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Facebook Live video player will include a graph indicating engagement volume, so you can skip ahead to the good parts — Facebook's newest feature could fundamentally change how you watch video. Until now, you either sat through a video until it got too boring, waited for the interesting part … | ProPublica: |
Crime prediction software, increasingly used to guide sentencing in US, found to be biased against black defendants in study of 7K cases — There's software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it's biased against blacks. — ON A SPRING AFTERNOON IN 2014 …
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Spotify family plan is now cheaper, $14.99 for up to 6 people — Spotify is catching up with the competition when it comes to family plans. Like Apple Music and Google Play Music, families can now subscribe to Spotify Premium for $14.99 per month and get six different Spotify accounts and profiles.
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Tweets: @jandawson, @ampressman and @peterpham
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google plans to bring password-free logins to Android apps by year-end via Project Abacus — Google's plan to eliminate passwords in favor of systems that take into account a combination of signals - like your typing patterns, your walking patterns, your current location, and more … | Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Amazon stops honoring partial refunds on items that drop in price after purchase, except TVs, amid entry of startups like Earny that track item prices — Except for TVs. — The company that prides itself on customer centricity may have just alienated some customers.| Emanuel Maiberg / Motherboard: |
Libre VR, creator of Revive tool used to play Oculus games on Vive headsets, circumvents Oculus' new DRM in under 24 hours, making it easier to pirate games — It's been a little bit over a day since Oculus started rolling out new DRM for its software, but it's already backfired, making pirating the company's games easier than ever.
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| Colin Stretch / Facebook: |
Facebook responds to GOP Sen. Thune on Trending Topics, says investigation found no systematic bias, cannot rule out unintentional bias, plans improvements — Last week we met with Chairman of the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee John Thune to describe our investigation in response …
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Filing shows in 2015 Spotify had $2.18B in revenue, losses of $194M, and 98% year-over-year ad revenue increase to $219M — Spotify brought in a whopping $2.18bn (€1.95bn) in revenues in 2015, growing its income by 80% in the year. — Net losses stood at a painful $194m (€173.1m) …
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Tweets: @profjeffjarviss, @joshconstine, @ow, @danprimack and @gamoid
| Scott Cendrowski / Fortune: |
Xiaomi revenue for 2015 reached 78B yuan, only a 5% rise from 2014's 74.3B yuan — Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone maker and second highest-valued startup in the world at $45 billion, barely grew sales at all last year. — Revenue for 2015 reached 78 billion yuan ($12.5 billion) … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: China's Tencent seeks majority stake in Clash of Clans maker Supercell, in early stage talks with SoftBank — Chinese Internet firm's discussions with Japan's SoftBank are still at early stage — HONG KONG—Internet company Tencent Holdings Ltd. of China is in talks …
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Investor's Business Daily, TechCrunch and iMore
| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Reporter spends month paying only with digital wallet services, finds it burdensome and alienating — It's the dead of winter in Stockholm and I'm sitting in a very small room inside the very inaptly named Calm Body Modification clinic. A few feet away sits the syringe that will …
Tweets: @kantrowitz, @johnpaczkowski, @cwarzel and @ajs
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