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127 companies including Adobe, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Slack, Twitter, and Uber file amicus brief opposing Trump's immigration ban — Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and other tech companies filed an amicus brief tonight voicing opposition to President Trump's executive order …
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| Brad Stone / Bloomberg: |
Uber hires veteran NASA engineer Mark Moore as director of engineering for aviation as part of its Uber Elevate flying car initiative — The man who inspired Google's co-founder will join the ride-hailing startup's nascent project. — by — In 2010, an advanced aircraft engineer …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Vizio settles FTC lawsuit for $2.2M, agreeing to get viewer consent before tracking TV habits — Vizio will pay $2.2 million to settle a lawsuit alleging it collected customers' TV-watching habits without their permission. — The lawsuit was filed by the Federal Trade Commission and the state of New Jersey.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google, Facebook to help French newsrooms combat “fake news” ahead of presidential election — Google and Facebook are to help a host of French news organizations combat the growing scourge of fake news ahead of the upcoming French presidential election campaign.
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Tweets: @firstdraftnews, @razhael, @googleeurope, and @firstdraftnews
See also Mediagazer| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
300 of Intel's Shooting Star drones were used for a choreographed light show for Super Bowl halftime show, which was taped last week because of FAA regulations — The best Super Bowl halftime shows leave indelible memories, be it a notorious wardrobe malfunction, that goofy Left Shark …
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Tweets: @intel and @ellardent
| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Google adds anchor button on AMP pages, to help readers see and share publishers' real URLs — As promised, Google is making a change to how it displays Accelerated Mobile Pages, so that users can easily view and share links that lead directly to publishers' sites rather than to Google's copy of the content.
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Tweets: @anotherhelen and @dannysullivan
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South Korean regulator will strengthen battery safety requirements, increase inspections, and monitor Samsung's QA process improvements, following Note 7 fiasco — South Korea said on Monday it will strengthen lithium-ion battery safety requirements and conduct regular inspections …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google and H&M's Ivyrevel announce an Android app that can design a dress using your personal data from Awareness and Snapshot APIs — At last year's Google I/O developer conference, Googleintroduced a new Awareness APIthat would allow for smarter applications that could understand where you were …
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Cloud infrastructure company Stratoscale acquires database-as-a-service provider Tesora, also rolls out a fully-managed AWS-compatible RDS — Database services are becoming an increasingly important feature for Stratoscale customers who want to build an Amazon-compatible cloud environment.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Jay Fulcher, a former CEO of Ooyala Inc. and Agile Software Corp., is Zenefits' new CEO — Zenefits chose software executive Jay Fulcher as its new chief executive, the third person to lead the embattled health-benefits broker since early 2016.
| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
3D printing startup Desktop Metal raises $45M Series C from GV, BMW, and Lowe's, valuing the startup at $305M pre-money — This article first appeared in Term Sheet, Fortune's newsletter about deals and dealmakers. Subscribe here. — Two years after it was created, Desktop Metal …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Google security engineer recounts how the company brought KrebsOnSecurity into Project Shield and defended the site against massive DDoS attacks — Behind the scenes defending KrebsOnSecurity against record-setting DDoS attacks. — OAKLAND, Calif.—In September, KrebsOnSecurity …
Tweets: @arstechnica, @jesperjurcenoks, @mariachong, and @brianweeden
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