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Google rebrands AdWords as Google Ads, consolidates enterprise tools as Google Marketing Platform, and unifies publisher monetization tools as Google Ad Manager — We launched AdWords nearly 18 years ago with a simple goal—to make it easier for people to connect online with businesses.| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Facebook now allows some preapproved advertisers to promote crypto businesses and services, like exchanges, but ads for ICOs and binary options are still banned — Advertisers will need to apply, but ICO ads are still banned. — Facebook is reversing its ban on cryptocurrency advertisements …
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| Selina Wang / Bloomberg: |
Twitter to require email or phone number confirmation for new accounts, use AI to take action on spammy accounts, add warning on accounts behaving suspiciously — - Platform will require new accounts to confirm email or phone — Twitter will place warning sign on suspicious accounts
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| Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it has improved its facial recognition tech to work better with all skin tones, reducing error rates by up to 20 times for people of darker skin — Microsoft still has a contract with ICE to use its facial recognition technology — Microsoft says its facial recognition tools …
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Facebook stops building drones that would have provided wireless internet to the developing world, will instead focus on developing underlying technology — - The revelation comes after Business Insider reported on upheaval at the Aquila project, including the departure of its leader and a planned redesign.
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| Mario Tomás Serrafero / XDA Developers: |
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 632, Snapdragon 439 and Snapdragon 429 systems on a chip for mobiles, expects them to appear in devices in the second half of year — For a few years now, we've seen affordable phones become competitive options that are able to satisfy the needs of more and more customers.
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Tweets: @amitbhawani, @androidcentral, and @fonearena
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram now lets users have a four-way group video chat as they browse, after announcing the feature at F8 in May — Instagram's latest assault on Snapchat, FaceTime, and Houseparty launches today. TechCrunch scooped back in March that Instagram would launch video calling …
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Tweets: @instagram, @joshconstine, and @lamarrwilson
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's Alexa app for iOS to get voice control in the coming days, after the feature's announcement in January — Way back at the beginning of the year (seemingly 24 or 25 months, at this point), Amazon brought voice control to its Alexa app for Android. The move marked a big step toward …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Maps rolls out an Explore tab to clue users in on what's happening nearby, a “For you” tab for restaurant recs, and the ability to follow neighborhoods — At its I/O developer conference last month, Google previewed a major update to Google Maps that promised …
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| Kashmir Hill / Gizmodo: |
California has until Thursday to pass a privacy bill; if not, a stronger version will likely show up on state ballot in November, leading lawmakers to scramble — Recent headlines have suggested that California lawmakers are considering a bill that would give Californians “unprecedented control over their data.”| Tarleton Gillespie / Wired: |
US Congress needs to reform Section 230 safe harbor provision because it is based on early ideals of the open web and wasn't designed for social media platforms — Content moderation is hard. This should be obvious, but it's easily forgotten. It is resource intensive and relentless …
Tweets: @wired and @tarletong
| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
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