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Eddy Cue and Apple Maps team members describe how they are rebuilding the product from the ground up to eventually own the entire map stack, like Google does — The company is rolling out more detailed maps built from its own data for the first time — I'm not sure if you're aware, but the launch of Apple Maps went poorly.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: Microsoft is working on a pocketable Surface device, codenamed Andromeda, with a wraparound display that bridges the gap of the hinge when fully opened — A new and disruptive dual-screen device to blur the lines between mobile and PC — Microsoft has been working on a new mysterious Surface device for at least two years.
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| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Match says all Tinder swipe data is now the same size and images sent between Tinder's app and servers are now encrypted, addressing flaws disclosed in January — Your digital dating life is a lot less vulnerable to hackers as a result of security updates from Tinder.
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| Lori Grunin / CNET: |
Comcast confirms national outages, says fiber cable cuts at internet backbone service providers CenturyLink and Zayo were partially responsible for the outage — If you couldn't reach your favorite web sites today at about 12:30 p.m. ET, it wasn't just you.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
EFF files lawsuit asking court to invalidate FOSTA arguing that it amounts to unconstitutional censorship of the Internet violating First and Fifth Amendments — Sex work law prohibits speech that's protected by First Amendment, lawsuit says. — The Electronic Frontier Foundation has asked …
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
WhatsApp launches a new group setting that allows only administrators to send messages to a group — WhatsApp today announced a new control for group administrators to limit activity so that they are the only member of the group who can send messages. WhatsApp groups can include up to 256 participants.
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| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
Data analytics firm Domo closes up 30% on its first day of trading, raising $193M in its IPO at a $524M post-money valuation; Domo was valued at $2.1B in 2017 — The parade of successful software companies making their way to Wall Street was interrupted on Friday by the arrival of a less familiar beast …
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| Charlie Savage / New York Times: |
NSA says it is deleting all phone records acquired since 2015 under FISA because of a technical glitch that resulted in some unauthorized data collection — WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has purged hundreds of millions of records logging phone calls and texts that it had gathered …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Hands-on with the Amazon Echo Dot Kids Edition: connection with FreeTime feels disjointed, there's a steep learning curve, regular Echo offers more flexibility — Is the Echo Dot Kids Edition right for you? — @ / 10 hours — Earlier this year, Amazon introduced an Echo Dot for kids …
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| Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed: |
How a Mexican digital marketing firm is using Facebook pages, Twitter bots, and Instagram likes to spread fake news in the lead-up to the country's elections — Armed with millions of bots and thousands of fake Facebook pages, Carlos Merlo's digital marketing firm is trying to hijack Mexico's politics with fake news.
Tweets: @craigsilverman, @buzzfeednews, and @lisatozzi
| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Brave ad-blocking browser releases update with Tor-powered Private Tabs in beta — Want more online privacy? Brave, the ad-blocking browser, has a new way to get it on the web. — A new version of the browser released Thursday adds technology called onion routing from the Tor Project as an option to its private tabs.
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Dataminr, a NY-based startup that analyzes public data in real time, raises $392M at a valuation of $1.6B, more than the double the $680M valuation from 2015 — Dataminr, a New York City-based startup that analyzes public data about events in real time, has closed a $392 million funding round … Sponsor Posts
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