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Reports indicate Sergey Brin only recently learned about Dragonfly, Google's censored search project for China, which may be further along than execs claim — On Thursday afternoon, a critical meeting at Google was derailed by a handful of tweets. Employees who had been pressing top executives …
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| Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: |
Reports: as Google considers return to China, Sundar Pichai talks about potential positive impact, while Sergey Brin, who led 2010 pullout, now sounds neutral — Mozilla, another progressive U.S. internet player, ceded moral high ground to stay in China — Google executives admitted … | Bloomberg: |
Source: Amazon is working on a DVR that will record live TV, wirelessly connect to Fire TV boxes, and stream the video to smartphones — - Box would record live TV and stream that video to smartphones — Device competes with offerings from TiVo, Dish's Slingbox
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| Bruce Brown / Digital Trends: |
Amazon updates Alexa with skill to show last recorded event from Ring, Arlo, August, and Cloud Cam security cameras on its devices in the US, releases skill API — As of today, Amazon Alexa devices with displays can play video stream recaps from select smart home cameras, Amazon announced.
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Twitter's actions to limit third-party apps illustrate the company's indecisiveness, which sources say stems from Jack Dorsey's cautious leadership style — What the Alex Jones controversy and its move to limit third-party apps have in common — Why does Twitter move so slowly?| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
JD.com announces the launch of its blockchain-as-a-service platform alongside its first live blockchain app that tracks invoices for China's Pacific Insurance — Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com has launched a blockchain-as-a-service platform alongside its first app - one that digitally …
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After Valve registered Steam.tv domain today, the site is now live as a game streaming website currently only showing its annual Dota 2 international tournament — Over the past couple hours, we've seen a smattering of reports that PC gaming giant Valve had registered a new domain name: Steam.tv.
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Sources: Facebook is contesting DOJ's demand to make end-to-end encrypted Messenger voice conversations available for wiretapping in a case against MS-13 gang — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The U.S. government is trying to force Facebook Inc (FB.O) to break the encryption in its popular Messenger app …
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| Craig Timberg / Washington Post: |
DOJ opposes Facebook's efforts to dismiss fair housing groups' lawsuit claiming discriminatory ad targeting, says Communications Decency Act doesn't apply — The Department of Justice on Friday formally opposed an effort by Facebook to dismiss a lawsuit by several housing groups … | Allison Levitsky / Palo Alto Daily Post: |
Federal judge in San Francisco orders a man accused of hacking Electronic Arts to post his $750K bail in Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency — High-tech criminal charges call for high-tech bail in Silicon Valley. — A man charged with hacking the Redwood City video game company Electronic Arts …
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| Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: |
Tencent says PUBG Mobile, a scaled-down version of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, crossed 100M downloads less than 4 months after its release on iOS and Android — PUBG Mobile has surpassed 100 million downloads on iOS and Android. Publisher Tencent Games revealed that it has zipped past …
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Internet infrastructure companies like web hosts, registrars, and CDNs were right to largely remain neutral in Infowars-like debates, civil rights experts say — Once silent on InfoWars, the controversial media outlet that publishes viral conspiracy theories, consumer-facing media companies like YouTube … Sponsor Posts
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