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Twitter's director of product management tweets pics of changes being weighed to make Twitter more “conversational”: improved reply threads, status indicators — No thanks — Sara Haider, Twitter's director of product management, tweeted a couple screenshots today showing off changes …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
California passes a strong net neutrality bill, which now goes to governor; EFF has called it a “gold standard net neutrality bill” — It heads for the Governor's desk next — California's legislature has approved a bill being called the strongest net neutrality law in the US.
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cyberlaw.stanford.edu, New York Times, CNNMoney, Washington Post, Ars Technica, SlashGear, Slashdot, NPR, Firstpost, The Hill, Engadget, Gizmodo, and Axios
Facebook: Scott Wiener. Tweets: @freepress, @npr, @superwuster, @dabeard, @nytimestech, @internetlawcent, @vanschewick, @eff, and @jrosenworcel
| Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott.com: |
Microsoft says it is updating Skype to restore simplicity and familiarity, will kill its Stories-like feature called Highlights, which launched last year — Microsoft just announced a number of changes the company is rolling out to restore Skype's simplicity and familiarity.
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The Verge, Engadget, Skype Blogs, 9to5Mac, BleepingComputer, Neowin, Windows Central, and MSPoweruser
| Ben Fox Rubin / CNET: |
Amazon says Alexa now comes integrated with over 20,000 devices from 3,500 brands, up from the 4,000 devices from 1,200 brands in January — Amazon executive Daniel Rausch stood onstage before a crowd of hundreds at Berlin's IFA tech show to share a few big numbers about Alexa.| Wall Street Journal: |
Google starts purging ads by scammers masquerading as authorized service agents for companies like Apple after a WSJ inquiry — Wall Street Journal investigation finds fraudsters use Google search ads to masquerade as authorized service agents for companies such as Apple| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
DMV report: Apple, which has 66 self-driving cars approved for road testing in CA, says one of the SUVs was rear-ended, its first self-driving collision in CA — Apple said that its first autonomous vehicle crash in California occurred last week. — The accident during …
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Digital Trends, Bloomberg, The Verge, Mashable, MarketWatch, Engadget, CNET, TechCrunch, Mercury News, SlashGear, Business Insider, and Patently Apple
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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Google confirms its Titan Security Keys are made by a Chinese company, but says the firmware ensures security, as security experts call for more transparency — Google's Titan Security Keys, used to lock down accounts, are produced in China. Several experts want more answers on that supply chain process … | Kerry Flynn / Digiday: |
How Timehop, running out of money, ditched programmatic ad partners, built its own ad server, boosted CPMs from $2 to $14, and increased revenues 10x YoY — Timehop had three months of runway in the bank when it decided its current advertising solution wasn't going to cut it.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Baidu launches EZDL, a platform that lets users build custom machine learning models using a drag-and-drop interface and without writing any code — Without the technical know-how and the right tools, training machine learning algorithms can be an exercise in frustration.
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| Brian Ellsworth / Reuters: |
A week after pegging its money, pensions, and salaries to Petro cryptocurrency, Venezuela still fails to show proof that anyone is using Petro for transactions — ATAPIRIRE, Venezuela (Reuters) - To hear Venezuela's leftist President Nicolas Maduro tell it, this remote hamlet of 1,300 souls … | Renee DiResta / Wired: |
As politicians accuse search and social media firms of censorship, the real focus should be on opaque algorithms and reckless amplification of harmful content — THE ALGORITHMS THAT govern how we find information online are once again in the news—but you have to squint to find them.
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New York Times and Fast Company
Tweets: @daphnehk, @iansherr, @joshbloch, @nytopinion, and @karaswisher
| Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo: |
After five years, Google Express shows little progress as the number of partner stores dwindles and retailers like Walmart invest in their own infrastructure — September 25 will mark five years since Google first launched Shopping Express, the e-commerce offering meant to challenge Amazon's dominance.Sponsor Posts
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