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UK Parliament publishes redacted copies of sensitive, internal Facebook documents seized last month from a company suing Facebook — - Documents were released by U.K. parliamentary committee — Lawmaker Collins says publication was lawful in U.K. — Internal emails at Facebook Inc. …
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| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
Internal Facebook docs show how Facebook worked out data sharing agreements with companies and how Zuckerberg personally approved shutting off access for Vine — The UK Parliament today released a 250-page cache of previously sealed Facebook documents, revealing internal deliberations …
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9to5Mac, The Verge, Associated Press, CNBC, and Axios
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| Jessica Dolcourt / CNET: |
Qualcomm announces 3D Sonic Sensor, a new under-display fingerprint sensor for smartphones that uses sound waves to map fingerprints — After years of prototypes and fine-tuning, Qualcomm on Tuesday finally announced a fingerprint reader that uses sound to unlock your phone.
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91mobiles.com, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gizchina, Inquirer, The Next Web, MobileSyrup, XDA Developers, ZDNet, Engadget, The Register, VentureBeat, Android Central, Android Central, iPhone Hacks, XDA Developers, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @themrmobile and @benbajarin
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 855, which supports “multi-gigabit 5G” and promises up to 3X better AI performance than last gen — This week, Qualcomm is hosting press and analysts on Maui for its annual Snapdragon Summit. Sadly, we're not there, but a couple of weeks ago, Qualcomm gave us a preview of the news.
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
A test ride in Waymo One, the first commercial self-driving taxi service launching next week in Phoenix for members of its Early Rider program — Going on a coffee run with Waymo One — It is late afternoon in Chandler, a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona, and I'm getting jittery waiting …
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| BuzzFeed News: |
Sources and chat logs show Facebook's internal tensions are reaching a boiling point, as one ex-employee says staff are “hoping for a Sundar or Dara moment” — “It's the bunker mentality. These people have been under siege for 600 days now. They're getting tired, getting cranky …
Tweets: @buzzfeednews, @markdistef, @craigsilverman, @markdistef, @johnpaczkowski, @buzzfeedben, and @rmac18
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Facebook's ranking drops from No. 1 to No. 7 in Glassdoor's 2019 list of best places to work in the US chosen by employees; Google is 8th and Microsoft is 34th — Career website Glassdoor today released its 11th annual Employees' Choice Awards, a list of the 100 best companies to work for in the coming year.| Mark Harris / Wired: |
Behind EyeDetect, a controversial eye-scanning lie detector powered by a proprietary algorithm that its makers claim has 86% accuracy, higher than the polygraph — SITTING IN FRONT of a Converus EyeDetect station, it's impossible not to think of Blade Runner.
Tweets: @wired, @jaycstanley, @marion_infolaw, and @andreawiggins
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft refreshes Outlook for iOS with a new design and other subtle changes, available today, with a dark mode coming in a future update — A dark mode is coming in a future update — Microsoft is launching a new version of its Outlook mobile app for iOS today.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Following Verizon, AT&T says it too will sell an as-yet unannounced 5G Samsung handset in the first half of 2019 — Samsung announced yesterday that it's set to bring a 5G phone to market in the first half of next year, name-checking Verizon in the promise.
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| Jay Stanley / American Civil Liberties Union: |
US Secret Service to test facial recognition in and around the White House according to a document released by DHS last week — In yet another step toward the normalization of facial recognition as a blanket security measure, last week the Department of Homeland Security published details …
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Acast, a Swedish podcast platform that helps podcasters make money through advertisements, raises $35M Series C from a group of European investors — Podcasting has grown tremendously in recent years, and a Stockholm-based company called Acast is looking to help all those podcasters make money.
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| Tony Lystra / GeekWire: |
A new crop of productivity and collaboration apps like Quip and Airtable aim to reinvent Office with quick sharing and simple interfaces within a single window — Microsoft, more than any other institution on earth, has shaped how we work and how we think about it.
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| Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo: |
NYC approves measures to set the US' first minimum pay rate for rideshare drivers of $26.51/hour gross, or an estimated $17.22/hour after expenses — Today, New York's City's Taxi and Limousine Commission approved measures to enact minimum pay requirements for app-based for-hire vehicles (FHV) like Uber, Lyft, and Juno.
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Tweets: @fastcoideas, @greenhousenyt, @ajravenellenyc, @aspenfuturework, and @lydiadepillis
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it will let developers build competitors to its features on its platform, reversing an earlier policy — Facebook will now freely allow developers to build competitors to its features upon its own platform. Today Facebook announced it will drop Platform Policy section 4.1 which stipulates …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft open sources its most popular Windows UX frameworks and says the first preview of .NET Core 3.0 is now available — Microsoft is open sourcing WPF, Windows Forms and Win UI via GitHub and making available the first public preview of Visual Studio 2019.
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Windows Blog, GitHub, GitHub, .NET Blog, VentureBeat, Thurrott, On MSFT, The Register, InfoQ, Neowin, On MSFT, Windows Central, and MSPoweruser. Tweets: @carnage4life
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Alphabet's Wing business boss James Burgess says it plans to start a trial drone delivery service in Helsinki, Finland, starting in spring 2019 — Wing, the drone delivery X project that “graduated” into full company status under the Alphabet umbrella this past July, is taking flight in Europe.
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9to5Google, MIT Technology Review, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, Telegraph, The Next Web, DroneDJ, ZDNet, CNET, and Engadget. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Andrii Degeler / Tech.eu: |
Berlin-based workflow automation startup Camunda raises €25M Series A from Highland Europe to fund international expansion across US, Europe, and Asia — Berlin-based workflow automation startup Camunda has raised its first funding round of €25 million from Highland Europe.
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TechCrunch, PE Hub Blog, and Camunda BPM
| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Ming-Chi Kuo: Google and Amazon will launch AirPods competitors in H2 2019; Apple could add health sensors to AirPods and integrate them with the Apple Watch — There are already a number of AirPods alternatives on the market - but noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes we're about to get more.
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com, Forbes, iPhone Hacks, and The Verge
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce announces Field Service Lightning, a new component designed to deliver automated IoT data to service technicians in the field on mobile — Salesforce has been talking about the Internet of Things for some time as a way to empower field service workers.
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| New York Times: |
China has invested millions of dollars in quantum encryption, which could be tougher to crack than today's security methods; the US is trying to catch up — SAN FRANCISCO — The world's leading technology companies, from Google to Alibaba in China, are racing to build the first quantum computer … | Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Flaw discovered in Kubernetes lets any user gain full admin privileges on any compute node being run in a Kubernetes cluster; patched versions are available — There's now an invisible way to hack into the popular cloud container orchestration system Kubernetes.
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Threatpost, Cyberscoop, Red Hat, access.redhat.com, Light Reading, The Stack, Softpedia News, and The New Stack
Tweets: @asheshbadani and @kennwhite
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft expands its US rural broadband initiative, aiming to operate in 25 states by the end of 2019 and reach 3M customers by July 2022 — Microsoft Corp., which last year announced a plan to bring broadband to 2 million people in the rural U.S., is boosting the program to reach another 1 million customers across more states.
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New York Times, Microsoft on the Issues, ZDNet, Thurrott, VentureBeat, CNET, Telecompetitor, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Axios, and Microsoft
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