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Some popular apps send sensitive info like user's heart rate, intent to get pregnant, and home listings viewed to Facebook through the company's analytics SDK — Wall Street Journal testing reveals how the social-media giant collects a wide range of private data from developers; ‘This is a big mess’
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook has removed its Onavo VPN app from the Google Play Store, will stop pulling in data from users for market research, and will eventually shut it down — Facebook will end its unpaid market research programs and proactively take its Onavo VPN app off the Google Play store in the wake …
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Investigation shows how CQ Roll Call, a D.C. media firm, may be responsible for hundreds of thousands of fake anti-net-neutrality comments on FCC's site in 2017 — Millions of records that the FCC's top lawyer once fought to hold back from state law enforcement officials now serve as key evidence …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Duo Security survey of 120K+ Chrome extensions finds 35.4% ask users for permission to access and read all their data on any site, 84.7% had no privacy policy — Eighty-five percent of all Chrome extensions don't have a privacy policy. — More than a third of all Google Chrome extensions ask users …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Samsung says it will extend Bixby button remapping to all Galaxy phones on Android Pie in a future software update, after confirming the feature for the S10 — That includes the S8, S9, and Note line — The Bixby button saga has been an ongoing blemish on an otherwise sterling smartphone record … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
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| Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
Circle, which makes a screen time management tool, raises $20M Series B from Netgear, T-Mobile, and others, bringing the total raised To $30M — Circle makes a fantastic screen time management tool and today the company announced a round of funding to help fuel its growth.
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| Grace Dobush / Fortune: |
BMW and Daimler merge 14 services into five joint ventures including Reach Now for multimodal services, Free Now for ride-hailing, and Share Now for car-sharing — When Daimler and BMW announced a plan to fuse carsharing services Car2Go and DriveNow in March 2018, it was largely …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Report: Apple and Goldman Sachs plan to start issuing a joint credit card in spring, which will be paired with special money management features in Wallet app — Apple and Goldman Sachs are readying a joint credit card, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
A few months after launching Focals smart glasses, North lays off 150 employees; company website says it employed “over 400 people” — North Labs, the company behind the Focals smart glasses, laid off 150 employees yesterday. The company employed “over 400 people,” … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
CTRL-labs raises another $28M for its armband and SDK that translate impulses, which go from brain to hand muscles, into digital signals for gesture control — Ctrl-labs, a New York startup that's developing a device capable of translating electrical muscle impulses into digital signals …
Tweets: @wolfejosh
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
OpenAI's recent decision to limit the release of its new text generator algorithm has sparked a debate among AI researchers over ethics — Nonprofit lab OpenAI withheld its latest research, but was criticized by others in the field — A recent decision by research lab OpenAI to limit …
Tweets: @alexhern, @soenkemartens, @mark_riedl, and @jjvincent
| Aditi Shrivastava / The Economic Times: |
Sources: Uber Eats is in the final stages of negotiations to sell its India business to rival Swiggy, which raised $1B in last December, in return for 10% stake — Stock swap deal may give Uber Eats around 10% in rival, expected to close by March — In what would be one of the most …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Source: Google plans to announce gaming hardware on March 19 in addition to details about its game streaming service — On Tuesday, Google announced a mysterious keynote at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco on March 19th. The event comes as the Project Stream beta … | Ina Fried / Axios: |
Ray Ozzie is working on a new startup, Blues Wireless, which started trials with AT&T on a module that securely connects IoT devices to the cloud — Ray Ozzie, the man who created Lotus Notes and helped usher Microsoft into the cloud era has a new goal: helping devices in the home … Thanks:@inafried
| Katharine Schwab / Fast Company: |
A look at Facebook's Analog Research Lab, which makes posters for the company's offices, and how its messaging has changed since Facebook's recent scandals — The Analog Research Lab has evolved its messaging, from “Be the nerd” to “What matters is what you do next.”
Tweets: @beneltham and @fastcompany
| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé is retiring, and will be replaced by the VP of Sales and Marketing Doug Bowser on April 15 — To be replaced by marketing boss Doug Bowser — One of Nintendo's most public faces is leaving the company.
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Tweets: @nintendoamerica, @tomwarren, @collectorshuki, @tha_rami, @kiey, and @thekostos
| David McCabe / Axios: |
Google says it will no longer enforce mandatory arbitration for current and future employees starting March 21; change won't apply to many temporary staff — Google will no longer require current and future employees to take disputes with the company to arbitration, it said Thursday.
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