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Interview with Sen. Warren on her plan to break up big tech, including Apple, which she says shouldn't both run the App Store and distribute its own apps in it — Under Warren's plan, Amazon would not be able to sell Amazon Basics products on the Amazon retail store, Google would not be able … | Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
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Facebook sues two Ukrainian developers for enticing 60K+ users to install browser extensions that scraped personal info and injected ads into their News Feeds — Facebook has sued two Ukrainian men for allegedly using quiz apps to scrape Facebook users' private data and inject advertisements into their News Feeds.
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Source: Nvidia has outbid Intel for Mellanox and could announce a deal to acquire the Israeli chip maker for $7B+ in cash as early as Monday — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chipmaker Nvidia Corp is nearing a deal to acquire peer Mellanox Technologies Ltd for more than $7 billion in cash, a person familiar with the matter said on Sunday.| Chris Ip / Engadget: |
How Foursquare, which tracks the location of millions via their smartphones and has 100K+ clients including Snapchat and Uber, makes sure its data isn't misused — It seems counter-intuitive that, in the thick of a backlash against Big Tech's data privacy abuses, Dennis Crowley … | Dennis Crowley / Foursquare Intersections: |
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Tesla is dealing with the failure to achieve full self-driving by shifting goalposts, as it continues using its customers as unpaid safety drivers for its tech — Tesla just shifted the goalposts for “full self-driving” technology. — An overhaul to Tesla's Autopilot webpage might represent … | Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
France overhauls French Tech Visa program, which now has no diploma requirements, accepts employee's immediate family, and is generally less onerous to acquire — The French government has unveiled a complete overhaul of the French Tech Visa for employees working for a tech company.| Manish Singh / VentureBeat: |
Google launches Bolo, an Android app for school children in India to improve reading and vocabulary skills in Hindi and English, using speech recognition — Google, which already dominates India's smartphone, search, and online video market, today launched a learning app for primary school children …
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Inside CERN's quest to build a reliable quantum computing device, as it'll need 50-100 times more computing power to process Large Hadron Collider data by 2026 — Quantum computers could help explain some of the most fundamental mysteries in the universe and upend everything from finance to encryption … | Kalev Aasmae / ZDNet: |
In this month's parliamentary elections in Estonia, 44% of about 561K votes counted were cast online using the e-voting system, setting a new digital record — In this month's Estonian parliamentary elections, a whopping 44 percent of the ballot was cast using e-voting.| Will Oremus / Slate: |
By shifting focus to private messaging, Facebook is getting closer to emulating WeChat, which has made Apple's control of iOS largely irrelevant in China — The social network's “pivot to privacy” puts iOS in its crosshairs. Welcome to tech's next big rivalry.
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China-based online broker Futu closes up 28% on its first day of trading after raising $90M in a US IPO and selling $70M worth of stock via a private placement — Futu Holdings Ltd., the online Chinese broker backed by Tencent Holdings Ltd., jumped as much as 46 percent after raising $90 million in its U.S. initial public offering.
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AI-based emotion detection has become a $20B industry, but some experts say the foundational science behind the tech is flawed and can adversely affect society — Machines can now allegedly identify anger, fear, disgust and sadness. ‘Emotion detection’ has grown from a research project to a $20bn industry
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