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Following Anthem's rough launch, current and former BioWare employees say its development was hampered by EA's Frostbite engine and poor leadership — It wasn't even supposed to be called Anthem. Just days before the annual E3 convention in June of 2017, when the storied studio BioWare …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
With Snap Kit, Snap moves on from being a “Camera company” and becomes a camera platform, enabling developers to embed, not copy, its best features — Evan Spiegel has finally found a way to fight back against Mark Zuckerberg's army of clones. For 2.5 years, Snapchat foolishly tried … | BBC: |
UK whitepaper proposes “code of best practice” for how internet platforms should deal with harmful content, suggests expanding liability to tech company execs — Internet sites could be fined or blocked if they fail to tackle “online harms” such as terrorist propaganda and child abuse, under government plans.
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
How fraud-detection services like Sift and SecureAuth use thousands of signals and opaque algorithms to generate user-trustworthiness scores — When you're logging in to a Starbucks account, booking an Airbnb or making a reservation on OpenTable, loads of information about you is crunched instantly …
Tweets: @mims, @profgalloway, @mims, @elizabeth_joh, @wsj, and @wsj
| Todd Haselton / CNBC: |
Testing US Army's Integrated Visual Augmentation System, a version of HoloLens 2 modified for military use, which felt like a real-life game of “Call of Duty” — - Microsoft is building the military's IVAS headset, which is based on HoloLens 2.
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After a NY Post report that Morgan Stanley offered Lyft's pre-IPO investors a short-selling product, Lyft sends a letter threatening to sue the investment bank — - In a letter sent to Morgan Stanley on April 2, Lyft questioned the firm about its role in helping market certain products …
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| Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
Founder of Change My View subreddit, which has 700K+ subscribers, launches Change A View, a site with paid moderators and some funding from Alphabet's Jigsaw — A FEW MONTHS shy of his high school graduation, Kal Turnbull came to a realization: Conversations on the internet are broken.
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Tweets: @pardesoteric, @kevinakwok, @jeffweiner, and @mehatch
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Hands on with Android Q Beta 2: deep dive into an early version of Bubbles multitasking UI, a look at the changes to notifications and gesture navigation, more — Android's Bubbles feature can actually completely replace the notification panel. — Android Q Beta 2 is out!
Tweets: @stevesi and @benedictevans
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Netflix says it pulled AirPlay support because it is technically unable to ensure a good enough user experience on 3rd party devices now getting AirPlay 2 — A “technical limitation” — With no warning and little explanation, Netflix has removed the easiest way to sling its shows from one Apple device to another: AirPlay.
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Tweets: @reneritchie, @marcoarment, @reckless, @film_girl, @sriramk, @reneritchie, @reckless, @reckless, @ecormany, and @steipete
| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
TikTok is becoming a new platform for a song to find an audience, as shown by the viral hit “Old Town Road”, which now has more than 65M streams on Spotify — ‘TikTok helped me change my life,’ says Lil Nas X — Montero “Lil Nas X” Hill's parents were concerned when their son dropped … | Foreign Policy: |
How Huawei, once an upstart using licensed and sometimes stolen tech to undercut rivals, became a telecom infrastructure juggernaut during the 4G upgrade cycle — The same year, Huawei landed an even bigger and more unexpected contract to completely rebuild and replace Norway's mobile phone network …
Tweets: @eliasgroll, @foreignpolicy, @harriszainul, @foreignpolicy, and @austinyugo
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
How Waze is working with Transport for London through its Connected Citizens program, which has 900 partners, to launch the city's new Ultra Low Emission Zone — As cities look for new ways to combat congestion and toxic fumes, technology is playing an increasingly big part in the problem-solving …
Tweets: @medicalquack, @tombamonte, and @lbonesini
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