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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Source: Amazon is working on a wearable voice-activated health and wellness device that works with a mobile app and can recognize human emotions — - Described as a health product, it would work with a mobile app — Machines that can understand emotions are a sci-fi staple
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Tweets: @davidjoachim, @daviddesteno, @chrissyfarr, @emilybell, @stenderworld, @charlesarthur, @sachgau, and @mhbergen
| Guy Rosen / Facebook: |
Facebook releases an update on enforcing its community standards, saying it banned 2.19B fake accounts in Q1 2019, up from 1.2B in Q4 2018 — Today, we're publishing our third Community Standards Enforcement Report, covering Q4 2018 and Q1 2019. This report adds a few additional data points:
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Samsung researchers detail a machine learning method that can recreate lifelike motion from just a single image of a person's face — Machine learning researchers have produced a system that can recreate lifelike motion from just a single frame of a person's face, opening up the possibility …
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CNET, VICE, YouTube, Telegraph, Gizmodo, TechSpot, and VentureBeat
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Instagram says IGTV will now support landscape video, following feedback from creators and users, as the service struggles to gain traction — The vertical video experiment is over — Instagram is no longer all-in on vertical video. The company announced today that its longform video offshoot …
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Software maker Panic unveils Playdate, a Game Boy-like device with a hand crank control and 12 bundled games released over time, coming in 2020 for $149 — Little, yellow, different — Panic made its name through high-end Mac software, but more recently, the company moved into gaming …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
GitHub launches Sponsors, a tool that lets users pay their favorite open source contributors; developers can opt in to a “Sponsor me” button on repositories — GitHub today launched Sponsors, a new tool that lets you give financial support to open-source developers through recurring monthly payments.
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| The Keyword: |
Google says it has partnered with delivery services including DoorDash and Postmates to let users order food via Google Search, Maps, or Assistant in the US — French fries, lettuce wraps, massaman curry, chicken wings, cupcakes—I could go on. When I was pregnant with my son last year, my cravings were completely overpowering.
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| Mark Scott / Politico: |
GDPR has helped big tech companies cement their dominance in the data economy while smaller companies have suffered from relatively high compliance costs — The region's data protection overhaul was supposed to help citizens. Instead, it's helped Big Tech.
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| Aislinn Keely / The Block: |
AT&T says customers can now pay their mobile bills in cryptocurrency via BitPay — Cryptocurrency is taking another step towards the mainstream as mobile carrier AT&T announced it would accept payments in crypto today, according to a release from the company.
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| Biz Carson / Forbes: |
Food delivery app DoorDash raises $600M led by Darsana Capital Partners at a $12.6B valuation, just three months after it raised $400M at a $7B valuation — The investor feeding frenzy around food-delivery startups hasn't stopped. Just three months after raising $400 million … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Future, a $150/month fitness app which assigns users a human trainer who builds personalized workouts and proactively checks progress, raises $8.5M Series A — Push button, get healthy — The only way to beat laziness is with guilt, so that's what Future sells.
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Kleiner Perkins and FinSMEs
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
A breakdown of Huawei's supply problems after the US ban, using its latest flagship phone as an example, from hardware to software to building an app ecosystem — Huawei's hardware independence is actually pretty good! The software, though... President Trump's Huawei ban is in full effect …
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Tweets: @jonrussell and @ronamadeo
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Rotten Tomatoes says it will now calculate the Audience Score using only ratings or reviews from users whose ticket purchase has been verified through Fandango — Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes is taking additional steps to confirm that audience members actually see a movie before leaving a rating or review.
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Rotten Tomatoes, The Verge, CNET, Gizmodo, Engadget, Business Insider, SlashGear, and IndieWire
| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
Interviews with Marc Benioff and 18 associates and current and former Salesforce employees show his instinctual and sometimes mystifying M&A strategy — Marc Benioff's acquisitions have kept the software giant growing at an incredible rate. He's also made some costly errors.
Tweets: @ericjackson, @mrp, @charles_norton1, @dinabass, @melinanders, @bradstone, @jimaley, @mhbergen, and @shiraovide
| Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook says it won't pay commissions to employees who sell political ads; source: Zuckerberg decided to keep selling political ads after an internal debate — Company leaders considered dropping such ads, which are now viewed as a headache — Facebook Inc. said it stopped paying commissions …
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Fox News, Adweek, and CNBC
Tweets: @sarafischer, @rebeccaballhaus, @juddlegum, and @reaganbrad
| Dave Lee / BBC: |
Leaked memo: ARM has told staff it must suspend business, including all active contracts, support entitlements, and pending engagements, with Huawei — UK-based chip designer ARM has told staff it must suspend business with Huawei, according to internal documents obtained by the BBC.
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Tweets: @tomwarren, @arjunkharpal, @josephfcox, @tomwarren, @adrianweckler, @leokelion, @natashafatah, @janweirlaw, @fuertebrazos, @daveleebbc, and @wongmjane
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| Sijia Jiang / Reuters: |
Lenovo reports Q4 profit of $118M, up 389% YoY, on revenue of $11.7B, up 10.1% YoY, helped by strong PC sales, says production is unaffected by trade war — HONG KONG (Reuters) - Tech giant Lenovo Group Ltd on Thursday reported a market-beating three-fold surge in quarterly profit helped …
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Reuters, Lenovo StoryHub, OnMSFT.com, Thurrott, MarketWatch, and Bloomberg
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Zero, which offers Zero Checking, a FDIC-backed checking account through its app and lets users earn rewards using a Zerocard, raises $20M Series A led by NEA — Just ahead of the launch of the Apple Card, a startup that has its own take on modernizing the credit card industry, Zero … | Ginny Marvin / Search Engine Land: |
Google begins rolling out an updated mobile search design with a black “ad” label and favicons for all organic results — The new look brings some branding to the search results, and preps the mobile search for more types of content and actions for users to take right from the search results.
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Tweets: @googlewmc and @mattmcgee
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