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Huawei says its homegrown Hongmeng operating system is not for smartphones or an alternative to Android, but is for industrial use instead — Huawei board member and senior Vice President Catherine Chen said here on Thursday that the company's Hongmeng operating system is not for smartphones …
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Microsoft reports Q4 revenue of $33.7B, up 12% YoY, operating income of $12.4B, up 20% YoY, and net income of $13.2B, up 49% YoY — REDMOND, Wash. — July 18, 2019 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended June 30, 2019, as compared to the corresponding period of last fiscal year:
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Sources: NSO Group told buyers it can scrape users' data from cloud services of Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft by copying authentication keys — The Israeli company whose spyware hacked WhatsApp has told buyers its technology can surreptitiously scrape all of an individual's data …
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The panic over FaceApp highlighted how public attitudes about the internet have changed amid a widespread reckoning over data privacy and election interference — Shortly after the playful photo-transforming FaceApp went viral Wednesday as the most downloaded smartphone app in America …
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Sources: WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann has cashed out more than $700M from the company ahead of its IPO through a mix of stock sales and debt — Adam Neumann has sold some of his WeWork stake and borrowed against some of his holdings, investing the proceeds in real estate and startups
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| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: |
Chrome and Firefox extensions with up to 4M installs leaked sensitive data, including names and passwords, to marketing intelligence service Nacho Analytics — As many as 4 million people have Web browser extensions that sell their every click. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
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| Kim Zetter / VICE: |
Researchers say they were able to trick cybersecurity firm Cylance's AI-based antivirus engine into thinking programs like WannaCry and other malware are benign — By taking strings from an online gaming program and appending them to malicious files, researchers were able … | Brandon Bilinski / YouTube Blog: |
YouTube adds one click switch between audio and video for YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium subscribers, has time-matched over 5M songs — Imagine listening to a new track by your favorite artist in the YouTube Music app and having the ability to seamlessly switch over to watch … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Lexion, which develops AI-powered solutions for managing contracts, raises a $4.2M seed round — Contract management isn't exactly an exciting subject, but it's a real pain point for many companies. It also lends itself to automation, thanks to recent advances in machine learning and natural language processing.
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| Joey Roulette / Orlando Weekly: |
Orlando cancels the second phase of its Amazon Rekognition pilot, which began in October 2018, and says it has no immediate plans for future pilots of the tech — Orlando's two-phase pilot with Amazon to try out real-time facial recognition software ended Thursday, capping 15 months of technical lags …
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
CB Insights: VC investment in blockchain startups is on pace to decline by ~60% YoY in 2019; as of July 1, blockchain companies have raised $784M via 227 deals — - Venture funding in blockchain startups may tumble 60% in 2019 — Meanwhile, Bitcoin's price has more than doubled this year| Wall Street Journal: |
The Google Transparency Report, a searchable database of political ads has errors, delays, and often does not record political ads bought with Google's ad tools — Mistakes have occurred in the Google Transparency Report for both Democratic and Republican presidential and congressional candidates
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A look at the growing use of connected home fitness devices, as some users say convenience outweighs qualms about constantly looking at screens — The future of fitness is together but alone — Nikolas and Brittany Loecher spent their anniversary in Napa Valley, where they drank wine … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
The Kazakhstan government is making ISPs force users to install a government-issued certificate on all devices and in every browser to intercept HTTPS traffic — Kazakh government first wanted to intercept all HTTPS traffic way back in 2016, but they backed off after several lawsuits.
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