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Goldman Sachs reveals Apple Card customer agreement, says jailbreaking as well as purchasing cryptocurrency, casino chips, and lottery tickets is forbidden — Apple has revealed more details about its upcoming credit card, and the Apple Card will come with one unique restriction and one not-so-unique restriction.
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| Alex Heath / The Information: |
Facebook to rebrand Instagram and WhatsApp to “Instagram from Facebook” and “WhatsApp from Facebook”, sources say causing surprise and confusion internally — In a big shift, Facebook plans to signal its control of Instagram and WhatsApp by adding its name to both apps …
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon says it will let users opt out of human review of the voice recordings picked up by Alexa, following similar moves by Apple and Google — - Alexa reviewers transcribe, annotate some voice recordings — Apple, Google suspended human voice review programs this week
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
A data breaches seller provides evidence that sneaker marketplace StockX was hacked in May, says 6.8M records with contact info and hashed passwords were taken — It wasn't “system updates” as it claimed. StockX was mopping up after a data breach, TechCrunch can confirm.
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| Melanie Ehrenkranz / Gizmodo: |
UK data science company DataSparQ has developed “AI Bar”, an AI-powered facial recognition system to help bartenders check IDs, fill orders faster and fairer — Facial recognition systems have, to date, proven to be biased, unjust, flawed, and deeply powerful.
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| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
Inside “Instabeach”, Instagram's annual invite-only party in Malibu for 500 of its top creators, which has become a who's who of young Hollywood — At 3:30 p.m. on a recent Tuesday, hundreds of Instagram influencers descended on Gladstones Malibu, an old-timey seafood restaurant …
Tweets: @jayshams, @jeremysliew, @taylorlorenz, @ahmed, and @sara_mcalpine
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Former Building 8 employees shed light on Facebook's challenges in trying to break into consumer hardware, as it struggles to turn Portal into a success — KEY POINTS — Building 8, the laboratory she started, turned into a costly failure for Facebook, and Dugan was gone in less than two years.| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Google will let Android users in Europe choose their default search engine starting in 2020; inclusion on the choice screen will be determined via auction — Only the top-three bidders will appear alongside Google on the choice screen — Starting in early 2020, Google will present …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple spent $4.2B, or 7.9% of its revenue, on R&D in Q3, the highest percentage of R&D spending since 2003, and is on track to spend $16B in 2019 — KEY POINTS — Apple CFO Luca Maestri hinted that R&D would continue to rise, and said that the company's $1 billion purchase … | Ben Riley-Smith / Telegraph: |
Sources: US officials warn the UK that a free trade deal would not happen if digital services tax on companies like Google and Amazon becomes UK law this fall — Donald Trump's administration is warning Britain that it will not get a free trade deal unless a new tax affecting US tech giants is dropped, The Telegraph can reveal.
Tweets: @benrileysmith, @martinsfp, @pmdfoster, @telegraph, and @feorlean
| Heather Landi / FierceHealthcare: |
EQT and Canada's state pension fund buy a majority stake in Waystar, a provider of revenue cycle management software for healthcare orgs, at a $2.7B valuation — Revenue cycle management technology company Waystar has new majority owners as the result of a deal between Bain Capital to sell … | Reuters: |
Turkey's TV and radio watchdog granted oversight of online content, including streaming services; online content providers must now get broadcasting licenses — ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey on Thursday granted its radio and television watchdog sweeping oversight over all online content … Sponsor Posts
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