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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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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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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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Apple suspends Siri response grading, where contractors reviewed Siri queries without explicit user consent, promises update where users can choose to take part — In response to concerns raised by a Guardian story last week over how recordings of Siri queries are used for quality control, Apple is suspending the program world wide.
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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 …
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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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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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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 … | Zen Soo / South China Morning Post: |
Hong Kong startup Tink Labs, which has raised $160M to provide free-to-use smartphones in hotel rooms, is shutting down in many markets, undergoing mass layoffs — Handy is a smartphone service operated by Tink Labs that equipped hotels globally with in-room handsets for guests Tink Labs informed employees …
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Interview with Snap CTO Bobby Murphy on augmented reality, visual communications, Lenses, Spectacles, and a future world in which the camera dominates — When Snapchat first became a phenomenon among teens in 2012, the focus understandably was on such distinguishing features as its promise …
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Google Fit to start rolling out detailed sleep logging and dark theme; iOS app gains support for route maps for workouts — With the revamped Fit last year, Google focused on physical activity through Heart Points and Move Minutes. The service is adding detailed sleep logging to capture your entire day … | Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Vimeo launches Vimeo Enterprise for companies to host, share, and manage video content internally, as it pivots from being a video and content company to SaaS — Vimeo, the 14-year-old video service that started as a platform for indie filmmakers, is launching Vimeo Enterprise … Sponsor Posts
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