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Google will pay a $136M fine to the FTC and $34M to the New York Attorney General to settle claims that it violated child privacy laws on YouTube — KEY POINTS — Google marketed itself as the “leader” for content for children ages 6 through 11, the allegations claim.
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| Michael Zelenko / The Verge: |
A look at the newly-announced Light Phone 2, a $350 stripped back feature phone with an E Ink display, and how the company learned from the first generation — The Light Phone returns with many aspirations and not too many features — Released in the spring of 2017 …
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Sources: Amazon is testing a biometric payment system that identifies and charges users by scanning their hand, with first Whole Foods deployments by next year — Forget the titanium Apple Card — Amazon's latest payment method uses flesh and blood. — The e-tailing giant's engineers …
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| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Web browser Brave hands evidence to Irish data regulator showing Google uses hidden webpages to pass personal data of users to advertisers, undercutting GDPR — Google is secretly using hidden web pages that feed the personal data of its users to advertisers, undermining its own policies …
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Razer updates Blade Stealth ultrabook gaming line with Intel 10th-gen CPUs, Nvidia GTX 1650, 16GB DDR4 RAM, starting at $1,500, available end of September — For years, Razer has been chasing the specter of a truly ultraportable gaming laptop with its Blade Stealth line …
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| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
Basecamp CEO: Google's practice of letting rivals pay for ads that appear ahead of their brand in organic results is a shakedown and like paying ransom — KEY POINTS — The CEO of web-based project management tool company Basecamp sounds off on Google's search ad practices in a now-viral tweet.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Asus announces ROG Phone II Ultimate Edition with 1TB storage, Snapdragon 855 Plus, 6.59-inch 1080p OLED display, and 6,000mAh battery, for €1,199 — Just think of all the Android games you could take everywhere — Asus' ROG Phone II is already a flagship Android phone worth getting excited …
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The downloads of Bridgefy's Bluetooth-based messaging app, which uses a peer-to-peer mesh broadcasting network, have spiked amid protests in Hong Kong — John Koetsier is a journalist, analyst, author, and speaker. — How do you communicate when the government censors the internet?| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Android 10 launched on Wednesday, with the update available to all Pixel phones — After six betas over six months, the newest version of Android is finally out. — Android 10 is finally finished! The next big Android update, which we've been examining for most of the year as the …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon announces over 20 Fire TV-branded devices, including a new Fire TV Cube and an Anker-made soundbar, as the company seeks to compete with Roku and others — At the big European tech trade show, IFA 2019, Amazon today announced over 20 new Fire TV-branded devices …
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Mozilla says its WebExtensions API (Manifest) v3 updates in Firefox won't follow Google's implementation that hindered ad blockers — Like Brave, Opera, and Vivaldi, Mozilla distances itself from Google's planned extensions update that is anticipated to hinder ad blockers in Chrome.
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| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Elliptic, which uses AI to trace and locate suspicious transactions on blockchains, raises $23M Series B led by Tokyo-based financial institution SBI Holdings — Blockchain forensics firm Elliptic has raised $23 million in a Series B funding round led by Tokyo-based financial institution SBI Holdings.
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Railsbank, which operates an open banking and regulation compliance platform, raises $10M Series A led by Moneta Capital, opens a new office in Singapore — Railsbank, the open banking and compliance platform co-founded by CEO Nigel Verdon, who previously founded Currencycloud, has raised $10 million in Series A funding.
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| Noah Kirsch / Forbes: |
Profile of Dean Stoecker, CEO and co-founder of data analytics company Alteryx, which went public in 2017 and generated $28M in profit on $254M revenue in 2018 — Sun Tzu meets software in mid-August at downtown Denver's Crawford Hotel. The floors are terrazzo. The chandeliers are accented with gold.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft and Qualcomm's Vision AI Developer Kit, which can run containerized Azure AI services locally, now available for $249 with Snapdragon 603, 8MP camera — In May 2018 during its annual Build developer conference in Seattle, Microsoft announced a partnership with Qualcomm to develop …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Ginger, which provides an app-based employee mental health platform, raises $35M Series C led by WP Global Partners, bringing its total raised to $63M — Mental health issues are thought to impact one in every five people in the US, and the stress of working life can be an exacerbating factor.
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Medical groups say the new federal data-sharing rules, allowing patients to access health records through apps, lack strong data protections to preserve privacy — Americans may soon be able to get their medical records through smartphone apps as easily as they order takeout food from Seamless or catch a ride from Lyft.
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Acer unveils Pro versions of its ConceptD laptops for creative professionals with Nvidia Quadro RTX graphics cards, available in November starting at $1,700 — Gallery: Acer ConceptD 3 hands-on | 7 Photos … Gallery: Acer Swift 5 hands-on IFA 2019 | 13 Photos
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