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EU's top court rules that Google does not have to apply “right to be forgotten” globally — Europe's top court has ruled that Google does not have to apply the right to be forgotten globally. — It means that firm only needs to remove references to articles and other material …
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Facebook buys CTRL-Labs, which makes a bracelet that measures neuron activity to detect movements the user is thinking about; sources: size of deal is $500M-$1B — - CTRL-Labs is said to fetch $500 million to $1 billion — Facebook may one day pair the technology with AR or VR glasses
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Kik says it is shutting down its messaging app and will reduce its headcount to 19 people, amid its heated legal battle with the SEC over its ICO — The Kik app is officially shutting down. The company will reduce its headcount to 19 people, and will focus solely on converting Kin users into Kin buyers …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft is creating a new Data Dignity initiative in an attempt to help users control their own personal data, possibly to the point of buying and selling it — Microsoft is staffing up a new Data Dignity team in its CTO's office which could help users to control their own personal data …
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| Jia Tolentino / New Yorker: |
How massively popular short-video app TikTok holds our attention, using AI to churn through a deluge of images and sounds to deliver the best bite-size content — On the popular short-video app, young people are churning through images and sounds at warp speed, repurposing reality into ironic, bite-size content.
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The Spotify for Artists app on iOS and Android gets a big revamp with real-time listening stats, after Apple's artist dashboard exited beta last month — Spotify this morning is rolling out an updated version of its app for artists, across both iOS and Android.| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Xiaomi announces Mi 9 Pro 5G with Snapdragon 855+, 8 or 12GB RAM, 6.5-inch 1080p OLED display, and support for 30W fast wireless charging, starting at ~$520 — Full charge in 69 minutes, no wires required — Xiaomi has announced the Mi 9 Pro 5G, a new variant of its generally very good Mi 9 … | New York Times: |
Source: WeWork's co-founder, Adam Neumann, is stepping down as CEO after a lengthy board call today, will be nonexecutive chairman of the We Company — WeWork's co-founder, Adam Neumann, is stepping down as chief executive of the embattled shared office space business …
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Facebook's content moderation policies are difficult to apply given the breadth of cases, and poor communication between contractors and FB cripples the system — When actor Burt Reynolds died last September, fans across Instagram and Facebook paid tribute to him by posting his 1972 Cosmopolitan magazine centerfold.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Fiddler raises $10.2M Series A, co-led by Lightspeed and Lux Capital, for AI that explains its reasoning, which it aims to launch next year — Explainable AI, which refers to techniques that attempt to bring transparency to traditionally opaque AI models and their predictions, is a burgeoning subfield of machine learning research.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Built-in Google Assistant is no longer exclusive to “Made by Google” Chrome OS devices, begins rolling out to more Chromebooks — Google Assistant first debuted on the Pixelbook in 2017 and later came to the Pixel Slate last year. The smart assistant is now coming to non-Made by Google Chromebooks starting today.
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Alibaba closes the acquisition of 33% of Jack Ma's Ant Financial; Ant will now stop paying 37.5% of its pre-tax profits to Alibaba — - E-commerce giant now has 33% interest in the fintech giant — Ant will no longer pay 37.5% of its pre-tax profit to Alibaba| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Amazon announces the Voice Interoperability Initiative to improve voice assistant compatibility, with 30+ companies on board but not Google, Apple, and Samsung — A day ahead of its annual fall hardware event, Amazon is making a big partnership announcement: it has created …
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| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
Fundbox, which is building a B2B payment and credit network, raises $176M Series C from investors including Allianz X, bringing its total funding to $300M+ — Credit cards have become all but ubiquitous for consumer transactions, and it isn't hard to see why.
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| Christian Berthelsen / Bloomberg: |
Russian national Andrei Tyurin pleads guilty to stealing the data of 80M+ customers of JPMorgan and other US financial institutions from 2012-2015 — - Tyurin could face 15 to 20 years, will forfeit $19 million — Plea leaves unresolved case against alleged mastermind
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| Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Q&A with Huawei CEO Richard Yu about shipping Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro without Play Store apps, its plans for luring developers to Huawei App Gallery, and more — As the world's second largest smartphone manufacturer, the growth of Huawei over the last decade has been immense.Thanks:@anandtech
| Maureen Dowd / New York Times: |
Disney's Bob Iger says he pulled the plug on Disney buying Twitter at the last minute because the nastiness on the platform is “extraordinary” — Hollywood's nicest C.E.O. on the great family dramas of Hollywood — and why he, too, is disturbed by Twitter.
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Fivetran, which helps companies move data from disparate repositories to data warehouses, raises $44M Series B led by a16z, bringing its total raised to $59M+ — Fivetran, a startup that helps companies move data from disparate repositories to data warehouses, announced $44 million Series B financing today …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Tulip, which is building a no-code app development platform for manufacturers, raises $39.5M Series B led by machine tools manufacturer DMG MORI — Tulip, a software developer building a no-code app development platform tailored to manufacturers, today revealed that it's raised $39.5 million …
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Sentry, an open source application performance management platform, raises $40M Series C led by Accel, bringing its total raised to ~$70M — Application performance management, or APM, concerns tools that help to monitor and manage the performance and availability of software apps.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it is expanding its policies to explicitly prohibit financial scams on the platform and details the kind of scams it's banning — Twitter today says it's expanding its policies to prohibit financial scams on its platform — something you'd think would have already been banned …
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| Joe Fedewa / XDA Developers: |
Samsung Galaxy S10 gets the Galaxy Note 10's camera features like AR Doodle and DeX for PC support with an update — Some companies can be stingy with what new features they bring to older devices. Samsung is generally good about this, launching devices with features that eventually trickle down to the rest of the lineup.Sponsor Posts
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