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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Twitter pauses its plan to delete inactive accounts, after concerns were raised about deceased users, until it creates a way to memorialize accounts — Twitter said Wednesday it was putting on hold a plan to delete inactive accounts amid concerns that accounts from deceased users would be swept up in the purge.
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| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Twitter should offer a way to memorialize accounts of deceased people before removing accounts that have been inactive for over six months — Editor's note: Drew is a geek who first worked at AOL when he was 16 years old and went on to become a senior writer at TechCrunch.
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| BBC: |
Apple meets Russia's demands to show Crimea as part of Russia for Russian Apple Maps users; elsewhere on Apple Maps, Crimea isn't shown as part of any country — Apple has complied with Russian demands to show the annexed Crimean peninsula as part of Russian territory on its apps.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: amid a CFIUS investigation, ByteDance is separating TikTok from its Chinese operations and providing assurances US user data is inaccessible to China — NEW YORK/WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) - ByteDance has stepped up efforts to separate its social media app TikTok … | Leo Kelion / BBC: |
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| Stella Bugbee / New York Magazine: |
Q&A with Kevin Systrom on Instagram in the 2010s: selling to Facebook for $1B, its positive and negative social impact, the influencer economy, and more — As the decade began, there were reasons to be optimistic: America had elected its first black president … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Amazon announces new Alexa emotions for developers to let Alexa respond to questions from US users with a “happy/excited” or a “disappointed/empathetic” tone — Alexa is also getting a radio DJ-like voice — You might hear a little more emotion from Alexa's vaguely-robotic voice …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Valve says its Steam Controller, launched in 2013 as part of the failed Steam Machines program, will no longer be made; last units will sell for $5/controller — An amazing gadget bites the dust — Only the best deals on Verge-approved gadgets get the Good Deals stamp of approval … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Outlook.com can now be installed as a Progressive Web App on Windows or macOS by using Chromium-based browsers — You can now install Outlook.com as an app — Microsoft is turning its Outlook.com and Outlook for the Web mail services into Progressive Web Apps (PWA).
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Investigation shows how easy it is to register .gov domains using forged credentials; many US cities including LA, Houston haven't registered their .gov domains — Many readers probably believe they can trust links and emails coming from U.S. federal government domain names … | Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Facebook buys the VR studio behind Beat Saber, one of virtual reality's biggest titles with over 1M copies sold since May 2018 — Virtual reality doesn't have many hit games yet, but Facebook is buying the studio behind one of the platform's biggest titles.
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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
Leaked docs: Amazon's Ring was working on neighborhood “watch lists” and a feature to notify users of individuals deemed suspicious, built on facial recognition — Ring, Amazon's crimefighting surveillance camera division, has crafted plans to use facial recognition software …
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| Gartner: |
Global smartphones sales in Q3 fell 0.4% YoY as consumers sought better value; Samsung's marketshare surged to 20.4%, Huawei's to 17%, and Apple's fell to 10.5% — Huawei, Samsung, and OPPO Increased Market Share in the Third Quarter of 2019, While Apple and Xiaomi Share Declined
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