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Apple, Amazon, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance announce a partnership to create a universal smart home standard, called the “Project Connected Home over IP” — - Amazon, Apple, Google and the Zigbee Alliance announced a new partnership. — It's called Project Connected Home over IP …
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An examination of poorly secured police and private databases reveals how China is ramping up its ability to spy on its citizens to new and disturbing levels — The authorities can scan your phones, track your face and find out when you leave your home. One of the world's biggest spying networks …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Lawmakers balk after Facebook explains how it collects and monetizes location data of users who have denied location services in their smartphone OS for its app — - In response to a letter from Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., Facebook explained why it tracks users' locations …
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| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
Facebook says it will ban any branded content, including influencers' posts, promoting tobacco products, vaping, or weapons on Facebook and Instagram — - For the first time, Facebook and Instagram are putting restrictions around the types of items that brands can promote using “branded content.”
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| First Round: |
State of startups survey: 33%+ of founders worry about the end of a tech bubble, 65% say 2020 fundraising will be hard, and diversity and mental health are key — Welcome to the fifth edition of State of Startups. What started as an experiment in 2015 has since become a treasured tradition here at First Round.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Spotify is prototyping Tastebuds, a social feature that allows users to interact with and discover music by searching the people they follow — Spotify is prototyping a new way to see what friends have been listening to, called “Tastebuds.” Despite how discovering music is inherently social …
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| New York Times: |
The defining moments of tech in the 2010s, including the Arab Spring and unveiling of the iPad, as recalled by Zuckerberg, Snowden, Phil Schiller, and others — An oral history of the 2010s — When the decade began, tech meant promise — cars that could drive themselves, social networks that could take down dictators.
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| Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post: |
US government says Uber will pay $4.4M to victims of alleged gender discrimination and strengthen sexual harassment defenses, following an EEOC investigation — An Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation found “reasonable cause to believe that Uber permitted a culture …
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| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Author details how he created a deepfake video over two weeks at a cost of $552 using Faceswap, with an explanation of the tech and some of its limitations — I learned a lot from creating my own deepfake video. — Deepfake technology uses deep neural networks to convincingly replace one face with another in a video.
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Sources: UK will create a tech regulator in 2020 to police Facebook, Google, and others with the power to enforce codes of conduct and improve user data access — The UK government will create a technology regulator next year to police companies such as Facebook and Google after Brexit … | Bloomberg: |
Current and ex-employees of SoftBank's Vision Fund describe an environment of sycophancy towards Son, harassment, rivalries, and a culture of recklessness — Masayoshi Son's venture capital firm is famous for making outsize bets on tech startups. It has also been described as an environment of sycophancy and harassment.
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| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
An in-depth look at Ikea's Home Smart business, which has shifted from being a hobby to a core part of its future — The Swedish furniture giant has conquered living rooms, bedrooms, and bathrooms — but can it hang on to the future of the home? — Björn Block hurries out of the Ikea Museum … | Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed News: |
A meditation on digital life during the 2010s, which has become fractured, alienating, and contentious, falling short of the lofty ideals articulated in the 90s — In April 1997, Wired magazine published a feature with the grand and regrettable title “Birth of a Digital Nation.”| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Facebook acquires Spanish cloud gaming startup PlayGiga, reportedly for ~€70M — - Facebook has acquired PlayGiga, a Madrid-based company that specializes in cloud gaming. — Over the past few years, Facebook has been expanding its efforts in gaming.| Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
After tests in Chicago, Uber to expand Uber Works, its marketplace for short-term jobs in hospitality, events, light industrial, and other sectors, to Miami — Governments around the world are pressing Uber Technologies Inc. to give employment benefits to its army of gig drivers.| Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Photo Roulette, a guessing game app for up to 50 players that picks a random photo from any phone and shows it to all players for five seconds — Popular game draws images from players' camera rolls at random, causing embarrassment, raising privacy concerns
Tweets: @arainert, @caseynewton, @taylorlorenz, and @hunterwalk
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Share Now, a car sharing service collaboration between Daimler and BMW formerly known as Car2Go, says it is leaving North America to focus on Europe — Daimler and BMW, which jointly own Share Now, say they are focused on European markets — Share Now, the car-sharing service formerly known as Car2Go, is leaving North America.Sponsor Posts
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