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Sources: Apple has a secret team of ~12 engineers working on satellites and related wireless tech to beam data directly to its devices — Apple Inc. has a secret team working on satellites and related wireless technology, striving to find new ways to beam data such as internet connectivity directly …
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Facebook and Twitter shut down a network of fake accounts using AI-generated faces to “masquerade” as Americans; Facebook links the network to Epoch Media Group — Its accounts used AI-generated faces to ‘masquerade’ as Americans — On Friday, Facebook and Twitter shut … | Fortune: |
Ripple raises $200M Series C led by global investment firm Tetragon at a $10B valuation — Ripple, a San Francisco-based company that uses cryptocurrency to move money across borders, announced a massive funding round on Thursday that values the company at $10 billion.
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Using the location data company's leaked dataset, reporters identified a Secret Service agent, his home address, family details, and tracked Trump's movements — IF YOU OWN A MOBILE PHONE, its every move is logged and tracked by dozens of companies. No one is beyond the reach of this constant digital surveillance.
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| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Convenience store chain Wawa discloses a data breach across its 700 stores over the past nine months that may have exposed customer and credit card details — The breach may have affected all 700 stores over the past nine months. — If you used your credit card or debit card to buy gas …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Apple opens its bug bounty program to security researchers, publishes eligibility criteria, bounty categories, and report and payout guidelines — Apple opens its previously-closed bug bounty program to all security researchers. — Apple has formally opened its bug bounty program today … | Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
Sources: NBC's Peacock to integrate NBC News Now, have a free, limited-content tier, a limited-ads tier for $5/month, and an ad-free tier for $10/month — - NBCUniversal is looking to differentiate its streaming service Peacock from rivals through its pricing structure and user interface.
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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
France's competition authority fines Google €150M for mistreating advertisers by suspending them on its search engine in a random and unjustified fashion — Google has been accused of suspending keyword advertisers on its search engine in a random and unjustified fashion| The Economic Times: |
SoftBank Vision Fund 2 invests $231M in India-based eyewear ecommerce startup Lenskart's Series G, sources say at a valuation of $1.5B — The transaction values company at about $1.5 billion post the investment — SoftBank has invested about $231 million (Rs 1,645 crore) …
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| Elly Cosgrove / CNBC: |
IAC to buy online caregiver marketplace Care.com in a deal valued at nearly $500M; Care.com stock is up 13+% — - IAC's deal to buy Care.com comes one day after it detailed plans to spin off all of its shares of online dating company Match Group. — Care.com soars more than 13% on the news …
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Study of 189 facial recognition algorithms shows they misidentify people of color more often than white people, confirming facial recognition tech's racial bias — Facial-recognition systems misidentified people of color more often than white people, a landmark federal study released Thursday shows … | Kana Inagaki / Financial Times: |
Mitsubishi and NTT to buy 30% stake in digital map provider HERE Technologies; BMW, Audi, and Daimler bought Nokia's HERE unit for ~€2.8bn in 2015 — Japan's biggest trading house Mitsubishi and telecoms company NTT are to acquire a 30 per cent stake in Here Technologies … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
OnePlus unveils a bug bounty program with rewards from $50-$7,000 open to any security expert and a bug bounty partnership with HackerOne for select researchers — You can earn up to $7,000 for submitting a bug — OnePlus announced its second data breach in two years back in November … Sponsor Posts
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