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Facebook will now use facial recognition technology to alert users when someone uploads their photos without tagging them — Today we're announcing new, optional tools to help people better manage their identity on Facebook using face recognition. Powered by the same technology we've used …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft rolls out latest Windows 10 test build with Timeline feature and begins work on enabling Progressive Web Apps on Windows 10 with Edge — Microsoft's latest ‘Redstone 4’ test build, 17063, includes includes its promised Timeline feature, the start of Edge support for Progressive Web Apps …
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| Rick D. / NEWSBTC: |
Coinbase enables trading of Bitcoin Cash on its platform today; users who had Bitcoin at the time of fork on Aug. 1 will have equal balance in Bitcoin Cash — Cryptocurrency exchange CoinBase announced today that they will allow full support for Bitcoin Cash.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google Chrome will start natively blocking ads that do not comply with Coalition for Better Ads guidelines on February 15 — In June, Google revealed that Chrome will stop showing all ads (including those owned or served by Google) on websites that display non-compliant ads “starting in early 2018.”
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| Cody Toombs / Android Police: |
Google Play Store to require apps to target SDK no more than one year older than current release starting late 2018; new, native apps must offer 64-bit in 2019 — The Play Store created some controversy last month after announcing plans to remove apps that used Accessibility Services …
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| Dustin Volz / Reuters: |
White House homeland security adviser Tom Bossert says Facebook and Microsoft helped stop North Korean hacking operations last week — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facebook Inc and Microsoft Corp disabled a number of North Korean cyber threats last week, a White House official said on Tuesday … | Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Facebook adds HTC Vive, SteamVR, and Windows desktop support to beta of Spaces, its first VR chat app — In a major about-face for the virtual reality teams at Facebook, the company announced a surprise Tuesday update to its VR “Spaces” app. The social media service's first VR chat app …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says he expects AirPods shipments to grow 100% YoY to 26-28M in 2018, with a new model coming out in mid- to late-2018 — Apple will release an upgraded version of AirPods in the second half of 2018, according to KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Rep. Marsha Blackburn proposes bill to ban site blocking and throttling but allow fast lanes and bar FCC from regulating ISPs as common carriers under Title II — FCC would be permanently barred from using Title II authority over broadband. — A Republican lawmaker is proposing …
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| Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
Researcher finds analytics firm Alteryx left data like addresses, phones, mortgages of 123M US households unsecured on AWS; Alteryx says database now secured — Information on more than 120 million American households was sitting in a massive database found left exposed on the web earlier this month, Forbes has been told.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Store removes Google Chrome Installer app, which only directed users to a download link, citing violation of Store policies — Google published a Chrome app in the Windows Store earlier today, which just directed users to a download link to install the browser.
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Tweets: @reckless, @tomwarren, @tomwarren, @tomwarren, and @backlon
| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Prompted by the “de-badging” of Milo Yiannopoulos, internal emails show confusion among Twitter execs over user verification policies and meaning of the badge — Emails suggest that verification was never quite what Twitter said it was and that the company was aware it served … | David Katzmaier / CNET: |
YouTube TV will launch Roku and Apple TV apps in early 2018 — Cable TV cord-cutters expecting YouTube TV's full app for Roku and Apple TV devices this year will have to wait a little longer. — YouTube TV finally has a full app, but the rollout to various TV devices is taking longer than originally planned.| Lauren Thomas / CNBC: |
Stitch Fix, in first earnings since IPO, reports $296M Q1 revenue, beating analyst estimates, but says gross margin declined ~3%; stock down 10%+ after hours — - Just last month, San Francisco-based Stitch Fix raised $120 million in a downsized IPO that priced below its indicated range of $18 to $20.| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
YouTube signs new long-term agreement with Universal Music Group over music rights, royalty rates; sources say Sony Music signed new agreement with YouTube, too — New Universal, Sony agreements allow video uploads to continue — Deals establish royalty rates between YouTube, rights holdersSponsor Posts
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