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Job ads aimed at age groups on platforms including Facebook raise questions of age discrimination, prompt lawsuit; Amazon, LinkedIn change methods after query — This article was written through collaboration between The New York Times and ProPublica, the independent, nonprofit investigative journalism organization.
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple confirms Geekbench analysis that shows it manages power demands on iPhones with older batteries to avoid shutdowns, saying it added the feature last year — Because of a Reddit post and the loose interpretation of subsequent benchmark tests posted by Primate Labs' John Poole, the …
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Chinese ride-hailing company Didi Chuxing says it has raised $4B from undisclosed backers, which will be used for AI and international expansion — China's Didi Chuxing, the country's top ride-hailing company, said today that it has raised $4 billion in new capital to support a range …
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| Pan Yue / China Money Network: |
Didi Chuxing to fully acquire third-party payment firm 19Pay for $45M in a bid to expand into financial services — China's largest ride hailing firm Didi Chuxing, which ranks as the second most valuable company on China Money Network's China Unicorn Ranking, has agreed …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Mozilla releases Firefox for Fire TV, touts ability to launch popular video sites like YouTube amid Amazon-Google feud over YouTube access on Amazon's devices — An alternative workaround to the Amazon-Google feud — Amid Amazon and Google's bitter and self-defeating feud over the right …
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Facebook to stop using “disputed” labels on false news, will show fact checks as Related Articles after tests proved the latter method resulted in fewer shares — Scrolling through News Feed, it can be hard to judge what stories are true or false.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Twitter now lets users set up third-party apps, such as 1Password or Authy, for two-factor authentication as an alternative to SMS — Twitter has announced an important change to how it handles two-factor authentication for new logins on its service. Twitter now lets you use third-party apps …
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| Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post: |
Plan to vote on bill for long-term reauthorization of key NSA surveillance program loses support from House Republicans — House Republicans have abandoned plans to vote on a long-term reauthorization of a powerful government authority to conduct foreign surveillance on U.S. soil …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple updates rules to let small businesses use template-based apps under certain conditions, will waive dev fee in 2018 for government and nonprofit apps in US — Apple today announced it's amending the App Store guideline that banned apps created using templates and other app generation services.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to combine iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps in push toward platform unification, aims to let developers expand iOS apps to Macs as early as 2018 — Aim is to let developers expand iOS apps to Mac computers — Apple customers have complained some Mac apps get short shrift
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| Brittany A. Roston / SlashGear: |
Amazon says Music storage subscription service, which let users upload their own music, to be retired on Jan. 15; uploaded music will remain until Jan. 2019 — Amazon is planning to retire its Music storage subscription service, the plan that enabled Amazon customers to upload their own music to the company's servers.| Justin O'Beirne: |
How Google Maps has created data of buildings and “Areas of Interest” from its aerial, satellite, and Street View imagery to take a 6+ year lead over Apple — Over the past year, we've been comparing Google Maps and Apple Maps in New York, San Francisco, and London …
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| David Z. Morris / Fortune: |
NYSE Arca files with the SEC to list two ProShares bitcoin-backed ETFs that would track newly-introduced bitcoin futures contracts — NYSE Arca, an exchange owned by New York Stock Exchange's parent company, has resubmitted an application with the SEC to list a pair of Bitcoin-backed exchange-traded funds … | Brian Crecente / Rolling Stone: |
Reporter describes new demos of Magic Leap's mixed-reality headset and talks with founder Rony Abovitz about the science behind it — Rony Abovitz talks with Glixel about the tech and ambitions behind new MR Goggles — Magic Leap today revealed a mixed reality headset that it believes reinvents …
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Password manager maker Keeper sues Ars Technica and reporter Dan Goodin for story on a vulnerability in Keeper software, first highlighted by Google researcher — The vulnerability was fixed, but Keeper now demands that the allegedly defamatory article is pulled offline.
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