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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's idealistic, negligent approach to its products has led to nonstop scandals, from discriminatory ad auctions to social apps with loose data governance — Facebook has naively put its faith in humanity and repeatedly been abused, exploited, and proven either negligent or complicit.
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| Munsif Vengattil / Reuters: |
Facebook opens at $177.01, down about 4%, amid calls for investigation from lawmakers and concerns of deeper regulatory scrutiny of the platform — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc's shares fell 4 percent in premarket on Monday after media reports that a political consultancy that worked …
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| Slate: |
Major tech platforms like Facebook become vulnerable to unethical practices by third parties because they do not proactively support ethical research — Give researchers more access to data, not less. — In a 2013 paper, psychologist Michal Kosinski and collaborators from University …
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| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources detail Apple's initiative to develop tech to mass-produce MicroLED displays, an OLED successor, still at least two years from shipping in its devices — The company has a secret manufacturing facility in California — Apple Watch to be first Apple product with MicroLED technology
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| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Amazon introduces new AWS-powered platform called “GameOn” that lets third-party developers add tournaments, leaderboards, and leagues to their games — Here's a curious bit of news for your Monday morning: Amazon wants to be the backend for gaming tournaments.
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| Thomas Reed / Malwarebytes Labs: |
$15K GrayKey device marketed to law enforcement can reportedly unlock even the latest iPhones, posing serious security concerns — Ever since the case of the San Bernadino shooter pitted Apple against the FBI over the unlocking of an iPhone, opinions have been split on providing backdoor access to the iPhone for law enforcement.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Yelp will double the number of restaurants offering Grubhub delivery to over 80K on its website and app, in deal completing the acquisition of its Eat24 service — Grubhub wants to be the dominant meal-delivery business for Americans — Grubhub Inc. GRUB -.32% and its rivals say they need …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
HTC's Vive Pro VR headset costs $799 without tracking beacons and controllers, pre-orders start today, ships April 5; original Vive now costs $499, down $100 — HTC says it will charge $799 for its new, higher-resolution Vive Pro virtual reality headset — and we mean, literally, just the headset.
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| eMarketer: |
eMarketer estimates Google and Facebook will capture 56.8% of US digital ad investment in 2018, down from 58.5% last year, as Amazon and Snapchat grow quickly — Amazon and Snapchat are experiencing faster growth Google and Facebook may control the bulk of the US digital ad market …
| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba will invest another $2B in Southeast Asian online mall Lazada; Ant Financial's executive chair will replace Lazada's CEO — Ant Executive Chair Lucy Peng to replace Lazada's CEO — Alibaba investment in Lazada reaches $4 billion in total — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd …
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| Matthew Shaer / The California Sunday Magazine: |
A look at how startup founders in the Midwest are staying rather than flocking to Silicon Valley amid a growth in talent and capital in the region — Startup founders throughout the Midwest are doing something new. Staying. — The California Sunday Magazine — Photographs by Jason Henry
Tweets: @calsunday
| Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: |
China's video streaming services iQiyi and Bilibili set US IPO terms: iQiyi to raise up to $2.4B at $17-$19/share, Bilibili up to $525M at $10.50-$12.50/share — Tech IPO filings follow 21 by Chinese companies last year — Tencent music, Xiaomi looking to Hong Kong for their listings| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook announces a Games SDK that allows developers to embed livestreaming, rewards, and more into their PC games — Facebook is challenging Twitch and YouTube for video game live streaming supremacy with the release of its new Games SDK for PC. After testing Live streaming from games …
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