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Facebook says it will change ToS in May for 1.5B users outside EU; US, Canada to be governed by US instead of Ireland ToS, limiting GDPR impact to 400M users — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - If a new European law restricting what companies can do with people's online data went into effect tomorrow …
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Oculus begins rolling out GDPR-compliant changes including a user-facing Privacy Center, updated ToS, and new Code of Conduct for users — While Facebook is still struggling to regain user trust following a data fiasco that ultimately brought Zuckerberg to testify in front of Congress … | Cameron Johnson / Netflix Media Center: |
Netflix launches 30-second preview videos shown in vertical slideshow format, available now on iOS and coming soon to Android — One of the best ways to know if you'll like a new series or movie is to watch a quick trailer. Today, we are excited to introduce mobile previews … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Qualcomm is cutting ~1,500 jobs, mostly in California, in an effort to cut costs by $1B; the company employs 34K people globally — Company to reduce California workforce by about 1,500 — Management acting in response to shareholder pressure — Qualcomm Inc. has begun cutting …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon introduces Alexa Blueprints that let anyone create custom Alexa skills and responses without coding — Amazon this morning is introducing “Alexa Blueprints,” a new way for any Alexa owner to create their own customized Alexa skills or responses, without needing to know how to code.
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| Bloomberg: |
An investigation of data-mining company Palantir, cofounded by Peter Thiel, which works with government agencies and law enforcement to help track US citizens — Peter Thiel's data-mining company is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens. The scary thing? Palantir is desperate for new customers.
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| Bloomberg: |
Interview with Jeff Wilke, who runs Amazon's worldwide consumer division and has been Bezos' right-hand man for 18 years, on its usage of USPS and more — Retail chief Jeff Wilke talks about the company's AI ambitions and downplays Trump concerns. — Donald Trump has hammered Amazon.com … | Eugene Kim / CNBC: |
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Google's App Engine can no longer be used for domain-fronting, which let services use its network to avoid state-level internet blocks — Domain-fronting is now a thing of the past — App developers won't be able to use Google to get around internet censorship anymore.
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Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Access Now, CircleID, and Neowin
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| Aaron Tilley / The Information: |
Sources: Intel to shut down its New Devices Group, which was formed in 2013 and made fitness trackers and smart glasses — Intel's long-failing foray into wearables and augmented reality is officially dead. — The chip giant's new devices group will shut down, according to people familiar with the situation.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple open sources FoundationDB core, three years after acquiring the database company — Apple owned-company FoundationDB today announced that the FoundationDB core has been open sourced with the goal of building an open community with all major development done in the open.
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| Stephen Schenck / Android Police: |
Moto's new budget handsets: €250 G6 with dual cameras and USB-C, bigger €300 G6 Plus, €200 G6 Play with larger battery, €150 E5, €170 E5 Plus, and E5 Play — For smartphone fans who enjoy a good spoiler, we started the year off with a pretty substantial one …
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| Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal: |
Former Time Inc. COO Jen Wong joins Reddit as COO, will focus on business strategy, revenue growth, and user growth — Wong departed Time Inc. after it was acquired by Meredith Corp. in January — Digital media veteran Jen Wong has been named Reddit's chief operating officer effective immediately, the company said Thursday.| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
eBay updates its apps to let sellers scan barcodes to autofill some product information — It's usually a pain to list your goods on an auction site, especially if it's your first time. You have to describe them, choose photos and (worst of all) choose a starting price that will reel …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
MoviePass parent to sell 10.5M shares at $2.75, 28.2% below Wednesday's $3.83 closing price, as auditor has “substantial doubt” about MoviePass' future — Shares of Helios and Matheson Analytics, the majority owner of MoviePass, plummeted more than 40% in early trading Thursday … | Yimian Wu / China Money Network: |
Alibaba invests $717.2M in e-commerce platform Huitongda, which serves rural Chinese consumers, as Alibaba seeks to expand sales outside major cities — China's e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding will invest RMB4.5 billion (US$717.2 million) in Huitongda Network Co. … | Chloe Cornish / Financial Times: |
Interview with Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum's 24-year-old founder, on his “weird” 2017, which saw ether's market cap reach $125B+, the broader crypto market, more — Up in San Francisco's Monterey Heights district stands a modest detached house; a house that would be perfectly ordinary …
Tweets: @mdudas, @maxseddon, @alecurussell, @chloencornish, @ftlifearts, and @jonrussell
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Lyft announces “multimillion-dollar” initiative to invest in environmental projects as it hopes to offset 1M+ metric tons of carbon in the first year — The plan is to offset over a million metric tons of carbon — Lyft announced a multimillion-dollar investment to become …
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Tweets: @mikebloomberg, @cshapiro, and @johnzimmer
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Sources: cryptocurrency firms and VCs, including a16z and Union Square Ventures, are lobbying SEC to seek exemption from federal oversight of cryptocurrencies — Andreessen Horowitz and other venture-capital backers of digital-currency firms argue against regulation| Bloomberg: |
Facebook is building a team to design its own AI chips, according to job listings and sources, joining a trend among tech giants to lower reliance on chipmakers — Social network could use semiconductors for consumer devices — Move follows Apple's chip efforts, early work by Google
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Tweets: @ylecun, @counternotions, @glynmoody, @david_schor, @n_srnck, @jgarzik, @patrickmoorhead, and @ericjhonsa
| Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times: |
Sources: Netflix has considered buying movie theaters in New York and Los Angeles; it decided not to pursue LA-based Landmark Theatres due to high price — Netflix, the global streaming giant that has dramatically changed the TV industry and clashed with movie theater owners …
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Tweets: @jessicakiang, @cityofthetown, @scott_tobias, @rfaughnder, and @awallenstein
| Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
Profile of “Terms of Service; Didn't Read”, launched in 2012, which crowdsources summaries of ToS and then rates them — MOST PEOPLE SPEND very little time thinking about the terms of service that govern life online. The agreement appears in a flash, we affirm that … Sponsor Posts
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