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House Democrats release 3,519 Facebook ads from Russia-linked accounts, spanning 2015 to 2017, showing a coordinated campaign to sow distrust in US politics — - House Intelligence Committee Democrats publish 3,519 ads — Posts targeted specific groups to inflame civil discord
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Researchers say they can embed audio commands to Siri, Alexa, and Google's Assistant in music and spoken text in such a way that humans can't detect them — Researchers can now send secret audio instructions undetectable to the human ear to Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa and Google's Assistant.
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Report: Apple and Goldman Sachs to partner on Apple Pay branded credit card, coming as soon as early 2019, and on other financial services for Apple customers — The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple has tapped Goldman Sachs to create a new Apple Pay branded credit card.
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Apple cancels $1B Irish data center because of delays in the approval process that have stalled the project for more than three years — DUBLIN (Reuters) - Apple ditched plans to build an 850 million euro ($1 billion) data center in Ireland because of delays in the approval process …
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Medium abruptly ends feature that let publishers use the platform to collect revenue from their own subscriptions, affecting 21 publishers — “Could we have a better metaphor for the way Silicon Valley considers local journalism?" fumed the owner of one of these remaining publications.| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Google faces pushback after demoing its Duplex service, a voice-based assistant programmed to sound as human as possible, which many found uncanny — The most talked-about, futuristic product from Google's developer show isn't even finished yet — and Google hasn't agreed how to do it.
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Dropbox reports first financial results since IPO, with Q1 revenue of $316.3M, up 28% YoY, as paying users reach 11.5M, up from 9.3M last year — Revenue of $316.3 million, Up 28% Year-Over-Year — Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities of $61.8 million and Free Cash Flow of $51.9 million
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Lithium Technologies to shut down Klout website and the Klout score on May 25, is planning a new social impact scoring methodology based on Twitter — Klout, the online social influence platform founded way back in 2008, is closing down on May 25. — The San Francisco-based startup …
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Spotify announces a hateful content and conduct policy to distance itself from controversial artists and introduces AudioWatch tool to scan its back catalog — Spotify has announced a new hate content and hateful conduct policy as it looks to distance itself from controversial music artists … | Jen Wieczner / Fortune: |
Free stock trading app Robinhood raises $363M Series D led by DST Global at a $5.6B valuation — Robinhood, the free stock trading app, has raised $363 million in a new investment round valuing the company at $5.6 billion. — The Series D round, announced Thursday, makes Robinhood …
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FCC says that the Obama-era net neutrality rules from 2015 will end on June 11; Senate to vote as early as next week on whether to reject the FCC repeal — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission said in a notice Thursday that 2015 landmark U.S. open internet rules will cease around June 10.
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White House science adviser Michael Kratsios tells over 40 companies at AI summit that the Trump administration plans a hands-off approach to AI regulation — The White House unveiled a hands-off regulatory approach to foster the development of artificial intelligence at a gathering of more than 40 companies in Washington Thursday.
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