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Digital privacy activist Max Schrems files official GDPR complaints against Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram over forced consent — Europe's sweeping new data privacy regime came into effect this morning, and privacy activists are not wasting time in flexing their muscles.
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Some US news sites like the LA Times and the Chicago Tribune restrict access from EU as GDPR goes into effect — Some high-profile US news websites are temporarily unavailable in Europe after new EU data protection rules came into effect. — The Chicago Tribune and LA Times were among …
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Sources: Essential, a startup co-founded by Android creator Andy Rubin, is considering selling itself and has canceled development of a new smartphone — - Company cancels development of second version of smartphone — Startup has spent over $100 million on product development
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Tesla agrees to settle class action lawsuit, says people who bought Teslas with $5,000 Autopilot upgrades in 2016 and 2017 will get $20 to $280 in compensation — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tesla on Thursday reached an agreement to settle a class action lawsuit with buyers of its Model S … | Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Apple wins $538.6M from Samsung in iPhone patent retrial: $533.3M for infringement of Apple's design patents and $5.3M for infringement of its utility patents — Nearly six years after a federal jury awarded Apple over $1 billion in damages against Samsung for infringing on iPhone design patents …
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Amazon says the Echo that recorded a private discussion interpreted background conversation as action confirmation, leading to recording and sending to contact — A couple says their device secretly recorded a private conversation of theirs and sent it to an acquaintance.
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| Marie Mawad / Bloomberg: |
Facebook's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun says company is designing its own energy-efficient chips to help with analyzing and filtering live video content — - Company is working on more energy-efficient semiconductors — AI scientist LeCun says more software cos working on hardware
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| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Unsealed indictment shows federal prosecutors have charged three men with crimes related to December death of a Kansas man fatally shot in a swatting prank — Gamers charged with obstruction for deleting possibly incriminating messages. — Federal prosecutors have unsealed an indictment …
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| Micah Singleton / The Verge: |
YouTube Music review: easy to use with an excellent home screen and recommendation engine but confusing price structure and missing power user features — After years of false starts, YouTube is now serious about music streaming — YouTube Music, the video service's first full-fledged … | Richard Lai / Engadget: |
HTC's Vive Focus VR system update adds ability to receive calls, notifications, and messages from the U12+ and other HTC phones via a Vive companion app — Even though the Vive Focus won't be available outside of China until later this year, it's already getting a major update which will make it a lot more versatile.
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TechCrunch, ZDNet, The Register, VentureBeat, CNET, Road to VR, Road to VR, and UploadVR. Tweets: @richardlai
| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Pinterest revenues were up 58% in 2017 to $473M; company now has almost 250M monthly active users — - Online image service has almost 250 million monthly users — Predictable revenue growth is an important step before IPO — Pinterest Inc. sales jumped 58 percent …
Tweets: @shiraovide and @rrhoover
| City Attorney of San Francisco: |
San Francisco announces new regulations requiring scooter startups like Lime, Spin, and Bird, to halt operations by June 4 and apply for permits by June 7 — New city law halting unpermitted scooter operations in effect June 4, scooter permitting system now activated
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| Sean Hollister / CNET: |
Valve says Apple revoked its approval of the Steam Link app for iOS due to “business conflicts with app guidelines” and denied Valve's appeal — So much for easily playing PC games on your iPhone. — If you were hoping to stream PC games from your powerful gaming rig to your iPhone or iPad …
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Facebook will check images and text, who is being targeted, and any linked websites in issue ads as it begins to apply new policies — Political advertising serves an important purpose. It helps candidates share their views with the public more broadly, and it can help encourage people to get involved in the political process.
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