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UK watchdog gives Facebook a preliminary fine of about $664,000, the maximum allowed, for letting Cambridge Analytica access data about millions of people — Facebook is staring down its first fine for allowing Cambridge Analytica to improperly access data about millions of people …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Court filing: former Apple employee Xiaolang Zhang has been charged by the FBI with the alleged theft of trade secrets related to Apple's autonomous car efforts — The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation this week charged former Apple employee Xiaolang Zhang with theft of trade secrets …
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| Adam Fisher / Vanity Fair: |
Valley of Genius book excerpt: an oral history of the early days at Google as told by its founders, early employees, advisers, and more — A behind-the-scenes account of the most important company on the Internet, from grad-school all-nighters, space tethers, and Burning Man to the …
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| Adam Fisher / Wired: |
Interviews with Zuckerberg and other employees shed light on Facebook's wild early days from 2004/2005 and the corporate proto-culture that shaped the company — EVERYONE WHO HAS seen The Social Network knows the story of Facebook's founding. It was at Harvard in the spring semester of 2004.| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple confirms it's combining machine learning, artificial intelligence, and Siri teams under John Giannandrea, who was hired from Google earlier this year — Apple is creating a new AI/ML team that brings together its Core ML and Siri teams under one leader in John Giannandrea.
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| Reuters: |
Uber's head of human resources Liane Hornsey resigns following probe into how she handled allegations of racial discrimination at the firm — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc's Chief People Officer Liane Hornsey resigned on Tuesday, Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi said …
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Facebook apps from Mail.Ru are being reviewed as part of Facebook's probe into user data misuse; two apps received extension to collect data after policy change — Not just another Facebook data scandal — A Russian internet company with links to the Kremlin was among the firms …
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Business Insider, Wired, Beyond Search, and Mashable
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| Iris Deng / South China Morning Post: |
China Internet Report confirms the dominance of Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent as rural areas get online, with 55M remote students and 490K local online shops — China Internet Report offers insights into country's internet landscape, including its unicorns, top internet companies, and most active investors
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Instagram adds the questions sticker, a new way to poll your friends — Increasing engagement at all costs — In October, Instagram added a polling feature to its ephemeral stories. Today, the company is introducing a new twist on polling with the questions sticker … | Jagmeet Singh / NDTV Gadgets 360: |
To combat the spread of fake news on its app, WhatsApp is rolling out “Forwarded” label to indicate when messages have been forwarded to users — WhatsApp has started rolling out a feature that will indicate to users which messages they receive were forwarded by as is the sender.
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XDA Developers, WhatsApp.com, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Poynter, CNET, The Next Web, Neowin, Adweek, Mashable, CNET, Android Police, Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, BuzzFeed, Hindustan Times, and The Verge. Tweets: @sub8u. Thanks:@jagmeets13
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
YouTube begins rolling out incognito mode, which hides search and viewing history, for Android users — Earlier this year, both YouTube and YouTube Music began hinting at an “Incognito mode” — similar to Google Chrome's — that disables your watch and search history.| Scott Roxborough / Hollywood Reporter: |
EU's biggest TV broadcasters are combining resources to launch streaming video services in countries like UK, France, and Germany to compete against Netflix — Old media broadcasters in Germany and France are setting up ambitious joint national video platforms, but do they have what it takes to compete with the streaming giants?
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