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In EU, Google to start charging OEMs for Play Store and Google apps, offer separate licenses for Search and Chrome, let OEMs make devices with forked Android — Android will still be “free and open source” — Google is changing the way it licenses its suite of Android apps in Europe …
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
After saying last week no data collected through Portal would be used to target users with ads, Facebook now says the data can be used to target ads — Who you call and what apps you use could determine what ads you see. — Facebook announced Portal last week, its take on the in-home …
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
YouTube says it has resolved widespread access issues that also affected YouTube TV and YouTube Music — Google's services are ubiquitous enough that it's pretty noteworthy when they go down. Tonight, it seems multiple services are suffering an outage, including YouTube …
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| Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: |
Advertisers allege in suit that Facebook didn't disclose key video metric error for over a year and that scale of miscalculation was far worse than understood — Facebook knew of problems with how it measured viewership of video ads for more than a year before it revealed them in 2016, according to a complaint filed by advertisers.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
As the scandal of Khashoggi's disappearance grows, Silicon Valley is mostly quiet on its connections to Saudi Arabia, the largest funding source for US startups — The kingdom is now the largest single investor for U.S. startups, with stakes in Uber, WeWork and Magic Leap
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| Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
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| Karl Bode / Techdirt: |
Stanford study: of the 800,000+ unique comments submitted to the FCC concerning repeal of net neutrality, 99.7% of them opposed what the FCC did — A new study has once again confirmed that the vast, vast majority of the public opposed the FCC's ham-fisted repeal of net neutrality.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Samsung acquires Spanish network analytics company Zhilabs, which uses AI to monitor carriers' network performance and data traffic across myriad services — Samsung has announced that it has acquired Zhilabs, a Spanish network analytics company that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) …
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| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla have announced a unified plan to deprecate the use of TLS 1.0 and 1.1 in their web browsers in early 2020 — Almost everyone has now migrated to TLS 1.2, and a few have moved to TLS 1.3. — Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla have announced …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google launches Chrome 70 with option to disable linked sign-ins, which are enabled by default, support for PWAs on Windows and an AV1 decoder, and more — Google today launched Chrome 70 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The release includes an option to disable linking Google site and Chrome sign-ins …
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| Nick Paumgarten / New Yorker: |
Interview with Vitalik Buterin, Vlad Zamfir, Joseph Lubin, and others in the Ethereum community looking at the birth, current state, and future of blockchain — Inside the ongoing argument over whether Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the blockchain are transforming the world.
Tweets: @zackvoell and @amandagutterman
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Chartbeat: traffic to publishers from Facebook down nearly 40% since January 2017, but direct mobile traffic to publishers' websites and apps has grown 30%+ — Facebook and Twitter are declining as news and media referral sources on mobile, according to a report from traffic analytics company Chartbeat … | Heather Murphy / New York Times: |
Profile of GEDmatch, a genealogy website that has helped crack more than a dozen cold cases after it was used to uncover the identity of the Golden State Killer — Fifteen murder and sexual assault cases have been solved since April with a single genealogy website.
Tweets: @nytimes and @nytscience
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple says devs can now sell 10 apps in a bundle, create app bundles for Mac apps, and make bundles that include free apps with auto-renewable subscriptions — Apple today announced expanded features for App Store bundles, introducing support for both Mac apps and free apps with subscriptions for the first time.| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
After criticism from FCC's Pai and Florida Gov. Scott, Verizon offers 3-month credit to customers hit hardest by Hurricane Michael; AT&T also giving credits — Since the landfall of Hurricane Michael last week, Verizon has been under scrutiny for its seemingly poor efforts to restore service in the Florida Panhandle.| Medium: |
Anonymous Amazon employee says 450+ employees signed letter to Bezos and other execs asking them to stop selling Rekognition to police and kick Palantir off AWS — When a company puts new technologies into the world, it has a responsibility to think about the consequences.| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
GitHub debuts Actions for devs to automate workflows and build, share, and execute code inside containers, security alerts for Java and .NET projects, and more — The GitHub code repository, which has been used by 31 million developers around the world in the past year …
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Coinbase now lets users buy and sell ZRX, the token representing the 0x Project, joining BTC, BCH, ETC, ETH, and LTC a week after adding ZRX to Coinbase Pro — Coinbase's newest asset is live. On Tuesday the popular U.S.-based cryptocurrency platform added support for ZRX, the token representing the 0x Project.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Huawei's fitness-focused Watch GT, which has two versions for €199 or €249, a 1.39" OLED display, GPS, and runs a proprietary OS called LiteOS — How does two weeks' battery life sound? — At a time when the Apple Watch is miles ahead of any other smartwatch … | Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
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