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By shifting focus to private messaging, Facebook is getting closer to emulating WeChat, which has made Apple's control of iOS largely irrelevant in China — The social network's “pivot to privacy” puts iOS in its crosshairs. Welcome to tech's next big rivalry.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Interview with Sen. Warren on her plan to break up big tech, including Apple, which she says shouldn't compete in the App Store with its own products — Under Warren's plan, Amazon would not be able to sell Amazon Basics products on the Amazon retail store, Google would not be able to promote … | Elizabeth Warren / Team Warren: |
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| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Tesla is dealing with the failure to achieve full self-driving by shifting goalposts, as it continues using its customers as unpaid safety drivers for its tech — Tesla just shifted the goalposts for “full self-driving” technology. — An overhaul to Tesla's Autopilot webpage might represent …
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| Oscar Schwartz / The Guardian: |
AI-based emotion detection has become a $20B industry, but some experts say the foundational science behind the tech is flawed and can adversely affect society — Machines can now allegedly identify anger, fear, disgust and sadness. ‘Emotion detection’ has grown from a research project to a $20bn industry| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
After YouTube recategorized “Brie Larson”, star of Captain Marvel, as news in search, its algorithm surfaced videos from news publishers, pushing down trolls — How a simple ‘news’ tag can change everything — If you searched “Brie Larson” on YouTube a couple of days ago … | Dennis Crowley / Foursquare Intersections: |
Foursquare's Hypertrending app uses Pilgrim, its SDK used by thousands of apps on millions of phones, to show where people congregate in Austin, in real time — Where 10 Years of Foursquare Has Led Us — It's been 10 years since we launched Foursquare at SXSW in 2009.
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| Susie Cagle / OneZero: |
The sharing economy, once touted as community-building, sustainable, and a salvation from capitalism, has in fact only ushered in a precarious economic future — ‘Sharing’ was supposed to save us. Instead, it became a Trojan horse for a precarious economic future.
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| Financial Times: |
As ride-hailing and p2p lending face govt. scrutiny in China, a number of state-backed startups have entered those sectors increasing the pressure on incumbents — Technology start-ups in two of China's hottest sectors are facing a fresh rush of competition as state-backed rivals push into ride-hailing and peer-to-peer lending.
Tweets: @benjaminqiu
| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Buds review: compact and unobtrusive, with better than expected sound, but are finicky outside of the Samsung ecosystem — Getting as many things right as wrong — When I was in high school, shopping for new earphones with a single £20 note as my budget, I used to dream of earbuds without the wire.| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Sam Altman steps down as president of Y Combinator, will transition into a chairman role — Sam Altman is stepping down as president of influential startup incubator Y Combinator, in order to spend more time on outside interests like the OpenAI research organization.
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| Maddie Stone / Gizmodo: |
A deep dive into Apple's plan to stop mining the earth “one day” suggests that it will not happen until Apple overhauls its business model — This week, we are writing about waste and trash, examining the junk that dominates our lives, and digging through garbage for treasure.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman share content plans for Quibi, their streaming service launching in April 2020, including a show on Evan Spiegel and Snapchat — Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman today announced a slate of new series and projects heading to their forthcoming video streaming service, Quibi.Sponsor Posts
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