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As the World Wide Web turns 30, a list of some memorable and impactful highlights, from big sites like eBay and Pornhub, to @dril, to one-off games like QWOP — It began by asking how future scientists would keep track of their increasingly large projects. “This proposal provides an answer to such questions,” he wrote.
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Senator Warren's proposal would create massive new problems, have significant unintended consequences, and not address the issues she is concerned about — Senator Elizabeth Warren deserves credit: I have been writing about antitrust, particularly in the context of Aggregation Theory …
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| Cristiano Lima / Politico: |
Facebook pulled ads from Sen. Warren's campaign calling for the breakup of Facebook and other tech giants, citing policy violations, but is now restoring them — Facebook removed several ads placed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign that called for the breakup of Facebook and other tech giants.
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| Saqib Shah / Engadget: |
Mozilla's free encrypted file sharing service Firefox Send is now available to all Firefox users and has its own Send Android app in beta — Mozilla has made privacy Firefox's calling card, while lambasting companies it believes don't meet the bar on security.
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| Parmy Olson / Forbes: |
Microsoft's Seeing AI app, which narrates what's in front of the camera for sight-impaired users, now lets users “touch” objects' edges via haptic feedback — My neighbor Katina does not fit the description of an early adopter of technology. — She is a 75-year-old sculptor …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Amazon drops the price of Eero bundles by $100 and pledges to keep Eero's network data private, as its acquisition of the company officially closes — Eero will be run independently inside Amazon — Amazon's deal to acquire mesh Wi-Fi router company Eero has officially closed …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Truepill raises $13.4M Series A led by Alexis Ohanion's Initialized Capital to expand its platform that lets businesses deliver medication to customers — Y Combinator alum Truepill today announced that it has raised $13.4 million in a series A funding round led by Reddit cofounder Alexis …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy S10 review: despite being stuck awkwardly in between the S10 Plus and S10E, it's a great phone with an excellent display and performance — The standard S10 model is almost as excellent as the S10 Plus, but not quite — Samsung's Galaxy S10 lineup of phones is perhaps … | Wall Street Journal: |
After two Boeing 737 Max planes crash in a six-month span, grounding scores of flights, Boeing says it will update its flight control software over coming weeks — Boeing Co. is making a significant software change to a flight-control system in the new 737 MAX aircraft implicated …
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| Kim Zetter / Motherboard: |
Researchers find a severe flaw in the new Swiss online voting system, slated to roll out this year, which they say would allow someone to alter votes undetected — Researchers have found a severe issue in the new Swiss internet voting system that they say would let someone alter votes undetected.
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| Byrne Hobart: |
The Bay Area is no longer the best place to start tech companies, as rising housing costs push workers to join established companies with market salaries — California is hard to beat. There are richer places with worse weather, there are (a few) nicer climates with worse economies …
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| USA Today: |
A look at the emergence of Atlanta as the nation's black tech capital, where about 25% of tech workers were reported to be African American in 2016 — ATLANTA — Over an iPad and a cup of tea, Marcus Blackwell Jr. is talking up his mobile app that uses music to help kids learn math.
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber settles two years-old lawsuits over driver classification for $20M, a boon to the company as it prepares to go public — The ride-hail company gets to continue not paying for traditional benefits like paid sick time and workers' compensation — The fight over the classification …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Investing app Stash raises $65M Series E, partners with Green Dot to debut banking and “stock-back” rewards, which go to users spending money from Stash account — Stash, the fintech startup and app that aims to introduce new people to the world of investing … | Gaurav Shukla / NDTV Gadgets 360: |
YouTube Music, YouTube Music Premium, and YouTube Premium launch in India, joining Google Play Music and Google Play Movies as well as Spotify — YouTube Music (ad-supported), YouTube Music Premium (ad-free), YouTube Premium (ad-free) have been launched in India.| BuzzFeed News: |
Facebook's VP of public policy and France's technology minister talk about Facebook's ongoing cooperation with the French government in fighting hate speech — PARIS — When French President Emmanuel Macron decided to combat hate speech online he turned to the very person many blame for its rapid spread …
Tweets: @katherinemiller, @mathewi, @standwithus, and @zorromaplestone
| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon's Alexa platform, which has 80,000 skills, has yet to have a breakout hit; interviews with developers show Amazon pays up to $5,000/month for a skill — The advent of the smartphone triggered an app gold rush. So far that hasn't happened with Alexa.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Web performance and security company Cloudflare raises $150M round led by Franklin Templeton ahead of a rumored IPO — Cloudflare, a web performance and security platform, has raised $150 million in a round of funding led by Franklin Templeton. — Founded in 2009, Cloudflare offers a range …
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