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Sources: Facebook's data-sharing deals under federal criminal investigation; an NY grand jury subpoenaed at least two device-makers who partnered with Facebook — Federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation into data deals Facebook struck with some of the world's largest …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google debuts the first preview of Android Q to devs, available on all Pixel devices, with granular privacy settings, better support for foldable devices, more — Google today launched Android Q Beta 1, available for download now at google.com/android/beta.
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| Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
Facebook says it is working to bring its services back online as users around the world report issues with Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Oculus, and WhatsApp — While you can open the apps, they're missing major functions — Facebook and Instagram appear to be partially down for some users around the world today.
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| Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: |
Spotify files an anti-trust complaint against Apple with the European Commission, claiming App Store rules limit choice and stifle competition — Spotify is filing a complaint against Apple with the European Commission, accusing the latter company of anticompetitive behaviour in the way it manages …
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| Aaron Tilley / The Information: |
Apple has acquired Laserlike, a small Silicon Valley-based ML startup, likely to strengthen its AI efforts; Laserlike had raised $24M+, per Crunchbase — Apple has acquired Laserlike, a small Silicon Valley-based machine learning startup, which could help strengthen the company's artificial …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Twitter's mobile app is rolling out a Snapchat-style camera designed to promote sharing photos, videos, and live footage when users swipe left on their timeline — Twitter is rolling out the redesign to its camera feature TechCrunch reported on a month ago that's designed to let you capture photos …
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| Maureen Farrell / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: a consortium that includes SoftBank and at least one automaker is in late-stage talks to invest $1B or more into Uber's self-driving vehicle unit — A consortium that includes SoftBank Group is in late-stage talks to invest $1 billion or more into Uber Technologies' self-driving vehicle unit.
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| Tiffany Hsu / New York Times: |
Amazon has delisted two books that claimed to hold cures for autism, following a letter from Rep. Schiff criticizing anti-vaccine misinformation on the platform — Amazon has removed the online listings for two books that claim to contain cures for autism, a move that follows recent efforts … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Researchers find mobile adware, dubbed SimBad, hidden in over 200 Android games, with more than 150M downloads — Security researchers have found a new kind of mobile adware hidden in hundreds of Android apps, and downloaded more than 150 million times from Google Play.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Verizon's 5G service to launch on April 11 in Chicago and Minneapolis and cost $85-$105 for its unlimited plans — The first phone available will be the Moto Z3 with the 5G Moto Mod — Verizon's 5G network is coming. After months of vague statements, the carrier has finally announced … | Peter Rubin / Wired: |
An early look at Facebook's Codec Avatars, extremely life-like representations of individuals made by applying machine learning to data collected in a studio — “There's this big, ugly sucker at the door,” the young woman says, her eyes twinkling, “and he said, ‘Who do you think you are, Lena Horne?’
Tweets: @jlax, @kevinroose, and @ddiakopoulos
| CNBC: |
Cloudera misses Q4 FY2019 analyst estimates with revenue of $144.5M, up 37% YoY, and losses of $85.5M; stock down ~15% after hours following weak Q1 guidance — Cloudera plummeted as much as 15 percent in extended trading on Wednesday after the developer of software for managing …
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| Bloomberg: |
Court documents: Larry Page worried he would lose control of Google in 2011 and seemed to make a “veiled threat” to quit over the issue — - Page feared co-founder Brin might sell voting shares in 2011 — Court documents shed new light on controversial class C stock
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft demos its Project xCloud game streaming service with Forza Horizon 4 streaming to an Android phone, ahead of Google's “future of gaming” event — Entering public trials later this year — Microsoft has provided a live demonstration of its upcoming Project xCloud game streaming service.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Google quietly adds DuckDuckGo and other privacy-focused search engines as an option for Chrome users in more than 60 markets — In an update to the chromium engine, which underpins Google's popular Chrome browser, the search giant has quietly updated the lists of default search engines …
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| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
ACLU releases documents showing ICE lets over 9,200 employees access a controversial license plate database with little oversight — The ACLU published the emails today — Immigration and Customs Enforcement allows thousands of employees to access a controversial license plate database …
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Tweets: @geoffreyfowler, @wired, @matt_cagle, @matt_cagle, @matt_cagle, @tonyromm, and @aclu
| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
Allen Institute study of 2M+ AI research papers shows Chinese scholars have out-published US scholars every year since 2005, but questions remain about quality — AT THE WORLD'S top computer-vision conference last June, Google and Apple sponsored an academic contest that challenged algorithms …
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South China Morning Post, GeekWire, MIT Technology Review, Scientific American, AI2 Blog, Wall Street Journal, and TechNode
Tweets: @etzioni, @valaafshar, and @allen_ai
| Nathaniel Mott / Tom's Hardware: |
US CPSC announces expanded recall of 78,500 HP laptops due to battery issues; announcement was delayed from January due to government shutdown — The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that HP expanded its recall of the batteries used in some of its notebooks and mobile workstations due to “fire and burn hazards.”
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| Todd Haselton / CNBC: |
Apple Music arrives on Amazon's Fire TV for US users, following its launch on Amazon's Echo smart speakers last year — Apple Music launched on Amazon Fire TVs in the United States on Wednesday. It is the latest sign of Apple's continued push to get its services, including Apple Music, in front of as many people as possible.
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Facebook is rolling out Watch Party support for live TV, with tools for adding trivia, polls, and more, testing first in Facebook Groups with live sports events — Today at SXSW, we're sharing updates on how we're bringing people together around video and music on Facebook … | Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Google is shutting down its Spotlight Stories VR film studio, part of Google's ATAP group, according to an email from the studio's executive producer — Google is shutting down its Spotlight Stories immersive entertainment unit, according to an email sent out by Spotlight Stories executive producer Karen Dufilho Wednesday evening.| Adam Vaughan / New Scientist: |
FamilyTreeDNA will let users block law enforcement from accessing data after report found the company gave the FBI access; EU users are automatically opted out — One of the biggest home DNA-testing companies seems to have bowed to a backlash over its decision to allow the FBI access to its database …
Tweets: @adamvaughan_uk
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google says it removed 2.3B bad ads in 2018, down 28% from 2017 and terminated ~1M bad advertiser accounts, including ~734K publishers and app developers — Around this time of year, Google shares how many “bad ads” it killed the year before. And every year, the number grows. But not this time.
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