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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Gmail launches email scheduling and brings Smart Compose to all Android phones with subject suggestions and personalized greetings — Despite Google's long-standing love affair with April Fools' fakery, fifteen years ago today the internet giant was deadly serious when it launched what would become one of its biggest products: Gmail.
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| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Mark Zuckerberg, in a conversation with Axel Springer CEO, floats a “news tab to surface more high quality news”, says Facebook could pay publishers — The Facebook CEO floated a “news tab to surface more high-quality news,” and said he's willing to write checks to support it.
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Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @markscott82, @mathewi, @mathewi, @jny, @pkafka, @donie, @mikeisaac, @zielina, @mathewi, @mgsiegler, @markscott82, @ceciliakang, and @alexeheath
| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
500+ Googlers sign a petition demanding Google remove Kay Coles James, president of the conservative Heritage Foundation, from its external AI advisory board — ‘They think that some of our colleagues either do not or should not exist’ — When Google announced an external advisory board …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
One week with Apple News+: it's a great deal for those who enjoy reading magazines, but its design and news delivery mechanisms are messy and inconsistent — There's a lot to evaluate about Apple's new News Plus subscription service, including if it's a good deal for the media business … | Reuters: |
Sources: as part of UAE's Project Raven, 9+ ex-NSA staffers helped hack phones of Al Jazeera's Chairman, a BBC Arabic host, and other journalists — A group of American hackers who once worked for U.S. intelligence agencies helped the United Arab Emirates spy on a BBC host …
| Klint Finley / Wired: |
Cloudflare says users can now sign up for its mobile-only VPN service Warp through its 1.1.1.1 app, says it has plans to offer a faster, paid version of Warp — VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORKS (VPNs) can help protect your internet traffic from prying eyes. VPN services route your email … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook asks for public input via questionnaire and free-form questions about Oversight Board, which is to be its “supreme court” for content policy decisions — In November, Facebook announced its plans to create an external content oversight board that would serve as something of a …
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Facebook announces “Why am I seeing this post?”, a feature to help users better understand and control what is seen from friends, Pages, and Groups in News Feed — News Feed is always personalized to you — and starting today you'll have even more information and control over your experience.
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9to5Mac, Engadget, The Verge, BBC, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, Marketing Land, Redmond Pie, Thurrott, We Are Social UK, Adweek, TechSpot, Business Insider, MSPoweruser, Neowin, CNBC, Inquirer, Geek.com, BuzzFeed News, Firstpost Tech, Social Media Today, CNET, ZDNet, SlashGear, Telegraph, and Mashable. Tweets: @fbnewsroom
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Airbnb confirms it has invested in Indian hotel startup Oyo; an industry source says the investment was between $150M and $200M — Airbnb is continuing to widen its focus beyond ‘unconventional’ hotels as it gets ready for a much-anticipated IPO. Following its acquisition of HotelTonight last month … | Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing: |
Researchers tricked Tesla Autopilot into steering into oncoming traffic by using stickers on the lane markings; Tesla has since patched, but questions remain — Researchers from Tencent Keen Security Lab have published a report detailing their successful attacks on Tesla firmware …
Tweets: @dan_rowinski, @nash076, and @davezatz
| Wall Street Journal: |
With Apple TV+, Apple enters a video streaming market with five different, but overlapping, categories and players like Netflix, Roku, AT&T, Hulu, and Google — In the U.S., Silicon Valley and media titans are competing in categories from subscription entertainment to hardware to online-TV bundles| Frederic Filloux / Monday Note: |
By joining Apple News+, the US magazine industry could lose 50% of its revenue per reader, with ARPU dropping from $120 per year per reader to $59 — Apple digital kiosk is a terrible deal for the news industry. No wonder most newspaper publishers won't join. 1 . The math, from the industry perspective| Jeff Stone / CyberScoop: |
Group-IB describes a new Android malware, Gustuff, capable of phishing credentials and automating bank transactions for 100+ banks and 32 virtual currency apps — A new strain of malicious software affecting Android devices is capable of phishing credentials and automating bank transactions … Sponsor Posts
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