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DOJ warns the group behind the Oscars that potential rule changes limiting the eligibility of Netflix and other streaming services could raise antitrust issues — WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has warned the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that its potential rule changes limiting …
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Facebook says it will stop asking for email passwords to verify new accounts; previously, it used them to verify accounts whose email addresses didn't use OAuth — Responding to criticism, Facebook says it will stop asking users for their email passwords as a means of verifying some new accounts.
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| Ivan Mehta / The Next Web: |
WhatsApp now allows users to control who can add them to group chats — WhatsApp's group conversations can be awfully annoying when you're dragged into them without your consent. It's finally rolled out a fix for that, in the form of a new setting that lets you choose who can add you to group chats … | Edmund Lee / New York Times: |
Sources: more than 200,000 people subscribed to Apple News+ in its first 48 hours, more than Texture had at its peak — Executives have been burned by their previous dealings with big tech companies. But Apple's promise of a billion devices worldwide was too good to pass up. Even for Rupert Murdoch.
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| Andrew Liszewski / Gizmodo: |
Adobe's After Effects adds Content-Aware Fill for videos, which can intelligently remove and replace objects in a scene — Your browser does not support HTML5 video tag.Click here to view original GIF — In 2010, Adobe introduced one of Photoshop's first true ‘smart’ features …
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Google will require contracting firms to give US workers health care benefits, parental leave, $15/hr min. wage, more, by 2022, following activism from Googlers — Google said on Tuesday it will require its contracted and temporary workforce to receive full benefits, including comprehensive health care … | Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
Inside the DNC's plan to replace its aging data repository Vertica with the Data Warehouse, a more powerful BigQuery-based system, before the 2020 election — IN JULY OF 2017, as Raffi Krikorian settled into his new office at the Democratic National Committee, Hillary Clinton's words were still ringing in his ears.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Run.AI, which is building a virtualization and acceleration platform for deep learning, comes out of stealth with a total of $13M raised — Tel Aviv's Run.AI, a startup that is building a new virtualization and acceleration platform for deep learning, is coming out of stealth today.
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Singapore introduces draft bill that requires sites to take down fake news raising concerns among human rights advocates over repression — HONG KONG — Singapore introduced draft legislation on Monday that it said would combat false or misleading information on the internet …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google has officially started the process of shutting down and deleting all consumer accounts on its failed social network platform Google+ — The deletion of personal accounts starts today — Google has officially started the process of shutting down and deleting all consumer accounts …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Sources: Affirm, the online lending startup led by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, has raised ~$300M Series F at a post-money valuation of $2.9B — Affirm, the consumer credit startup led by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, has raised around $300 million in Series F funding, Axios has learned.
Tweets: @erickschonfeld and @danprimack
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Aqua Security, which helps customers launch containers securely, raises $62M Series C led by Insight Partners — Aqua Security, a startup that helps customers launch containers securely, announced a $62 million Series C investment today led by Insight Partners.
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Onfido, which verifies digital identities using AI, raises $50M co-led by SoftBank Investment (SBI) and Salesforce Ventures — Security breaches, where malicious hackers obtain snippets of information that then get used to impersonate individuals in order to gain access to individuals … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
HR software startup Rippling, led by ex-Zenefits CEO Parker Conrad, raises $45M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins, source says at a valuation of $270M — Parker Conrad's last startup Zenefits drowned in busy work. Now with Rippling, he wants to boil that ocean.
Tweets: @joshconstine
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Red Points, which provides a SaaS to help brands protect their products from online fakes and piracy, raises $38M Series C led by Summit Partners — Barcelona-based Red Points has closed a $38 million Series C led by Summit Partners. Existing investors Northzone, Mangrove …
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Scribd launches Scribd Originals, a new long-form program with original content featuring notable authors such as Roxane Gay and Garrett Graff — Pieces will range between a magazine feature and a book — Reading platform Scribd is launching a new original content program called Scribd Originals today … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat is testing Status, a Bitmoji on the Snap Map depicting what a user is doing, and Passport, a private compilation of Statuses, in Australia — Today's teens missed the Foursquare era, so Snapchat is giving them another shot with a new feature to aid in-person meetups.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Pagaya, which uses AI to help manage asset-backed securities, raises $25M Series C led by Oak HC/FT — Pagaya Investments, an AI-driven institutional asset manager that focuses on fixed income and consumer credit markets, today announced that it has raised $25 million in series C funding led …
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District court in Florida orders 27 pirate sites to pay $1M in damages each to Philippine media giant ABS-CBN, which has won many legal fights in US this year — ABS-CBN, the largest media and entertainment company in the Philippines, has scored yet another legal victory in the United States.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Security researcher finds massive spam operation in an unsecured server, now inactive, which sent 5M+ emails over 10 days that 160K+ people clicked through — Five million emails in ten days — For ten days in March, millions were caught in the same massive spam campaign.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft makes Visual Studio 2019 for Windows and Mac generally available with a new start window, more coding space, better C++ support, and smarter debugging — Microsoft today announced that Visual Studio 2019 for Windows and Mac has hit general availability — you can download it now from visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads.
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