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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook bans Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, Laura Loomer, Louis Farrakhan, and others from Facebook and Instagram, citing dangerous individuals and orgs policy — Milo Yiannopoulos and Louis Farrakhan have been banned as well — Facebook today removed Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones …
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| Rob Price / Business Insider: |
Facebook shared info about extremist ban with some news outlets before the ban was in place, letting Alex Jones and others redirect followers to other platforms — - Facebook is barring a bunch of far-right figures from its apps, including Alex Jones. — But the company briefed journalists … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Verizon is seeking a buyer for Tumblr as it tries to steady Verizon Media Group, which has struggled to meet revenue targets — Wireless giant seeks buyer for social-media service that has lost ground to Facebook — Verizon Communications Inc. is seeking a buyer for blogging website Tumblr …
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BuzzFeed News, The Verge, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Engadget, Gizmodo, CNET, Variety, Business Insider, SlashGear, Neowin, Forbes, TechSpot, Boing Boing, Mashable, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @benmullin, @johnlegere, @anildash, @felixsalmon, @broderick, @caseynewton, @pkafka, @joshtpm, @lauraolin, @ajaromano, @aerocles, and @karlbode
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft announces Azure SQL Database Edge, which will run on compute-constrained devices, and new AI, mixed reality, and IoT capabilities powered by Azure — A couple days ahead of Build 2019, Microsoft is showcasing some new AI, MR, IoT and blockchain capabilities powered by Azure …
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Microsoft Azure Cloud …, Microsoft Docs, TechCrunch, The Official Microsoft Blog, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, InfoWorld, Reuters, PCWorld, GeekWire, GeekWire, VentureBeat, Windows Central, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, Tom's Hardware, and Forbes
Tweets: @giano, @lachlankirkwood, and @chrissimusokwe
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft launches Azure Blockchain Service, a fully managed service meant to help businesses build applications on top of blockchain technology — Microsoft didn't rush to bring blockchain technology to its Azure cloud computing platform, but over the course of the last year …
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SiliconANGLE, Microsoft, CoinDesk, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, GitHub, Wall Street Journal, OnMSFT.com, and Hacker Noon. Tweets: @judsonalthoff
| Bloomberg: |
How Satya Nadella led Microsoft to have more subscribers than Netflix, more cloud computing revenue than Google, and a near-trillion-dollar market cap — The congratulatory texts and tweets started the last week of November. Microsoft had overtaken Apple to become the world's most valuable company …
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| Satyajit Sinha / Counterpoint Research: |
Global smartwatch shipments up 48% YoY in Q1 2019: Apple Watch grew 49% YoY for a 35.8% market share, followed by Samsung's 127% YoY growth for an 11% share — Top nine brands contribute to 75% of the market shipment. Samsung, Fitbit, and Huawei grew exponentially in Q1 2019| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
The Strong National Museum of Play announces Microsoft's Solitaire, first introduced with Windows 3.0 in 1990, will be inducted into the Video Game Hall of Fame — The games in the 2019 class of The Strong's World Video Game Hall of Fame span the spectrum of gaming, with the brutality …
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The Strong National Museum …, Xbox Wire, GeekWire, Engadget, games radar, Associated Press, Comic Book, Hollywood Reporter, USA Today, Gizmodo, MSPoweruser, Windows Central, OnMSFT.com, SlashGear, and TechSpot
Tweets: @jpdysonplay, @majornelson, and @venturebeat
| Mijente: |
Document from May 2017 shows ICE used Palantir's software to target and arrest parents and other relatives of unaccompanied minors crossing the US-Mexico border — The data-mining firm Palantir played a key role in federal immigration efforts to target and arrest family members of children crossing …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify spotted testing “Your Daily Drive,” a personalized playlist featuring short podcast episodes mixed in with curated music, to positive initial reactions — Spotify was recently spotted testing a new personalized playlist — the first one to mix music and podcasts, customized to user's musical tastes.
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The Verge and Digital Trends
Tweets: @dcseifert, @benjisinger, @stevebaril, @sydneyploeger, and @martinsfp
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google says it will roll out a new tool that lets users limit how long it keeps location, search, and browsing data to either three or 18 months — Last August, the Associated Press reported that various Google apps store the timestamped locations of the devices on which they're installed.
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Fox News, The Keyword, BBC, BuzzFeed News, BetaNews, The Hacker News, Adweek, Softpedia News, The Hill, Android Central, KnowTechie, Phandroid, Inc42 Media, Gizchina, NBC News, MSPoweruser, Bloomberg, Inquirer, Neowin, XDA Developers, gHacks Technology News, The Next Web, Android Authority, Ars Technica, htxt.africa, Memeburn, Firstpost Tech, and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @aiiane, @jgamblin, @b1n2h3x, @snowjake, @lizjosullivan, @wantstobegreat, @gregbensinger, @campuscodi, and @peard33
| Human Rights Watch: |
Researchers reverse engineer an app used by Chinese authorities in Xinjiang which connects to a mass surveillance system for tracking Muslim minorities — ‘Reverse Engineering’ Police App Reveals Profiling and Monitoring Strategies — Languages — Chinese authorities are using …
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ZDNet, Human Rights Watch, The Guardian, and Agence France-Presse
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| Paris Martineau / Wired: |
Online extremism researchers face a similar toll on their mental health as content moderators, but, without anonymity, their work leaves them open to harassment — A COUPLE OF hours after the Christchurch massacre, I was on the phone with Whitney Phillips, a Syracuse professor whose research focuses …
Tweets: @grantstern, @wired, @alicetiara, @parismartineau, @libshipwreck, @galwaygrrl, @wesyang, @beccalew, @rothschildmd, @anildash, @travis_view, and @parismartineau
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify launches voice-enabled ads, which encourage the listener to say a command to take action on the ad's content, in a limited test in the US — Spotify is increasing its investment in voice technology, as hinted at earlier this week on the company's earnings call with investors.
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BGR, Engadget, Marketing Land, Mashable, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @ezoic, @jordancooper, @tonyromm, and @cycle_soosai
| Krista Gmelich / Bloomberg: |
Research: since Airbnb's 2008 launch, $14.6B has been invested in ~1,800 digital travel startups, many of them filling the gaps Airbnb can't or won't address — Money has been pouring into digital travel startups that help keep the noise low and the sheets crisp
Tweets: @noiseawaredotio and @kgmelich
| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Alphabet tells US House panel it spends hundreds of millions annually on content review, has manually reviewed 1M+ suspected terrorist videos on YouTube in Q1 — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google unit told a U.S. House panel it annually spends hundreds of millions of dollars …
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Engadget, Silicon Valley Business …, Boing Boing, and Seeking Alpha
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
At F8, Facebook emphasized products and features it aspires to become dominant tomorrow, but despite much talk, didn't actually launch any new privacy features — Zuckerberg gets aspirational — In Facebook's dreams, it's a clean and private place. People spend their time having … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils HoloLens 2 developer edition for $3,500, out later this year, says Unreal Engine 4 support for HoloLens 2 will be available by the end of May — Available later this year — Microsoft is launching a developer edition of the company's HoloLens 2 headset today.
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Ars Technica, PCWorld, GeekWire, Windows Central, The Register, Engadget, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @tomwarren
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
LG's mobile division continues its slide into irrelevance with Q1 loss of $181M on sales of just $1.34B, down 30% YoY and its lowest in at least eight years — LG was once a stalwart of the smartphone industry — remember its collaboration with Facebook back in the day? — but today the company is swiftly descending into irrelevance.
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LG Newsroom, XDA Developers, TechSpot, XDA Developers, ZDNet, Android Authority, Android Police, and Gizchina
| Matt Perez / Forbes: |
Behind the fiasco of Star Citizen, a primarily crowdfunded video game that has raised ~$300M and isn't close to full launch after seven years of development — It's October 2018 and 2,000 video game fanatics are jammed into Austin's Long Center for the Performing Arts to get a glimpse of Star Citizen …
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PC Games Insider. Tweets: @mathewi, @kezamacdonald, @mtrc, @chetfaliszek, @killyourfm, @skillupyt, @spaceshipsporn, @forbes, @tha_rami, @mattryanperez, and @forbes. Thanks:@helenaspopkin
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
YouTube says it will make all of its original content free this fall in a strategy that its CBO says is in opposition to what other media companies are doing — - YouTube Renews Kevin Hart Comedy Series, Sets Maluma and Paris Hilton Documentaries, Lollapalooza Live-Streaming Deal
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