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Facebook will now ban anyone who violates its “most serious policies” from using Facebook Live for a set period of time, starting with their first offense — San Francisco (CNN Business)Two months after the mass shooting at a mosque in New Zealand was live-streamed by the accused gunman …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
A side-channel flaw called ZombieLoad affects nearly all post-2011 Intel chips; Apple, Microsoft, Google release fixes today that, like Spectre, hit performance — Security researchers have found a new class of vulnerabilities in Intel chips which, if exploited, can be used to steal sensitive information directly from the processor.,
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
San Francisco passes a ban on the use of facial recognition technology by city agencies, the first ban of its kind for a major American city — On Tuesday, San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted to approve a ban on the use of facial recognition tech by city agencies.| Paul Ford / Wired: |
Why I (Still) Love Tech: In Defense of a Difficult Industry — We have graduated, along with oil, real estate, insurance, and finance, to the big T. Trillions of dollars. Trillions! Get to that number any way you like: Sum up the market cap of the major tech companies, or just take Apple's valuation on a good day.
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| Peter Kafka / Vox: |
Explaining the Hulu/Disney/Comcast breakup: as media companies get bigger to compete with tech, many shows will scatter from Netflix and Hulu to rival services — All the big media companies want their own streaming service. Big question: Do you want to subscribe to lots of streaming services?
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| Natt Garun / The Verge: |
Google is combining its travel-related products, including Google Trips, Google Flights, and Google Hotel Search, under a singular tool called Trips — Not to be confused with Google Trips, its offline travel app — Google is combining its travel-related products — the mobile Google Trips app …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Uber is rolling out new options for Uber Black, its luxury car service, including a “quiet preferred” mode, help with luggage, and preferred temperature — Tired of chatty drivers? Uber is finally giving users its most requested feature: an in-app way to request minimal conversation during your ride.
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| Ginny Marvin / Search Engine Land: |
Google announces Discovery ads, with a visual format that runs across YouTube home feed, Gmail, and the Discover feed, rolling out globally later this year — SAN FRANCISCO — “A key theme this year is discovery,” Google's Brad Bender, who leads its display and video advertising business … | Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance says it is back online and has resumed trading activity, after being hacked for $40M+ in bitcoin — Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has resumed trading activity. Users can now cancel open orders, deposit crypto assets into their Binance account, and of course buy and sell cryptocurrencies.
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| Cale Guthrie Weissman / Fast Company: |
American Express is acquiring restaurant reservation platform Resy, which says it is used by 4,000 restaurants in 154 US cities and 10 countries — Though Anthony Bourdain championed the idea that reservations aren't necessary, at most popular restaurants, you still need them.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft warns of major WannaCry-like Windows security exploit affecting older versions like XP that could spread malware via RDS protocol, releases patches — Windows 10 and Windows 8 are safe — Microsoft is warning users of older versions of Windows to urgently apply a Windows Update today … | Ben Turtel / The Keyword: |
Rivet, a free app from Google's workshop for experimental projects, helps kids learn to read with speech processing, AI, and a library of 2,000+ free books — Reading is one of the most important skills students will learn in their lives. After the third grade, students who have mastered reading use …
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| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Some theories around why Bitcoin has surged above $8,000, from increased adoption and technological advances to good old-fashioned price manipulation — Bitcoin is now trading at around $8,130, up a whopping 60.84 percent over the past month, with the price surging $3,086.14 over the period.| Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed News: |
A 14-year-old girl with 800,000 YouTube followers is sharing far-right content, highlighting how the platform can push kids to extremism as they build audiences — “Soph” has nearly a million followers on the giant video platform. The site's executives only have themselves to blame.
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| Kaitlyn Tiffany / Vox: |
An examination of the opaque data collection practices in mobile games, which have largely escaped the level of scrutiny applied to social media companies — Seemingly simple mobile games made us all way too comfortable with giving away our personal information. — Angry Birds is so 2009, you might say.| Nicholas Thompson / Wired: |
Q&A with AI pioneer and Turing Award winner Geoffrey Hinton on the evolution of neural networks, consciousness, teaching computers to dream, future plans, more — Geoffrey Hinton is one of the creators of Deep Learning, a 2019 winner of the Turing Award, and an engineering fellow at Google.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Cybersecurity company Crowdstrike files for IPO, seeking to raise up to $100M, says it had a $140M net loss on $249.8M in revenue for the year ending Jan. 31 — KEY POINTS — Security software company Crowdstrike on Tuesday filed to go public on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “CRWD.”
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Ajit Pai proposes a new rule that would allow carriers to block robocalls by default and lets customers block calls from numbers not on their contacts list — ‘The American people are fed up with illegal robocalls’ — On Wednesday, the Federal Communications Commission announced a new measure … | Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Amazon breaks ground on its $1.5B Prime Air hub at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport with enough room for 100 planes, scheduled to open in 2021 — Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos hopped into a front-end loader to “move some earth” as the tech giant broke ground Tuesday …
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| Larry Cermak / The Block: |
Bitfinex CTO confirms that the crypto exchange raised nearly $1B in a private token sale — The issuance of the exchange tokens, dubbed LEO, was planned to cover the $850 million currently frozen in several accounts controlled by the payment processing company Crypto Capital …
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Wikimedia says all language editions of Wikipedia have been blocked in China since late April; previously, China only blocked the Chinese language version — All language editions of Wikipedia have been blocked in mainland China since April, the Wikimedia foundation has confirmed.| Daniel Palmer / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase says it is expanding trading in the dollar-pegged stablecoin USDC to 85 nations globally — Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is expanding trading in the dollar-pegged stablecoin USD Coin (USDC) to 85 nations worldwide. — In a blog post Tuesday, the firm said it now offers crypto … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
AT&T has cut 23K jobs since the corporate tax cut passed in 2017, after it lobbied for it by promising an additional $1B in investment in 2018 and 7K new jobs — AT&T also cut capital spending despite promising $1 billion capital boost. — AT&T has cut more than 23,000 jobs since receiving …
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