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Google admits one of its language reviewers leaked confidential Dutch audio data and says it is investigating the issue — We're focused on building products that work for everyone, and as part of this, we invest significant resources to ensure that our speech technology works for a wide variety of languages, accents and dialects.
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Search Engine Land, Threatpost, CNBC, Ars Technica, Neowin, The Hill, The Register, iPhone in Canada Blog, Mashable, 9to5Google, Android Beat, Patently Apple, MSPoweruser, Fast Company, and The Mac Observer. Tweets: @peard33
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Belgian broadcaster obtains 1,000+ Google Assistant audio clips from a Google contractor, some of which seem to be recorded inadvertently and may violate GDPR — GOOGLE, AMAZON, AND Apple say their AI-powered virtual assistants make it easier to get things done on smartphones or at home.
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vrtnws.be, The Verge, Android Police, TechCrunch, The Guardian, The Next Web, Business Insider, Fortune, Boing Boing, Privacy International, Android Authority, Engadget, TechSpot, Phandroid, Tom's Guide, CNET, Android Central, DISPLAYBLOG, USA Today, 9to5Google, Droid Life, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, and Voicebot
Tweets: @rossamcmahon, @pinboard, @wolfiechristl, @reckless, @dhh, @dtunkelang, @scottthurm, @caitlin__kelly, and @tsimonite
| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple says it has temporarily disabled the Apple Watch Walkie Talkie app, due to a vulnerability that could allow iPhone eavesdropping, while it works on a fix — Apple has disabled the Apple Watch Walkie Talkie app due to an unspecified vulnerability that could allow a person to listen …
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Sources: Bird lost about $100M in the first quarter, with revenue shrinking to about $15M, and the company told people that it has about $100M in cash left — The wintertime was bleak for Bird. In this year's first quarter, the electric scooter operator lost nearly $100 million …
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Business Insider, Financial Times, Crunchbase News, Boing Boing, and socalTECH.com
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitter was down globally for just over an hour today as the White House “social media summit” kicked off — When in doubt, ban yourself — Twitter appeared to be down for a large number of users across the United States on Thursday. The company confirmed the issue to The Verge …
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Axios, iMore, Down Detector, Washington Post, CNET, TechCrunch, Engadget, GeekWire, The Register, Android Authority, Windows Central, International Business Times, Mashable, and NBC Bay Area
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WH doesn't seem to have invited anyone banned from major social media platforms to the “social media summit”, organized to lament alleged bias behind such bans — No one who is invited to the summit has actually been banned from social platforms.
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Gizmodo, VICE, and Politico
Tweets: @juliadavisnews, @willsommer, @markknoller, @katierogers, @ashleyfeinberg, @pbump, @cwarzel, and @oneunderscore__
| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
Facebook says its AI bot Pluribus, developed in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon, is the first such bot to beat top pros at six-player No-Limit Texas Hold 'Em — The 32-year-old is the only person to have won four World Poker Tour titles and has earned more than $7 million at tournaments.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon says it will spend $700M to retrain 100K, or about a third, of its US employees by 2025, acknowledging the impact of technology and automation on jobs — Amazon is embarking on a $700 million effort to retrain its U.S. workforce, in a high-profile acknowledgment of the impact …
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Wall Street Journal, Amazon.com, Inc., New York Times, Washington Post, The Daily Caller, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, KFOR-TV, Business Insider, USA Today, TechCrunch, The Hill, Wired, VentureBeat, CNET, Engadget, and ZDNet
Tweets: @peteharrisonnyc, @caitlin__kelly, @malwarejake, @gsiemens, @bryfitz, @alecstapp, @wsj, and @toddbishop
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says its Slack competitor, Teams, now has 13M+ daily active users and 19M+ weekly active users; in a filing in April, Slack said it has 10M DAUs — Microsoft's first set of user numbers — Microsoft is finally revealing exactly how many people are using its Slack competitor Microsoft Teams.
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Microsoft 365 Blog, Petri, ZDNet, Windows Central, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, TechSpot, MSPoweruser, and OnMSFT.com. Tweets: @bdsams
| Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News: |
Facebook is starting to show users which marketing and data companies have your data, how an ad was targeted, and how to opt-out — The new tool tells you how an ad was targeted and which third-party agency or data broker was used. It also links to pages to opt out.
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Facebook, Marketing Land, Mashable, CNBC, Firstpost Tech, Neowin, Adweek, Engadget, The Daily Dot, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @digiphile, @cwarzel, and @katienotopoulos
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France passes a 3% digital services tax on sales in France for large internet companies with over €25M in French revenues; the law affects about 30 companies — France has approved a digital services tax despite threats of retaliation by the US, which argues that it unfairly targets American tech giants.| Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo: |
Google is testing Shoelace, a hyper-local social networking iOS and Android app, based on shared interests around events and activities, starting in NYC — Google has never made a successful social network, but you have to give the company some credit for never giving up.
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TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Engadget, The Next Web, InvestorPlace, and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @eugenewei, @pierce, @sushubh, and @whatthebit
| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Sources: Amazon Music Unlimited's subscribers grew ~70% in the past year, compared to ~25% for Spotify; in April Amazon had 32M+ music subscribers in total — Amazon is adding subscribers to its music-streaming service at a faster rate than rivals such as Spotify, Apple and Google …
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AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Thurrott, Cult of Mac, MSPoweruser, Music Ally, and TechSpot
Tweets: @financialtimes and @shaunrowland
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RiskIQ: Magecart hacking group have found a way to scan for unsecured AWS S3 buckets, collecting 17,000 potential sites, some among the top 2,000 biggest sites — YOU MAY NOT recognize the name Magecart, but you've seen its impact. A set of sophisticated hacking groups …
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RiskIQ, TechSpot, CyberScoop, BleepingComputer, ComputerWeekly.com, ZDNet, The Hacker News, and Boing Boing
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Now-deleted FCC images appear to confirm the forthcoming Samsung Galaxy Note 10, expected to be unveiled in August, won't have a 3.5mm headphone jack — After years of resisting the trend, Samsung is ditching the 3.5mm jack — Samsung's long history of including a 3.5mm headphone jack …
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XDA Developers, CNET, CNBC, Droid Life, DISPLAYBLOG, Android Police, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @kifleswing and @kifleswing
| Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept: |
A US nonprofit org founded by Google and IBM is working with a company helping China's government secretly monitor phone and internet activity of 200M people — An American organization founded by tech giants Google and IBM is working with a company that is helping China's authoritarian …
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The Register. Tweets: @rj_gallagher, @karlbode, @niubi, @rj_gallagher, @petecirwin, @rj_gallagher, @rj_gallagher, @halhod, @rj_gallagher, @paulmozur, @dakekang, @baldingsworld, and @halhod
| Sam Shead / Forbes: |
Study: 63% of UK VC firms have no senior women in their investment teams and women occupy just 13% of senior level roles, the same as in 2017 — Luciana Lixandru and Sonali De Rycker of Accel. — GETTY IMAGES FOR TECHCRUNCH — U.K. venture capital firms aren't doing enough to diversify … | Gulveen Aulakh / The Economic Times: |
Sources: Apple's Wistron contractor in India has begun exporting 70%-80% of iPhone 6s and iPhone 7 units assembled to European markets — Industry watchers believe Apple is treating India more as a production hub than a significant market. — NEW DELHI: Apple has started to export iPhones …
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Reuters, Patently Apple, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider, Gizchina, Softpedia News, 9to5Mac, Firstpost Tech, and Cult of Mac
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Nielsen says it will start surveying podcast listeners about their consumption habits, including genre preferences and how long they listen to shows — More data on listeners — Nielsen, a company best known for tracking TV shows' popularity, is getting into the podcast data collection business.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
OneTrust, which builds tools to help companies navigate data protection and privacy policies, raises $200M Series A led by Insight Partners at a $1.3B valuation — GDPR, and the newer California Consumer Privacy Act, have given a legal bite to ongoing developments in online privacy and data protection …
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Axios, ZDNet, VentureBeat, FinSMEs, and PE Hub Blog
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Kuo: Apple's 2020 iPhone will include a smaller TrueDepth camera, reducing the size of the notch, and a rear-facing camera with a seven-piece lens system — Apple is expected to significantly decrease the size of iPhone's TrueDepth “notch” in 2020, modifying or potentially removing … | Alex Fang / Nikkei Asian Review: |
Beijing-based Geek+, which makes autonomous robots that can sort and transport goods at warehouses, raises $150M Series C1 led by GGV Capital — Tech unicorn eager to expand automation services but faces stiff competition — NEW YORK — Beijing-based logistics robotics startup Geek … Sponsor Posts
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