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Google says it has started rolling out AI-powered real-time spelling and grammar check features on Gmail for all G Suite users — Ever been stumped by spelling or sentence syntax while pecking out an email to colleagues? Fortunately for G Suite users, Google will soon introduce improved spelling … | Washington Post: |
Apple is delaying its plans to limit third-party tracking and ads in kids' apps, which it planned to implement in Sept., after some developers raised concerns — Apple plans to change the rules it has for kids apps, raising concerns among some app developers about the way the tech giant wields power unilaterally over its App Store.
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After announcing the Clear History privacy tool over a year ago, Facebook finally begins rolling it out in Ireland, South Korea, and Spain — But the United States isn't one of them — It was nearly a year and a half ago that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, standing onstage …
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| Amrita Khalid / Engadget: |
Google and Mozilla say they will block the root certificate issued by the Kazakhstan government, which could be used to monitor users, in Chrome and Firefox — Google and Mozilla are taking action against the government of Kazakhstan's efforts to launch a surveillance operation against its own citizens.| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
LinkedIn says it blocked or removed 21.6M fake accounts in the first half 2019, of which 19.5M were blocked at the registration stage — LinkedIn blocked or removed 21.6 million fake accounts on its platform from January to June of this year, a sign that the Microsoft-owned social network … | TechCrunch: |
DoorDash buys Scotty Labs, which raised $6M in VC funding to help remotely control self-driving cars, quietly hires co-founders of high precision map maker Lvl5 — DoorDash has been on an acquisition tear of late with Scotty Labs as its latest target. Terms of the deal were not disclosed … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Go, the lightweight search app that takes up only ~7MB of phone storage, launches to Android users worldwide, is optimized to save about 40% on data — Google Go, a lightweight version of Google's search app, is today becoming available to all Android users worldwide.
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Sources: to satisfy regulators, YouTube officials are finalizing plans to end targeted advertisements on videos kids are likely to watch — - The solution could impact ad sales for the video giant — Groups that complained to regulators aren't satisfied by fix
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A roundup of the 82 companies that launched at Y Combinator's Summer 2019 Demo Day 2, including logistics, e-commerce, real estate, and crypto startups — Team TechCrunch was back for Day 2 of Y Combinator's Summer 2019 Demo Days where we heard from another massive chunk of startups … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Adult website Luscious left data of 1M+ users exposed, including user email addresses, location data, the content they uploaded, liked, and shared — A popular hentai porn site that promises anonymity to its 1.1 million users left a user database exposed without a password, allowing anyone to identify users by their email addresses.
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Apple Music launches a new chart, the Shazam Discovery Top 50, powered by Shazam data and featuring songs trending in the US and 10+ other countries — Apple continues to make use of Shazam, the music recognition app it acquired for $400 million in 2018. Earlier this month … | Reuters: |
Sources: Alibaba has delayed its up to $15B listing in Hong Kong, initially set to launch in late August, amid growing political unrest — HONG KONG/NEW YORK (Reuters) - China's biggest e-commerce company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has delayed its up to $15 billion listing …
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How companies like McDonald's and Facebook use podcasts, such as Gizmodo-produced The Sauce, as subtle brand-building efforts meant to entertain and persuade — With podcasts rising in popularity, it's no surprise that companies are producing their own. What's more surprising is that people are actually listening to them.| Bloomberg: |
Source: the European Commission is “investigating potential anti-competitive behavior” and use of consumer data related to the Libra digital currency project — - EU sends questionnaires to groups tied to Libra proposals — Antitrust regulator cites ‘possible competition restrictions’| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
RubyGems team found a backdoor in 11 Ruby libraries, including rest-client, that could leak data and issue commands remotely, say it was abused for cryptomining — RubyGems staff have removed 18 malicious Ruby library versions that have been downloaded 3,584 times since July 8.Sponsor Posts
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