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Google Play Pass unveiled as a $4.99/mo. subscription for access to 350+ unlocked Android apps and games that are free of ads and IAPs; first year to be $2/mo. — No ads, no in-app purchases. $1.99 introductory price — Today, Google is launching a new service called “Google Play Pass …
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Tweets: @backlon, @hallstephenj, @nexusben, @reckless, @manan, @northead, and @journeydan
| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Viral selfie app ImageNet Roulette demos biases in AI by surfacing labels applied by anonymous workers to a database of 14M photos, used to train AI for 9 years — ImageNet Roulette, a digital art project and viral selfie app, exposes how biases have crept into the artificial-intelligence technologies changing our lives.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Facebook's competitors are talking to FTC about the company's hardball tactics, some of which Snap compiled in a dossier called Project Voldemort — Antitrust investigation gives competitors chance to air complaints about Facebook's hardball tactics
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CNET, Engadget, Business Insider, The Daily Dot, Revyuh, PYMNTS.com, Mashable, Seeking Alpha, and Slashdot
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| CNBC: |
Apple says it will assemble the new Mac Pro in Austin, TX, after it received federal product exclusions enabling it to import some parts without paying tariffs — - Apple will manufacture the new version of its Mac Pro desktop computer in Austin, Texas, the company announced on Monday.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Cloudflare enables a new “bot fight mode” as a opt-in feature for all accounts, which will frustrate bots via computationally intensive challenges — Cloudflare is ratcheting up its fight against bots with a new “fight mode,” which it says will frustrate and disincentivize bot operators from their malicious activity.
Tweets: @zackwhittaker
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Samsung says Galaxy Fold will go on sale in the US on September 27 for $1,980 and will be available at AT&T, Best Buy, and Samsung stores — Months after it failed to launch, the Galaxy Fold is finally arriving in the United States later this week. Unfortunately, the Galaxy Fold US launch …
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Code deployment toolmaker Chef says it will not renew contracts with ICE and CBP, after an ex-employee deleted his open-source code leading to customer downtime — Last week, a former employee deleted open-source code he wrote for a tool called Chef in protest over an ICE contract.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon debuts a feature called Show and Tell, which helps blind and low vision customers with an Echo Show smart display identify common household pantry goods — As part of a continued mission to make its Alexa intelligent assistant more accessible for everyone, Amazon today introduced …
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| Nino Tasca / The Keyword: |
Google says it doesn't retain Assistant audio recordings by default and it is increasing privacy protections for the transcription process used with a small set — Senior Product Manager, Google Assistant — We believe you should be able to easily understand how your data is used and why …
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Tweets: @wagner_digital and @lilyhnewman
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
A look at Peloton, which may raise $1.2B in this week's IPO and sells $2.3K iPad-equipped stationary bikes and $40/mo. cycling video subscriptions to 510K+ subs — 13 reasons this bike has a cult — It makes lazy people like me work out. That's the genius of the Peloton bicycle.
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| Popular Information: |
Facebook page with 1.1M followers called “I Love America” is one of many Ukrainian-run pages now pushing pro-Trump propaganda and recycling 2016-era IRA memes — This is the online version of the Popular Information newsletter. You can get independent accountability journalism in your inbox every week.
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| Reuters: |
Hyundai Motor Group to invest $1.6B in cash and $400M in R&D in a $4B self-driving vehicle joint venture with Dublin-based Aptiv, with both owning 50% stakes — SEOUL (Reuters) - Hyundai Motor Group will invest $1.6 billion in a joint venture to develop self-driving vehicle technologies with Aptiv …
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Digital Trends, Engadget, VentureBeat, PR Newswire, TechCrunch, and Reuters. Tweets: @petercbigelow
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