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Instagram debuts Reels, a TikTok-style video remix feature, which lets you make 15-second video clips set to music and share them as Stories, in Brazil — Instagram is launching a video-music remix feature to — finally fight back against Chinese social rival TikTok.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Facebook unveils Facebook Pay, which will work on Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp, to let users shop, donate to causes, send money to friends, more — Facebook Pay arrives just weeks after payment companies dropped out of Libra — Facebook is launching a new payments system today, appropriately named Facebook Pay.
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| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Facebook's iOS app accesses the camera as users scroll their feeds; a workaround is to revoke the app's camera permissions; Facebook says it's fixing the bug — Some people have complained that their cameras got turned on while they were looking through Facebook's app.
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| Frank Pallotta / CNN: |
Disney+ spokesperson acknowledges service issues on launch day, saying consumer demand exceeded “high expectations”, as users complain that they can't connect — New York (CNN Business)Disney+ launched to much fanfare on Tuesday, and then immediately hit some bumps.
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Snap Spectacles 3 review: stylish design, sturdy build, comfortable fit, clever and fun 3D filters, convenient video capture, but expensive, not water resistant — In case you've forgotten, Snap makes video-recording sunglasses called Spectacles. The first two iterations didn't do very well …
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Microsoft says it will honor California's digital privacy law throughout the US; source: CCPA offers special treatment to “service providers” like Microsoft — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said in a blog post on Monday that it would honor California's privacy law …
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| Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
A look at @BallerBusters, an Instagram account that calls out people who pretend to be wealthier than they are to hawk dubious mentorship or online classes — It's easy to look successful on Instagram. Now, getting caught out is easy too. — In February, an Instagram account called …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Automattic partners with Stripe to debut Recurring Payments for WordPress.com and Jetpack-powered sites, to let content creators collect repeat contributions — The subscription model is today sustaining a number of businesses, including artists, creators, news publishers, game developers, entertainment providers and more.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Researchers find 5G flaws that would let an attacker track phone locations, spoof emergency alerts, more via a malicious radio base station; some affect 4G too — 5G is faster and more secure than 4G. But new research shows it also has vulnerabilities that could put phone users at risk.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Whoop, which makes fitness trackers and provides performance metrics for athletes, raises $55M Series D, bringing its total raised to $100M+ — On the heels of Google buying Fitbit for $2.1 billion, another player in wearables and health technology has picked up a big round of growth funding to continue expanding its business.
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How some police departments in the US conduct facial recognition searches on behalf of other jurisdictions, boosting access to the tech and evading local laws — “Do not mention FITlist.” — ver the last decade, large police forces in Washington state like the Seattle Police Department …
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A district court rules the government's “suspicionless” searches of international travelers' phones and laptops at airports and US border violate 4th Amendment — GOVERNMENT MUST HAVE REASONABLE SUSPICION OF DIGITAL CONTRABAND BEFORE SEARCHING ELECTRONIC DEVICES AT THE U.S. BORDER| Bijan Stephen / The Verge: |
Twitch Studio, the company's live streaming software, is now in open beta for PC users — The streaming site's first software product is now available to everyone — Twitch Studio — the broadcasting software the live-streaming site debuted back in August to a select group of users — is now open to the public.
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| Farah Elbahrawy / Bloomberg: |
TruKKer, a UAE-based on-demand trucking platform, has raised $23M Series A led by Saudi Technology Ventures — - The $23 million Series A one of the largest on record for MENA — Trukker founded in Abu Dhabi in 2016 cross-border cargo — Trukker, a digital marketplace …
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CoachHub, the Berlin-based digital coaching platform, raises €10M from existing investors HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Partech, and others — The digital coaching platform CoachHub has raised a €10 million funding round, from existing investors HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Partech and Speedinvest and new investor RTP Global.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Blaize, which custom-designs AI chips with a new graph streaming architecture, emerges from stealth with $87M raised over several rounds — There's booming demand for silicon custom-designed to accelerate AI workloads, as the gobs of cash raised by startups like Hailo Technologies, Graphcore, and Untether AI demonstrates.Sponsor Posts
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