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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google officially launches Android 11 Developer Preview, arriving earlier than expected, with new display types, improved messaging, biometrics, and more — Following an inadvertent tease last week, Google today officially launched the Android 11 Developer Preview.
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| Mishaal Rahman / XDA Developers: |
Android 11 boosts privacy with temporary app permissions, like iOS' “Allow Once” option, and requiring apps use Scoped Storage API, despite developer backlash — Ahead of schedule, Google today released the first Developer Preview of the next version of the Android OS: Android 11.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
EU issues proposals to drive digitization across industries and sectors, including rules for high risk AI systems and a regulatory framework for data governance — European Union lawmakers have set out a first bundle of proposals for a new digital strategy for the bloc …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple sends a cease and desist letter to the author of “App Store Confidential”, published in Germany by an ex-Apple employee, claiming it reveals trade secrets — Apple is aiming to stop the sale of a new insider book called “App Store Confidential,” written … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok announces new Family Safety Mode parental controls to limit kids' usage with screen time management, DM limits, and more, coming first to the UK — TikTok announced today the introduction of a new set of parental controls, called “Family Safety Mode,” designed to let parents set limits … | Andrew Liszewski / Gizmodo: |
Larry Tesler, an influential figure at Xerox PARC and Apple who coined “cut, copy, paste” and advocated for modeless computing, has died at 74 — The advent of the personal computer wasn't just about making these powerful machines available to everyone, it was also about making … | Michael del Castillo / Forbes: |
Coinbase becomes a Visa Principal Member, allowing it to issue bitcoin debit cards for other crypto companies and traditional firms — Credit card giant Visa has granted its principal membership to a cryptocurrency company for the first time. Officially awarded to cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft launches a unified Office app for iOS and Android, combining Word, Excel, and PowerPoint into a single app; standalone versions will remain available — Even more mobile features are on the way soon — Microsoft is releasing its new unified Office app for iOS and Android today … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook is internally testing a tabbed version of News Feed for mobile that includes the Most Relevant, Most Recent, and Already Seen feeds — Facebook may make it easier to escape its ranking algorithm and explore the News Feed in different formats. Facebook has internally prototyped …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google begins rolling out two Google Docs features: autocorrect, enabled by default, and Smart Compose, for paying customers — Last November, Google Docs started testing autocorrect and Smart Compose as part of leveraging machine learning to improve user productivity.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Inside Founders Fund's deal process, where smaller investments only need limited partner approval, as it has raised its seventh fund and a $1.5B growth fund — Founders Fund has raised $3 billion for a pair of new funds, so expect a slew of headlines about how “Peter Thiel's venture capital firm” is now flush with cash.| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Twitter acquires Chroma Labs, which makes tools for video and photo creation, will split team across product, design, and engineering, shut down Chroma Stories — - Company builds photo, video-editing features for social media — Chroma will join Twitter to work on ‘conversations’ products
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Tweets: @kayvz, @chroma_labs, @joshconstine, @kurtwagner8, @kurtwagner8, and @technology
| Dave Gershgorn / OneZero : |
Profile of Japan-based NEC, which has been a longtime provider of facial recognition services globally and garners less scrutiny than new entrants in the space — July 2018, the mayor of Irving, Texas, signed a contract that would dramatically expand how the city's police department could investigate crimes using facial recognition.| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber introduces a new On-Trip Reporting feature, letting riders discreetly report non-emergency safety issues in real time, available now in the US and Canada — Is your driver texting — Uber updated its app to let riders “discreetly” report instances that may not rise to the level …
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| Richard Cooke / Wired: |
A tribute to Wikipedia, which is one of the few remaining places that retains the faintly utopian glow of the early World Wide Web — People used to think the crowdsourced encyclopedia represented all that was wrong with the web. Now it's a beacon of so much that's right.
Tweets: @alexhinojo, @wikimedia, @rgcooke, @wired, @jonnoxrevanche, @timsmithrx, @mondaystory, and @johnbirmingham
| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Yodlee, America's largest financial data broker, says the data that it sells is anonymous, but a leaked Yodlee doc shows millions of people could be unmasked — Yodlee, the largest financial data broker in the U.S., sells data pulled from the bank and credit card transactions of tens …
Tweets: @josephfcox and @josephfcox
| Alex Clayton / Meritech Capital: |
Financial analysis of 12 high-growth SaaS companies that went public in 2019, including Cloudflare and Slack, shows median annual revenue of $242M, up ~48% YoY — Logos of High-growth SaaS IPOs in 2019: — — Last year I wrote a post summarizing the 2018 cohort of SaaS IPOs.
| Nick Turner / Bloomberg: |
Groupon says it will shutter Groupon Goods, its e-commerce platform for physical products, after reporting worse-than-expected results; stock drops over 40% — - Company plans to abandon the business of selling goods — Groupon will focus on being marketplace for local experiences
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| Billy Steele / Engadget: |
As Photoshop turns 30, Adobe begins rolling out new desktop and mobile features, including bringing the Object Selection tool to iPad — Photoshop turns 30 today, and Adobe is celebrating with some worthwhile updates to the photo-editing app on both the desktop and iPad.| Katie Paul / Reuters: |
IRS lawsuit against Facebook, alleging the company owes $9B+ in taxes after shifting profits to Ireland, begins in San Francisco — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc is slated to begin a tax trial in a San Francisco court on Tuesday, as the Internal Revenue Service tries to convince …
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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News: |
A closer look at FBI's complaint against two ex-Twitter employees who allegedly spied on accounts for Saudi Arabia, offered $300K+ and a nice watch as bribes — Ali Alzabarah was panicked. His heart raced as he drove home from Twitter's San Francisco headquarters in the early evening on Dec. 2, 2015.
Tweets: @kantrowitz, @clarajeffery, @scottlucas, @rmac18, @kantrowitz, and @kantrowitz
| Cameron Wilson / BuzzFeed: |
Facebook has 17M users in Australia but just seven fact checkers, from AFP and Australian Associated Press, who completed 220 fact checks since April 2019 — “It's incredible the sheer speed at which lies travel, particularly when they're targeted at groups," one fact checker said.
Tweets: @mikeisaac, @mhbergen, @withmeaa, @broderick, @tonyromm, and @anguslivingston
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Online learning marketplace Udemy, which offers over 150,000 courses, raises $50M from Japanese publisher Benesse Holdings at a $2B post-money valuation — The internet has, for better or worse, become the default platform for people seeking information, and today one of the companies leveraging … | Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Overview of recent security woes at Citrix, from slowly patching VPN flaws to hackers infiltrating its networks after brute forcing employees' passwords — Networking software giant Citrix Systems says malicious hackers were inside its networks for five months between 2018 and 2019 …
Tweets: @briankrebs
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Dish's Sling TV now has 2.5M subscribers, losing 94,000 in Q4, the first time it lost subscribers since its 2015 launch — Dish Network continued to feel the cord-cutting sting in the fourth quarter of 2019: While its total subscriber losses in the period were not as bad as the year earlier … | Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Sources: following Brexit, Google plans to move UK user accounts out of EU's jurisdiction and into the US', where privacy protections are weaker — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google is planning to move its British users' accounts out of the control of European Union privacy regulators … Sponsor Posts
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