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| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
In January, a faulty facial recognition match led to a Michigan man's arrest for a crime he did not commit, in what may be the first known case of its kind — In what may be the first known case of its kind, a faulty facial recognition match led to a Michigan man's arrest for a crime he did not commit.
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Google says it will auto-delete location and search data by default for new users after 18 months, as part of a broader expansion of its privacy options — A compromise between privacy and ad-targeting data — On Wednesday, Google announced broad changes in its default data practices for new users …
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The Keyword, New York Times, CNET, Pocket-lint, MSPoweruser, Bloomberg, Neowin, Android Central, The Irish Times, Trusted Reviews, XDA Developers, TechCrunch, CNBC, BBC, VentureBeat, Tom's Guide, BGR, Silicon Republic, Engadget, Social Media Today, 9to5Google, Protocol, Axios, Android Police, and Android Headlines
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
AWS announces Honeycode, a cloud-based tool that it hopes will help non-coders build apps — - Amazon already leads the cloud infrastructure market, and now it's expanding its cloud product lineup with a tool for people who don't code. — The Honeycode service will compete with offerings …
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| Kate Irby / The Fresno Bee: |
Judge rules that Rep. Devin Nunes cannot sue Twitter for defamation over @DevinCow account, agrees with Twitter that it is protected by Section 230 in this case — A judge has ruled that Rep. Devin Nunes has no right to sue Twitter over statements made by a fake Internet cow, someone parodying his mother and a Republican strategist.
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Slack launches Connect, letting up to 20 organizations communicate in a single Slack channel, currently available to paying customers — Slack today announced the launch of Connect, a way for up to 20 organizations to communicate in a single Slack channel.
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Slack, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Next Web, Wired, MSPoweruser, Neowin, GeekWire, TheStreet, ZDNet, and OnMSFT.com
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| John Koetsier / Forbes: |
Apple's Identifier for Advertisers, critical to tracking mobile ad spend, will become opt-in with iOS 14, a privacy boon for users and a big loss for marketers — That tremor in the Force you felt yesterday probably wasn't shock at being able to text your car keys in Apple's new iOS 14 or do real-time offline translation with Siri.| Zachary Basu / Axios: |
The DOJ says it's charging Julian Assange in a superseding indictment with recruiting and conspiring with hackers affiliated with LulzSec and Anonymous — The Justice Department announced on Wednesday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been charged in a superseding indictment …
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Sources: Facebook's head of trust and safety policy admits to a “trust deficit” on a call with 200+ advertisers, as the company tries to stem an ad boycott — Social media group hit by mass boycotts over political content moderation — Facebook has admitted to having a …
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Tweets: @anthonywatson, @tom_saunders, @alexroy144, @mattgarrahan, @alexeheath, @counternotions, and @mshannahmurphy
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon forms Counterfeit Crimes Unit, made up of former federal prosecutors, investigators, and data analysts, to fight counterfeiters on its site — Amazon has formed an internal “Counterfeit Crimes Unit” to bolster its fight against knock-off products on Amazon.com, as the company seeks to show customers …
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The Amazon Blog, The Next Web, The Verge, MarketWatch, NBC News, Slashdot, Adweek, Seeking Alpha, CNET, and Retail Dive
Tweets: @mdudas, @zck, @ideafaktory, @smulpuru, @jakeanbinder, @caseynewton, @hikari_no_yume, and @heatherkelly. Thanks:@taylor_soper
| Kosaku Narioka / Wall Street Journal: |
Olympus exits the camera business after 84 years to focus on medical devices, selling its camera unit to private equity firm Japan Industrial Partners — Under pressure from U.S. shareholder ValueAct Capital, Tokyo company to sell unit to private-equity firm Japan Industrial Partners| Los Angeles Times: |
An in-depth look at the systemic diversity issues that plague Silicon Valley giants and VCs, effectively shutting Black and Latino people out of the industry — It seemed like tech was turning a corner. — For years, the industry's giants had resisted calls to disclose workforce diversity data …
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| Bradley Chambers / 9to5Mac: |
Fleetsmith, which makes enterprise management and security products for Apple devices, says it has been acquired by Apple — Mobile Device Management is at the heart of every Apple enterprise customer's network stack. Up until now, Apple has generally relied on third party companies …
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Fleetsmith Blog, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, CNBC, VentureBeat, Apple Must, iPhone Hacks, MacRumors, The Mac Observer, and TechSpot
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Sony launches a bug bounty program for the PS4, the PlayStation Network, and other Sony properties, paying from $100 to $50K+ for critical PS4 vulnerabilities — Sony will pay security researchers for bugs in the PlayStation 4 gaming console, its operating system, official PS4 accessories …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Trump's campaign has discussed moving away from Facebook and Twitter, potentially to platforms like Parler, following disputes with both platforms — Amid disputes with Facebook and Twitter, the president's team mulls whether to push supporters toward a different platform or put more emphasis on its own campaign app
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Fox Business. Tweets: @kevinroose, @mikeisaac, @can, @joshuabrustein, @jesselehrich, @wexler, @thestefansmith, @yamiche, and @keachhagey
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Review of email app Superhuman: elegant, detailed interface but you have to live with its fixed hotkeys, inconsistent filtering, and the steep $30/month price — $30 per month is too much for a Gmail app — Superhuman is one of the most in-demand startups right now …
Tweets: @caseynewton, @joshuabaer, @harrymccracken, @tonyromm, @jmalcoun, @aaronklein, and @frank_thelen
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources and documents detail a months-long cyberstalking and harassment campaign by members of eBay's security team against those behind the ECommerceBytes blog — Security employees allegedly orchestrated deliveries of live cockroaches, pornographic videos and a mask of a bloody pig's head| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Jumbo, which lets users easily manage their online privacy and mass-delete old posts, raises $8M Series A and releases a major app update — A year after its initial release, Jumbo has two important pieces of news to announce. First, the company has released a major update of its app that protects your privacy on online services.
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Jumbo Blog, Crunchbase News, FinSMEs, and Android Headlines
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram expands its TikTok rival, Reels, to France and Germany, after its 2019 Brazil debut, reworking the sharing model to be more public and less ephemeral — Instagram is expanding its TikTok competitor known as “Reels” to new markets, following its launch last year in Brazil.
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Social Media Today and Engadget
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
A closer look at Apple's iOS 14 home screen, which finally adds widgets and other features like App Library while retaining the simplicity of iOS — Widgets, hideable pages, App Library, and App Clips: a lot of new concepts for one update — Eight years ago, I wrote a piece bemoaning …
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| Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
Austin-based OJO Labs, which uses machine and human intelligence to personalize property recommendations, raises $62.5M led by Wafra — Austin-based OJO Labs closed on a $62.5 million round of funding led by Wafra, the company said Wednesday in a release. — OJO Labs, founded in 2015 …
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| Judd Legum / Popular Information: |
Despite teaming with Science Feedback last year, Facebook has made climate disinformation ineligible for fact-checking by deeming it “opinion” — Facebook is “aiding and abetting the spread of climate misinformation,” said Robert Brulle, an environmental sociologist at Drexel University.
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