Facebook introduces new Privacy Shortcuts menu, simplified settings menu on mobile, and tools to find, download, and delete your Facebook data
Last week showed how much more work we need to do to enforce our policies and help people understand how Facebook works and the choices they have over their data.
Google starts blocking uncertified Android devices from using its core apps, will allow exceptions for custom ROMs
Google has always controlled which devices ship with its proprietary GApps—a package that includes such necessities as the Play Store and Google Play Services.
Documents reveal that a Palantir Technologies employee, in his personal capacity, suggested to Cambridge Analytica to use a mobile app to harvest Facebook data
As a start-up called Cambridge Analytica sought to harvest the Facebook data of tens of millions of Americans in summer 2014 …
Sources: Facebook will not unveil its smart speakers at F8 while it deals with data misuse scandal, but still plans to launch speakers later this year
Social network had hoped to show off devices at F8 in May — Company still plans to launch products later this year
AT&T's FirstNet and Verizon launch dedicated public safety networks for first responders, with private core services for members
The nation's two dedicated first responder networks are going live this week with private core services for members, representatives of both entities said.
Sources: Trump is “obsessed” with Amazon, with his antipathy surfacing when discussing tax policy or antitrust cases; he is not concerned about Facebook
Capitol Hill wants Facebook's blood, but President Trump isn't interested. Instead, the tech behemoth Trump wants to go after is Amazon …
Google says it will acquire GIF platform Tenor, which is integrated into a variety of keyboards and messaging apps like Facebook Messenger
Google will be acquiring Tenor, which powers a variety of GIF keyboards on phones and messengers like Facebook Messenger, the companies announced today.
Microsoft launches open source tool for developers to create custom Linux distribution packages for Windows 10
After starting with Ubuntu, Microsoft has added a number of Linux distributions to its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) Linux runtime environment.
Google adds support for 39 more languages to Maps
Google today announced that Google Maps is getting support for 39 additional languages. — The newly supported languages are Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Burmese, Cro...
Princeton University study finds 90% of affiliate marketing ads on YouTube and Pinterest are not disclosed, violating FTC guidelines
IF YOU SEARCH for the millennial makeup brand Glossier on YouTube, one of the first results likely to appear is from Olivia Jade, a fashion and beauty vlogger with over one million subscribers.
Waze launches “Waze Local”, map-based ads for SMBs and franchises, and says it has 100M active users who spend 11 hours per month on average in the app
Previewed roughly a year ago, Waze is now introducing “Waze Local,” map-based ads aimed primarily (though not exclusively) at small businesses.
Nvidia unveils Quadro GV100 GPU with real-time ray tracing capabilities for creating realistic animations quickly
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Uber says it will not renew its self-driving permit in California and that it has suspended testing in Pittsburgh, Toronto and San Francisco
Uber plans to end all self-driving-car testing in California, according to a letter from the state Department of Motor Vehicles to the company.
Latest Snapchat beta features a “Connected Apps” tab, hinting that Snap, like Facebook, will enable sharing of user data with third-party apps
As Facebook users are uninstalling apps they connected long ago via Facebook log-in, Snapchat may be pushing for its community to do the exact opposite.
Nvidia announces support for Kubernetes container orchestration on Nvidia GPUs and will contribute its GPU enhancements to the Kubernetes open source community
This has been a long time coming, but during his GTC keynote, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang today announced support …
On-demand shipping/delivery startup Shyp, which raised a total of ~$63M, is ending operations and laying off all its employees
The company that hoped to revolutionize shipping is ending operations today-a poster child for a whole era of venture-funded ideas that has come and gone.
Oscar Health raises $165M in a round led by Founders Fund with participation from Alphabet's Capital G and Verily; sources say funding brings valuation to $3.2B
- Oscar Health's valuation is now at more than $3 billion, sources say, after it raised another big round from Alphabet, Founders Fund and others.
Pure Storage and Nvidia unveil AIRI, a four-petaflop platform using Nvidia's DGX-1 servers and Pure's FlashBlade storage system for large-scale AI initiatives
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Logitech's $49 Crayon stylus (available in June) and $99 keyboard case for new iPad don't support iPad Pro and can only be bought via Apple's Education Channel
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Credit Karma is getting a $500M secondary investment from Silver Lake at a valuation of $4B, as it seeks to expand its product line
Credit Karma, which once started as a simple credit report system and is now looking to expand into a true financial assistant, announced today it is getting …
Nvidia unveils Drive Constellation to accurately simulate real-world autonomous driving in a virtualized environment, coming Q3 to early access partners
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Mozilla launches Facebook Container Extension for Firefox that isolates your digital identity, preventing Facebook from tracking your activity on other sites
Prevent Facebook from tracking you around the web. Marius Nestor / Softpedia News : Mozilla Releases Firefox Add-On That Prevents Facebook from Spying on You Erica Sweeney / Social Media Today : Study...
US DOJ's inspector general says the FBI's order to compel Apple to assist in unlocking iPhone in February 2016 was sought before exhausting its options
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A deep look at JavaScript-based cryptocurrency mining service Coinhive, a cryptojacking tool used to steal processing power of users' devices for mining Monero
Multiple security firms recently identified cryptocurrency mining service Coinhive as the top malicious threat to Web users … Tweets: @briankrebs , @briankrebs , and @marloegroup Tweets: @briankrebs :...
Sources: Uber met Ola executives at least twice over the last 12 months and suggested a potential merger between the two companies
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Uber's decision to exit Southeast Asia, where it was bleeding money, should give the global ride-hailing giant more firepower to focus on India …
Uber will pay $10M to settle a discrimination and hostile workplace class action lawsuit filed last year on behalf of 420 women and minority engineers
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Fair housing groups sue Facebook, saying its ad targeting tools still allow discrimination against certain groups, including disabled veterans, single mothers
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Insanity Wins As Appeals Court Overturns Google's Fair Use Victory For Java APIs
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Fintech startup Spring Labs raises $14.75M led by August Capital to create a blockchain-based network to solve identity and credit data problems
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VR camera maker Lytro is shutting down, and former employees are going to Google
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Massachusetts' top securities regulator orders five firms allegedly conducting ICOs to halt the offer of “unregistered securities”
As expected, researchers find another side-channel processor attack that abuses branch prediction, called BranchScope, similar to Spectre variant 2
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Source: Apple hasn't met with Indian govt to discuss anti-spam iOS app since Nov, despite allegedly agreeing in Oct to help develop it, amid privacy concerns
WhatsApp rolls out support in its beta channel on Android for users to send money via QR codes, with a wider launch expected in the next few weeks
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Braintree launches Extend, a set of tools to integrate loyalty, fraud prevention, and other services into payments
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Google revamps its Play Store and Play Movies & TV app to show users where they can stream content from 28 streaming services, not including Netflix
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Apple says it will bring its iOS classroom organization app Classroom to the Mac, available in beta starting in June
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Google Cloud opens to developers its DeepMind-developed text-to-speech engine that it uses for Assistant and its Google Maps directions
Beta — This is a beta release of Cloud Text-to-Speech API. Larry Dignan / ZDNet : Google Cloud Platform launches text-to-speech service to compete with AWS Polly
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