Sources: Zuckerberg plans to add end-to-end encryption to Instagram and Messenger and integrate their messaging infrastructure and WhatsApp's by end of the year
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Report: small US cities, rural communities, and Rust Belt states most at risk of automated job replacement; men, younger workers, and minorities most vulnerable
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Zuckerberg's WSJ op-ed and rumored push to unify messaging infrastructure across Facebook's apps may be signs of company's increased concern about regulation
It sure feels like regulation is coming for Facebook. — The threat of government regulation has been looming over Facebook …
Pictures of what appear to be the two models of Samsung's Galaxy S10 leak, showing “Infinity-O” display, very thin bezels, USB-C port, and a headphone jack
Well, the leaks start coming and they don't stop coming — There's less than a month to go before Samsung unveils …
Illinois Supreme Court rules that companies can be sued for collecting biometric data without opt-in consent, even if no tangible injury was demonstrated
Privacy advocates won a crucial court victory on Friday, as the Illinois Supreme Court dismissed a case that would have pared …
Distributed Denial of Secrets, a WikiLeaks-like online repository launched last month by transparency advocates, publishes 175 GB of leaked Russian documents
A group of transparency advocates on Friday posted a mammoth collection of hacked and leaked documents from inside Russia …
Japan to let government employees hack into consumers' IoT devices with insecure passwords to identify vulnerabilities and prevent abuse during 2020 Olympics
Japanese government wants to secure IoT devices before Tokyo 2020 Olympics and avoid Olympic Destroyer and VPNFilter-like attacks.
tZERO, Overstock.com's security token trading platform which raised $134M in an ICO last August, went live on Thursday
Overstock.com's much-anticipated security token trading platform, tZERO, officially began trading Thursday afternoon. — The company announced in a press release …
Staff from Toronto's Citizen Lab, behind exposés of government hacking tool vendors like NSO, describe meetings likely arranged to get compromising quotes
NEW YORK (AP) — The researchers who reported that Israeli software was used to spy on Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi's inner circle …
Conversations with execs at the World Economic Forum reveal that many are racing toward automation to stay ahead of competition regardless of impact on workers
DAVOS, Switzerland — They'll never admit it in public, but many of your bosses want machines to replace you as soon as possible. Tweets: @reckless , @reckless , @nytimes , @joe_atikian , @noahpinion ,...
After a nine month freeze, Chinese regulators finally approve several game titles from Tencent and NetEase
- The State Administration of Press and Publications has now approved a total of 352 new game titles since March last year — Tencent Holdings and NetEase, which run China's …
Google confirms that I/O 2019 will take place from May 7 to May 9 at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View after a developer solves the I/O puzzle
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Profile of David Carroll, whose two-year fight to reclaim his data from Cambridge Analytica has brought to light large questions around data privacy
David Carroll has been locked in a legal war to force the infamous company to turn over its files on him. He's won a battle, but the struggle continues. Tweets: @wired , @nxthompson , and @nitya Twee...
Inside Alibaba's futuristic 290-room FlyZoo hotel where it showcases its prowess in AI and incubates tech it wants to sell to the hospitality industry
HANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - Gliding silently through Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's futuristic “FlyZoo” hotel, black disc-shaped robots …
Responding to reports of a planned streaming video service, T-mobile hints it will just launch a “snackable content app” on its Metro brand next month
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Profile of Front Porch Forum, a thriving message board community of ~160K members covering towns in Vermont, which has helped create resilience during disasters
Andrew Liptak / The Verge : Tweets: @jomc and @zhoag Tweets: Joanne Mcneil / @jomc : interesting profile of a thriving indie online forum in VT (a quarter of the state are users.) “It's harder to get...
Independent artists say Amazon has failed to implement even minor changes that would make it harder for merchants to sell goods that violate artist copyrights
And Creators Want The Company To Do Something About It http://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... via @itsnicolenguyen Nic Nguyen / @itsnicolenguyen : Hey artists, here's a fun way to find copyright infringemen...
Researchers say India's political parties are using armies of volunteers to spread misinformation and hate speech via WhatsApp group chats ahead of elections
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Didi says its global ride-hailing network had 550M users, over 31M drivers, and covered more than 1,000 cities around the world in 2018
Jane Zhang / South China Morning Post : Tweets: @james_gross Tweets: James Gross / @james_gross : If you want to understand how big the transportation market is and the demand for new modes. Check ou...
Gab remains financially viable due to the Jobs Act of 2012, which has allowed it to raise $2M from two crowdfunding rounds handled by online broker StartEngine
Southern Poverty Law Center :
An overview of projects like NewsGuard, and how efforts to rank the credibility of news sites can be problematic, despite good intentions
and the green stamps of approval for @CNN and @Reuters. http://slate.com/... http://twitter.com/... Jonathan L. Fischer / @jon_fischer : Read @WillOremus on a bunch of new projects that want to rate t...
Counterpoint Research: India was the world's fastest growing smartphone market in 2018 with ~145.2M smartphones shipped, up 10% YoY; Xiaomi was the top vendor
Manish Singh / VentureBeat : Tweets: @jaypeters Tweets: Jay Peters / @jaypeters : “The price barrier has hit Apple, which had just 1.1 percent of the local smartphone market share last year, Counterp...
How Quibi's Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman are landing top talent in movies, TV, and other media ahead of the mobile video platform's launch by year's end
dinners at Nobu and hanging out with powerful people. And don't count out the importance of a great name either. Quibi, the next indomitable force in digital media. http://fortune.com/... http://twitt...
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