A first look at the Disney+ app that Disney says will offer a heavily curated and personalized experience for users with a combination of human editors and AI
Disney isn't holding anything back at its D23 Expo. The company kicked off the event on Thursday with a couple of major reveals …
Riot Games has settled for an undisclosed sum a class action lawsuit alleging gender discrimination, sexual harassment, and retaliation for speaking out
The suit alleged targeted discrimination against women who worked at Riot. — Riot Games has settled the class action lawsuit …
Trump's tweets “ordering” US companies to start looking for an alternative to China rattle tech stocks, with Apple closing down 4.6%, Amazon 3.1%, and AMD 7.4%
Shares of Apple and Silicon Valley's semiconductor companies were pummeled on Friday as President Trump responded …
In a leaked letter from members of Twitter's Trust and Safety Council, formed in 2016 to provide outside advice on policy, some say they're being ignored
AT THE BEGINNING of 2016, Twitter announced some good news: the formation of the Trust and Safety Council, comprised of more than 40 outside groups …
Netflix says it is testing “Collections” on iOS that are curated by experts on the company's creative teams based on factors like genre, tone, and story line
Netflix is testing a new way to help users find TV shows and movies they'll want to watch with the launch of a …
Academics are still waiting to receive key data originally promised in 2018 from Facebook, which has declined to provide some of the data citing privacy fears
In 2018, Facebook announced a partnership to provide data to academics to “help people better understand the broader impact …
Seven top US publishers sue Audible, aiming to block the planned rollout of Captions, a new feature that shows text on screen as a book is narrated
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc's (AMZN.O) Audible was sued by some of the top U.S. publishers for copyright infringement on Friday …
Google Photos can now search for text that appears in user images with its optical character recognition filter
Abner Li / 9to5Google :
Misinformation, spread by exploiting our eagerness to share content without thinking, has created a “new world disorder” that we need to safeguard against
Our willingness to share content without thinking is exploited to spread disinformation By Claire Wardle | Tweets: @jenlschwartz , @dgwbirch , @sciam , @monaelswah , and @carnage4life Tweets: Jen Schw...
Investigation finds 4,152 items on Amazon that were declared unsafe by federal agencies, are deceptively labeled, or are banned by regulators
but which really wasn't. “Amazon in court argued it didn't sell the helmet but merely listed it on the seller's behalf.” https://www.wsj.com/... Joanna Stern / @joannastern : Things @WSJ found on Amaz...
A look at the changing landscape of seed funding as more big VCs compete there, and pros and cons of raising a seed round led by a big VC vs a seed-focused fund
When every fund is a seed fund — When Mike Fitzsimmons went out to raise his seed round, he negotiated with all the usual suspects. Tweets: @dunkhippo33 , @sarthakgh , @dscheinm , @kateclarktweets ,...
Imposters are making as much as $10K in royalties at a time by uploading copyright-infringing content to streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music
When songs leak on Spotify and Apple Music, illegal uploads can generate substantial royalty payments—but for whom? Tweets: @bourgwick and @pitchfork Tweets: Jesse Jarnow / @bourgwick : bootlegging of...
Educational robotic toymaker Sphero acquires littleBits, a maker of electronics building kits and instructional resources for kids
Tony Wan / EdSurge :
A graphic look at a columnist's web activity during a typical workday shows how websites and tech firms track users via tracking scripts, unique IDs, and more
Earlier this year, an editor working on The Times's Privacy Project asked me whether I'd be interested in having all my digital activity tracked … Tweets: @nadiehbremer and @fmanjoo Tweets: Nadieh Bre...
Sources: Uber's $1 Safe Rides Fee, introduced in 2014, was devised primarily to add $1 of pure margin to each trip; court documents: the fee brought in ~$500M
+ the massive affronts to rider and driver safety Travis Kalanick + Uber inflicted on the world—as chronicled in @MikeIsaac's excellent book—next time someone goes on about how evil Theranos was. Uber...
Google says it has shut down 210 YouTube channels after it found they had been tied to misinformation about Hong Kong protesters
Jennifer Elias / CNBC :
Google releases new community guidelines for employees, placing new restrictions on talking about politics on internal mailing lists and forums
and definitely no politics Sara Ashley O'Brien / CNN : Google wants to squash political debates among its employees Rebecca Klar / The Hill : Google's new guidelines ask employees to not talk politics...
Bitcoin wallet provider Blockchain announces a partnership with BitPay to integrate BitPay's payment architecture into its wallet service
Daniel Kuhn / CoinDesk :
India exempts startups from its “angel tax”, a much-criticised 30% tax when raising money at a rate higher than “fair market value” as assessed by tax authority
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Source: Xiaomi scans phones to track lifestyle changes like a divorce or a promotion for credit scores in Indonesia; Xiaomi to launch lending service in India
Court filing: AT&T and FTC reached a settlement agreement in a 2014 mobile data throttling lawsuit, which still needs to be reviewed and voted on by FTC
(Reuters) - The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and AT&T Inc (T.N) reached a settlement agreement on a 2014 case that accused …
Strategy Analytics: US users upgrade smartphones after 33 months, 7% plan to spend over $1K on their next purchase, biggest barrier to 5G phones will be price
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac :
Appeals court stays an earlier ruling in FTC's suit against Qualcomm that would have required Qualcomm to renegotiate all of its existing chip and patent deals
Stephen Nellis / Reuters :
A look at the life of Patrick Byrne, whose interests in blockchain and transforming Africa, among others, often overshadowed those of Overstock.com shareholders
Lauren Debter / Forbes :
Cloud-based app performance monitoring startup DataDog files for IPO, says it had revenue of $198M in 2018, up from $101M in 2017, and a loss of $13M in 1H 2019
Crunchbase News :
Report: Facebook has pushed Instagram into doubling the number of ads since last year; Instagram is testing two back-to-back ads in Stories
James Loke Hale / Tubefilter : Source: The Information .
YouTube quietly announces a policy change to remove all content that contains “violent” or “mature” themes if it is targeted toward kids
Nick Statt / The Verge :
Seattle Police Department has maintained an anti-swatting registry since last October, allowing people who fear being swatted give the police advance warning
it will save lives https://twitter.com/... Caroline Sinders / @carolinesinders : Seattle PD passes an initiative to stop swattings by letting potential victims register or file that they fear they'll ...
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