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    • Classical music has been an awkward fit for major streaming platforms because their metadata schemes and algorithms are mostly designed to favor pop music (Ben Sisario/New York Times)

    Ben Sisario / New York Times: Classical music has been an awkward fit for major streaming platforms because their metadata schemes and algorithms are mostly designed to favor pop music  —  When Roopa Kalyanaraman Marcello, a classical music aficionado in Brooklyn, asked her Amazon Echo for some music recently … Classical music has been an

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    • Vivo announces its first AR glasses

    Vivo has announced its first AR glasses at MWC Shanghai. The prototype product is simply called the Vivo AR Glass and is a relatively lightweight headset with two transparent displays and 6DoF tracking. It connects with a cable to Vivo’s as-yet unnamed 5G smartphone, which is also being demonstrated this week. Vivo says the AR

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    • Profile of Indian hotel-booking startup Oyo, which has more rooms in China than in India, as it faces a bumpy rollout in the US, where it has 50+ hotel partners (Corinne Abrams/Wall Street Journal)

    Corinne Abrams / Wall Street Journal: Profile of Indian hotel-booking startup Oyo, which has more rooms in China than in India, as it faces a bumpy rollout in the US, where it has 50+ hotel partners  —  A rare emerging-market unicorn aims to upend the hospitality business—but first it has to fix that runaway ceiling

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    • While new laws in cities like Oakland and Seattle restrict police surveillance tech, Ring video doorbells remain unhindered despite serving similar purposes (Sidney Fussell/The Atlantic)

    Sidney Fussell / The Atlantic: While new laws in cities like Oakland and Seattle restrict police surveillance tech, Ring video doorbells remain unhindered despite serving similar purposes  —  People are far more comfortable with surveillance when they think they’re the only ones watching. While new laws in cities like Oakland and Seattle restrict police surveillance

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    • Some US schools are using microphones equipped with "aggression detection" algorithms, which critics say are unreliable, raising concerns about surveillance (ProPublica)

    ProPublica: Some US schools are using microphones equipped with “aggression detection” algorithms, which critics say are unreliable, raising concerns about surveillance  —  Headphones recommended. … Ariella Russcol specializes in drama at the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Queens … Some US schools are using microphones equipped with "aggression detection" algorithms, which critics say

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    Bill Gates says his "greatest mistake" was Microsoft losing the platform opportunity to Android on mobile, in an interview at VC firm Village Global (Ron Amadeo/Ars Technica)

    {$inline_image} Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: Bill Gates says his “greatest mistake” was Microsoft losing the platform opportunity to Android on mobile, in an interview at VC firm Village Global  —  Gates calls Microsoft’s smartphones failure a “$400 billion” loss.  —  Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recently gave … Bill Gates says his "greatest mistake" was

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    • Ford-backed Argo AI will invest $15M over five years in a center for self-driving car research at Carnegie Mellon University (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

    Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: Ford-backed Argo AI will invest $15M over five years in a center for self-driving car research at Carnegie Mellon University  —  Argo AI will invest $15 million over five years to create a center for autonomous vehicle research at Carnegie Mellon University, one of the latest efforts … Ford-backed Argo AI

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    • Researchers have discovered OSX/Linker malware exploiting an unpatched macOS flaw that would allow a malicious binary to bypass the Gatekeeper scanning process (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

    Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Researchers have discovered OSX/Linker malware exploiting an unpatched macOS flaw that would allow a malicious binary to bypass the Gatekeeper scanning process  —  Researchers find new OSX/Linker malware abusing still-unpatched macOS Gatekeeper bypass.  —  Mac malware developers have jumped … Researchers have discovered OSX/Linker malware exploiting an unpatched macOS flaw that

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    • NY-based Button, which links apps to other apps for smoother mobile shopping, raises $30M Series C led by Icon Ventures; source: deal values company at $200M+ (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)

    Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: NY-based Button, which links apps to other apps for smoother mobile shopping, raises $30M Series C led by Icon Ventures; source: deal values company at $200M+  —  The New York startup that links apps to other apps to facilitate mobile shopping is valued at more than $200 million NY-based

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