Author: Tech Support

    • Google and Amazon end their streaming video spat: YouTube will come to Fire TV and Prime Video will work with Chromecast and Android TV (Nathan Ingraham/Engadget)

    Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: Google and Amazon end their streaming video spat: YouTube will come to Fire TV and Prime Video will work with Chromecast and Android TV  —  Google and Amazon haven’t historically been the best of friends, at least when it comes to their respective streaming video services. Google and Amazon end their

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    • Facebook permanently bans far-right individuals and groups, like the British National Party, the English Defence League, and Britain First (Alex Hern/The Guardian)

    Alex Hern / The Guardian: Facebook permanently bans far-right individuals and groups, like the British National Party, the English Defence League, and Britain First  —  Swath of organisations and individuals permanently banned for being ‘dangerous’  —  Facebook has permanently banned a swath of far-right organisations … Facebook permanently bans far-right individuals and groups, like the

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    • T-Mobile's no-fee Money banking app gets a nationwide rollout, offers T-Mobile customers 4% interest rate on the first $3,000 (Sam Rutherford/Gizmodo)

    Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo: T-Mobile’s no-fee Money banking app gets a nationwide rollout, offers T-Mobile customers 4% interest rate on the first $3,000  —  While it’s not quite a pivot, it seems more and more tech companies are straying out of their lane and into the finance world.  T-Mobile has decided to join … T-Mobile's

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    • The US intelligence community must adapt to rapid technological changes like advances in AI, which are eroding traditional advantages of US intelligence (Foreign Affairs)

    Foreign Affairs: The US intelligence community must adapt to rapid technological changes like advances in AI, which are eroding traditional advantages of US intelligence  —  Why U.S. Intelligence Agencies Must Adapt or Fail  —  For U.S. intelligence agencies, the twenty-first century began with a shock … The US intelligence community must adapt to rapid technological

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    • For the love of Satoshi, don’t give your Bitcoin to rebuild Notre Dame

    A significant chunk of the famous Notre Dame cathedral burned down earlier this week, and now France’s government is mulling whether to accept cryptocurrency to rebuild it—but please, for the love of Satoshi, keep your Bitcoin. The world anxiously watched fire rip through Notre Dame’s twelfth century framework on Monday afternoon. French minister for digital affairs

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    • Sources: ByteDance, which is adding thousands of employees to its 40K staff, expects a net loss of ~$1B in 2018 and revenues of $18B this year and $29B in 2020 (Bloomberg)

    Bloomberg: Sources: ByteDance, which is adding thousands of employees to its 40K staff, expects a net loss of ~$1B in 2018 and revenues of $18B this year and $29B in 2020  —  Most nights, from around 7 till midnight, Sydney Jade is on TikTok, the smartphone app of the moment. Sources: ByteDance, which is adding

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