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    • Proposed agreement from Amazon HQ2 winner Arlington County, Virginia says Amazon must only meet specific office space targets to get about $23M in incentives (Patricia Sullivan/Washington Post)

    Patricia Sullivan / Washington Post: Proposed agreement from Amazon HQ2 winner Arlington County, Virginia says Amazon must only meet specific office space targets to get about $23M in incentives  —  In exchange for giving Amazon about $23 million in incentives, activists wanted Arlington County to require the retail giant … Proposed agreement from Amazon HQ2

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    • Valve faces criticism for its hands-off approach to content moderation as upcoming game glorifying rape and sexual assault is listed on Steam (Matt Wales/Eurogamer.net)

    Matt Wales / Eurogamer.net: Valve faces criticism for its hands-off approach to content moderation as upcoming game glorifying rape and sexual assault is listed on Steam  —  Valve’s ‘anything goes’ content policy has come under fire once more as a game enabling players to “control the choices of a menacing serial killer rapist” is listed

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    • In a letter, a county attorney in Tempe, Arizona says that Uber has not been found criminally liable in last year's fatal crash of one of its self-driving cars (Alison Griswold/Quartz)

    Alison Griswold / Quartz: In a letter, a county attorney in Tempe, Arizona says that Uber has not been found criminally liable in last year’s fatal crash of one of its self-driving cars  —  Uber has been found not criminally liable in a fatal crash last year involving one of its self-driving cars in Tempe,

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    • Dalil, a caller ID Android app for Saudi and other Arabian users with 5M+ downloads, has exposed user data, including some GPS coordinates, for more than week (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

    Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Dalil, a caller ID Android app for Saudi and other Arabian users with 5M+ downloads, has exposed user data, including some GPS coordinates, for more than week  —  Database is still available online after failed attempts to contact the app maker.  —  Dalil, an Android app … Dalil, a caller ID

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    • Sources: Mountain View-based Y Combinator is looking for space in San Francisco for its HQ, following other VC firms that have opened offices in the city (Kate Clark/TechCrunch)

    Kate Clark / TechCrunch: Sources: Mountain View-based Y Combinator is looking for space in San Francisco for its HQ, following other VC firms that have opened offices in the city  —  Y Combinator, a longtime resident of Silicon Valley, is planning to move its HQ to San Francisco  —  For a long time … Sources:

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    • Report: hackers believed to be sponsored by the Chinese government targeted over two dozen universities in an apparent bid to access maritime military research (Shannon Liao/The Verge)

    Shannon Liao / The Verge: Report: hackers believed to be sponsored by the Chinese government targeted over two dozen universities in an apparent bid to access maritime military research  —  Chinese hackers singled out over two dozen universities in the US and around the world in an apparent bid to gain access … Report: hackers

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    • Internal doc: iPhones with batteries installed by third-party repair shops are now eligible for being repaired at Apple Stores and authorized service providers (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)

    Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Internal doc: iPhones with batteries installed by third-party repair shops are now eligible for being repaired at Apple Stores and authorized service providers  —  iPhones with aftermarket batteries installed by third-party repair shops are now eligible for service at Genius Bars … Internal doc: iPhones with batteries installed by third-party repair

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    • Barclays to merge its bPay and Pingit mobile payments products after bPay struggled to gain users (Nate Lanxon/Bloomberg)

    Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg: Barclays to merge its bPay and Pingit mobile payments products after bPay struggled to gain users  —  – BPay launched wearable band, key fob in 2014 for payments  — U.K. banks are having to defend competition from Apple, Monzo  —  Barclays Plc is preparing to merge … Barclays to merge its

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    • Amazon and Mexico's central bank are working on CoDi, a mobile payments system that lets consumers make payments using QR codes; testing begins this month (Stefanie Eschenbacher/Reuters)

    Stefanie Eschenbacher / Reuters: Amazon and Mexico’s central bank are working on CoDi, a mobile payments system that lets consumers make payments using QR codes; testing begins this month  —  MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s central bank is in talks with Amazon.com Inc to launch a new government-backed mobile payment system … Amazon and Mexico's

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    • Echo owners can now ask Alexa to control their Roku devices via a new skill, months after a similar capability came to Google Assistant-powered devices (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

    Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Echo owners can now ask Alexa to control their Roku devices via a new skill, months after a similar capability came to Google Assistant-powered devices  —  Roku this morning announced its devices will now be compatible with Amazon’s Alexa.  Through a new Roku skill for Alexa … Echo owners can now

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