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Sources: Apple plans three new iPhones for 2019, including a high-end one with a triple rear camera, and the successor to the iPhone XR with a dual-camera (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Apple plans three new iPhones for 2019, including a high-end one with a triple rear camera, and the successor to the iPhone XR with a dual-camera  —  Three new iPhone models planned for 2019, including one with a triple rear camera  —  Apple Inc. AAPL .32% is planning to release three

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Sources: Alibaba-backed AI startup Megvii, owner of facial recognition developer Face++, is considering an IPO in Hong Kong that could raise as much as $1B (Lulu Yilun Chen/Bloomberg)

Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: Sources: Alibaba-backed AI startup Megvii, owner of facial recognition developer Face++, is considering an IPO in Hong Kong that could raise as much as $1B  —  – Owner of Face++ is said to consider Hong Kong as a destination  — AI startup said to weigh raising at least $500 million

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Microsoft Bing search surfaces and suggests images of child sexual abuse

According to a report by TechCrunch and online safety firm AntiToxin Technologies, Microsoft’s Bing search engine surfaces images of child sexual abuse, and even suggests additional keywords in some cases. AntiToxin conducted its research between December 30 and January 7 with SafeSearch turned off. During that time, the researchers found that when people searched for certain terms

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Quartz's AI Studio has developed bots to help journalists with data analysis tasks, using machine learning to identify patterns in records and more (Marcela Kunova/Journalism.co.uk)

Marcela Kunova / Journalism.co.uk: Quartz’s AI Studio has developed bots to help journalists with data analysis tasks, using machine learning to identify patterns in records and more  —  The US publisher offers reporters with no coding skills a set of free tools to help them write better data-driven stories Quartz's AI Studio has developed bots

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Some Twitter users in China, of which there are 3.2M, face detention and threats in Beijing's broad and punitive new censorship push (Paul Mozur/New York Times)

Paul Mozur / New York Times: Some Twitter users in China, of which there are 3.2M, face detention and threats in Beijing’s broad and punitive new censorship push  —  SHANGHAI — One man spent 15 days in a detention center.  The police threatened another’s family.  A third was chained to a chair for eight hours

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Amazon’s new IMDb Freedive service streams ad-supported movies and TV shows in the US

Amazon-owned IMDb launched a new movie streaming platform today called Freedive, and it’s basically Prime Video Lite. The ad-supported service is available from today in the US on the web, and via Amazon’s Fire TV devices. Amazon-owned IMDb launched a new movie streaming platform today called Freedive, and it’s basically Prime Video Lite for film buffs.

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Mondelez sues insurance company for refusing to pay out $100M claim for NotPetya damages, launching the first major legal battle over cyber attack cost recovery (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Mondelez sues insurance company for refusing to pay out $100M claim for NotPetya damages, launching the first major legal battle over cyber attack cost recovery  —  Mondelez, the US food company that owns the Oreo and Cadbury brands, is suing its insurance company, Zurich … Mondelez sues insurance company for refusing to pay

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Improbable and Epic Games partner to establish $25M fund to help devs transition away from Unity to "more open engines, services, and ecosystems", after debacle (Jeff Grubb/VentureBeat)

Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: Improbable and Epic Games partner to establish $25M fund to help devs transition away from Unity to “more open engines, services, and ecosystems”, after debacle  —  Unity found itself at the center of a controversy today, and now competitor Epic Games is turning up the heat. Improbable and Epic Games partner

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