Author: Tech Support

    • LinkedIn launches Student Voices, its take on Snapchat Stories, for US colleges, and says it plans Stories-like features aimed at other sets of users too (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)

    Josh Constine / TechCrunch: LinkedIn launches Student Voices, its take on Snapchat Stories, for US colleges, and says it plans Stories-like features aimed at other sets of users too  —  No app is safe from the Stories plague  —  The social media singularity continues with the arrival of Snapchat Stories-style slideshows … LinkedIn launches Student

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    • Microsoft now supports standards-based FIDO2 security key devices, letting Windows 10 users access their Microsoft Account without entering username or password (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

    Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Microsoft now supports standards-based FIDO2 security key devices, letting Windows 10 users access their Microsoft Account without entering username or password  —  Passwords aren’t as effective a means as preventing account break-ins as they might seem.  Three out of four people use duplicate passwords … Microsoft now supports standards-based FIDO2 security

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    • Agora, which helps developers integrate voice and video into their apps via APIs, raises $70M Series C led by Coatue Management (Catherine Shu/TechCrunch)

    Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: Agora, which helps developers integrate voice and video into their apps via APIs, raises $70M Series C led by Coatue Management  —  Agora, a developer of cloud communication APIs, will create products for new markets and verticals after raising a $70 million Series C led by Coatue Management. Agora, which helps

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    • After announcing it four months ago, Facebook is rolling out its "how long do I spend on Facebook" dashboard, but its insights are not very specific (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)

    Josh Constine / TechCrunch: After announcing it four months ago, Facebook is rolling out its “how long do I spend on Facebook” dashboard, but its insights are not very specific  —  15 weeks after Facebook announced its “Your Time On Facebook” tool that counts how many minutes you spend on the app, the feature is

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    • State regulator orders fraudulent Russian cryptocurrency out of North Dakota

    Financial regulators of North Dakota have ordered a dodgy Russian cryptocurrency company to cease and desist operations in the state, after discovering it had impersonated a bank in Liechtenstein to falsely market an initial coin offering (ICO). In a statement released Monday, state securities chairman Karen Tyler explains how the scammers assumed the identity of Union Bank

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    • Sources: US DOJ probe into cryptocurrency manipulation has homed in on Bitcoin, Tether, and Bitfinex, and whether traders artificially inflated Bitcoin's price (Bloomberg)

    Bloomberg: Sources: US DOJ probe into cryptocurrency manipulation has homed in on Bitcoin, Tether, and Bitfinex, and whether traders artificially inflated Bitcoin’s price  —  – DOJ investigating whether Tether was used to prop up Bitcoin  — U.S. case part of broader review of possible coin manipulation Sources: US DOJ probe into cryptocurrency manipulation has homed

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    • In an updated statement, Tumblr says an audit found child porn images were slipping through detection tools, leading to removal from App Store (Jon Porter/The Verge)

    Jon Porter / The Verge: In an updated statement, Tumblr says an audit found child porn images were slipping through detection tools, leading to removal from App Store  —  Blames an ‘industry database’ that failed to filter prohibited content  —  Tumblr says that child pornography was the reason for its app’s sudden disappearance from the

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    • From 2011 to 2016, the FCC released an annual report comparing advertised broadband speeds with actual speeds but has not released one in two years (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)

    Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: From 2011 to 2016, the FCC released an annual report comparing advertised broadband speeds with actual speeds but has not released one in two years  —  FCC is still measuring in-home speeds—but hasn’t released report in two years.  —  Nearly two years have passed since … From 2011 to 2016,

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    • Sources: Samsung plans to release a variant of the Galaxy S10 next spring that will have six cameras, 5G, and a 6.7" screen (Timothy W. Martin/Wall Street Journal)

    Timothy W. Martin / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Samsung plans to release a variant of the Galaxy S10 next spring that will have six cameras, 5G, and a 6.7″ screen  —  The tech giant’s response to sales slump is flagship phones packed with bigger screens and extra cameras  —  SEOUL— Samsung Electronics Co. is planning

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