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    • Sources: Apple is developing in-screen fingerprint ID for its iPhones and working on its first low-cost iPhone since iPhone SE, both for as early as 2020 (Bloomberg)

    Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is developing in-screen fingerprint ID for its iPhones and working on its first low-cost iPhone since iPhone SE, both for as early as 2020  —  – Company previously replaced fingerprint sensing with Face ID  — New low-cost iPhone in the works for first half of next year Sources: Apple is developing in-screen

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    • Android 10 review: notifications and privacy permissions easier to manage, but Digital Wellbeing features confusing, and most phones won't get this update soon (Dieter Bohn/The Verge)

    Dieter Bohn / The Verge: Android 10 review: notifications and privacy permissions easier to manage, but Digital Wellbeing features confusing, and most phones won’t get this update soon  —  ANDROID 10 REVIEW: WORKS NICE, IF YOU CAN GET IT More mile marker than milestone By Dieter Bohn@backlon Sep 4, 2019 … Android 10 review: notifications

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    Palo Alto Networks to acquire IoT security startup Zingbox for $75M; Zingbox has 70 employees and has raised $23.5M in outside funding (Michael Novinson/CRN)

    {$inline_image} Michael Novinson / CRN: Palo Alto Networks to acquire IoT security startup Zingbox for $75M; Zingbox has 70 employees and has raised $23.5M in outside funding  —  Palo Alto Networks Chief Product Officer Lee Klarich said the proposed $75 million purchase of Zingbox will allow customers to get IoT security capabilities without any additional

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    • Google is open sourcing a tool for data scientists to help protect private information

    Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google today announced that it is open sourcing its so-called differential privacy library, an internal tool the company uses to securely draw insights from data sets that contain the private and sensitive personal information of its users. Differential privacy is a cryptographic approach to data science, particularly with

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    • This Bitcoin toilet paper will take you from ‘bogholder’ to ‘shitcoiner’ in one wipe

    The term “shitcoin” has permeated through the cryptocurrency scene so effectively that it’s reached US Congress — but now Amazon offers a new product that takes it to a whole other level. Behold, this three-ply toilet paper has a Bitcoin printed on each sheet. It’s described as a “funny cryptocurrency novelty prank gag gift idea for crypto traders

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    • Even Financial, which provides APIs for financial services search, acquisition, and monetization, raises $25M round led by Citi Ventures and MassMutual Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

    Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Even Financial, which provides APIs for financial services search, acquisition, and monetization, raises $25M round led by Citi Ventures and MassMutual Ventures  —  Even Financial, a four-year-old New York-based provider of APIs for financial services search, acquisition, and monetization … Even Financial, which provides APIs for financial services search, acquisition, and

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