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    • Users are frustrated by Google's lack of response to complaints about Google Fit issues, such as the inability to log into the app or sync with third-party apps (Rita El Khoury/Android Police)

    Rita El Khoury / Android Police: Users are frustrated by Google’s lack of response to complaints about Google Fit issues, such as the inability to log into the app or sync with third-party apps  —  Google Fit has undergone many changes over the past year.  From a major redesign to several minor improvements, and even

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    • Interview with Margaret O'Mara, author of The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America, on how the government became a catalyst for the birth of SV (Hope Reese/OneZero)

    Hope Reese / OneZero: Interview with Margaret O’Mara, author of The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America, on how the government became a catalyst for the birth of SV  —  Margaret O’Mara, author of The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America, explains why it’s time to move past the tech sector’s

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    • Leaked documents from surveillance company Perceptics show its pitch to New York's MTA on how it could automatically track and profile vehicles and drivers (Sam Biddle/The Intercept)

    Sam Biddle / The Intercept: Leaked documents from surveillance company Perceptics show its pitch to New York’s MTA on how it could automatically track and profile vehicles and drivers  —  Just months before millions of its internal documents were stolen and dumped on the internet, the Tennessee-based surveillance company Perceptics … Leaked documents from surveillance

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    The Theremin Gets A Voice

    Every once in a while, we come across a project that adds a ridiculously good twist on an existing design. This is exactly what [Xiao Xiao] and the team at LAM research group at the Institut d’Alembert in Paris have done. Their project T-VOKS is a singing and Speaking Theremin that is sure to drive

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    • AT&T says it will enable Call Protect, its free service to block robocalls, by default for new customers, and "in the coming months" for existing customers (Chaim Gartenberg/The Verge)

    Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: AT&T says it will enable Call Protect, its free service to block robocalls, by default for new customers, and “in the coming months” for existing customers  —  The first major carrier to automatically block fraudulent calls  —  In June, the Federal Communications Commission ruled … AT&T says it will enable

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