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    • Study on behavioral ad targeting finds that publishers only get about 4% more revenue for an ad impression that has a cookie enabled than for one that doesn't (Keach Hagey/Wall Street Journal)

    Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal: Study on behavioral ad targeting finds that publishers only get about 4% more revenue for an ad impression that has a cookie enabled than for one that doesn’t  —  Finding could affect where publishers line up in brewing privacy battles  —  Are creepy advertisements really necessary to support the

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    • Source: to clear their $26.5B merger, DOJ officials want T-Mobile and Sprint to lay groundwork for a new wireless carrier with its own network (Bloomberg)

    Bloomberg: Source: to clear their $26.5B merger, DOJ officials want T-Mobile and Sprint to lay groundwork for a new wireless carrier with its own network  —  – Antitrust officials seek additional carrier with own network  — T-Mobile mulling possible fixes to satisfy Justice Department Source: to clear their .5B merger, DOJ officials want T-Mobile and

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    • In-flight internet provider Gogo says it plans to deploy in-flight 5G in 2021 that will service smaller aircraft on routes in the contiguous US and Canada (Jeremy Horwitz/VentureBeat)

    Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: In-flight internet provider Gogo says it plans to deploy in-flight 5G in 2021 that will service smaller aircraft on routes in the contiguous US and Canada  —  In-flight internet provider Gogo plans to deploy an air-to-ground 5G network for aviation, the company said today … In-flight internet provider Gogo says it

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    • Google now requires Play Store app developers to disclose the odds of receiving items in loot boxes, bringing its policy in line with Apple's App Store (Adi Robertson/The Verge)

    Adi Robertson / The Verge: Google now requires Play Store app developers to disclose the odds of receiving items in loot boxes, bringing its policy in line with Apple’s App Store  —  Google now requires Play Store app developers to disclose the odds of receiving items in loot boxes, among several other changes aimed at

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    Pelosi says altered videos show Facebook leaders were ‘willing enablers’ of Russian election interference

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday that Facebook’s refusal to take down an altered video of her shows that the company’s leaders were active contributors to online disinforrmation and “willing enablers” of Russian interference in the 2016 election. Pelosi says altered videos show Facebook leaders were ‘willing enablers’ of Russian election interference Source: Washington

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    Turbo Subaru Gets DIY Gauges

    For the average motorist, the speedometer and the fuel indicator are the primary gauges of interest. Owners of performance or modified cars tend to like having more information on the way the car is running. [JustinN1] is firmly in that camp, and built some WiFi-enabled gauges for his Subaru WRX STi. The gauges run on

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