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    • By shifting focus to private messaging, Facebook is getting closer to emulating WeChat, which has made Apple's control of iOS largely irrelevant in China (Will Oremus/Slate)

    Will Oremus / Slate: By shifting focus to private messaging, Facebook is getting closer to emulating WeChat, which has made Apple’s control of iOS largely irrelevant in China  —  The social network’s “pivot to privacy” puts iOS in its crosshairs.  Welcome to tech’s next big rivalry. By shifting focus to private messaging, Facebook is getting

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    SVG Rendering Comes To 8-bit Atari Computers

    Bringing modern protocols and techniques to vintage computers is a favorite pastime for hackers, and over the years we’ve seen some absolutely incredible hardware and software projects designed specifically to do what most people would consider impossible. They’re very rarely practical projects, of course. But that’s never really the point. The product of 45 minutes

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    • After YouTube recategorized "Brie Larson", star of Captain Marvel, as news in search, its algorithm surfaced videos from news publishers, pushing down trolls (Julia Alexander/The Verge)

    Julia Alexander / The Verge: After YouTube recategorized “Brie Larson”, star of Captain Marvel, as news in search, its algorithm surfaced videos from news publishers, pushing down trolls  —  How a simple ‘news’ tag can change everything  —  If you searched “Brie Larson” on YouTube a couple of days ago … After YouTube recategorized "Brie

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    • Samsung Galaxy Buds review: compact and unobtrusive, with better than expected sound, but are finicky outside of the Samsung ecosystem (Vlad Savov/The Verge)

    Vlad Savov / The Verge: Samsung Galaxy Buds review: compact and unobtrusive, with better than expected sound, but are finicky outside of the Samsung ecosystem  —  Getting as many things right as wrong  —  When I was in high school, shopping for new earphones with a single £20 note as my budget, I used to

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    • Senator Warren's plan to curb the power of big tech, while addressing valid concerns, feels like a grandstanding populism without enough substance behind it (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

    Mike Masnick / Techdirt: Senator Warren’s plan to curb the power of big tech, while addressing valid concerns, feels like a grandstanding populism without enough substance behind it  —  from the tell-us-how-you-really-feel dept  —  This isn’t necessarily a big surprise, given that she’s suggested this many times … Senator Warren's plan to curb the power

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    • Citrix says it was informed by the FBI that Citrix's internal network has been breached, believes some business documents may have been accessed and downloaded (Stan Black/Citrix Blogs)

    Stan Black / Citrix Blogs: Citrix says it was informed by the FBI that Citrix’s internal network has been breached, believes some business documents may have been accessed and downloaded  —  On March 6, 2019, the FBI contacted Citrix to advise they had reason to believe that international cyber criminals gained access to the internal

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    • Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman share content plans for Quibi, their streaming service launching in April 2020, including a show on Evan Spiegel and Snapchat (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

    Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman share content plans for Quibi, their streaming service launching in April 2020, including a show on Evan Spiegel and Snapchat  —  Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman today announced a slate of new series and projects heading to their forthcoming video streaming service, Quibi. Jeffrey Katzenberg and

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    • Kerauno raises $25M Series A for its cloud-based workflow communications platform which manages and analyzes inbound social media messages, emails, and calls (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

    Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Kerauno raises $25M Series A for its cloud-based workflow communications platform which manages and analyzes inbound social media messages, emails, and calls  —  Kerauno, an Indianapolis-based startup developing a cloud-hosted workflow communications platform, today announced … Kerauno raises M Series A for its cloud-based workflow communications platform which manages and analyzes

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    • US indicts and arrests some key persons allegedly behind the OneCoin cryptocurrency pyramid scheme that generated €3B+ sales revenue between Q4 2014 and Q3 2016 (Steven Zheng/The Block)

    Steven Zheng / The Block: US indicts and arrests some key persons allegedly behind the OneCoin cryptocurrency pyramid scheme that generated €3B+ sales revenue between Q4 2014 and Q3 2016  —  The Southern District of New York (SDNY) has charged Konstantin Ignatov, Ruja Ignatova, and Mark Scott, for wire fraud, securities fraud, and money laundering.

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    • Sources: Amazon teams up with the NY Yankees, Sinclair Broadcasting, and others in a bid to buy the YES sports network from majority owner 21st Century Fox (New York Times)

    New York Times: Sources: Amazon teams up with the NY Yankees, Sinclair Broadcasting, and others in a bid to buy the YES sports network from majority owner 21st Century Fox  —  Amazon is coming to New York — to grab a piece of the Yankees sports network.  —  Jeff Bezos’ tech giant has teamed …

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