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Spotify begins a campaign to win more advertisers, rebranding its ad business as Spotify Advertising, focusing on SMBs, and expanding its podcast marketplace (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal: Spotify begins a campaign to win more advertisers, rebranding its ad business as Spotify Advertising, focusing on…
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London's Met Police sign a £3M, four-year deal with Japan's NEC Corporation for Retrospective Facial Recognition, which uses historical data to find suspects (Samuel Woodhams/Wired UK)
Samuel Woodhams / Wired UK: London’s Met Police sign a £3M, four-year deal with Japan’s NEC Corporation for Retrospective Facial…
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IBM's Mayflower Autonomous Ship, which collects marine data, will try to sail across the Atlantic in Spring 2022, after failing its first attempt in June (Dalvin Brown/Washington Post)
Dalvin Brown / Washington Post: IBM’s Mayflower Autonomous Ship, which collects marine data, will try to sail across the Atlantic…
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Facebook ignores many issues raised by WSJ's Instagram piece, such as addiction, instead devaluing its own research while not releasing data it repeatedly cites (Alex Cranz/The Verge)
Alex Cranz / The Verge: Facebook ignores many issues raised by WSJ’s Instagram piece, such as addiction, instead devaluing its…
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Google in court to appeal EU’s 2018 Android antitrust case
Google is heading to a top European Union court to appeal a record EU antitrust penalty imposed for stifling competition…
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Australia names eftpos, an electronic payments system, as its first private ID exchange, to act as a 'broker' between identity providers and merchants (Ben Potter/Australian Financial Review)
Ben Potter / Australian Financial Review: Australia names eftpos, an electronic payments system, as its first private ID exchange, to…
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Phone Repair Guru report finds that it will be difficult for third-party repair centers to replace iPhone 13's screen without losing access to Face ID (José Adorno/9to5Mac)
José Adorno / 9to5Mac: Phone Repair Guru report finds that it will be difficult for third-party repair centers to replace…
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To limit the power of big tech companies, regulators should look to mandate interoperability, which will empower users and could spark more competition (Cory Doctorow/Communications of the ACM)
Cory Doctorow / Communications of the ACM: To limit the power of big tech companies, regulators should look to mandate…
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Extremism researchers say the Epik hack is the "mother of all data lodes", and will let them map the ecosystem of extremist websites and organizations (Washington Post)
Washington Post: Extremism researchers say the Epik hack is the “mother of all data lodes”, and will let them map…
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Apple says it will fix a bug preventing some iPhone 13 users from using the Unlock with Apple Watch feature, in an upcoming software update (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Apple says it will fix a bug preventing some iPhone 13 users from using the Unlock…
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