Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: GitHub expands its bug bounty program by increasing reward amounts, adding Legal Safe Harbor terms, and expanding its scope; GitHub paid
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Uber and GM's Cruise open source their self-driving car visualization software, a rare move in the hyper-competitive autonomous world (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Uber and GM’s Cruise open source their self-driving car visualization software, a rare move in the hyper-competitive autonomous world
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Strategy Analytics: in Q4 2018, shipments of smart speakers grew 95% from 22.6M units in Q3 to 38.5M units, with Amazon shipping 13.7M units and Google 11.5M (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Strategy Analytics: in Q4 2018, shipments of smart speakers grew 95% from 22.6M units in Q3 to 38.5M units, with Amazon
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For YouTube, curbing misinformation on its platform may mean punishing some of its stars, a step it's not shown it can broadly take, despite recent policy shift (Kevin Roose/New York Times)
Kevin Roose / New York Times: For YouTube, curbing misinformation on its platform may mean punishing some of its stars, a step it’s not shown
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House Committee on Energy and Commerce asks in open letter whether Facebook users were misled about what personal data could be leaked by joining closed groups (Colin Lecher/The Verge)
Colin Lecher / The Verge: House Committee on Energy and Commerce asks in open letter whether Facebook users were misled about what personal data could
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Hands-on with Varjo VR-1 headset, out now for $6K with $995/year service fee, which uses 3,000 pixel/inch resolution and dual screens to fix "screen door" issue (Peter Bright/Ars Technica)
Peter Bright / Ars Technica: Hands-on with Varjo VR-1 headset, out now for $6K with $995/year service fee, which uses 3,000 pixel/inch resolution and dual
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YouTube updates community guidelines with a new system for rule-breaking channels, which now get a consequence-free, one-time warning for their first violation (Chaim Gartenberg/The Verge)
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: YouTube updates community guidelines with a new system for rule-breaking channels, which now get a consequence-free, one-time warning for their
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Google announces plans to acquire cloud migration startup Alooma, which has raised around $15M to date (Lauren Feiner/CNBC)
Lauren Feiner / CNBC: Google announces plans to acquire cloud migration startup Alooma, which has raised around $15M to date — – Google announced Tuesday
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Loom, which equips enterprises with instant video messaging tools, raises $11M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins, says it's signed up 1.1M users from 18,000 firms (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)
Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Loom, which equips enterprises with instant video messaging tools, raises $11M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins, says it’s signed up
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Samsung's One UI is thoughtfully designed and the best software Samsung's ever put on a smartphone, but getting major software updates quickly is still doubtful (Dieter Bohn/The Verge)
Dieter Bohn / The Verge: Samsung’s One UI is thoughtfully designed and the best software Samsung’s ever put on a smartphone, but getting major software
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