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An attempt led by Baidu, Tencent, and ByteDance to circumvent Apple’s privacy policies, called CAID, has failed to get traction after Apple blocked app updates (Patrick McGee / Financial Times)
An attempt led by Baidu, Tencent, and ByteDance to circumvent Apple’s privacy policies, called CAID, has failed to get traction after Apple blocked app updates — Tracking system for iPhones developed by Chinese tech groups fails to gain traction — A co-ordinated attempt by Chinese tech companies. Source
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A look at surveillance apps Shadowtrack and SmartLink, which are used by states and ICE as parole apps replacing GPS ankle bracelets (Todd Feathers / The Guardian)
A look at surveillance apps Shadowtrack and SmartLink, which are used by states and ICE as parole apps replacing GPS ankle bracelets — Is smartphone tracking a less intrusive reward for good behaviour or just a way to enrich the incarceration industry? — n 2018, William Frederick Keck. Source
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Sensor Tower: Clubhouse was downloaded 2.7M times in March, a 72% decline from February’s 9.5M+ (Sean Burch / The Wrap)
Sensor Tower: Clubhouse was downloaded 2.7M times in March, a 72% decline from February’s 9.5M+ — After pulling in 9.5 million downloads in February, Clubhouse only had 2.7 million downloads in March, according to new data from Sensor Tower — Is the party on Clubhouse already dying out? Source
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In December, accounting firm Prager Metis International purchased a ~$35K property in Decentraland and PwC’s Hong Kong unit bought property in Sandbox (Mark Maurer / Wall Street Journal)
In December, accounting firm Prager Metis International purchased a ~$35K property in Decentraland and PwC’s Hong Kong unit bought property in Sandbox Source
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Ajaib, an Indonesia-based stock trading and investment app that claims to have 1M monthly active users, raises $25M Series A led by Horizons Ventures (Catherine Shu / TechCrunch)
Ajaib, an Indonesia-based stock trading and investment app that claims to have 1M monthly active users, raises $25M Series A led by Horizons Ventures — Ajaib Group, an online investment platform that says it now runs the fifth-largest stock brokerage in Indonesia by number of trades. Source
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A month-old ransomware attack on Kronos’ workforce management software has disrupted ~8M US employees’ payroll; Kronos is aiming for a fix by the end of January (Becky Sullivan / NPR)
A month-old ransomware attack on Kronos’ workforce management software has disrupted ~8M US employees’ payroll; Kronos is aiming for a fix by the end of January Source
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Q&A with Twitter’s senior director of curation Joanna Geary on how her team decides which trends to summarize and how to contextualize them, more (Will Oremus / OneZero)
Q&A with Twitter’s senior director of curation Joanna Geary on how her team decides which trends to summarize and how to contextualize them, more Source
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Discord buys Sentropy, which emerged from stealth last summer with AI-powered moderation software to fight online abuse and $13M in funding (Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch)
Discord buys Sentropy, which emerged from stealth last summer with AI-powered moderation software to fight online abuse and $13M in funding — The online chat platform Discord is buying Sentropy, a company that makes AI-powered software to detect and remove online harassment and hate. Source
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Tel Aviv-based startup Hour One is paying people to use their likenesses to create AI-voiced characters for marketing and educational videos for its clients (Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review)
Tel Aviv-based startup Hour One is paying people to use their likenesses to create AI-voiced characters for marketing and educational videos for its clients — AI-powered characters based on real people can star in thousands of videos and say anything, in any language. Source
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Seoul-based 3i, an immersive experience startup focusing on metaverse tech, AI, and AR/VR, raises ~$24M Series A led by SV Investment (FinSMEs)
Seoul-based 3i, an immersive experience startup focusing on metaverse tech, AI, and AR/VR, raises ~$24M Series A led by SV Investment Source
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