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James Vincent
Apple CEO Tim Cook has written an op-ed in Time magazine, calling for the FTC to introduce ‘data clearinghouses’ that will let consumers track and manage personal data collected about them online. Cook says it’s not too late to change the tech industry’s habit of indiscriminate data collection.
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Leigh Alexander
In Leigh Alexander’s short story, a young journalist chronicling a vintage e-pet reunion gets more than she expected. “Online Reunion” is part of Better Worlds, The Verge’s science fiction project about hope.
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Casey Newton
Slack has a new logo that trades its former hashtag for a pinwheel-inspired logo. The company plans to go public this year
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Sam Byford
Google’s Pixel 3 Lite has leaked again, this time in an extensive hands-on video. Andro News claims the phone offers “the same quality photos as the Pixel 3.”
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Chaim Gartenberg
The legendary Motorola RAZR might be making a comeback as a $1,500 foldable screen smartphone. It could launch as early as February as a Verizon exclusive, courtesy of new parent company Lenovo.
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Samantha Nelson
One of Netflix’s last remaining Marvel shows — though its cancellation is probably imminent — continues to send vigilante Frank Castle (Jon Bernthal) after his enemies, including a former friend. In season 2, he faces his old friend Billy Russo (Ben Barnes), who’s taken up the role of The Punisher’s longtime rogues’ gallery villain Jigsaw.
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Laura Hudson
An interview with the author of “Online Reunion” from Better Worlds, The Verge’s sci-fi project about hope. Leigh Alexander discusses finding joy and connection online, preserving digital history, and seeing the mystical in the technological.
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Ashley Carman
Nike’s new Adapt BB sneakers are Bluetooth-connected and require an app to tighten. They don’t have laces for wearers to tie, and they need to be wirelessly charged. They are available for preorder today.
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Casey Newton
New data from Pew Research suggests that tens of millions of people do understand ad targeting — and they don’t seem very happy about it
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Nick Statt
LG is known for trying outlandish smartphone designs to stick out in the ever-crowding mobile marketplace. Now, according to a report from CNET, the next LG device will come equipped with a second screen — but not because it will bend or fold like a next-gen Samsung device, or roll up like LG’s recently unveiled Signature OLED TV R.
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Zack Whittaker
Sometimes it take a small bug in one thing to find something massive elsewhere. During an investigation recent, security firm Forcepoint Labs said it found a new kind of malware that was found taking instructions from a hacker sending commands over the encrypted messaging app Telegram . The researc…
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Jonathan Shieber
Cracking the silos of digital health records promises to bring better care to patients by better informing doctors, according to Abhinav Shashank, the chief executive officer of San Francisco-based startup Innovaccer . Shashank’s company is just wrapping up a $35 million round of financing wi…
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Natasha Lomas
Two years on from the U.S. presidential election, Facebook continues to have a major problem with Russian disinformation being megaphoned via its social tools. In a blog post today the company reveals another tranche of Kremlin-linked fake activity — saying it’s removed a total of 471 F…
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Rita Liao
The era that saw China’s mobile payments providers making handsome interest returns on client money has officially ended. Starting this week, non-bank payments companies must place 100 percent of their customer deposit funds under centralized, interest-free accounts as Beijing moves to rein i…
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Zack Whittaker
A popular WordPress plugin, installed on thousands of websites to help users share content on social media sites, left linked Twitter accounts exposed to compromise. The plugin, Social Network Tabs, was storing so-called account access tokens in the source code of the WordPress website. Anyone who …
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Jon Russell
Coinbase is continuing its push to suck up talent after the $8 billion-valued crypto business snapped up Blockspring, a San Francisco-based startup that enables developers to collect and process data from APIs. The undisclosed deal was announced by Blockspring on its blog, and confirmed to TechCrun…
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Steve O'Hear
Personio, the German HR and recruiting platform, has raised $40 million in a Series B funding. Leading the round is London-based Index Ventures, with participation from existing investors Northzone and Rocket Internet’s Global Founders. Founded in 2015, Munich-based Personio has set out to bu…
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Jonathan Shieber
Ciitizen, the company founded by the creators of Gliimpse (an Apple acquisition that’s been incorporated into the company’s HealthKit) which is developing tools to help patients organize and share their medical records, has raised $17 million in new funding. Ciitizen, like Gliimpse befo…
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