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A look at Apple’s secret testing lab where Secure Enclave chips are subjected to extreme tests, and Q&A with Craig Federighi about Apple’s commitment to privacy (Andrew Griffin/The Independent)

If you’ve ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes inside an iPhone or an iPad, now’s your chance to…

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Wikimedia says India’s proposed intermediary liability rules will impact Wikipedia and limit access to information online, urges government to redraft rules (Amanda Keton/Wikimedia Foundation)

“We’ve seen what can happen when the government tries to regulate the Internet.” India’s proposed intermediary liability rules will affect…

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UK surveillance watchdog: public bodies have insufficient government guidance on when it’s appropriate to use facial recognition, lip-reading tech, and more (Dan Sabbagh/The Guardian)

The UK’s Surveillance Commissioner, Sir Paul Kennedy, is warning that the public sector has been using mass surveillance technologies like…

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TiVo to merge with technology licensing company Xperi; the combined company will have a fully diluted equity value of $2.4B, with TiVo owning ~53.5% of it (Todd Spangler/Variety)

TiVo is selling off its patents and other assets to save cash and focus on selling consumer electronics. But the…

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Hugging Face, which recently found success with its open-source NLP library after debuting an app that lets users chat with an artificial friend, raises $15M (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)

A few months ago, Hugging Face, a machine learning startup with roots in NLP, made headlines when it launched an…

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Sources: Tencent, ByteDance, and others lay off thousands of employees after Chinese internet companies cut tens of thousands during regulatory crackdowns (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal)

Companies worldwide are laying off thousands of employees after recent regulatory crackdowns on foreign internet companies. This happens when the…

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Guilherme Rambo, who has published scoops about unreleased Apple products by examining beta software, says Apple locked his dev account with no stated reason (Buster Hein/Cult of Mac)

The tech world can be pretty mysterious. You often hear of things you didn’t know existed or that have yet…

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Tuvalu, a tiny island nation with the .tv TLD, has been cashing in on domain sales to Twitch and others, representing ~8% of the island’s gross national income (Alexander Lee/Washington Post)

When the Tuvaluan government announced it would sell the top-level domain (.tv) to companies in 2015, it sold the domain…

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Snapchat will launch Bitmoji TV, a personalized cartoon show featuring a user’s avatar and their friends in regularly-scheduled adventures, starting in February(Josh Constine / TechCrunch)

The Bitmoji app has gained huge popularity in recent months thanks to its ability to add life to your Snapchat…

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Grab partners with Singtel to apply for a Singapore digital banking license, with Grab owning a 60% share in the joint entity (Eileen Yu/ZDNet)

Grab has partnered with Singtel, the largest telco in Singapore, to apply for a banking license. This partnership will allow…

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