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China’s Baidu says its answer to Alexa is now on 200M devices
A Chinese voice assistant has been rapidly gaining ground in recent months. DuerOS, Baidu’s answer to Amazon’s Alexa, reached over…
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Urban Massage exposed a huge customer database, including sensitive comments on its creepy clients
Urban Massage, a popular massage startup that bills itself as providing “wellness that comes to you,” has leaked its entire…
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A leaky database of SMS text messages exposed password resets and two-factor codes
A security lapse has exposed a massive database containing tens of millions of text messages, including password reset links, two-factor…
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Baidu leads $300M investment to bring its search smarts to elevator ads
China’s largest search engine Baidu is getting an offline revenue boost after it led a $300 million strategic round in…
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Baidu hits the gas on autonomous vehicles with Volvo and Ford deals
China’s search engine giant Baidu is continuing its partnership spree for Apollo, its open development platform for autonomous driving, after…
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Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year
Some nice momentum for privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo which has just announced it’s hit 30 million daily searches a year…
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VP Pence calls on Google to end work on a search engine for China
On Thursday, Vice President Mike Pence called for Google to end its development of a search engine custom built to…
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Google will struggle if it re-enters China, says its former country head
The odds are stacked against Google if the reports are true and the company is trying to bring its services…
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DuckDuckGo gets $10M from Omers for global privacy push
Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo, which offers an alternative to surveillance engines like Google, has quietly picked up $10M in fresh…
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