Facebook's Voice Assistant Ventures

That big NYTimes piece about location data, is Facebook taking another run at creating its own OS, is Apple considering buying James Bond, is Spotify building a social graph, and do e-athletes need gaming socks?

Sponsors:

• TinyCapital.com
• Rhone.com/ridehome

Links:

• Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy (NYTimes)
• Facebook will bar posts, ads that spread disinformation about the U.S. Census (Washington Post)
• To Control Its Destiny, Facebook Bets Big on Hardware (The Information)
• Apple Held Preliminary Talks With Pac-12 Conference, MGM (WSJ)
• Spotify prototypes Tastebuds to revive social music discovery (TechCrunch)
• A milestone: Earthquake early warning system sends first public alert to smartphones in California (Los Angeles Times)
• TiVo to Merge With Entertainment-Tech Firm Xperi in $3 Billion Deal (Variety)
• Puma’s first ‘active gaming footwear’ is a sock (Engadget)

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