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US government requests for Twitter user data drop 6%

Twitter said Thursday that requests for user data from the US government declined 6% in the second half of 2018 compared with the previous reporting period. The social media giant received 6,904 requests for information about users on 11,112 accounts, Twitter said in its latest transparency report. Twitter said it supplied information on 56% of the requests. The US made the …

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Google Assistant

Your next pair of earbuds may be a lot smarter — and cheaper — thanks to efforts by Qualcomm and Google. Qualcomm on Thursday said it has created a smart headset platform that works with the Google Assistant and Google Fast Pair. The company’s reference design, which uses Qualcomm’s low-power Bluetooth audio chips, is meant to make it fast and …

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