@Engadget FCC CHAIRMAN TO HALT PRIVACY RULES THAT SHIELD CUSTOMERS' PERSONAL DATA FROM ISPSThe privacy rules were approved by the FCC under former Chairman Tom Wheeler back in October and would have required an ISP to ask for a user's explicit permission before collecting data on browsing habits, app usage and location or financial information. They were set to take effect on March 2nd, but Chairman Pai has effectively put a stop to them by until another vote can be held. @TechCrunch ONLINE LENDER STARTUP SOFI RAISES $500 MILLION ADDITIONAL FUNDINGSoFi raised an additional $500 million in a financing round led by Silver Lake, which brings Sofi's total investment to $1.9 billion. It plans to use the funds for international expansion of its online lending business and development of new financial products. SoFi got its start refinancing student loans but gradually expanded into personal loans, mortgages, wealth management, life insurance and other areas. @Engadget 'ROLLERCOASTER TYCOON' FINALLY GOES 3D ON MOBILERollerCoaster Tycoon Touch is now available for free on both iOS and Android. Beyond the graphics, not much is changing gameplay-wise compared with RollerCoaster Tycoon 4 Mobile and RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic, a rehash of the series' first two games released in 2014 December. @TechCrunch VR SOCIAL PRODUCTIIVITY APP 'BIGSCREEN' RAISES $3MBigscreen just raised $3 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowits. Its beta application, which has use cases like collaborating in virtual meeting rooms to playing online games in the same room as avatars, currently boasts 150,000 users, an impressive number for the high-end VR community it exists within. @Engadget GOOGLE SHUTS DOWN GROUP-SHARING NETWORK 'SPACES'Spaces will lock down in read-only mode on March 3rd, then completely shut down on April 17th. It was launched in 2016 May to help small groups work together with shared images, links, videos and text. @TheVerge TWITTER IS LOCKING ACCOUNTS THAT SWEAR AT FAMOUS PEOPLEWhen Twitter determines that an account is being abusive — using criteria that the company has declined to describe in any detail — it hides the account's tweets from anyone who isn't following it. The restrictions last for a set period of time, typically 12 hours for a first offense. @Engadget T-MOBILE TO BEGIN OFFERING LTE-U SUPPORT LATER THIS SPRINGLTE-U was originally proposed by Qualcomm as a component of the new LTE Advanced standard to improve cellular data speeds and coverage. T-Mobile notes that its LTE-U implementation will smartly use the available spectrum, increasing when Wi-Fi demand is low and decreasing when there’s greater Wi-Fi usage. @TheVerge ZENIMAX IS TRYING TO STOP OCULUS FROM SELLING RIFT HEADSETS AND VR GAMESZeniMax, the parent company of game developers id Software and Bethesda Softworks, filed the request in federal court on Feb 23. The same Dallas court found Oculus guilty of copyright infringement and its executives guilty of violating a non-disclosure agreement and committing false designation last month. @TheVerge UBER CALLS WAYMO’S LAWSUIT ALLEGING STOLEN SELF-DRIVING TECH ‘BASELESS’ Waymo filed the explosive lawsuit on the evening of Feb 23, claiming that Anthony Levandowski, a former Google engineer and current top executive at Uber, had stolen 14,000 confidential documents before leaving Google, which he then used to help build Uber’s autonomous vehicles. Uber vows on Feb 24 to "vigorously" defend itself in court.
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