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100+ internal training manuals and other docs show guidelines for Facebook content moderators on topics like violence, hate speech, terrorism, porn, self-harm — Leaked policies guiding moderators on what content to allow are likely to fuel debate about social media giant's ethics
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Etsy is under pressure from activist investors to grow revenue, reduce spending and perks, and give up its ethical ideals — “There is one and only one social responsibility of business,” the economist Milton Friedman famously wrote in 1962. And that is “to use its resources and engage … | David Pierce / Wired: |
Google I/O showcased a lot of good ideas and impressive research but few practical applications — As expected, the opening keynote of Google's I/O 2017 developer conference was a doozy. For two and a half hours, CEO Sundar Pichai and a handful of execs rattled off a staggering list …
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How SoftBank and Saudi Arabia settled their differences to birth the $100B Vision Fund, the world's biggest tech fund — SoftBank is poised to launch a $100 billion technology fund as early as Saturday, capping months of arduous negotiations in which the Japanese tech giant haggled …
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SoftBank Vision Fund officially launches with $93B in committed capital and $100B target within 6 months — In Addition to the Public Investment Fund, SoftBank Group and Mubadala, Initial Investors in Global Technology Fund include Apple, Foxconn, Qualcomm and Sharp
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| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
How Facebook conducted research, commissioned by an advertiser, on minors' emotional states, which was then shared in a presentation to potential advertisers — Data mining is such a prosaic part of our online lives that it's hard to sustain consumer interest in it, much less outrage.| Laura Shin / Forbes: |
AngelList and Protocol Labs launch CoinList, a funding platform for token-based networks; Filecoin will be the first initial coin offering on the platform — For a new form of funding, initial coin offerings, or ICOs, have been raising money at astonishing speed — amassing about $440 million … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Patreon says it now has 1M monthly active paying patrons and 50K active creators, both doubling YoY, and is on track to pay out $150M to creators in 2017 — Patreon's novel idea of fans just directly paying the artists they love is having its hockey stick moment.| Steve Kovach / Business Insider: |
How the mission and spirit of Google's ATAP group changed, after Facebook hired its chief Regina Dugan, to become more focused on shipping market-ready products — Almost three years ago, one of Google's most celebrated executives took the stage at the company's big developer conference … | TechCrunch: |
As Bitcoin crosses $2,000, it also now accounts for less than half of total cryptocurrencies market cap, following growth of Ethereum and Ripple — May 20, 2017, 12:46 pmMay 21, 2017, 6:52 am — The world's most popular cryptocurrency is now worth over $2,000 per coin.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Charts, Amazon's new book rankings, lists books by most sold and most read per week, taking into account Kindle reading and Audible listening stats — Amazon has long relied on customers providing feedback and providing other ranking data as part of the process of encouraging more sales …
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The Verge, Publishing Perspectives, and Amazon.com
| Bill Vlasic / New York Times: |
Sources: Ford replaces Mark Fields as CEO with Jim Hackett, head of its autonomous vehicle unit — DEARBORN, Mich. — In a shake-up reflecting the pressures on the American auto industry, Ford Motor is replacing its chief executive, Mark Fields, according to officials briefed on the move.Sponsor Posts
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