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After unease from staff, Google lays out seven principles for AI use and says it won't use AI in cases that cause “overall harm” like weapons or surveillance — - CEO releases AI principles after Project Maven employee revolt — Ethics charter forbids surveillance in some situations
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Yahoo will shut down Yahoo Messenger on July 17, marking the end of an era since it debuted as Yahoo Pager back in 1998 — It's the end of an era for Yahoo Messenger, one of the first instant messaging apps on the market. Today, Oath (which also owns TechCrunch) announced that it would be winding …
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Former Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix appeared before UK Parliament on Wednesday, responding to questions with denials, defiance, and thinly veiled anger — The disgraced tech maven appeared before U.K. Parliament on Wednesday. It did not go well.
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A Facebook bug set sharing settings of 14M users to public from May 18-27; Facebook has now restored users' former settings and will notify them starting today — Facebook has another privacy screw-up on its hands. A bug in May accidentally changed the suggested privacy setting …
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| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
China's Ant Financial raises $14B in latest funding round, including a US dollar tranche backed by Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC, Warburg Pincus, others — - Ant has been said valued at $150 billion in latest round — Funding includes U.S. dollar, yuan denominated tranches
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Uber and Lyft have submitted applications for San Francisco's upcoming pilot program for electric scooters — Uber wants to get into the scooter business in San Francisco and is submitting an application for the city's upcoming pilot program, the company confirmed to Axios on Thursday.
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Airbnb cancels thousands of reservations in Japan ahead of the new home-sharing law coming into effect on June 15, will create $10M fund to repay travelers — TOKYO - Rental site Airbnb said Thursday (Jun 7) it had been forced by Japanese authorities to cancel thousands of reservations ahead … | Henry Grabar / Slate: |
Real estate startups have not disrupted the agent model, and some depend on it, despite a sense that the internet should make selling a house easier and cheaper — Because the one thing startups can't disrupt is the real estate agent. — This article is part of Update or Die …
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Android phones for mobile gaming are on the rise but rampant piracy and Apple's premium segment dominance gives devs little incentive to invest in the platform — Asus' ROG Phone is riding a wave of renewed interest in building Android gaming devices — Gaming and Android have never been bigger.| Verizon Communications Inc.: |
Verizon names CTO Hans Vestberg CEO effective August 1, 2018, replacing current CEO Lowell McAdam — Hans Vestberg, Executive Vice President and President of Global Networks and Chief Technology Officer, named CEO, effective August 1, 2018 — Lowell McAdam to serve as Executive Chairman … | Stephanie Chan / VentureBeat: |
Facebook launches fb.gg, a portal where users can browse gaming livestreams, and gives emerging streamers access to monetization tools with Level Up program — Facebook launched its Gaming Creator program in January to boost gaming livestreams on its platform.
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