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Donald Trump criticizes social media companies for allegedly “discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices”, says “we won't let that happen” — President Donald Trump on Saturday took to Twitter to allege social media companies are discriminating …
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Reports indicate Sergey Brin only recently learned about Dragonfly, Google's censored search project for China, which may be further along than execs claim — On Thursday afternoon, a critical meeting at Google was derailed by a handful of tweets. Employees who had been pressing top executives …
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How President Xi Jinping plans to turn China into a “cyber-superpower” that will dominate the web through domestic regulations, innovation, and foreign policy — For almost five decades, the United States has guided the growth of the Internet. From its origins as a small Pentagon program … | Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
A look at Facebook's plans to avert interference in the midterms, including putting people from various teams in a physical war room, a first for a US election — Is it enough? — Two weeks ago, on a hastily scheduled conference call with journalists, Facebook executives announced … | Anirban Sen / Livemint: |
Walmart says it has completed its $16B acquisition of Flipkart — Flipkart's existing management team led by CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy will continue to lead the business
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Psychology researchers claim bots might be responsible for uptick in low-quality data in recent surveys they conducted via Amazon's Mechanical Turk — FOR THE PAST week, psychologists all over America have been freaking out. — The cause of their agita was an observation … | Bloomberg: |
Source: Amazon is working on a DVR that will record live TV, wirelessly connect to Fire TV boxes, and stream the video to smartphones — - Box would record live TV and stream that video to smartphones — Device competes with offerings from TiVo, Dish's Slingbox
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Profile of ConsenSys, a Brooklyn-based blockchain startup incubator launched by Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin, that analysts estimate spends $100M+ per year — In a converted warehouse in Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, dozens of ambitious developers are working to build blockchain applications …
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For well-intentioned discussion, maybe people should move from Twitter to Tumblr, still the world's 52nd-most popular site but with the feel of a ghost town — A reconsideration of the last great blogging platform. — Maybe you're familiar with the many reasons why people hate Twitter.| Marcelo Rochabrun / Reuters: |
Uber has provided 1B rides in the last four years in Brazil, its second largest market after US, and is profitable there according to the company execs — SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Ride-hailing company Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] plans to open a 250 million reais ($64 million) … | Danny Gold / Wired: |
How small startup Hala built Sentry, a social media warning system deployed in Syria using humans and remote sensors to predict when and where bombs may fall — The Bashar al-Assad regime's indiscriminate air strikes have terrorized civilians for years. Now a small band of activist-entrepreneurs …
Tweets: @thesyriacmpgn and @wired
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After Valve registered Steam.tv domain, the site is now live as a game streaming website currently only showing its annual Dota 2 international tournament — Over the past couple hours, we've seen a smattering of reports that PC gaming giant Valve had registered a new domain name: Steam.tv.
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