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| Evan Osnos / New Yorker: |
Profile of Mark Zuckerberg, who is at the center of a debate about the moral character of Silicon Valley, as he tries to fix Facebook before it breaks democracy — The most famous entrepreneur of his generation is facing a public reckoning with the power of Big Tech.
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Twitter now puts live broadcasts started by accounts users follow, including breaking news, personalities, and sports, at the top of their timelines in its app — Twitter will now put live streams and broadcasts started by accounts you follow at the top of your timeline, making it easier to see what they're doing in realtime.
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| Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept: |
Sources: prototypes of Google's Dragonfly search engine for China link the search app on users' Android devices to their phone numbers — Google built a prototype of a censored search engine for China that links users' searches to their personal phone numbers, thus making it easier …
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| Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed News: |
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| Brady Dale / CoinDesk: |
After running Tezos blockchain network in beta since June, Tezos Foundation will officially launch its protocol on Monday — The “experimental” phase for the Tezos blockchain is over. — On Monday morning, the Tezos Foundation will officially announce that the protocol will no longer be in a beta period …
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Bitcoinist.com, CryptoGlobe, Anycoin.news, NewsBTC, NullTX, and SludgeFeed. Tweets: @tezosfoundation
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
NY regulator has sued the US government for usurping state powers over its decision to award national bank charters to online lenders and payment companies — NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York state's top banking regulator on Friday sued the federal government to void its decision …
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| Molly Taft / The Outline: |
Inside the paid courses where deactivated NYC Uber drivers try to learn how to get back in, while critics say tutors are squeezing yet another fee from drivers — One of the only ways for drivers whose rating falls below about 4.5 stars to get reinstated is to take a class, where they get a side of labor organizing.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Let's Encrypt has issued 380M+ free TLS certificates on 129M unique domains in three years since launch, making it the largest certificate issuer in the world — Bon anniversaire, Let's Encrypt! — The free-to-use nonprofit was founded in 2014 in part by the Electronic Frontier Foundation … | John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: |
After receiving “increased level of interest”, DOJ has invited a bipartisan group of 24 state AGs to upcoming meeting on alleged speech stifling by tech firms — Late-September meeting, announced last week, to focus on antitrust issues and stifling of conservative speech| Jason M. Bailey / New York Times: |
Esports companies like Blizzard are growing by replicating traditional sports leagues like NBA that are structured around local franchises and fanfare — Jay Goldthwaite had never felt passion for a Boston sports team, no matter how often his neighbors' cheers pierced the walls … | Owen Thomas / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Tech companies like Salesforce, now the biggest private employer in San Francisco, are reacting to the city's limits by expanding and hiring faster elsewhere — Politics, economics and real estate could make jobs boom elsewhere — Politics, economics and real estate could make jobs boom elsewhere
Tweets: @owenthomas
| NASDAQ.com: |
SurveyMonkey sets IPO range to $9 to $11/share, plans to raise $135M at the midpoint of the range and additional $40M via private placement at $1.3B valuation — SurveyMonkey, which operates a freemium online survey service, announced terms for its IPO on Thursday.| Sean Hollister / CNET: |
Apple responds to viral customer complaint about deleting movies from his iTunes library, says it does not delete movies that users have already downloaded — Perhaps you've heard a story that goes like this: — “Apple's ‘buy’ button is a sham, because Apple has the right to remove movies … Sponsor Posts
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