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Amazon announces a record-breaking holiday season with the number of voice-activated shopping orders placed using Alexa rising 3X YoY — Shoppers are increasingly using their voices to buy products online. — Amazon on Wednesday said that the number of voice-activated orders placed via …
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| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
Crypto mining startup Bitmain confirms layoffs, which, source says, may affect half of its total headcount, with some departments being laid off entirely — Months after it filed an application to go public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Beijing-based cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain …
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| Nisha Chittal / Vox: |
How indie bookstores are thriving by using Instagram to build communities, and creating “Instagram walls” that often lead to viral photos and free marketing — Stores like Books Are Magic and the Last Bookstore are benefiting from love on #bookstagram. — The internet is killing independent bookstores.| Daniel Frankel / Multichannel News: |
Google says Android TV has now been deployed by 100+ pay TV operators worldwide and is used by “tens of millions” of customers, mostly in Europe and Asia — Google's open video operating system proliferates as AT&T readies deployment of set-top powered by platform in the U.S.
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| Raymond Zhong / New York Times: |
As Huawei comes under government scrutiny worldwide, a look at the company's aggressive culture that encouraged employees to bend the rules, up to a point — SHENZHEN, China — Earthquakes, terrorist attacks and low oxygen levels on Mount Everest could not hold them back.
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| Alastair Marsh / Bloomberg: |
Crypto efforts of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, and others are in limbo after bitcoin's months-long fall and weak demand from institutional clients — Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and many more built it. But they didn't come. — Limbo—that's where to find Wall Street when it comes to cryptocurrencies.
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
Snapchat adds lenses specifically for dogs, after launching lenses for cats last month, available now — Now your dog can up his or her social clout, too — Snapchat first made users fall in love by creating lenses that could turn them into dogs. Now, the company is going full circle, and adding lenses specifically for dogs.| Zachary Fryer-Biggs / Wired: |
Sources describe DOD's plan to win “hearts and minds” in Silicon Valley, amid frustration and anger inside the Pentagon after Google pulled out of Project Maven — THE AMERICAN MILITARY is desperately trying to get a leg up in the field of artificial intelligence … | Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Chinese startup Yuanfudao, which provides a homework help app, live courses, and a database of exam problems, raises $300M led by Tencent at a $3B+ valuation — Academic exams are a big deal in China as they determine the kind of universities, high schools and elementary schools that students … | Megha Rajagopalan / BuzzFeed News: |
How efforts by independent investigators and NGOs to document human rights violations in war zones are hampered by proactive content removals by social networks — Investigators depend on photos and videos posted online from war zones. But takedowns by Facebook and YouTube are putting …
Tweets: @tobiaschneider, @miriamelder, @meghara, @saliltripathi, and @buzzfeednews
| Pete Brown / Columbia Journalism Review: |
A content analysis of mobile news alerts in 2018 shows their number and length rose since 2017; companion case study confirms shift from just breaking news — EXECUTIVE SUMMARY — In 2017, we did a deep dive into mobile push alerts, publishing a report in collaboration …
Tweets: @pushthepush, @cjr, @towcenter, and @cjr
| Nellie Bowles / New York Times: |
As some prominent creators leave in protest after Patreon bans anti-feminist for hate speech, a look at its approach to policing speech with human moderators — Sam Harris, the polemical atheist neuroscientist known for his popular podcast “Waking Up,” was making tens of thousands of dollars … | Bärí a. Williams / Fast Company: |
The First Step Act, which seeks to reform the federal criminal justice system, risks perpetuating racial and class disparities due to its reliance on algorithms — The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Often in a rush of excitement and eagerness to solve a problem …
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