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Facebook says it has removed 1.5M videos of the Christchurch attack in the first 24 hours; over 1.2M of those videos were blocked at upload — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said it removed 1.5 million videos globally of the New Zealand mosque attack in the first 24 hours after the attack.
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Christchurch, announced on 8chan, streamed on Facebook, and shared endlessly on YouTube, Twitter, and Reddit, feels like the first internet-native mass shooting — Before entering a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, the site of one of the deadliest mass murders in the country's history …
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Apple's Heart Study, announced with Stanford in Nov. 2017, finds ~0.5% of 400K+ participants using Apple Watch up to Series 3 received irregular pulse alerts — Only 0.5 percent of participants received the notifications — Apple and the Stanford University School of Medicine each issued … | Matthew Rosenberg / New York Times: |
Aleksandr Kogan, an academic who shared Facebook user data his quiz app collected with Cambridge Analytica, sues Facebook for defamation — WASHINGTON — The academic who helped Cambridge Analytica vacuum up private information from tens of millions of Facebook profiles sued the social media giant …
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Facebook board member Marc Andreessen denies Guardian's report about Cambridge Analytica meeting in 2016, says he never met Wylie in his life — - Andreessen Horowitz investor and Facebook board member Marc Andreessen has denied claims he met the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Chris Wylie in 2016.| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Microsoft starts testing Windows Defender Application Guard extensions, which open untrusted web pages in a virtual container, for Chrome and Firefox — Microsoft has developed and started testing Windows Defender Application Guard extensions for both Chrome and Firefox to better protect enterprise PCs.
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Arlington County Board voted 5-0 in favor of an estimated $51M financial package for Amazon's HQ2, which includes a cash grant of $23M to be paid over 15 years — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc's planned second headquarters in northern Virginia cleared a key test on Saturday … | Andrew Liptak / The Verge: |
The Internet Archive and the ArchiveTeam say they are working to preserve public Google+ posts before the platform shuts down in April — Google's social network shuts down in April — Google is set to begin deleting data from its beleaguered social network, Google+ in April … | Alison Griswold / Quartz: |
Juno is reportedly looking for a buyer at a nominal price as its CEO says ridership in February fell 30% from January due to NYC's new ride-hailing regulations — Juno, the New York ride-hail company that promised to treat drivers well, is seeking a buyer.| Jem Aswad / Variety: |
Spotify says “every monopolist will suggest they have done nothing wrong”, that Apple's response is not new, and is entirely in line with Spotify's expectations — In Friday's early hours, Spotify and Apple traded potshots in their ongoing battle over the App Store.
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Q&A with James Evans, a computational scientist, and Misha Teplitskiy, a post-doc fellow at Harvard, on filter bubbles and political diversity on Wikipedia — A lesson in how to break out of filter bubbles. — In 2013, James Evans, a University of Chicago sociologist and computational scientist … | Henry Vilar / FinTech Futures: |
Pagantis, which uses AI to analyze fraud and credit risk, will offer credit services to e-commerce sites in Italy, France, and Portugal, and raises €65 Series B — Pagantis, a Madrid-based fintech that offers funding on e-commerce sites, has closed a €65 million Series B funding round in debt and equity financing.Sponsor Posts
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