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Facebook says it 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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Social media took effective action when faced with a deluge of ISIS content years ago; big tech should take equally-large, public steps against white supremacy — New York (CNN Business)Among the many tragedies of the massacre at two New Zealand mosques on Friday is a bitter irony … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
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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As GarageBand turns 15, artists discuss how they have used the app as it has evolved, and Apple shows off its studio where the pre-installed sounds are made — A secret recording studio on Apple's Cupertino campus has made the beats of some of your favorite hits for the last 15 years
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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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| Maureen Farrell / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Lyft will seek to raise around $2B at a valuation of up to $23B as it starts its IPO roadshow this week — Lyft plans to peg its valuation at between $21 billion and $23 billion when the ride-hailing service kicks off the roadshow to market its initial public offering Monday, according to people familiar with the matter.
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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 … | Dan Falk / Quanta Magazine: |
A look at how AI is being used in science, from probing the evolution of galaxies and calculating quantum wave functions to discovering new chemical compounds — The latest AI algorithms are probing the evolution of galaxies, calculating quantum wave functions, discovering new chemical compounds and more.| 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.
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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 … | Brian Gallagher / Nautilus: |
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 …
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