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Pentagon awards $10B JEDI cloud contract to Microsoft over Amazon — Microsoft has emerged victorious in a dramatic competition for public cloud resources for the U.S. Defense Department, beating out market leader Amazon Web Services, the Pentagon said on Friday.
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| Ben Dreyfuss / Mother Jones: |
An upcoming book by a one-time aide to former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis alleges that Trump directed Mattis to “screw Amazon” out of winning the JEDI contract — On Friday, the Pentagon awarded a massive cloud computing contract to Microsoft.
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How NYC, where 1.5M packages are delivered daily, is dealing with worsening congestion, road safety, and pollution, exacerbated by the rise of online commerce — The push for convenience is having a stark impact on gridlock, roadway safety and pollution in New York City and urban areas around the world.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Zuckerberg struggles to explain why Facebook News' “trusted” sources include Breitbart News, says Facebook wants “to include a breadth of content in there” — On Friday morning, Facebook announced its plan to spend millions of dollars on high-quality journalism …
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| Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE: |
Study: researchers say an algorithm widely used in the US healthcare system to assess medical needs for millions of people is biased against black patients — A series of studies argue that by focusing on costs as a proxy for health, risk algorithms are ignoring the racial inequalities in healthcare access.
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| Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: |
Facebook took down ad by a PAC, which falsely claimed Sen. Graham supports Green New Deal, says it will fact-check ads from political groups but not politicians — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Saturday that it had removed an ad which falsely claimed that U.S. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham supported …
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Facebook AI Research says it has created a system that can modify human faces in live video feeds to thwart state-of-the-art facial recognition software — Facebook AI Research says it has created a machine learning system for de-identification of individuals in video.
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
New York-based Blueground, a platform that leases apartments and upgrades them with various tech gadgets for long-term corporate rentals, raises $50M Series B — New York-based Blueground, a tech-equipped apartment rental company, announced today it has raised $50 million in a Series B round co-led by WestCap and Prime Ventures.| Paris Martineau / Wired: |
Two FTC commissioners say the Sunday Riley settlement, which involved no return of gains, despite strong evidence of wrongdoing, may usher in more review fraud — A leaked email revealed that executives at a skin-care firm showed employees how to post fake reviews. But the FTC settled without a fine or admission of guilt.| Justin Villamil / Bloomberg: |
Stripe launches in Mexico, three weeks after the country's central bank launched CoDi, a mobile payments system that lets consumers make payments using QR codes — Mobile payment startup Stripe Inc. began operations in Mexico, three weeks after after the launch of a similar central bank-backed system aimed … | Carl Miller / BBC: |
Profile of vTaiwan online service, created after 2014 protests, to help groups of people with different interests achieve consensus to guide new regulations — There is one thing that practically everyone can agree on: politics has become bitterly divided.
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
London-based LabGenius, which uses AI and “robotic automation” for protein drug discovery, raises $10M Series A led by Lux Capital and Obvious Ventures — LabGenius, a London-based startup applying AI and “robotic automation” to protein drug discovery, has raised $10 million in Series A funding.
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