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Decentralizing Twitter won't solve its hate speech problems; Mastodon CEO: “it sounds like Twitter is making a Mastodon clone” — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey floated a compelling possibility on Wednesday: He wants to put together a team to explore decentralizing Twitter.| Klint Finley / Wired: |
How decentralized protocols may help solve some issues plaguing social media today; @bluesky team should consider existing projects like Mastodon — The CEO tweeted that he's hiring a team to develop open source standards for decentralized social networks. His hope: It will spawn better ways to combat hate and harassment.| @jack: |
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Google brings its real-time translation mode, interpreter, to the Google Assistant app on iOS and Android globally with support for 44 languages — After rolling out on smart speakers and displays earlier this year, Google's interpreter real-time translation mode finally landing on mobile.
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| Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: |
Google says it is changing mobile search results for news topics, adding more carousels of stories, starting in the US and rolling out later internationally — Users will now see multiple carousels of news stories. — Google is changing how it presents news stories in its search results.
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| Sean Lyngaas / CyberScoop: |
Jeanette Manfra, assistant director for cybersecurity at DHS, will be joining Google Cloud as global director of security and compliance — One of the U.S. government's most influential cybersecurity officials is heading to Google. — Jeanette Manfra will take a job at the tech giant's cloud division … | Julie Verhage / Bloomberg: |
Robinhood starts rolling out its Cash Management service, which offers 1.8% interest, debit cards, and FDIC coverage on deposits through bank partnerships — Robinhood Markets Inc. has finally launched its take on a bank account, albeit a very different version of the service it once hoped to offer.| Abe Othman / AngelList: |
AngelList report: seed stage investors can increase their yields by investing into every credible deal, contradicting the common wisdom of passing on most — If you miss the best-performing seed investment, you will eventually be outperformed by someone who blindly invests in every credible deal.
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| New York Times: |
Details of 15M bank debit cards in Iran from its three largest banks have been published on social media in what experts suspect is a state-sponsored attack — The details of millions of Iranian bank cards were published online after antigovernment protests last month. Experts suspect a state-sponsored cyberattack.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
AI Index Report 2019: 300% rise in research papers, US the global leader by most metrics, self-driving cars received more private investment than any AI field — The 2019 AI Index report gives us a glimpse into AI progress — Trying to get a handle on the progress of artificial intelligence …
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Profile of Canva, a graphic design app that CEO Melanie Perkins helped build from a yearbook-design business out of Perth into a profitable $3.2B Adobe rival — On a steamy May morning in 2013, Canva CEO Melanie Perkins found herself adrift on a kiteboard in the channel between billionaire …
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| Charlotte Tucker / EU-Startups: |
Paris-based Yubo, which lets young people create live video discussion spaces, raises €11M led by Iris Capital and Idinvest Partners — Today Yubo, the social platform connecting Generation Z around the world, announces snapping up more than €11 million.| Bloomberg: |
Investigation details how Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook handle voice assistant transcriptions, relying heavily on contractors and downplaying user privacy — Ruthy Hope Slatis couldn't believe what she was hearing. She'd been hired by a temp agency outside Boston for a vague job …
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| Alexander George / Popular Mechanics: |
The Mac Pro uses three axial fans and a centrifugal fan to keep it cool, with blade design drawn from vehicle tires to make them sound pleasant even when loud — Spend a few tens of thousands on optional upgrades, and the new Mac Pro becomes a list of superlative performance specs. A 28-core CPU.
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