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[Thread] Alexis Ohanian resigns from the Reddit board, urges company to fill his seat with a black candidate, pledges $1M to Kaepernick's Know Your Rights Camp — I co-founded @reddit 15 years ago to help people find community and a sense of belonging. It is long overdue to do the right thing. I'm doing this for me, for my family, and for my country.
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Twitter removes a video tribute to George Floyd posted by Trump's campaign, saying it received a complaint from a copyright owner of at least one image — Twitter on Thursday removed a video tribute to George Floyd posted by President Trump's reelection campaign, claiming it had run afoul …
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Sensor Tower and Apptopia say Twitter broke US and worldwide single-day download records this week with 600K+ downloads and 40M US DAUs on Thursday — Civil unrest due to the nationwide George Floyd protests drove Twitter to see a record number of new installs this week …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple launches the Password Manager Resources project on Github, to make it easier for developers of password manager apps to create strong passwords — Apple has announced today that it is launching an open source project designed for developers of password managers.
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Media Matters is considering sending a letter urging advertisers to rethink spending on Facebook after Mark Zuckerberg's choice to leave up a Trump post — Media Matters for America, the liberal media watchdog best known for getting advertisers to pull their spots from Fox News, has its eye on a new target: Facebook.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Silver Lake to invest $600M more in Reliance Jio Platforms, upping its stake from 1.15% to 2.08%; Jio raised $12.1B+ from Facebook and private equity funds — Silver Lake is doubling down its bet on India's Reliance Jio Platforms. The U.S. private equity firm said Friday it is buying …
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Sources: Grubhub has received interest to merge from Europe-based Just Eat Takeaway.com and Delivery Hero as a deal with Uber faces antitrust concerns — - Grubhub has received interest from at least two European companies — Delivery Hero and Just Eat Takeaway.com — as potential acquirers … | Lindsay Clark / The Register: |
UK government publishes the contracts National Health Service signed with Microsoft, Google, Faculty, and Palantir to create a COVID-19 datastore — Questions linger over involvement of biz linked to Dominic Cummings and Vote Leave campaign — UK government has published the contracts …
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ByteDance shuts down TopBuzz, its AI-based news aggregator that is an overseas equivalent of its Chinese news app, Jinri Toutiao — BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - ByteDance, owner of the global hit short-video app TikTok, has shut down its artificial-intelligence-based news aggregator TopBuzz …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Instacart changes how it handles tips, including deactivating customers who “consistently and egregiously” engage in tip-baiting, after a Congressional inquiry — The company let customers bait Instacart shoppers with big tips and remove them after the fact| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Superpedestrian, maker of e-bikes, scooters, and other micromobility tech, launches a scooter sharing service and raises $15M, bringing its total raised to $79M — From the makers of the Copenhagen Wheel — Boston-based micromobility startup Superpedestrian is launching …
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Facebook makes groups linked to the term “Boogaloo”, which refers to potential US civil war, harder to find after arrest of group participants plotting violence — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc is making it harder to find user groups associated with the term “Boogaloo …
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Google details how it is using a variety of AI techniques to improve the translation quality for languages that don't have a copious amount of written text — Google says it's made progress toward improving translation quality for languages that don't have a copious amount of written text.| Tom Krisher / Associated Press: |
IIHS study of 5K+ crashes: self-driving cars would have prevented only a third, those caused by “sensing and perceiving” errors and driver “incapacitation” — DETROIT (AP) — A new study says that while autonomous vehicle technology has great promise to reduce crashes …
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