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The Markup announces The Citizen Browser Project, an initiative with The NYT to analyze how the algorithms of Facebook and YouTube serve content to users — The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates how the world's most powerful institutions use technology to reshape society …
| Agence France-Presse: |
Nick Clegg says 2.2M proposed ads on Facebook and Instagram have been rejected and 120K posts withdrawn for attempting to “obstruct voting” in the US elections — A total of 2.2m ads on Facebook and Instagram have been rejected and 120,000 posts withdrawn for attempting to …
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Business Insider, Engadget, Android Headlines, The Verge, Neowin, Gizmodo, and Mashable
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| BBC: |
EU is investigating Instagram's handling of children's personal data, after complaints that contact information on business accounts was publicly visible — Instagram is being investigated by Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) over its handling of children's personal data on the platform.
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TechCrunch, Telegraph, Business Insider, Engadget, The Irish Times, Silicon Republic, Neowin, and Tech Xplore
Tweets: @_andyburrows and @jamestitcomb
| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Profile of Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam and ex-Sequoia partner Matt Huang, whose VC firm Paradigm moved all $400M of its initial capital into Bitcoin in 2018 — Covering venture capital, software and startups — An aggressive Bitcoin trade got crypto VC shop Paradigm flying out of the gate.
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AVC and InsideBitcoins.com
| Matthew Ball / MatthewBall.vc: |
Audio, which struggled for decades as a media category, is breaking out now, as tech enables new content formats as well as new monetization and delivery models — As most of the major media categories — music, video and video games — have existed for decades, we tend to forget that media is technology.
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Alex Danco's Newsletter. Tweets: @ballmatthew, @patrick_spence, @johnbattelle, @adamsinger, @fitzyrichard, @ballmatthew, @pkafka, @davemorgannyc, @marklittlenews, @kintan, @sheckygreen, @patrick_oshag, and @nbt
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Thoughts on Apple's “Hi, Speed” event: the iPhone 12 lineup, camera differences, missing chargers and earbuds, focus on 5G and Verizon CEO's cameo, more — Last month's “Time Flies” event for the Apple Watch Series 6 and new iPad Air was about an hour long; this week's “Hi, Speed” event ran just a bit longer at 70 minutes.
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Monday Note, TechRadar, Labnotes, and iLounge
Tweets: @matthewstoller, @ickoonite, @matthewstoller, @varunkrish, @galtenberg, and @asymco
| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, ZDNet, MacRumors, Tom's Guide, International Business Times, BGR, Softpedia News, AppleInsider, Firstpost Tech, The Irish Times, and TechSpot
Tweets: @filipeesposito, @llsethj, @hallstephenj, @kiruti, and @brandon_caleb25
| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Virtual studios, where the filmmaking takes place in front of a halo of flat screen displays connected to PCs, are offering a real alternative to green screens — For as long as filmmaking has existed, there has been a need to build fantastic worlds in front of cameras.
Tweets: @rebellionjason
| Anil Ananthaswamy / Knowable Magazine: |
A look at “neurosymbolic AI”, which combines techniques of deep neural networks and “good old-fashioned AI”, with comments from its proponents and critics — The unlikely marriage of two major artificial intelligence approaches has given rise to a new hybrid called neurosymbolic AI.
Tweets: @knowablemag, @hkanji, @knowablemag, @knowablemag, @paldhous, @knowablemag, and @knowablemag
| BBC: |
UK to make it illegal to use a mobile phone while driving from next year, closing a loophole that let drivers use a phone to take a photo or play a game — It will become illegal for anyone to pick up and use their mobile phone while driving, under new legislation to be enacted next year.
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The Next Web, MacRumors, Telegraph, LBC, AppleInsider, The Guardian, and Engadget
Tweets: @dharford79, @spaniels_rule, @markandcharlie, @lanceulanoff, @exglospolbiker, and @safecyclingeire
| Colum Murphy / Bloomberg: |
China passes a new export control law, in effect from Dec. 1, that will let it take reciprocal measures if any country or regions abuse their export controls — China passed a new law to restrict sensitive exports to protect national security, helping Beijing gain reciprocity against U.S. as tech tensions mount.
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Protocol, MediaNama, Nikkei Asia, The Hill, globalnews.ca, South China Morning Post, Fortune, New.blicio.us, and IT Management
Tweets: @beatlesonbankin, @andreaslandwehr, @tgehrke_, @onlyyoontv, and @richardturrin
| Ian Carlos Campbell / The Verge: |
Google will discontinue its Trusted Contacts app Dec. 2, pointing users to Maps features instead; the app helped users check on contacts during emergencies — The suggested alternative is a stripped-down Google Maps feature — Google will discontinue its emergency location sharing app Trusted Contacts …
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Firstpost Tech, PhoneArena, and Mashable
| Daniel Oberhaus / Wired: |
An overview on the current state of AI-driven battery research, which until recently was hampered by a lack of data but is now poised to pick up the pace — Improving batteries has always been hampered by slow experimentation and discovery processes. Machine learning is speeding it up by orders of magnitude.
Tweets: @iecstandards and @wired
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