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A profile of Discord, which lies at the center of the gaming world with 100M+ MAUs, as it pushes to turn into a communication tool for everyone, not just gamers — Most longtime Discord users have a similar origin story. They liked playing video games, and liked playing with their friends …
Tweets: @joshelman, @adamnash, @rachaelrad, @sachinrekhi, @drorpoleg, @willreed_21, @peterpham, @bgurley, @protocol, @kevinctofel, @panzer, @postimusmaximus, @aweary, @martinsfp, @s8mb, @lordravenscraft, @protocol, and @bromid
| Washington Post: |
Sources: Facebook skirted its own rules to give conservatives, including a pro-Trump super PAC and Donald Trump Jr., preferential treatment on rules enforcement — From a pro-Trump super PAC to the president's eldest son, conservatives have blown past Facebook's fact-checking guardrails, with few consequences.| Washington Post: |
A look at the key social media feedback loops that help Trump, where his high-profile influencers and rank-and-file followers push messages both to and from him — Researchers say the online feedback loop between Trump, high-profile influencers and rank-and-file followers is more dangerous than Russian disinformation.| Mark Graham / Internet Archive Blogs: |
The Internet Archive starts adding banners on some Wayback Machine pages with links that provide contextual information from fact-checking organizations — Fact checking organizations and origin websites sometimes have information about pages archived in the Wayback Machine.
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Sources: Huawei is working on plans for a dedicated chip plant in Shanghai that aims to produce 28nm chips by the end of 2021 and 20nm chips by late 2022 — Shanghai facility aimed at breaking Chinese company's dependence on American technology — Huawei is working on plans …
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Engadget, caixinglobal.com, Forbes, TheStreet, Bloomberg, and Slashdot
Tweets: @daniele_manca, @chinabeigebook, @shivamvahia, @chadbown, @yuanfenyang, @dankwone, and @markoff
| Tom Krazit / Protocol: |
Profile of Google Cloud's Kelsey Hightower, a respected figure in cloud computing and one of the few prominent Black men in enterprise infrastructure tech — Peter Idah had met Kelsey Hightower before. But this time, he brought his son. — It was March 2016, and the Kubernetes jamboree …
Tweets: @kelseyhightower, @jbeda, @apbhatnagar, @marktechson, @vicnastea, @cyberomin, @jeffdean, @tomkrazit, @kstewart, and @mamund
| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
How Massachusetts' ballot proposal requiring carmakers to install standardized, open data-sharing platforms on cars with telematics may shape right to repair — Question 1 would amend the state's right-to-repair law and expand access to car data. But big automakers are pushing back.
Tweets: @waltmossberg, @laurengoode, @mikaljakubal, and @gadgetlab
| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Zego, which provides real-time communication tools for enterprises and runs a Zoom-style videoconferencing service called TalkLine, raises $50M led by Tencent — - Zego offers real-time voice, video technology solutions — Rival Agora raised $350 million in U.S. listing this year
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| Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: |
Researchers have developed a deep learning technique that can significantly decrease the computational capacity required to solve partial differential equations — Unless you're a physicist or an engineer, there really isn't much reason for you to know about partial differential equations. I know.| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter lifts restrictions from the NY Post's Twitter account, updating its practice of “not retroactively overturning prior enforcement” — Social-media company reverses policy that previously required newspaper to delete old tweets before being able to tweet again
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New York Post, New York Post, The Hill, Variety, The Verge, Mediaite, and TheBlaze
Tweets: @twittersafety, @twittersafety, @mattbilinsky, @sarah_micheleg, @tedcruz, @mmasnick, @twittersafety, @sohrabahmari, @brithume, and @seanmdav
| Nandita Mathur / Livemint: |
Forty-six US companies including Apple, Google, and Facebook have filed an amicus brief supporting a legal challenge to block Trump admin's H-1B visa changes — - The move comes in the wake of the US administration's proposal to scrap the computerized lottery system to grant H-1B work visas …
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The Hindu BusinessLine, The Economic Times, Times Now, Up News Info, and Moneycontrol. Tweets: @policy
| Elliott Ackerman / Wired: |
Profile of Shield AI, which raised money from a16z and others to develop autonomous military drones that scan buildings to help soldiers clear them — On the battlefield, any doorway can be a death trap. A special ops vet, and his businessman brother, have built an AI to solve that problem.Sponsor Posts
Meta:
Open Source AI: Available to all, not just the few — Meta's open source AI enables small businesses, start-ups, students, researchers and more to download and build with our models at no cost.
Open Source AI: Available to all, not just the few — Meta's open source AI enables small businesses, start-ups, students, researchers and more to download and build with our models at no cost.
Zoho:
The crossroads of AI and SaaS — Enabling businesses of all sizes to build products in-house and disqualifying SaaS tools that are not AI-powered. In a span of just two years, AI has made a name for itself as the key driver for innovation.
The crossroads of AI and SaaS — Enabling businesses of all sizes to build products in-house and disqualifying SaaS tools that are not AI-powered. In a span of just two years, AI has made a name for itself as the key driver for innovation.
Genesys:
Executive Insights: The Era of Contact Center AI Copilots — How AI copilots are transforming customer experience and agent performance.
Executive Insights: The Era of Contact Center AI Copilots — How AI copilots are transforming customer experience and agent performance.
Tribe AI:
Build AI products that matter — Tribe AI helps organizations rapidly deploy AI solutions that have real business impact. We bring together world class AI talent and tooling to drive differentiated results.
Build AI products that matter — Tribe AI helps organizations rapidly deploy AI solutions that have real business impact. We bring together world class AI talent and tooling to drive differentiated results.Who's Hiring In Tech?
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