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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 …
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| 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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| 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
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| 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
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