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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.| 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
| David Pierce / Protocol: |
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: @adamnash, @bgurley, @drorpoleg, @protocol, @kevinctofel, @panzer, @postimusmaximus, @aweary, @martinsfp, @s8mb, @lordravenscraft, @protocol, and @bromid
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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.| Financial Times: |
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 … | 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, The Hill, New York Post, Variety, The Verge, Mediaite, and TheBlaze
Tweets: @twittersafety, @twittersafety, @sarah_micheleg, @tedcruz, @mmasnick, @twittersafety, @sohrabahmari, @brithume, and @seanmdav
| Nandita Mathur / Livemint: |
Forty-six top US companies including Apple, Google, and Twitter 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 … | 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.| Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
Cloud video surveillance company Eagle Eye Networks raises $40M Series E from Accel to invest in new AI projects such as license plate recognition — Eagle Eye Networks, a cloud video surveillance company, raised $40 million in Series E funding from Accel to advance its platform.| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Wise, a fintech startup that partners with other companies so that they can offer business bank accounts to their own customers, raises $12M Series A — Fintech startup Wise has raised a $12 million Series A round. The company offers business bank accounts with an interesting go-to-market strategy.
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New.blicio.us and FinSMEs
| Nick Greenhalgh / Denver Business Journal: |
StackHawk, whose tech helps developers find application security vulnerabilities before they get into production, raises $10M Series A led by Sapphire Ventures — With a successful beta at its back and paying customers onboard, Denver application security startup StackHawk announced Tuesday …
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FinSMEs and Business Insider
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