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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Examining the links between the Rationalist community, with Slate Star Codex blog as its epicenter, and influential leaders in tech, including OpenAI's founders — Slate Star Codex was a window into the psyche of many tech leaders building our collective future. Then it disappeared.
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Astral Codex Ten, Slow Boring, and The Verge
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| Noah Smith / Noahpinion: |
The NYT overstated the influence of both Slate Star Codex and the Rationalist community on Silicon Valley, and falsely portrayed the tech industry as right-wing — Stereotyping the tech industry as a bunch of secretive right-wingers isn't correct, and it isn't helpful. — 11 hr ago
Tweets: @noahpinion, @brianfagioli, @martinsfp, @ericnewcomer, @delong, @rezendi, and @noahpinion
| Rest of World: |
Inside “PGM” Facebook groups, the largest of which has 160,000+ members, where Brazilians collect, share, and memorialize the accounts of the recently deceased — Long before the Covid-19 pandemic, Brazilian Facebook users were gathering to memorialize total strangers.
Tweets: @garrytan, @decka227, @cengizyar, @renske_visser, @restofworld, @j_fuller, @restofworld, @pribellini, @iethics, @lmatsakis, @iethics, @restofworld, and @telliotter
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources shed light on the increasingly personal battle between Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg, who in private reportedly said “we need to inflict pain” on Apple — Animosity between CEOs Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook erupts over privacy and dueling visions of internet| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
Microsoft's quantum computing ambitions suffer a setback after its researcher, who claimed to have found the Majorana particle, prepares to retract his findings — In a 2018 paper, researchers said they found evidence of an elusive theorized particle. A closer look now suggests otherwise.
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MSPoweruser and Slashdot
Tweets: @lanceulanoff, @stephansroche, @piratecto, @quantumaephraim, @caseynewton, and @andreasateth
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
A look at the challenges of podcast moderation: the difficulty of finding infringing content, the plethora of players, and philosophical objections to the idea — When former White House adviser-turned-podcaster Steve Bannon called for the beheading of Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI director Christopher Wray, the tech platforms reacted.
Tweets: @mkadin and @ashleyrcarman
| Angel Au-Yeung / Forbes: |
Following Bumble's IPO, CEO and founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, who is 31, became the youngest female CEO ever to take a company public in the US — [Update 7 pm ET: Whitney Wolfe Herd ended the day Thursday with a net worth of $1.5 billion based on Bumble stock closing at $70.55.]
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Bloomberg, Insider, CNBC, Fox Business, The Hill, CultureMap Austin, Reuters, TechCrunch, and New York Post
| Alan Boyle / GeekWire: |
Pivotal Commware, which develops mmWave 5G infrastructure products that make use of metamaterials tech, raises $50M Series C led by Tracker Capital Management — Kirkland, Wash.-based Pivotal Commware says it has closed on a $50 million funding round that will help it expand research …
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Seattle Business Journal, Pivotal Commware, and RCR Wireless News
Tweets: @egubbinsanalyst and @b0yle
| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
House committee says Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, and YouTube streamer Keith Gill will testify at GameStop hearing on February 18 — On February 18th, the House Financial Services Committee will hold a virtual hearing to look into how GameStop's shares
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Financial Services Committee, Insider, The Verge, Gizmodo, New York Times, and CNET
Tweets: @tyadkisson and @john_rouleau
| Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: |
Out of about $150B raised by US companies in VC funding in 2020, only $1B went to Black or African-American startup founders — Last year, U.S. companies raised record amounts of venture capital, at just under $150 billion. But of that capital, only $1 billion went to Black …
Tweets: @robinwauters, @pblackshaw, @pauljudge, and @carnage4life
| Stanford Internet Observatory: |
After researchers raised data privacy concerns, Clubhouse says it is taking steps “to prevent Clubhouse clients from ever transmitting pings to Chinese servers” — The audio chat app “Clubhouse” went viral among Chinese-speaking audiences. Stanford Internet Observatory examines …
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OneZero , The Verge, Bloomberg, Reuters, iPhone Hacks, Mashable, AppleInsider, Engadget, Apple Terminal, and Insider
Tweets: @stanfordio, @stanfordio, @morientalist, @willoremus, @gregorhunter, @edmundlee, @carlymil, @ccp_china_watch, @yaqiu, @elegant_wallaby, @wongmjane, @andreaslandwehr, @hkanji, @melissakchan, @melissakchan, @bobbyallyn, @elenacryst, @kentbye, @willoremus, @thatclarafied, @taylorlorenz, @roxannetaylor, @munkeatlooi, @tfoil2, @karissabe, and @jilliancyork
| Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
Sharecare, a digital platform that helps users consolidate and manage their health information, announces plans to go public via a SPAC at a valuation of $3.9B — Digital health care company Sharecare announced its plans Friday to join the public markets through a merger …
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PR Newswire, Atlanta Business Journal, Reuters, Morningstar, medcitynews.com, and hitconsultant.net
Tweets: @djohnson_cpa and @crunchbasenews
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