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Investigation shows how Facebook and Google fund misinformation globally by paying millions of dollars in ad revenue to the operators of clickbait pages — A month after the fall of the democratic government. — In 2015, six of the 10 websites in Myanmar getting the most engagement … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
The Apple Podcasts app's review score went from 1.8 to 4.6 stars after Apple began prompting users for ratings, confusing some into rating individual podcasts — Apple Podcasts rises above bad reviews, but at what cost? — You pissed off people by somewhat breaking your app, and they're leaving angry reviews.
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A voter turnout group says Facebook served 36.8% of their conversion ads to iOS users after Apple's ATT change, down from 63.6% — Tatenda Musapatike is as familiar as anyone with the way Facebook's political ad system works. During the 2016 election and the 2018 midterms …
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| Matt O'Brien / Associated Press: |
NY city council passed a bill that bans employers from using AI hiring tools unless a yearly bias audit shows they won't discriminate based on race or gender — Job candidates rarely know when hidden artificial intelligence tools are rejecting their resumes or analyzing their video interviews.
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| Niket Nishant / Reuters: |
Brazil-based global payments network CloudWalk raises a $150M Series C led by Coatue at a $2.15B valuation, bringing its total funding to $365M — Brazilian financial technology company CloudWalk said on Wednesday it was valued at $2.15 billion after a funding round led by Coatue …
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| Ben Lang / Road to VR: |
Japan-based VR startup Hikky raises a $57M Series A led by NTT Docomo to expand its web-based virtual events platform Vket Cloud — Japanese social VR startup HIKKY announced today that it has raised ¥6.5 billion (~$57 million), led by Japanese mobile network operator NTT Docomo.
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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Ultraleap, which develops ultrasound-based hand tracking tech and touchless interfaces for VR/XR headsets, raises an $82M Series D from Tencent and others — It was way back in 2017 that the company that became Ultraleap (Ultrahaptics, as weas) demonstrated at TechCrunch Disrupt a technology …
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Twitter's AI ethics researchers on getting public feedback about algorithmic bias, why responsible AI is hard, why they think algorithms can be saved, and more — While other tech giants hide from their internal researchers, Twitter is doing its failing — and fixing — in public
Tweets: @hkanji, @platformer, @jackbandy, @sherryaske, @tanit, and @caseynewton
| Conor Hale / FierceBiotech: |
France-based Owkin, which helps medical researchers build and train AI models, raises $180M from pharmaceuticals company Sanofi — Artificial intelligence developer Owkin scored a major collaboration with Sanofi to help bring its digital clinical research platform to bear … | Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
Executives at Disney, Qualcomm, Coinbase, and other companies tried to weave their unrelated businesses into the metaverse discussion on their Q3 earnings calls — - The concept of the metaverse is still vague. — That didn't stop dozens of executives from speaking about their metaverse strategies.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Kettle, a reinsurance startup that uses ML modeling on weather, satellite imagery, and other datasets to predict climate change risks, raises a $25M Series A — One of the most noticeable — and noted — effects of climate change has been its impact on how other events in the environment …
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| Kelly Crow / Wall Street Journal: |
ConstitutionDAO, which crowdfunded over $40M, loses Sotheby's US Constitution auction to a $43.2M bid from Citadel CEO Kenneth Griffin — The 53-year-old billionaire paid $43.2 million for the historic document, plans to lend it to Crystal Bridges museum in Arkansas
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