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Profile of Brewster Kahle and the Internet Archive, which marked its 25th anniversary in May and stores 70PB+ of data, including 635B webpages and 34M books — Meet Brewster Kahle, the internet's chief librarian — Audio player loading... On the same day in 1996, Brewster Kahle founded … | Ben Bowman / The Streamable: |
YouTube TV reaches a deal with Disney to bring back 17+ channels including ABC, Disney, ESPN, Freeform, FX, and National Geographic — After one day of being dark, YouTube TV and Disney have reached a deal which will see more than 17 Disney-owned channels, including local ABC affiliates, Disney Channel, and ESPN return to the service.
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Tweets: @youtubetv, @ralphdrussoap, @pkafka, @mgsiegler, @thestreamable, @reckless, @film_girl, and @epro
| Anton Shilov / AnandTech: |
Report: chipmakers are on track to spend $152B on new fabs and production equipment in 2021, up 34% YoY, which is the strongest YoY growth since 2017 — Semiconductor makers have drastically increased their capital expenditures (CapEx) this year in response to unprecedented demand for chips that is going to last for years.| Max A. Cherney / Protocol: |
Inside Intel's Ronler complex in Hillsboro, Oregon, where it conducts its most advanced research and houses the company's most important chip manufacturing site — HILLSBORO, Ore. — To create a beam of ultraviolet radiation precise enough to print the world's most advanced microchips …
Tweets: @chernandburn, @chiakokhua, @witeken, @chiakokhua, @witeken, and @tomkrazit
| Alex Pasternack / Fast Company: |
How Chinese Wikipedia volunteers fighting censorship, threats, arrest, and violence expose the challenges to the Wikimedia Foundation's free-knowledge mission — This past July, before he was banned from Wikipedia, Techyan was one of dozens of volunteers preparing to speak at the free-knowledge movement's annual conference, Wikimania.
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Berlin-based Vay, a startup that uses remote operators to drive rental cars to a customer's pick-up spot and from their drop-off site, raises a $95M Series B — Vay, a company that is trying to get self-driving car services to market faster by pursuing a teledriven approach …
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The case for Apple to offer a 15-inch iPad home hub is made clear by devices like the Portal and Echo Show 15, as well as Apple's ~5% smart speaker market share — I've been testing Amazon.com Inc.'s new Echo Show 15. My takeaway: It's time for Apple Inc. to get serious about the smart home and launch a giant iPad as a new hub.
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PhoneArena, 9to5Mac, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @dan_ness, @georgehahn, @pbandgelz, @johnwilson, @mattbirchler, and @markgurman
| Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak: |
Malaysia passes a bill to imprison illegal streaming pirates, primarily those involved in the provision or facilitation of illegal streams, for up to 20 years — Laws that forbid the illegal uploading and downloading of copyrighted content are common around the world but the rise of streaming has sometimes exposed gaps in legislation.
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Engadget, Lowyat.NET, Malaysiakini, thesundaily.my, and Lexology
| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Amazon issues an update to fix its Appstore and the issues that left some Android 12 users with apps that didn't work — Amazon has addressed the issue that had left those with Android 12 phones unable to use apps they had downloaded from the company's Appstore.
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9to5Google, Neowin, Android Police, The Verge, PhoneArena, Liliputing, and Android Headlines. Tweets: @gartenberg
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Interview with Jameel Jaffer of the Knight First Amendment Institute on how Congress can regulate social media platforms while abiding by the First Amendment — One of the hardest problems at the intersection of tech and policy right now is the question of how to regulate social media platforms.
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Techdirt. Tweets: @jason_kint, @jameeljaffer, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @reckless, @jason_kint, @aaschapiro, @jameeljaffer, @marshacollier, and @reckless
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Profile of Tether CEO Jean-Louis van der Velde, who previously ran a company in China that faced lawsuits over unpaid bills and fines for late tax payments — Jean-Louis van der Velde's career offered few clues that he would become a key figure in fast-growing industry| Melanie Mitchell / Quanta Magazine: |
AI language models like GPT-3 can achieve up to 97% accuracy on some Winograd schemas, but understanding language doesn't equate to understanding the world — It's simple enough for AI to seem to comprehend data, but devising a true test of a machine's knowledge has proved difficult.
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Blaise Aguera y Arcas. Tweets: @mmitchell_ai, @cavvia, @mgsiegler, @fit_europe, @schrep, @quantamagazine, @allen_ai, and @quantamagazine
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