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YouTube says moderation team will have 10K+ people by end-2018, up 25% according to sources, and pledges new approach to ads to curb child exploitation problem — The company plans to have over 10,000 content moderators on staff by the end of 2018, YouTube CEO, Susan Wojcicki said.
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Google launches Android Oreo (Go edition) for low-end phones with less than 1GB RAM, which uses smaller Go versions of apps like Gmail, YouTube, and Maps — Google's stripped-down version of Android is ready for OEMs. — Google's upcoming low-end configuration of Android—"Android Go"—has hit a major milestone.
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| Nicholas Quah / Nieman Lab: |
Sources: Apple has acquired Oakland-based Pop Up Archive, an online platform that builds tools to transcribe, organize, and search audio files — Plus: Public radio deals with a new wave of harassment allegations, Reddit and WBUR team up, et l'industrie du podcast au Québec.| Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times: |
Steve Case's new Rise of the Rest fund raises $150M from Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, and others to promote start-ups in the middle of the United States — When Steve Case, the billionaire co-founder of AOL, first met J. D. Vance, author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” the best-selling book …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC chairman Ajit Pai won't delay next week's net neutrality vote despite federal court case that could strip FTC of broadband oversight — Pai says FTC will protect consumers—but FTC could lose its regulatory authority. — The Federal Communications Commission will move ahead with its vote …
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| JC Torres / SlashGear: |
Google releases December Pixel/Nexus Security Bulletin confirming KRACK Wi-Fi patch is coming to devices — Google kicked off the whole monthly security bulletin practice to assure Android users, or at least owners of its Nexus and Pixel devices, that they will get timely and critical security fixes before all hell breaks loose.| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Fitbit updates Ionic smartwatch with 60 new apps including Yelp, Deezer, Flipboard, and Uber, and launches Fitbit Labs to create apps for fitness motivation — Fitbit's Ionic smartwatch suffers from a dearth of apps, we noted in our Engadget review, but the wearable firm is trying to flip that equation with an update to its Fitbit OS.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple begins selling unlocked and SIM-free iPhone X in the US — The iPhone X has been available for just over a month now, and as supply and demand start to balance out, Apple is expanding the lineup. Starting today, the iPhone X is available SIM-free and unlocked directly from Apple.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Intuit to acquire employee time-tracking and employee scheduling app TSheets for $340M; TSheets had raised ~$15M in 2015 and claims ~35K customers globally — Financial software giant Intuit has announced plans to acquire TSheets, the company behind the eponymous time-tracking and employee scheduling app … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Marketing tech company Zeta Global acquires commenting service Disqus, source says for ~$90M — Marketing tech company Zeta Global is making good use of its recent $140 million Series F funding round. After acquiring Boomtrain earlier this year, the company today announced it has acquired Disqus …
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Trolls got a reporter's account locked over an old joke, revealing how Twitter's rules can be exploited and how high-profile users get better customer support — The Monday before Thanksgiving, I awoke to my personal nightmare: I had been reported for abuse on Twitter (my favorite thing … | Instagram Blog: |
Instagram debuts Stories Highlights, a new profile section featuring select Stories, and Stories Archive, where stories are saved automatically when they expire — Today we're introducing two new tools that let you hold on to your favorite moments from Instagram Stories and share them in ways that help you express yourself.
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| Taylor Lorenz / The Daily Beast: |
Facebook removes posts and suspends users for phrases like “men are scum”; ~500 female comedians staged Nov. protest using the terms, and most were suspended — When comic Marcia Belsky sarcastically replied “men are scum” to a friend's Facebook post back in October …
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