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Inside the community of early cryptocurrency investors, now multimillionaires, and how they manage newfound riches and the explosion of interest in the industry — SAN FRANCISCO — Recently the founder of something called Ripple briefly became richer than Mark Zuckerberg.
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| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Some Facebook ex-staffers think Twitter-inspired 2013 shift to display more news was a failed experiment, as time spent on FB has declined the past two years — Getty Images / John Paczkowski, BuzzFeed News — When news broke on Thursday evening of Facebook's dramatic overhaul of its News Feed …
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| Fred Vogelstein / Wired: |
Facebook's head of News Feed Adam Mosseri says the recently announced overhaul, designed to help people better connect, will result in less video appearing — Facebook on Thursday announced sweeping changes to the way it plans to manage the newsfeed, the front door to the service for its 2 billion monthly users.
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| Karl Bode / Motherboard: |
Harvard study: community-owned broadband prices are up to 50% cheaper than lowest-cost services offered by private ISPs, are more transparent and less confusing — A new study out of Harvard once again makes it clear why incumbent ISPs like Comcast, Verizon and AT&T are so terrified by the idea …
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| Bloomberg: |
More Chinese-born tech workers now return home from the US for faster salary growth, no “bamboo ceiling”, and chance to work with high volumes of intimate data — An exodus triggered by abundant capital, growing innovation and flourishing career opportunities
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| Ben Bajarin / Tech.pinions: |
The stature of Apple's ecosystem at CES fades as Amazon's Alexa and Google's Assistant emerge as platforms of choice for third-party hardware makers — I want to make an observation, which I feel is an important one. However, I don't want it to be taken the wrong way. For the record, Apple is not doomed.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Recode, Macworld, MacStories, Digital Trends, Daring Fireball, MacStories, The Mac Observer, Mashable, The Loop, The Loop, and The Information. Tweets: @jsnell
| Elvis Chidera / CNN: |
How a teenage developer from Nigeria learned to code on a Nokia feature phone and ended up at an MIT-backed startup that makes online education more accessible — Elvis Chidera is a developer at dot Learn in Lagos, a startup which builds educational apps for students in emerging markets.| Horace Dediu / Asymco: |
Analysis: iOS users will be spending about $100M/day in 2018 on apps in the App Store, which has been growing at about $5B/year since mid-2011 — In its latest update on the App Store Apple reported that iOS developers earned $26.5 billion in 2017. A year ago the figure was $20 billion.
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Source: SoftBank is planning an $18B IPO of its Japanese mobile telecom unit, filing this spring with start of trading this autumn in Tokyo and possibly London — Japanese group looking at offerings in Tokyo and London this year — TOKYO — SoftBank Group aims to list its mobile phone unit SoftBank Corp …
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| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
After mislabeling some black people as “gorillas” in 2015, Google Photos says it still blocks similar search terms due to limitations of computer vision tech — IN 2015, A black software developer embarrassed Google by tweeting that the company's Photos service had labeled photos of him with a black friend as “gorillas.”| Frances Schwartzkopff / Bloomberg: |
Danish police charge 1,004 youths with distributing sexually explicit material of two 15-year-olds following a tip-off from Facebook — Police have charged more than 1,000 young people in case — Crackdown comes as global #MeToo movement focuses on sex abuse
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| Felicity Hannah / The Independent: |
Open Banking rules go into effect in UK, making it mandatory for banks to share account info with third parties like fintech startups upon customer request — It's going to transform the ways you manage your money but you've probably never heard of it — This weekend a major change …
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