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Facebook should explain how it will design surveys ranking trust in news sources, whether media can contest rank, whether user ideologies will be a factor, more — Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday that Facebook will begin surveying users about which news sources they trust, in an effort to rank publications on “trustworthiness.”
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| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Amazon Go, a high-tech version of a 7-Eleven, will finally open on Monday — with no checkout lines and no cashiers — Amazon Go allows customers to grab items and just walk out without stopping to pay. — Amazon's store of the future has been five years in the making. But the unveiling is just about here.
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| Napier Lopez / The Next Web: |
Instagram tests new text-only Stories format called “Type” and Story screenshot alerts — Instagram's Stories are one of the most popular ways to share content on social media, but sometimes images and videos just aren't as effective as plain old text.
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| Sandra Upson / Wired: |
How the developers of the Lightning Network plan to make Bitcoin transactions faster and cheaper using private payment channels — IN 2014, JOSEPH Poon and Thaddeus Dryja were bitcoin-obsessed engineers hanging out at pizza-fueled meetups in San Francisco.| Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: |
NYSE owner ICE partners with Blockstream to launch feed with price data from 15+ cryptocurrency exchanges by March, to be delivered via ICE's network to traders — Intercontinental Exchange is jointly launching data feed pulling information from more than 15 cryptocurrency exchanges
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
Instead of limiting time children spend on devices, some researchers argue for increasing it, provided children use the time for learning and creative play — New guidance on children and technology makes the distinction between passive exposure and active play and learning with screens
Tweets: @ejhudson, @saraheneedleman, @nealmcquaid, @bryfitz, @bledwine, @mims, and @_danielsinclair
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Twitter COO Anthony Noto, who has led Twitter's push into live video, is in talks to become SoFi's new CEO, following Mike Cagney's departure — SoFi has been looking for a permanent CEO since Mike Cagney resigned in September — Anthony Noto, a top Twitter Inc. TWTR -1.58% executive … | Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Tile, maker of Bluetooth trackers for physical objects, lays off 30 after holiday sales disappoint — Tile, one of the best known item-tracking gadgets out there, has laid off some 30 people and reportedly stopped the potential hires of another 10, TechCrunch has learned.
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| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
The rise of cryptocurrency mining has created a global shortage of high-end graphics cards from Nvidia and AMD, driving up prices for retail gamers/buyers — “Cryptocurrency can't crash soon enough,” one gamer fumes. — The market for high-end graphics cards used to work like the market for almost any other piece of computer gear.| Joseph Cox / The Daily Beast: |
On gaming chat service Discord, some users swap revenge porn and rape videos on dedicated servers — Discord is used by millions of gamers every day to chat, relax, and coordinate while playing their game of choice. But this multimillion-dollar messaging platform has another ballooning user base: revenge-porn offenders.
Tweets: @xpatriciah and @josephfcox
| Eva Yoo / TechNode: |
WeChat says it now has 980M monthly active users, claims 170M daily active users for its Mini Program app platform, which now has 580,000 apps — January 9th was WeChat mini program's first birthday. Throughout the year, some startups picked it up and developed their mini program.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Slack launches in beta on Linux as a Snap, an application package that's available across a range of Linux distributions, including Ubuntu — Slack's ambition to become the default, go-to place for employees chat to each other and link into hundreds of other applications to get work done …
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