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Sources: preparing for Zuckerberg's congressional testimony, Facebook hired advisers who are coaching him and role-playing members of Congress in mock hearings — For Facebook, Tuesday is being seen as a kind of dreaded final exam. — That's when Mark Zuckerberg, the company's chief executive …
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Sources: Mark Zuckerberg will meet with some US lawmakers on Monday, a day before he is due to appear for congressional hearings — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facebook Inc Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg will hold meetings with some U.S. lawmakers on Monday, a day before he is due …
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Ex-FTC officials describe issues FTC may look at in the investigation of Facebook's possible violations of 2011 consent decree, which could lead to huge fines — Facebook's disclosure this week that its search tools were used to collect data on most of its 2.2 billion users … | Zeynep Tufekci / Wired: |
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| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
After CNBC inquiry, Facebook suspends CubeYou, a firm that made popular quiz apps for Cambridge University and bragged it had personal info of tens of millions — - Data analytics firm CubeYou used personality quizzes clearly labeled for “non-profit academic research” to help marketers find customers.
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| Bloomberg: |
SenseTime, a Chinese AI startup specializing in object and face recognition, raises $600M from Alibaba and others at $3B+ valuation, up from $1.47B in July 2017 — It becomes the world's richest-valued private AI startup — The company drives China's ambition to dominate global AI| Simina Mistreanu / Foreign Policy: |
Life in Rongcheng offers inside preview of China's social credit system, which mixes credit scores with monitoring data of citizens, launches nationally in 2020 — RONGCHENG, CHINA — Rongcheng was built for the future. Its broad streets and suburban communities were constructed with an eye …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Some Snapchat users are seeing a reverse chronological Stories feed in tabs, which rolls back a notable change from Snapchat's controversial redesign last year — Snapchat has undone its controversial redesign's most significant change in an update to some users today.
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Experts raise alarm over proliferation of plastic surgery games aimed at kids/teens, a demographic very vulnerable to negative body image self-perception — In the Android mobile game Princess Plastic Surgery, a blonde, bug-eyed princess has been cursed by a witch. “The witch made them ugly!” the app description reads.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Skydio R1 drone: remarkable autonomous flight, simple setup and use, but it is primarily for shooting video with no hi-res photo capability and pricey at $2,499 — The world's first fully autonomous consumer drone is a peek at the future of robotic aviation — The purpose of a consumer drone remains nebulous these days.
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| Susan Benesch: |
Twitter partners with academic researchers to test whether showing users the Twitter rules will improve online behavior and reduce abuse — With multiple methods, online abuse can be greatly diminished—if we also discover which methods actually work in which situations.
| Kai Stinchcombe: |
Blockchain's key promise of no-need-for-trusted-parties tech is largely irrelevant; systems built on trust, norms, and institutions inherently function better — Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future. Its failure to achieve adoption to date …
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Ride-hailing company Didi Chuxing launches a pilot food delivery service in China — Amid plenty of speculation, China's ride-hailing leader Didi Chuxing has officially entered the food delivery space. — The company, which acquired Uber's China-based business in 2016 …
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