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Facebook says it has begun removing misinformation that contributes to violence on its site, will review text and images in partnership with local organizations — The policy was used for the first time last month in Sri Lanka — Hours after CEO Mark Zuckerberg spurred history by defending …
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Mark Zuckerberg clarifies his comments about Holocaust deniers on Facebook: “I absolutely didn't intend to defend the intent of people who deny that” — The Facebook founder has attracted controversy for how the social network deals with content that is offensive to many, such as Holocaust deniers
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Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg about Russia, fake news, InfoWars, Myanmar, and why he thinks Facebook shouldn't take down posts that deny the Holocaust — Everything was on the table — and after Facebook's wildest year yet, that's a really big table. — Yesterday, I motored my Ford Fiesta …
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Siri cofounder Tom Gruber and Apple's head of search Vipul Ved Prakash have left the company after John Giannandrea was named as the leader of the Siri Group — Tom Gruber, one of the original Siri cofounders, has left Apple, where he was recently the head of Siri's Advanced Development group …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Leaked internal Apple document states that 2018 MacBook Pro keyboard includes a membrane to prevent debris from entering butterfly key mechanism — In an internal document distributed to Apple Authorized Service Providers, obtained by MacRumors from multiple reliable sources …
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| Biz Carson / Forbes: |
Chinese bike-sharing company Ofo lays off majority of staff in the US as Ofo insiders say it is scaling back its global operations to focus on China — Chris Taylor rides an Ofo bike in Seattle, the company's first city in the U.S. Taylor resigned from Ofo two weeks ago.
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Despite repeated requests, Spotify does not let users block followers to deal with harassers and says a block feature is not in its current road map — When Meghan, a 26-year-old bookseller in Boston, left her boyfriend after months of emotional abuse, she made every effort to cut him out of her life.| Felix Salmon / Wired: |
Amazon has built its empire by playing freely with new ideas; besides book-selling, there isn't any market where Amazon has really disrupted the incumbents — AMAZON IS ONE of the largest and most formidable companies in the world. It's run with brutal efficiency, a keen focus on keeping … | Richard Speed / The Register: |
Microsoft announces public preview of Windows 10 IoT Core Services, which will let device manufacturers control updates for $.30/device/month after preview ends — Gizmos gain control over Windows 10 updates - at a price — Be still your beating hearts, Microsoft's Windows 10 IoT Core Services …
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| Marshall Allen / ProPublica: |
Investigation: the health insurance industry is working with data brokers to collect “lifestyle” details on hundreds of millions of Americans to predict costs — To an outsider, the fancy booths at last month's health insurance industry gathering in San Diego aren't very compelling.
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| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
To combat China's rise in tech, the US government should spend more on the research and development of advanced technologies rather than imposing tariffs — At the heart of the trade war between the United States and China lies a profound and unsettling question: Who should control the key technologies that will rule tomorrow?
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| Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
Reddit begins rolling out live chatrooms, organized by subreddit and created by admins only, currently in beta — A FEW MONTHS into Jason Lee's new job at Reddit, the office was buzzing with excitement. It was April 2017 and Reddit had just launched r/place, a collaborative project …
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| Jeremy C. Owens / MarketWatch: |
Amazon Web Services CEO says that AWS is not actively building a commercial network switch, after a report said the company was considering selling its own — Report that Amazon would start selling switches to businesses hit stock of Cisco and other networking providers| Rich Gordon / Nieman Lab: |
For stories like the Trump-Putin summit, Google News needs to be clearer about how its algorithm works and learn to separate commentary from factual reporting — The algorithm that ranks content can make some truly strange decisions. What set of signals is Google News looking for?| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook confirms users can now sync their Instagram contacts to Messenger — Facebook wants to expand your Messenger contact list with a little help from Instagram. The company has launched a feature in Messenger that pulls in your contacts from Instagram, if you opt to connect your account.| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Leaked documents: Facebook moderators can ban Pages if admins get 5 “strikes” or if 30%+ of other people's posts violate its community standards within 90 days — During testimony to lawmakers, Facebook did not provide specifics on the threshold Pages or Groups have to cross before being deleted.| Li Dongmei / China Money Network: |
Shanghai-based AI startup Yitu Technology, which focuses on machine vision and more, raises $100M in addition to the $200M Series C+ it raised in June — One month after Yitu Technology scored US$200 million, the Chinese artificial intelligence firm secured another US$100 million from China Industrial Asset Management Ltd.
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| Zoe Greenberg / New York Times: |
New York City passes bill to restrict short-term rentals, under which Airbnb would be required to provide detailed information on hosts every month to the city — The New York City Council voted unanimously on Wednesday to significantly restrict Airbnb and other online home rental services …
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Ofcom report: UK subscribers to Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Sky's Now TV hit 15.4M in Q1, overtaking the 15.1M traditional pay-TV subscribers for the first time — The level to which Netflix and Amazon are redefining the TV picture has hit home in the U.K. as new data from media regulator … Sponsor Posts
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