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| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
Arm unveiled its CPU IP roadmap through 2020 for chips that it hopes will successfully compete with Intel Core CPUs in laptops — Today's announcement is an oddball one for Arm as we see the first-ever public forward looking CPU IP roadmap detailing performance and power projections for the next two generations through to 2020.
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| Louis Hyman / New York Times: |
Tech did not create the gig economy, which has been growing since the 1970s; services like Uber and TaskRabbit just took advantage of and intensified the trend — The insecure nature of work is a result of decisions by corporations and policymakers. — Mr. Hyman is an economic historian.
Tweets: @colmkear, @nytopinion, @stevecase, and @nytopinion
| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Jack Dorsey tries to explain why Twitter ignored rules violations by Infowars for so long, says company waited for others to report violations before acting — Two weeks ago, Apple, Facebook, YouTube and others kicked the harassing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars site off their services.
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| Politico: |
Donald Trump criticizes social media companies for allegedly “discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices”, says “we won't let that happen” — President Donald Trump on Saturday took to Twitter to allege social media companies are discriminating …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Department of Housing and Urban Development files a complaint against Facebook, says company's ad targeting tools enabled Fair Housing Act violations — A new complaint filed Friday by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) accuses Facebook of helping landlords and home sellers violate the Fair Housing Act.| Mehreen Khan / Financial Times: |
Source: EU is drafting regulations to impose fines on social media platforms if they do not remove material flagged as terrorist content within an hour — Brussels plans to force companies including Facebook, YouTube and Twitter to identify and delete online terrorist propaganda and extremist violence or face the threat of fines.| Danny Gold / Wired: |
How small startup Hala built Sentry, a social media warning system deployed in Syria using humans and remote sensors to predict when and where bombs may fall — The Bashar al-Assad regime's indiscriminate air strikes have terrorized civilians for years. Now a small band of activist-entrepreneurs …
Tweets: @rogercdavies, @wired, @mollymckew, @nxthompson, @wired, and @thesyriacmpgn
| Jillian D'Onfro / CNBC: |
How Google is improving accessibility by developing a standardized process for new products and UI elements rather than relying on grassroots advocacy — - In the past few years, Google has shifted the way that it thinks about accessibility, moving from grassroots advocacy to codified systems.
Tweets: @garyjk64
| Richard Gao / Android Police: |
Snapchat releases Alpha version of redesigned UI for Android with primary focus on performance, can be enabled on devices with root access — Back in November of last year, Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel announced that a new Android app was being built from the ground up.
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| Linda Kinstler / The Guardian: |
Profile of TripAdvisor, which has become entangled in debates over free speech as it struggles to defend legitimate reviewers against litigious business owners — The world's biggest travel site has turned the industry upside down - but now it is struggling to deal with the same kinds …
Tweets: @beastoftraal, @mblumenthal, @went1955, and @olivermbutler
| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
A look at Facebook's plans to avert interference in the midterms, including putting people from various teams in a physical war room, a first for a US election — Is it enough? — Two weeks ago, on a hastily scheduled conference call with journalists, Facebook executives announced … | Lawrence D. Burns / Wall Street Journal: |
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