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Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is better prepared to fight election interference, catalogs the steps the company has taken to prevent a repeat of 2016 — SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg began the year by promising to make Facebook safer from election interference around the world.
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Facebook, Bloomberg, Adweek, KnowTechie, The Next Web, TechCrunch, The Hill, The Interface, Nextgov, Silicon Republic, Business Insider, CNET, and MIT Technology Review
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| Antonia Woodford / Facebook: |
Facebook expands fact-checking efforts to photos and videos, targeting those that are manipulated, out of context, or presented with false audio or text — We know that people want to see accurate information on Facebook, so for the last two years, we've made fighting misinformation a priority.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Breitbart's leaked Google all-hands video, while innocuous, is another example of employee dissatisfaction on public display, following James Damore and others — What the leak of a video says about this moment at Alphabet — It's an unhappy time at Google.
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Breitbart, 9to5Google, Mercury News, Deadline, The Hill, Ars Technica, The Daily Caller, Beyond Search, Fox News, and Washington Post
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announces $2B Bezos Day One Fund, which will create a network of nonprofit preschools and fund charities that help homeless families — A year after asking for suggestions on philanthropy, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is unveiling his first projects.
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
iPhones are the closest thing to a hardware annuity stream tech has ever seen, as they're a known quantity, dependable, and nearly all users will buy again — Apple released a new flagship iPhone yesterday, the iPhone XS. This isn't exactly ground-breaking news: it is exactly what the company …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Walmart's Jet.com relaunches its website to focus on products and services localized to cities, starting with NYC, and launches three-hour grocery delivery — Jet.com, the e-commerce site Walmart acquired in 2016 for $3 billion, is relaunching itself today with an upgraded look and assortment … | Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft says it acquired Lobe, a San Francisco-based startup that lets users build machine learning models using a visual interface with no coding required — Microsoft today announced it has acquired Lobe, creator of a platform for building custom deep learning models using a visual interface …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube Kids app adds an “older” filter for profiles of kids 8-12 and adds ability for parents to whitelist channels and videos on Android, with iOS coming soon — YouTube Kids' latest update is giving parents more control over what their kids watch.| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
The bubble around self-driving cars has turned into a trough of disillusionment; firms are now factoring for autonomous driving tech to be viable much later — The bubble around self-driving cars turns into a ‘trough of disillusionment’; firms refactor for much later arrival
Tweets: @triketora, @mims, and @gerberkawasaki
| Katherine Ellen Foley / Quartz: |
The FDA cleared the Apple Watch Series 4's heart monitoring abilities based on Apple-backed studies, but mandated Apple label the risks of inaccurate readings — When Apple unveiled the new Apple Watch Series 4 yesterday (Sept. 12), the device received a lot of attention for its health-monitoring capabilities.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources describe Larry Page as more withdrawn than ever, with his immersion in tech solutions of tomorrow distracting him from the problems Google faces today — Larry Page was a no-show. The co-founder and de facto leader of Google is famous for his wild bets on airborne taxis and space elevators …
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia says it has launched Project Maglev, an initiative to use its Drive AI platform to enable product development in industries like robotics and health care — Nvidia is using the underlying architecture of its Drive autonomous vehicle platform to enable product development in other verticals …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook has built and deployed an AI tool, SapFix, that identifies bugs in code, tests patches, and suggests the best to apply, will share with devs eventually — Facebook has quietly built and deployed an artificial intelligence programming tool called SapFix that scans code …
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Facebook Code, Facebook Code, The Register, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, VentureBeat, and CNET. Tweets: @fb_engineering
| Natasha Bach / Fortune: |
Salesforce announces the Step Up Declaration, signed by an alliance of 21 companies including Uber, HP, and Lyft, pledging to use tech to fight climate change — While the Trump administration is rolling back fuel efficiency regulations and limits to carbon dioxide emissions … | New York Times: |
A look at how game apps track kids' data as a lawsuit accuses Google and Twitter ad businesses, and a popular app maker, of violating children's privacy law — A lawsuit by New Mexico's attorney general accuses a popular app maker, as well as online ad businesses run by Google and Twitter, of violating children's privacy law.
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Gamasutra and GamesIndustry.biz
Tweets: @jenvalentino, @mrdylancollins, @nickconfessore, @manjusrii, @jason_kint, @profcarroll, @jugander, and @leoniehaimson
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
European Court of Human Rights rules that some aspects of a former UK mass surveillance regime, including bulk data collection, violated human rights law — In another blow to the UK government's record on bulk data handling for intelligence purposes the European Court of Human Rights …
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Tweets: @snowden, @wikileaks, and @glynmoody
| Stan Higgins / CoinDesk: |
Josh Garza, CEO of Bitcoin mining firm GAW Miners, has been sentenced to 21 months in prison after pleading guilty to a wire fraud charge in July 2017 — Josh Garza, the CEO of the now-defunct cryptocurrency mining company GAW Miners, has been sentenced to 21 months in prison after pleading guilty to a wire fraud charge.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Snapchat enlists 20 news partners including CNN and NBC to create Curated Our Stories, or curated stories with user-generated content in the Discover section — Snapchat is letting more than 20 news partners create curated “stories” with user-generated content from its platform as part …
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Digiday, Engadget, TechCrunch, Deadline, Variety, Marketing Land, The Verge, Mashable, Adweek, Ad Age, and Recode
Tweets: @moneyries, @yoda, and @joshconstine
| Nellie Bowles / New York Times: |
A look at Standard Cognition's tech, which uses cameras and AI to track who people are and what they buy, as it opens San Francisco's first cashierless store — A start-up uses visual tracking and behavioral data to operate a new San Francisco market, which lets shoppers walk out unimpeded.
Tweets: @bratageorge and @puiwingtam
| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Adobe beats with Q3 revenues of $2.29B vs. $2.25B est., up 24% YoY, subscription revenues up 25% YoY, and net income of $666.3M, up 59% YoY — The Photoshop maker reported third quarter revenue of $2.29 billion, up 24 percent from the same period last year.
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Sources: two years before it was hacked, Equifax told the FBI of suspicions that company data including code and HR files may have been stolen by Chinese spies — The credit-reporting company went to the FBI with its suspicions—then the investigation stalled
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