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Facebook to launch Community Actions, a News Feed petition feature for users to tag government agencies and officials and advocate for changes, on Monday — Gather a mob and Facebook will now let you make political demands. Tomorrow Facebook will encounter a slew of fresh complexities …
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| James Cook / Telegraph: |
Uber is hiring for a new Micromobility Robotics team to develop autonomous scooters and bikes that can drive themselves to reach customers and charging points — Uber is hiring engineers to develop electric scooters and bicycles which can drive themselves around cities in order to reach customers and charging points.| Matt Binder / Mashable: |
Google Maps rolls out ability to see user-reported speed traps via small camera icons, in North America, UK, Australia, Russia, Brazil, India, and Indonesia — Drivers will soon have an extra set of eyes on the road, courtesy of Google. — Google's navigation app, Google Maps …
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A Japanese hotel that opened in 2015 as the “world's first robot hotel” has fired most of its robots after they frustrated guests and made more work for staff — The robot revolution will have to wait at the Henn na Hotel in Japan, which is laying off low-performing droids
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Tweets: @katebevan, @sl_huang, @edbott, @mark_riedl, @annafifield, @merbroussard, and @fahrenthold
| Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
SEC filing: Disney lost $1B+ from streaming in its 2018 fiscal year, with a $580M loss attributed to its stake in Hulu and $469M to ownership of BAMtech — - Disney's stake in Hulu and its ownership of BAMtech led to a loss of more than $1 billion in the latest fiscal year.| Rani Molla / Recode: |
Voicebot survey estimates that about 77M US adults use voice assistants in their cars at least monthly, compared with 45.7M using them on smart speakers — Voice assistants are more habit-forming in cars than on smartphones. — As smart speakers take off in the home … | James Ball / Columbia Journalism Review: |
Tech companies funding journalism projects deepens their codependence and implies the media is the exception that should be protected from tech's disruption — Yesterday, Facebook announced it would spend $300 million over three years on journalistic content, partnerships, and programs.
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Video of a purported Google Pixel 3 Lite shows a phone with a plastic case, 3.5mm headphone jack, 5.56" 2220x1080 LCD display, and Snapdragon 670 CPU — It wouldn't be a new Pixel without a massive leak — At this point it may be a tradition that new Google phones show up in unboxing videos … | Anna Irrera / Reuters: |
Chainalysis: Bitcoin transactions on darknet markets rose throughout 2018 to an average of $2M/day, nearly double the activity measured at the start of the year — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Use of bitcoin as a form of payment doubled in 2018 on darknet market sites, where users can buy anything …
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Crowdfund Insider, NullTX, BitcoinExchangeGuide, BlockTribune, and Ethereum World News. Tweets: @nathanielpopper
| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
Strategy Robot, founded by the creators of an AI bot that beat four top professional Texas Hold 'Em players, signs a $10M two-year contract with the US Army — IN 2017, A poker bot called Libratus made headlines when it roundly defeated four top human players at no-limit Texas Hold 'Em.
Tweets: @aimeevanrobot and @wired
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Report: $5.3B was invested in cybersecurity companies in 2018, up 81% from 2016, with California alone accounting for 46% of VC investments worldwide — 2018 wasn't all bad. It turned out to be a record year for venture capital firms investing in cybersecurity companies.
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Strategic Cyber Ventures, Dark Reading, CircleID, SecurityWeek, and Security Boulevard. Tweets: @hpsinsight
| O'Ryan Johnson / CRN: |
AppRiver, a Florida-based cybersecurity company that focuses on email and web protection, agrees to be acquired by email security firm Zix Corporation for $275M — Zix hopes to complete the $275 million deal by March 31 and in so doing will boost its channel presence 10- fold as it looks … | Biz Carson / Forbes: |
Profile of angel investor and Code.org co-founder Ali Partovi, who now manages Neo, a fund that matches talented young engineers with tech industry veterans — s venture capitalists mingled with members of the Golden State Warriors at a fall 2016 cocktail party, tech investor Ali Partovi scrambled to find something to talk about.
Tweets: @apartovi, @robot_md, @apartovi, @apartovi, @hadip, @hkanji, @forbes, @forbes, and @alexrkonrad. Thanks:@alexrkonrad
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