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Apple debuts new 10.5" iPad Air, from $499, and 7.9" iPad mini, from $399, both with retina display, A12 Bionic chip, and support for the first-gen Apple Pencil — 10.5-Inch iPad Air Offers High-End Features and Performance at a Breakthrough Price — 7.9-Inch iPad mini Brings Apple Pencil Support …
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| Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing: |
Report: Myspace has lost all the photos, videos, and music its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015 due to data corruption during a server migration project — It's been a year since the music links on Myspace stopped working; at first the company insisted that they were working on it …
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| Washington Post: |
Inside YouTube's efforts to shut down uploads, coming as quickly as 1 per second, of the Christchurch shooting as uploaders managed to evade its detection tools — SAN FRANCISCO — As a grisly video recorded by the alleged perpetrator of Friday's bloody massacres at two New Zealand mosques played …
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| Bhanu Pratap / Reuters: |
Facebook says it removed 1.5M videos of the Christchurch attack in the first 24 hours; over 1.2M of those videos were blocked at upload — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said it removed 1.5 million videos globally of the New Zealand mosque attack in the first 24 hours after the attack.
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| John Koblin / New York Times: |
An overview of Apple's big spending plan to challenge streaming incumbents like Netflix, ahead of its March 25 “It's show time” event — Apple is coming to Hollywood. — Delete that. — Hollywood is going to Apple. — On March 25, a delegation of producers …
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| Bloomberg: |
Fidelity National has agreed to acquire Worldpay for ~$34B in cash and stock, in the biggest deal ever in the booming international payments sector — Fidelity National Information Services Inc. agreed to combine with Worldpay Inc. for about $43 billion including debt …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Slack launches Enterprise Key Management, a tool that enables customers in regulated industries to control their encryption keys and revoke them if required — Slack announced today that it is launching Enterprise Key Management (EKM) for Slack, a new tool that enables customers to control …
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| Bloomberg: |
Filing: Lyft is seeking to raise as much as $2.1B at a valuation of up to $18.5B in its IPO, offering 30.8M shares at $62-$68 each — Lyft Inc. is seeking to raise as much as $2.1 billion in its initial public offering, valuing the firm at up to $18.5 billion.
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| The Guardian: |
Facebook is struggling with Today In, its feature curating local news, because 40% of Americans live in places that do not have enough local news coverage — About 1,800 newspapers have closed in the US in the last 15 years, partly as a result of internet-based companies like Facebook
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
OneWeb, which recently launched its first constellation of micro-satellites to provide global internet access, raises $1.25B to begin mass producing satellites — OneWeb, a space startup that recently launched its first “constellation” of micro-satellites to deliver broadband access across the globe …
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| Slate: |
NIST's benchmark test for facial recognition systems uses images of immigrants, US visa applicants, abused children, and dead people, without consent — If you thought IBM using “quietly scraped” Flickr images to train facial recognition systems was bad, it gets worse.
Tweets: @profwernimont, @rajit_h, and @profwernimont
| C. Scott Brown / Android Authority: |
Five years after Google announced Android Wear, Wear OS still feels unpolished and laggy, and lacks a stand-out flagship, as OEM interest has faded — Today is the fifth anniversary of the release of Wear OS. Born as Android Wear, Wear OS is Google's Android-based operating system specifically designed …
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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Stanford is launching the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence to put humans and ethics at the center of AI and aims to raise $1B+ — PALO ALTO, Calif. — A Stanford University scientist coined the term artificial intelligence. Others at the university created …
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