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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 of the Christchurch shooting, coming as quickly as 1 per second, 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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| 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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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Intel claims it will build America's first exascale supercomputer by 2021 using its new Xe GPU architecture, partnering with Cray in a Department of Energy deal — Intel today announced that it and subcontractor Cray will build the first supercomputer with of one exaflop of performance …
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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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Tweets: @nytimesbusiness, @koblin, @jimwindolf, and @koblin
| 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: |
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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| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Six banks sign letters of intent to issue stablecoins on World Wire, an IBM payment network that uses Stellar's public blockchain — IBM is taking its banking clients a step closer to cryptocurrency. — Announced Monday, six international banks have signed letters of intent to issue stablecoins … | Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: |
Putin signs into law bills banning “fake news” and penalizing those who post content found to be insulting to state officials, state symbols, or Russian society — President Vladimir Putin has signed legislation enabling Russian authorities to block websites and hand out punishment for …
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Tweets: @jaynordlinger, @axiosworld, @dtunkelang, and @marshallcohen
| 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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Tweets: @ingridlunden, @jyarow, and @shiraovide
| 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.| 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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| 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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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
General Catalyst announces initiative to invest at least $25M into 25 to 35 seed-stage startups each year, with initial investments between $500K and $2M — General Catalyst is diving more seriously into the business of funding seed-stage startups. To wit, the venture firm is announcing today … Sponsor Posts
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