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MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito resigns after a report showed he hid the extent of the fundraising role of Jeffrey Epstein, whom MIT “disqualified” as a donor — The director of M.I.T.'s prestigious Media Lab stepped down on Saturday after an outcry over his financial ties with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
What to expect from Apple on Sep. 10: 3 new iPhones, Apple Watch Series 5, new Apple TV, release info for OSes, pricing and launch date for Apple Arcade, more — iPhone 11, Apple Watch Series 5, software updates, and more — It's almost iPhone time (or, as other people call it …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple to livestream the September 10 iPhone event on YouTube, marking the first time that Apple will live stream one of its keynotes on Google's platform — Over the last several years, Apple has gradually been expanding the ways people can tune into its various keynotes.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft's Brad Smith about his new book and how tech sector and governments need to step up and do more to address the challenges that technology is creating — Microsoft President Brad Smith has a light-up globe, a neon blue miniature likeness of Earth, spinning on his desk inside the company's Redmond headquarters.
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
An overview of potential challenges facing Facebook, Google, and Amazon from state attorneys general, who sometimes have assistance from the federal government — The nation's state attorneys general have tangled with mortgage lenders, tobacco giants and the makers of addictive drugs.| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Bug bounty platform HackerOne raises $36.4M Series D led by Valor Equity Partners with Benchmark, NEA, Dragoneer, EQT Ventures, others participating — The global cybersecurity market was pegged at $152 billion in 2018, and it's expected to grow to $250 billion within a few years.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Exim servers running v4.92.1 and before are vulnerable to a security bug, patched in v4.92.2, which could allow attackers to run malicious code with root access — The internet's most popular email server impacted by second major bug this summer. — Millions of Exim servers are vulnerable … | New York Times: |
AI must account for basic concepts of how the world works, like time, space, and causality, beyond statistical pattern detection, before it can earn our trust — Computer systems need to understand time, space and causality. Right now they don't. — Dr. Marcus is cognitive psychologist and robotics entrepreneur.
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| Donna Fuscaldo / Forbes: |
Happy Money, a lending platform that helps users pay off high-interest-rate debt with cheaper loans from credit unions, raises $70M Series D — I write about the fintech, cryptocurrency and investing markets. — Happy Money, the Costa Mesa, California-based fintech that operates a marketplace … | Connie Chan / Andreessen Horowitz: |
How companies across China, including travel providers, gyms, and edtech startups, are leveraging private group chats to turn conversations into commerce — One sunny afternoon this April, a Chinese teenager nicknamed Gallen was backpacking through Bali, hunting for things to do.
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| Bloomberg: |
As Grab and Gojek compete for the food delivery market, Grab poaches food vendors using lower commission rates, and Gojek draws cooks with food stall festivals — - Ride-hailing firms fight over banana-fritter stall owner — Small shops and restaurants benefit from the food feud
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| Sean O'Neill / Skift: |
Denver-based Hotel Engine, an online hotel booking and management service for business travel, raises $16M Series A at a $150M+ valuation — The funding of business travel management startup Hotel Engine underscores how there's a lot of money and energy pouring into the sector.Sponsor Posts
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