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Portland, Oregon unanimously adopted ordinances banning the use of facial recognition tech by city agencies, including the police, and by private businesses — The Portland, Oregon City Council today unanimously voted to adopt two of the strongest bans of facial recognition technologies …
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SEC filing: former NSA director Keith Alexander is joining Amazon's board of directors — Alexander was the public face of US surveillance during the Snowden leaks — Gen. Keith Alexander is joining Amazon's board of directors, the company revealed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing today.
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Eric Ries' Silicon Valley-based Long-Term Stock Exchange opens for trading, nine years after “The Lean Startup” author first proposed it — A new stock exchange backed by Silicon Valley heavyweights is opening for business Wednesday. The Long-Term Stock Exchange can now trade …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Microsoft Surface Duo review: has thin, beautiful hardware, good battery life and runs two apps at once well, but software is too buggy and the camera is bad — All the right ideas — but spoiled by buggy software and a bad camera — Microsoft's Surface Duo aspires to be something different from any other gadget you've used.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: ByteDance is continuing its months-long talks with the US, now with greater urgency, about deals to let TikTok avoid a full sale of its US operations — It isn't clear whether any alternative would satisfy President Trump's concerns about Chinese-owned video-sharing app
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Ireland's privacy regulator has sent Facebook a preliminary order to stop sending EU user data to the US, the first big step in enforcing July's Privacy Shield — Privacy regulator's order to suspend the company's data transfers to the U.S. cites concerns over American government surveillance practices| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google redesigns Google Finance and adds a “Watchlists” feature to help users group stocks and find relevant news, stats and earnings details — Google Finance is getting a desktop and mobile redesign today that is focused on making it easier to “find data for stocks you're interested in … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft to launch its Xbox Series X console on November 10 for $499, with preorders starting on September 22 — Microsoft is launching its Xbox Series X console on November 10th for $499. Preorders for the new console will begin on September 22nd, with the company also offering …
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Africa is experiencing a crypto boom, with research finding cryptocurrency monthly transfers under $10K jumped 55% YoY, as young tech-savvy users quickly adopt — LAGOS/LONDON (Reuters) - Four months ago, Abolaji Odunjo made a fundamental change to his business selling mobile phones …
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| Oliver Haslam / iMore: |
Epic says Apple is disabling Sign In with Apple for Fortnite on Sept. 11 and impacted users should update their account email address and password now — What you need to know — Epic has tweeted to warn users that Apple is going to block Sign in with Apple for Fortnite.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
A Bluetooth vulnerability in standards 4.0 through 5.0 lets attackers gain access to authenticated services; patch is not yet available — All devices using the Bluetooth standard 4.0 through 5.0 are vulnerable. Patches not immediately available. — The organizations behind …
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| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Instagram says it has created an equity team to address bias in product development, updated hate speech policies, and is seeking to hire a new diversity lead — Instagram announced some changes it's making that are geared toward advancing equity within its workplace.
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| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Orchard, which enables virtual home buying and selling, raises $69M Series C led by Revolution Growth, bringing its total raised to $138M — Orchard has raised $69 million in venture capital to continue the development of its machine learning technology that aims to make buying a home less complicated.
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| Yi-Ling Liu / Wired: |
To evade government censorship, Chinese internet users have repurposed GitHub as a COVID-19 archive for news articles, medical journals, and personal accounts — As coronavirus news was increasingly trapped behind the Great Firewall, the programming platform became a refuge from censorship.
Tweets: @wired, @longreads, @weileizeng1992, @yilingliu95, @yilingliu95, and @jjeilenberg
| Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma suggests that the way social media surfaces and amplifies the worst of humanity is our greatest existential threat today — The Social Dilemma argues that humanity's greatest existential threat is not climate change, but Facebook.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
TikTok reveals how it uses machine learning to maximize user engagement and says it's studying how to break filter bubbles that can boost misinfo and hoaxes — TikTok Wednesday revealed some of the elusive workings of the prized algorithm that keeps hundreds of millions of users worldwide hooked on the viral video app.| Heather Landi / FierceHealthcare: |
Grand Rounds, which uses data and algorithms to match employees with healthcare providers, raises $175M led by The Carlyle Group at a valuation of $1.34B — Digital health companies continue to benefit from a surge in investor interest in virtual care. — Case in point: personal healthcare …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Motorola unveils the second-gen Razr, with 5G, Snapdragon 765G, 48MP rear camera, and the same 6.2" foldable display as first-gen, available in fall for $1,399 — Available unlocked for $1,399 later this fall — Earlier this year, Motorola relaunched the Razr, modernizing the iconic flip phone brand …
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Tweets: @markgurman and @markgurman
| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Iron Ox, which uses AI-powered farming robots for its semi-autonomous greenhouse operations, has raised $20M Series B, bringing its total raise to $45M — Robotics farming company Iron Ox today announced the close of a $20 million funding round. The funding will be used …
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Panther Labs, which enables security engineers to detect and respond to security threats in real time, raises $15M Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners — Panther Labs, a San Francisco, CA-based cybersecurity startup, raised $15m in Series A funding.
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