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| Justin Oskofsky / Facebook: |
Facebook explains how Trending Topics works, publishes internal guidelines, reiterates that discrimination against sources of any political origin isn't allowed — At Facebook, we stand for connecting every person — for a global community, for bringing people together, for giving all people a voice …
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See also Mediagazer| Sam Thielman / Guardian: |
Leaked documents show human intervention at almost every stage of Facebook's news operation — Exclusive: Leaked internal guidelines show human intervention at almost every stage of its news operation, akin to a traditional media organization — Leaked documents show how Facebook …
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Motherboard, Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, The Verge, The Hill, NPR, Ubergizmo, The Federalist, New York Magazine, SocialTimes, The Huffington Post, USA Today, SlashGear, The Next Web, Yahoo Tech, Tech Insider, YouGov, Engadget, Digital Trends, Hit & Run, The Atlantic, SiliconBeat, Fortune and San Francisco Chronicle
Tweets: @mattnavarra, @mattdpearce, @dannysullivan, @alisongriswold, @sarahfrier, @dlberes, @willoremus, @sarahfrier, @mathewi, @moorehn, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @mlcalderone, @zeynep, @hunterschwarz, @jeffjarvis, @samfbiddle, @samfbiddle, @jonathonmorgan, @mikeindustries, @moneyries, @mattdpearce, @moorehn, @mgsiegler and @dangillmor
See also Mediagazer| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook director of product management for News Feed says Trending Topics team's priority is bug fixing, biased News Feed wouldn't serve 1B users well — A year ago today, Facebook introduced Instant Articles — a quick-loading news format, hosted on Facebook's own servers …
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Motherboard. Tweets: @joshconstine, @mathewi, @joshconstine, @backlon, @mathewi, @mathewi and @mathewi. See also Mediagazer
| Rajan Patel / Official Google Blog: |
Google unveils GBoard in US, an iOS keyboard app that lets you search the web, find GIFs, emojis, places, and more from the keyboard — iPhone users—this one's for you. Meet Gboard, a new app for your iPhone that lets you search and send information, GIFs, emojis and more, right from your keyboard.
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Tweets: @marshallbock, @reckless, @deray, @vijayshekhar, @rstephens, @jw, @wsj, @noah_weiss, @blakeir, @mikeisaac and @drance
| Slav Petrov / Google Research Blog: |
Google open sources SyntaxNet, a neural network framework for parsing natural language, and releases Parsey McParseface, a SyntaxNet-trained English parser — At Google, we spend a lot of time thinking about how computer systems can read and understand human language in order to process it in intelligent ways.
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GitHub, PCWorld, Digital Trends, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, Wired, ZDNet, 9to5Google, Android Central, SlashGear, Tech Insider, The Next Web, VentureBeat, The Verge and Mashable
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| Mark Bergen / Recode: |
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| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Automattic quietly acquired the rights to .blog TLD in 2015 for about $19M, will start selling the domains this year — The company behind the world's most popular publishing platform is trying to make .blog happen. — WordPress.com owner Automattic announced today that it has …
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WordPress.com News, Matt Mullenweg, Domain Name Wire, Neowin, CircleID, The Next Web, The Verge and WordPress Tavern
Tweets: @drew and @dangillmor
| Alex Webb / Bloomberg: |
Apple's average app review time has fallen from 8.8 days a year ago to 1.95 days in the past two weeks — Average approval times reduced to two days from about nine — Apple is trying to keep developers loyal to iOS projects — Apple Inc. has cut the approval time for new submissions … | John Ribeiro / Computerworld: |
Mozilla court filing asks government to turn over details of Tor browser flaw to protect Firefox users before making details of vulnerability public — Mozilla says it wants to check if the vulnerable code is found in Firefox code — Mozilla has asked a court that it should be provided information …
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The Mozilla Blog, The Intercept, Gizmodo, Help Net Security, Softpedia News, SecurityWeek, Engadget, ZDNet, BetaNews, The Next Web, Gizmodo UK, VentureBeat and Motherboard. Tweets: @astepanovich
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Western Digital officially completes acquisition of SanDisk for around $16B — Western Digital has now officially purchased flash memory manufacturer SanDisk after regulator approval was passed earlier this week. The agreement between the two storage companies was originally announced last October in a deal worth nearly $19 billion.
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Western Digital, Digital Trends, FierceCIO News, iMore, Seeking Alpha, pcgamer, insideHPC, Benzinga and Engadget
| Jordan Golson / The Verge: |
Google looking for test drivers for its self-driving cars in Arizona, must have clean driving record, bachelor's degree, and type 40WPM, will be paid $20/hour — Do you live in Arizona and want to get paid to “drive” a self-driving car? Google could have a job for you.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Tencent-backed music-streaming service China Music Corp. plans US IPO as soon as this year, could raise $300M-$600M — China Music Corp. could raise $300 million to $600 million — HONG KONG—A music-streaming service backed by Chinese Internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd …
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hypebot, Digital Music News and Music Ally
| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Apple denies report that it will end iTunes music downloads within the next few years — The future of music is streaming, not downloads. — But that doesn't mean Apple, the company that essentially invented the market for music download sales, is going to stop selling downloads anytime soon.
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Mashable, Digital Music News, Quartz, Digital Trends, Lifehacker, Daily Mail, Droid Life, 9to5Mac, SiliconBeat, hypebot, Fortune, Consequence of Sound, The Mac Observer, TWICE, MacNN, SlashGear, Insanely Great Mac, Digital Music News, iPhone Hacks, Pocketnow, SiliconANGLE and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @noyokono. See also Mediagazer
| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
What's at stake in Google and Oracle's $9.3B fair use fight over Java APIs — Gather round tech folks, it's time for an epic rematch between two industry giants. At stake is not just billions of dollars in copyright claims, but also a controversial legal concept that could roil the entire software industry.
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