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Mark Zuckerberg responds to fake news controversy and outlines projects Facebook is working on to combat the issue — A lot of you have asked what we're doing about misinformation, so I wanted to give an update. — The bottom line is: we take misinformation seriously.
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See also Mediagazer| Jeff Jarvis / Medium: |
John Borthwick of Betaworks and Jeff Jarvis of CUNY offer ideas for tackling fake news on Facebook, Twitter, and Google — We—John Borthwick and Jeff Jarvis—want to offer constructive suggestions for what the platforms—Facebook, Twitter, Google, Instagram, Snapchat, WeChat, Apple News …
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See also Mediagazer| Reuters: |
Amazon begins selling cars online, partnering with Fiat Chrysler to sell three models in Italy — Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) said it has teamed up with U.S. internet giant Amazon to start selling cars online at prices up to a third cheaper than available elsewhere.
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| Neal E. Boudette / New York Times: |
Experts say in-car smartphone use and dashboard apps are partly to blame for alarming rise in highway fatalities in the US in the past two years — The messaging app Snapchat allows motorists to post photos that record the speed of the vehicle. The navigation app Waze rewards drivers …
Tweets: @amyklobuchar, @sub8u, @benrosstransit, @nytimesbusiness and @nytimes
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Mike Pompeo, Trump's pick for CIA director, is a strong supporter of mass surveillance, but opposes mandating backdoors in encryption — Donald Trump announced on Friday that he's chosen Congressman Mike Pompeo to run the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the premiere spy agency of the United States. .
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| Tim Peterson / Marketing Land: |
Facebook shuttering ad-serving part of Atlas platform to focus more on measurement tool — Facebook is shutting down the part of Atlas that didn't have a direct impact on ad sales but keeping the part that does. — Facebook's ad-tech strategy grows ever more insular.| Rick Merritt / EE Times: |
Intel details its vision for AI chips, mostly based on Nervana technology, but the strategy remains incomplete until the Movidius deal closes — AI strategy incomplete without Movidius — SAN FRANCISCO - Intel rolled out its intentions for a soup-to-nuts offering in artificial intelligence …
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| Fortune: |
Inside New York City's $10M digital crime lab, where analysts and researchers crack devices, use big data, and more to gather evidence to help solve crimes — Where phone hacking and big data solve crimes. — The cell phone at the police station contains evidence of a crime … | Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Facebook SEC filings reveal $6B stock buyback program that starts Q1 2017, and chief accounting officer's resignation, effective February 17 — Facebook today said it is authorizing a $6 billion stock buyback that will go into effect in the first quarter next year.
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See also Mediagazer| Todd Haselton / TechnoBuffalo: |
Nest updates mobile apps with “instaclips” to easily share video, brings live video feeds to Android TV, and says Apple TV support coming soon — Nest announced a big update to its Nest Camera application on Friday that's focused on sharing video clips you've captured.
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Interview with Manuela Veloso, head of machine learning at Carnegie Mellon University on personal assistants, robots, and challenges of AI for humanity — By 2021, everyday software will be vastly more intelligent and powerful, replacing humans in more and more tasks. How will we keep up?
Tweets: @scsatcmu
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Behind the design and development of Google's Daydream View VR headset and controller, which were optimized for comfort and simplicity — How Google made its View VR headset a reality — It's a couple of weeks before the Daydream View headset launches, and at Google's Mountain View headquarters … Sponsor Posts
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