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100+ internal training manuals and other docs show guidelines for Facebook content moderators on topics like violence, hate speech, terrorism, porn, self-harm — Leaked policies guiding moderators on what content to allow are likely to fuel debate about social media giant's ethics
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| Bill Vlasic / New York Times: |
Ford replaces Mark Fields as CEO with Jim Hackett, head of its autonomous vehicle unit — (Editors' note: Ford on Monday announced the replacement of its chief executive, Mark Fields, vowing to catch up in the race to build self-driving cars and define a new era in personal mobility.)
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| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
How Facebook conducted research, commissioned by an advertiser, on minors' emotional states, which was then shared in a presentation to potential advertisers — Data mining is such a prosaic part of our online lives that it's hard to sustain consumer interest in it, much less outrage.
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How SoftBank and Saudi Arabia settled their differences to birth the $100B Vision Fund, the world's biggest tech fund — SoftBank is poised to launch a $100 billion technology fund as early as Saturday, capping months of arduous negotiations in which the Japanese tech giant haggled …
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| Laura Shin / Forbes: |
AngelList and Protocol Labs launch CoinList, a funding platform for token-based networks; Filecoin will be the first initial coin offering on the platform — For a new form of funding, initial coin offerings, or ICOs, have been raising money at astonishing speed — amassing about $440 million … | Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Inside Facebook's Telecom Infra Project, which wants to do for the telecom equipment market what Open Compute Project did for data center hardware — On an ordinary work day in mid-2016, a handful of Facebook engineers were sitting on the couches in a corner of the company's Menlo Park …
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How the mission and spirit of Google's ATAP group changed, after Facebook hired its chief Regina Dugan, to become more focused on shipping market-ready products — Almost three years ago, one of Google's most celebrated executives took the stage at the company's big developer conference … | David Pierce / Wired: |
Google I/O showcased a lot of good ideas and impressive research but few practical applications — As expected, the opening keynote of Google's I/O 2017 developer conference was a doozy. For two and a half hours, CEO Sundar Pichai and a handful of execs rattled off a staggering list …
Tweets: @hrushb, @eytanseidman, and @wired
| Huw Jones / Reuters: |
EU financial services chief opposes rules proposed by European Banking Authority that ban account info screen scraping and force fintech firms to use bank APIs — The European Union's financial services chief said on Friday he will ask the bloc's banking watchdog to rethink its proposed ban on … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Patreon says it now has 1M monthly active paying patrons and 50K active creators, both doubling YoY, and is on track to pay out $150M to creators in 2017 — Patreon's novel idea of fans just directly paying the artists they love is having its hockey stick moment.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Peer-to-peer payments app Verse, which is now live in 27 countries, raises $20.5M Series B led by Spark Capital to power its push beyond Europe — Social payments app Verse has closed a $20.5 million Series B round of funding from its existing investors. The round is led by Spark Capital …
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Affinity raises $13.5M to build out its CRM toolkit tailored for venture capitalists, investment bankers, and other investors — For the venture capitalists, hedge funders, investment bankers and private equity folks trawling the skyways looking for deals, there's nothing more important than a strong network.
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