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Dish integrates with Amazon Alexa for hands-free TV, the first TV provider to do so — TV provider Dish Network is today rolling out new technology that will make watching television a hands-free experience, via a new integration with Amazon Alexa. The company says that its pay TV customers using either … | 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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In blow to patent trolls, US Supreme Court rules patent infringement suits can only be filed in courts located in jurisdiction of targeted firm's incorporation — WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday tightened rules for where patent lawsuits can be filed in a decision that may make it harder … | Jack Stubbs / Reuters: |
Sources: Russian police have arrested 16 in banking malware scheme that infected 1M+ Android devices in Russia, netted $892K, and had begun expanding to Europe — Russian cyber criminals used malware planted on Android mobile devices to steal from domestic bank customers and were planning … | Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Pittsburgh officials and residents have regrets 9 months after Uber began testing self-driving cars in the city, with lack of shared data among disappointments — PITTSBURGH — When Uber picked this former Rust Belt town as the inaugural city for its driverless car experiment, Pittsburgh played the consummate host.
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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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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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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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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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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 … | 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.| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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