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Dave McClure apologizes for inappropriate advances towards multiple women, says Christine Tsai and 500 Startups senior management were unaware until recently — By now you may have heard I f**ked up, and people are calling me a creep. — While I'd like to believe that I'm not a bad or evil person …
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| Sam Shead / Business Insider: |
UK's data protection watchdog rules that Google DeepMind's first deal with the NHS failed to comply with data protection law — The UK's data protection watchdog has ruled that a deal between DeepMind and an NHS trust “failed to comply with data protection law.”
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ICO, The Verge, ICO Blog, The Guardian, The Next Web, DeepMind, Engadget, 9to5Google, Inquirer, TechCrunch, BBC, The Register, and Ars Technica UK. Tweets: @carolecadwalla
| HBR.org: |
Study: TechCrunch Disrupt videos show VCs focus more on potential gains when interviewing male founders, more on losses in interviews with female entrepreneurs — There is an enormous gender gap in venture capital funding in the United States. Female entrepreneurs receive only about 2% …
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| Bloomberg: |
Profile of Tencent and its President Martin Lau as it plans to expand outside China, where it dominates user attention on smartphones by offering many services — The WeChat app has almost a billion users, and many of them use it all day. So why isn't the company everywhere by now?| Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Alibaba will introduce an Amazon Echo-like device for Chinese consumers as soon as next week — Chinese e-commerce major Alibaba plans to introduce a digital personal assistant similar to Amazon.com's Echo device in coming days.
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| Politico: |
Trump voter-fraud panel's data request made to all states is a gold mine for hackers, say infosec experts; 20+ states refuse, including Mississippi and Virginia — Cybersecurity specialists are warning that President Donald Trump's voter-fraud commission may unintentionally expose voter data …
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| Jon Gambrell / Skift: |
US lifts laptop ban at Abu Dhabi International Airport, one of the 10 Middle East airports where DHS banned laptops in cabins of US-bound planes in March — It didn't hurt that there was already a U.S. Customs pre-clearance facility at Abu Dhabi Airport. This could be the first step …
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
How Code.org, which has raised $60M from Google and others, is influencing education, with help from a broader push by firms like Apple and Microsoft — At a White House gathering of tech titans last week, Timothy D. Cook, the chief executive of Apple, delivered a blunt message to President Trump … | Brian Feldman / New York Magazine: |
Tumblr's uncertain future demonstrates the difficulty of monetizing internet culture, as do the fortunes of Twitter, Reddit, 4chan, and even YouTube — Earlier this month, Verizon completed its acquisition of Yahoo, incorporating the internet-portal pioneer's slate of brands under a new umbrella corporation named, ominously, Oath.| Conor Dougherty / New York Times: |
Inside Yelp's six-year campaign to get antitrust regulators to sanction Google for displaying info from its own properties above competitors in search results — Jeremy Stoppelman, chief executive of Yelp, the local search and reviewing site, would like this article to be focused on his company's growth … | Mo Marshall / VentureBeat: |
Block.one sets record with $185M ICO over a 5 day period for its EOS token, says its blockchain platform can process millions of transactions/second fee-free — Blockchain startup Block.one announced this morning that it has raised $185 million in just five days of selling its EOS cryptocurrency token.| Vernon Silver / Bloomberg: |
Profile of Chaos Computer Club, a ~5,500-strong German hacker group founded in 1981, working on election information security, promoting hacking best practices — The hack began as trash talk. Germany's voting computers were so vulnerable to tampering that they could be reprogrammed to play chess, the hackers boasted.Sponsor Posts
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