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Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says firm has stopped protecting Daily Stormer from DDoS attacks, explains his discomfort with policy reversal in email to staff — Internet companies typically take a hands-off approach to offensive content on their networks, erring on the side of maintaining an open internet.
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Apple Pay and PayPal disable support for several sites that promote or sell items glorifying white supremacy — A screenshot of some the product offerings from vinlandclothing.com, which was banned from using Apple Pay and PayPal for selling Nazi apparel. — Blake Montgomery / BuzzFeed News / Via vinlandclothing.com
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Prompted by Charlottesville reactions, Spotify says it has begun to remove white supremacist music flagged as “hate bands” — Spotify says it has removed an array of white-supremacist acts from its streaming service that had been flagged as racist “hate bands” by the Southern Poverty Law Center three years ago.| CNBC: |
Trump disbands the Strategic and Policy Forum and American Manufacturing Council amid loss of support from member CEOs after Charlottesville comments — Members of President Donald Trump's Strategic and Policy Forum have agreed to disband the group, sources told CNBC, as corporate backlash mounts against the president.
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| Economist: |
James Damore's memo made giant, unfounded logical leaps and ignored important evidence that didn't support his conclusion — Last week this newspaper said Alphabet's boss should write a “detailed, ringing rebuttal” of a viral anti-diversity memo sent at Google. Here is how we imagine it
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| Birkan Icacan / Google: |
Google updates G Suite with collaborative features including ability to give and accept suggestions from mobile devices, better search, more — Getting people on the same page for a project can be tough. It requires managing a ton of opinions and suggestions.
| Tripp Mickle / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple has set a budget of ~$1B to procure and produce original content over the next year, could acquire and produce as many as 10 TV shows — Company immediately becomes a considerable competitor in crowded market for original shows — Apple Inc. AAPL 1.09% has set a budget …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
After missing initial June ship date, Essential says Essential Phone models with black finish will begin shipping within 7 days, but white models are weeks away — When Andy Rubin's Essential finally announced the details surrounding its first smartphone, people got excited.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google to roll out voice calling feature to Google Home users in US and Canada soon, but it will lack caller ID except for Google Voice or Project Fi users — Google is rolling out a long-awaited feature for its Google Home smart speaker today: voice calling.| John Mannes / TechCrunch: |
SEC filing shows Andrew Ng, Google Brain founder and former Baidu chief scientist, is raising a $150M AI fund — We knew that Andrew Ng had more than just a series of deep learning courses up his sleeve when he announced the first phase of his deeplearning.ai last week.
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Google acquires AIMatter, a startup that has built a neural network-based AI platform and SDK to detect and process images on mobile devices — Computer vision — the branch of artificial intelligence that lets computers “see” and process images like humans do (and, actually, often better than us) … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon expands cash rewards for high-performing Alexa apps beyond games to lifestyle, productivity, education apps, and more — Amazon today announced a new program that gives developers a way to earn money for their Alexa skills - the voice apps that run on smart speakers like the Echo, and other Alexa-powered devices.
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