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Tim Cook says Apple will make two separate $1M donations, to Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti-Defamation League, in an email to staff about Charlottesville — On Wednesday evening Apple CEO Tim Cook sent an email to all global employees condemning racism and bigotry as well as President Trump's response …
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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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| 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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| Thuy Ong / The Verge: |
Facebook will limit the spread of stories in News Feed that feature either fake video play buttons or videos of only a static image — Like ones that have a fake play button on videos of still images … Facebook has announced two new updates that will limit video clickbait posts from appearing in the News Feed.| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Sprint opens Essential Phone pre-orders with a $260 discount, only offers black versions, and says units will ship by August 28 — Sprint is now taking preorders for the Essential Phone, and it's offering subscribers a pretty good perk to jump on it early: a discount of about $260.
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Box announces Google Cloud Vision API integration, available today in private beta — The integration is one of Box's first moves to bring machine learning capabilities to its cloud content management platform. — In one of its first moves to bring machine learning capabilities …
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Alibaba's Q1 beats estimates as revenue rose 56% to $7.4B, with revenue rising 58% in core ecommerce, almost 50% in cloud, and 30% in media — Results beat projections on both the top and bottom lines — Cloud revenue doubles but media climbed just 30 percent
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Alleged renderings of LG V30 show off handset from multiple angles — We're less than a week away from the official announcement of the V30, but that hasn't stopped leaked images of the handset from emerging. The latest to surface is a press render of the device that shows off the phone from almost every angle...
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google acquires AIMatter, a startup that has built a neural network-based AI platform and SDK to detect and process images quickly on mobile devices — Computer vision — the branch of artificial intelligence that lets computers “see” and process images like humans do (and, actually …
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Facebook starts offering in-stream-only video ad units that will play as users watch videos on Facebook — Advertisers can buy video ads from Facebook that will only be served when people are viewing a video, increasing the likelihood that people will watch them.
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Ripcord raises $40M Series B after raising $9.5M Series A in March for its end-to-end paper record digitization service — Bay Area startup Ripcord just scored a $40 million Series B, following its successful launch earlier this year. By all accounts, the company has apparently hit … Sponsor Posts
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