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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Google allowed advertisers to target racist and bigoted keywords, suggested more similar keywords, and allowed campaigns using those keywords to run — Google, the world's biggest advertising platform, allows advertisers to specifically target ads to people typing racist and bigoted terms …
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| Brian Patrick Byrne / The Daily Beast: |
Twitter also allows advertisers to target users based on racist and derogatory terms like the N-word and “Nazi” — Twitter's advertising platform tells prospective customers it has 26.3 million users interested in the derogatory term “wetback,” 18.6 million accounts that are likely …
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| Facebook: |
Facebook says it's temporarily removing self-reported ad targeting fields and will improve its processes following uproar over anti-Semitic targeting options — Facebook equips businesses with powerful ways to reach the right people with the right message. But there are restrictions on how audience targeting can be used on Facebook.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Chrome will no longer autoplay videos with sound starting from January 2018 — Google today announced Chrome is going to war with autoplay. Starting next year, Chrome will only autoplay a given piece of content when the media won't play sound or the user has indicated an interest in the media.
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| Brenda Goh / Reuters: |
Source: Beijing city regulator told bitcoin exchanges to inform users about trading halt; OkCoin, Huobi, others say they will comply and stop trading by Oct 31 — SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have ordered Beijing-based cryptocurrency exchanges to cease trading and immediately notify users …
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| AnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal: |
Equifax announces its Chief Security Officer Susan Mauldin and Chief Information Officer David Webb are retiring effective immediately — The departures of the company's chief information officer and chief security officer come in the wake of a massive data breach| Mark Harris / IEEE Spectrum: |
Google has spent $1.1B on its self-driving car project since its inception in 2009 through 2015, Waymo employee's deposition in Uber trial implies — Google has never publicly shared how much it spends on its self-driving cars. At first, Project Chauffeur was hidden away in Google's ultra-secret X moonshot program.| Axios: |
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| Haley Britzky / Axios: |
SoFi CEO Mike Cagney resigns effective immediately; Executive Chairman Tom Hutton is named interim CEO — SoFi said today in a press release that Executive Chairman Tom Hutton would be assuming responsibilities of Interim CEO, after the Board accepted co-founder Mike Cageny's resignation effective immediately.| Micah Singleton / The Verge: |
Online radio service Slacker Radio acquired for $50M by LiveXLive, a streaming service focused on live music — The online radio service Slacker Radio has been acquired by LiveXLive, a music streaming service focused on live music streaming, the company announced today.
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| Hamza Shaban / Washington Post: |
Gab.ai sues Google for removing Gab's app from Play Store, says Google violated federal antitrust laws — The alternative social media site Gab.ai is alleging that Google violated federal antitrust laws when the tech giant booted it from the Google Play Store, according to a new lawsuit filed by the company on Thursday.| Yasha Levine / The Baffler: |
Interview with Pavel Durov, Telegram creator, on US government-funded secure messaging apps, privacy, and the FBI's attempt to bribe his team into being moles — How the politics-by-app hustle conquered all — IT'S 7:30 P.M. ON A MONDAY in June at an undisclosed location somewhere in northern Europe.
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| Daniel Terdiman / Fast Company: |
Facebook opens an AI lab in Montreal led by Joelle Pineau, an AI expert at McGill University; Facebook has a total of about 100 people dedicated to AI research — Between the new AI lab and others in Silicon Valley, New York, and Paris, Facebook will have a total of 100 people dedicated to AI research.
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