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Trump tweets that Commerce Department has been instructed to help China's ZTE, which had to stop operations after US companies were banned from selling to it — In a tweet, Trump urges the Commerce Department to give ZTE “a way to get back into business, fast.”| Justin Duino / 9to5Google: |
As part of Google's Digital Wellbeing initiative, YouTube app for Android now has a “remind me to take a break” option — On stage at I/O 2018, Google announced its digital wellbeing initiative to help people better understand their digital habits.| Economist: |
A detailed look at SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son's $100B Vision Fund, which has invested $30B in 24 companies after launching a year ago — SoftBank subsequently grew into a global conglomerate with stakes in hundreds of web firms, including Yahoo. As tech valuations soared in 2000 … | Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
After widespread complaints about keys becoming unresponsive on MacBooks with “butterfly” keyboards, Apple is now facing a lawsuit seeking a class action status — A class action lawsuit filed in federal court on Friday takes Apple to task over an allegedly flawed keyboard design deployed …
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Inside YouTube's Trusted Flagger and Contributors programs in which anonymous volunteers have backchannel access to YouTube employees to escalate complaints — When YouTube's content moderation fails, super-users from the YouTube Contributors and Trusted Flagger programs are ready to intervene.
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| Eric Berger / Ars Technica: |
Five-day Atlantic Hurricane forecasts in 2017 were as accurate as two-day forecasts in 1998 thanks to more powerful supercomputers and more precise models — Five-day forecasts are as good now as two-day forecasts were in 1998. — Back in 1998, the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts housed …
Tweets: @arstechnica
| Cory Nealon / University at Buffalo: |
Study: less than 10% of users who retweeted false info during disasters removed their RT later, less than 20% of them clarified false RT with a new tweet — Study examines Boston Marathon bombing, Hurricane Sandy; also finds most users fail to correct misinformation
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A look at the $1.6B video streaming market in Japan, where Netflix and Amazon are using the power of original shows to take on Hulu and homegrown dTV — Since launching in Japan in 2015, Netflix has focused on providing high-quality and original content from both international and local sources.| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft is alienating regular and long-time users of Skype by refocusing the product for the corporate market, which has made the app more complex — It's relatively easy these days to find critics of Skype, the popular online calling service that Microsoft acquired in 2011 for $8.5 billion.| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Boston Dynamics founder says the company's dog-like SpotMini robot will go on sale in 2019, but doesn't disclose price — After 26 years, Boston Dynamics is finally getting ready to start selling some robots. Founder Marc Raibert says that the company's dog-like SpotMini robot …
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Ubuntu will soon be available for ARM64-powered Windows devices, a year after being made available for x64 devices in the Microsoft Store — It was this time last year that Microsoft announced that it was bringing Ubuntu to the Windows Store (now the Microsoft Store), along with other Linux distributions.| Jalil Ahmad Rezayee / Reuters: |
How the Code for Hire initiative in Afghanistan is helping young women fight inequality and poor employment opportunities by teaching them to code — HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Think Super Mario Bros, but with an Afghan twist. This is how Afghanistan's first generation of female coders explain …
Tweets: @stemettes, @reuters, and @f_forough
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