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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.”
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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.| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
After widespread complaints about keys becoming unresponsive on MacBooks with “butterfly” keyboards, Apple is now facing a lawsuit seeking 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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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 … | Adrianne Jeffries / Bloomberg: |
Inside the community behind Pi-hole, an open source software package designed to run on a Raspberry Pi for blocking ads and web trackers at the network level — For the advertising industry, ad blocking is an existential crisis. For the Pi-hole community, it's a sport.
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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 …
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| Yimian Wu / China Money Network: |
Unisound, a Beijing-based voice recognition, language processing, and big data startup, raises $100M Series C as it is about to release its own AI chip — Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) solution provider Unisound announced that it has raised a US$100 million series C round led … | Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Messaging and video conferencing startup Fuze raises $150M; PitchBook: the raise was done at a $400M valuation, compared to previous raise at $765M — A steep downround as the workplace tool battles Slack and Zoom. — Fuze, a messaging and video conferencing company to use with your colleagues at work … | Matthew Braga / CBC News: |
Profile of Open Observatory of Network Interference, an organization collecting evidence of internet censorship in 200+ countries with help from ~50K volunteers — OONI was formed in 2011 as part of the Tor Project, a non-profit group that developed the Tor browser, which anonymizes users' web-browsing activity.| 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.| Cory Nealon / University at Buffalo: |
Study of 20K tweets during two disasters shows under 10% of users who retweeted false info removed their RT, under 20% of them clarified false RT with new tweet — Study examines Boston Marathon bombing, Hurricane Sandy; also finds most users fail to correct misinformation
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