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Inside Facebook's deletion center in Berlin, where 1,200 people review posts violating firm's rules or German law and decide what is free speech or hate speech — A country taps its past as it leads the way on one of the most pressing issues facing modern democracies: how to regulate the world's biggest social network.| Linda Kinstler / The Atlantic: |
German law requiring social media companies to take down hate speech within 24 hours prompts far right claims of lack of clarity, chilled speech, and censorship — The new year was just a day old when Alice Weidel, the 38-year-old co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) … | Patrick Winn / GlobalPost Investigations: |
Interviews with experts and defectors detail North Korea's Reconnaissance General Bureau, whose hackers are estimated to have stolen $650M+ — The Reconnaissance General Bureau, North Korea's equivalent to the CIA, has trained up the world's greatest bank-robbing crews.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
McAfee report: North Korea-linked hackers posted three apps on Google Play to steal personal info from defectors; hackers made contact with targets via Facebook — Apps hosted in Google market for two months were spread over Facebook. — Researchers said a team of hackers tied …
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Hands-on with the RED Hydrogen One Android phone with a 5.7-inch “holographic” display, coming to Verizon and AT&T sometime this summer starting at $1,195 — Come for the holograms, stay for the modules — We just got a look at the upcoming RED Hydrogen One smartphone …
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Apple is telling developers to remove CallKit from apps listed in App Store in China after government request, likely because of CallKit's VoIP functionalities — Apple has started cracking down on yet another type of application in China. Following the earlier removal of VPN apps … | Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Bank of America begins rolling out its AI-powered assistant, Erica, which will help its 25M mobile clients do banking tasks by voice, text, and gestures — The virtual assistant will be available to Bank of America's 25 million mobile clients — Bank of America on Friday officially introduced Erica …
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Inside Alphabet's three-day machine learning bootcamp, started this spring, which aims to impart AI know-how to ~12 of CapitalG's portfolio companies, like Lyft — - Alphabet's CapitalG is offering a new program for its portfolio companies, including AirBnb, Lyft, and CrowdStrike| Ernie Smith / Motherboard: |
A history of the music industry's first efforts at creating music streaming services after Napster and why they failed given the importance of streaming now — Lessons from the music industry's initial consumer-hostile reaction to the Napster saga. Going from $16 CDs to unlimited streaming is really hard.
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Data shows Tencent bought stakes in 277 tech companies between 2013 and 2017, and the value of its stakes in public companies topped $33B at the end of 2017 — Social-media and videogame giant bought stakes in 277 tech companies since 2013, and its deal-making pace is accelerating| Rhett Jones / Gizmodo: |
Report: Snap CEO was inspired by Chinese apps for Snapchat redesign, wanted to make the app friendlier to older users, launched redesign despite staff concerns — Snap's stock price is now hovering around its lowest point ever since the company went public last year.
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A look at Chinese “accelerators” in Silicon Valley, 11 of which have been created since 2013, that aim to identify promising startups and bring them to China — Koh Gui Qing, Salvador Rodriguez — NEW YORK/ SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Beijing's unslakeable thirst for the latest technology …
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