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European Parliament votes against controversial Article 11 and Article 13 copyright reform proposals, meaning they will now be open for debate and amendments — A 318-278 majority of MEPs in the European Parliament has voted to reopen debate around a controversial digital copyright reform proposal …
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| Elias Biryabarema / Reuters: |
Uganda president defends new 5 cent/day tax for citizens wanting to access platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp, says social media is used for “lying” — KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has defended the country's new social media tax …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Baidu announces it's partnering with Mobileye on its Project Apollo autonomous driving project, which now has over 115 partners — Chinese tech behemoth Baidu is ramping up production of its self-driving car platform. Today at the 2018 Baidu Create developer conference in Beijing …
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| Renee DiResta / Wired: |
A look at how “keyword voids”, social recommendations, and paid promotions can lead to tragic misinformation in top search results for health-related queries — IN THE FIRST few hours of a newborn's life, doctors administer a vitamin K shot. This is because infants …
Tweets: @wired, @caseynewton, @etzioni, @noupside, and @noupside
| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer: |
German privacy-focused organizations Zwiebelfreunde, a nonprofit that runs Tor relay servers, and Chaos Computer Club say police raided their offices and homes — Two privacy-focused organizations have accused today German police of carrying out raids at their offices and members' private homes …
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torservers.net blog, ZDNet, Chaos Computer Club Updates, and Naked Security
Tweets: @arachnochist, @josephfcox, @chaosupdates, @zackwhittaker, and @ramyraoof
| Abrar Al-Heeti / CNET: |
Updated California law now requires businesses to set clear auto-renewal terms for digital subscriptions and allow customers to cancel online — A California law that went into effect July 1 is aimed at making it easier for customers to cancel their subscriptions online.
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
VW unveils WE vehicle on-demand service, starting with car sharing, then other transport modes like scooters, launching next year in Germany, globally from 2020 — Volkswagen Group is launching a car-sharing service called WE that only uses electric vehicles, following the lead of rivals … | Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Profile of Chinese online healthcare platform WeDoctor, which has created powerful marketing tools for drug makers by leveraging unfettered access to user data — - WeDoctor leverages user data for marketing to drug makers — Billion-dollar startup backed by Tencent, AIA, New World
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| Daniel Funke / Poynter: |
A look at fact-checking efforts on China's WeChat, which has about 1B MAUs, many of which are small unofficial projects — Grace Xu doesn't make any money fact-checking. She's not a journalist and she has a day job as a computer scientist in the San Francisco Bay Area.| Matthew Townsend / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon plans to send a physical holiday toy catalog to millions of US households this year as it incorporates traditional retailers' strategies — - Move is part of push to gain market share of defunct toy chain — Printed toy guide to be mailed and handed out at Whole Foods
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Business Insider, CNET, The Verge, Engadget, Gizmodo, Fortune, GeekWire, and International Business Times. Tweets: @technology
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Some AI experts say fully autonomous cars may be further away than expected and that it may be years before self-driving systems can reliably avoid accidents — If you believe the CEOs, a fully autonomous car could be only months away. In 2015, Elon Musk predicted a fully autonomous Tesla by 2018; so did Google.| Morgan Meaker / WIRED UK: |
Led by Germany and Denmark, EU countries are expanding laws that enable immigration officials to extract data from asylum seekers' phones — European leaders need to bring immigration numbers down, and metadata on smartphones could be just what they need to start sending migrants backSponsor Posts
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