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A recap of Facebook and Twitter hearings: Republican claims of bias, Democratic claims of political manipulation, and appearances by Alex Jones and Laura Loomer — A capsule review of tech's visit to Washington: The Senate seemed serious, the House did not, and Republicans aren't done complaining about bias.
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Facebook: U.S. Senator Kamala Harris. Tweets: @matthewamiller, @sarahfrier, @gerritd, @cat_zakrzewski, and @lizzadwoskin
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Interviews and documents show IBM used NYPD surveillance footage in 2012 to develop object identification tech that could search by skin color and more — In the decade after the 9/11 attacks, the New York City Police Department moved to put millions of New Yorkers under constant watch.
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| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
DOJ announces hacking charges against a North Korean government spy, linked to the Lazarus Group, in connection with the 2014 Sony hack — The Justice Department will announce computer hacking charges Thursday against a North Korean government spy in connection with the 2014 attack …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
BMW debuts the AI-powered BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant for its cars, available from March 2019 in 10 countries, including US and UK, and May 2019 in China — At TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018, BMW today premiered its digital personal assistant for its cars, the aptly named BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant.
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Lyft launches a fleet of around 350 electric scooters in Denver, its first market, available for $1+ from 6AM to 8PM daily — The company is playing catch-up in a flush market, but it believes it can win by playing nice with cities — Lyft is the latest company to jump on the shared-scooter bandwagon …
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Microsoft begins testing Cortana and Alexa support for the Xbox One, letting users power the console on and off and start games and apps — Microsoft's Xbox One is getting a whole lot easier to use. The company today announced a new Xbox Skill for Cortana and Amazon Alexa …
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| Ben Sisario / New York Times: |
Sources detail how Spotify has quietly signed direct licensing deals with some artists, a move that is worrying major record labels — For decades, the path to stardom in the music industry has usually gone through a major record company. — Almost every artist today who reaches the top of the charts …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
MasterClass, which offers online classes from well known experts for a $180 annual fee, raises $80M Series D led by IVP — Filmmaking taught by Martin Scorsese? Comedy taught by Steve Martin? Chess taught by Garry Kasparov? Tennis taught by Serena Williams? Cooking taught by Gordon Ramsay?
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Uber partners with Japanese taxi company Fuji Taxi Group to let users hail cabs using the Uber app in Nagoya — - Users can hail cabs through Uber app in Nagoya from Thursday — Deal covers about 5% of taxis in Japan's third largest city — Uber Technologies Inc. has finally found … | Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
PagerDuty, a provider of performance monitoring and notification tools for critical applications, raises $90M at a valuation of $1.3B — PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada is now running a startup valued at $1.3 billion. — Behind the scenes at companies like Capital One, PayPal and Netflix … | Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
A look at the rise of smart home fitness equipment startups, such as Mirror, which recently raised $25M, and Tonal, which makes a weight-lifting machine — Paul Wright, a smiling, impeccably jacked personal trainer, stared at me from the large screen mounted to the wall.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Walmart launches a new last-mile delivery pilot program called Spark Delivery in partnership with Bringg that costs $9.95/delivery with a minimum order of $30 — Walmart announced on Wednesday a new last-mile delivery pilot program, called Spark Delivery, which focuses on fulfilling customers' online grocery orders.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
AMD announces a range of new chips to compete with Intel's lower-end lineup, including the dual-core Athlon 200GE for $55 — Advanced Micro Devices is rolling out its latest processors based on the Zen architecture that will attack the low end of rival Intel's product line.
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| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
Dell reports revenue of $22.9B, up 18% YoY, and projects $92B in adjusted revenue for 2019 as it weighs a plan to go public again — Dell Technologies Inc., the world's largest closely held technology company, reported growing sales, and increased its outlook for the year … | Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Insight Venture Partners buys content management platform Episerver for $1.1B from the private equity firm Accel-KKR — Episerver, the Irvine, California-based company which provides services for marketers to manage content, was bought by Insight Venture Partners for a cool $1.1 billion from the private equity firm Accel-KKR.
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| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Estonian ride-hailing company Taxify will launch its new brand of e-scooters, called Bolt, in Paris on Thursday; Taxify says it has 10M users in 25 countries — Estonian ride-hailing company Taxify will compete with Bird and Lime in Europe with its new brand of e-scooters, called Bolt, launching in Paris on Thursday.
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| Fathin Ungku / Reuters: |
Facebook says it will invest more than $1B to build its first Asian data center in Singapore, slated to open in 2022 — SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Facebook (FB.O) said on Thursday it will invest more than $1 billion to build its first data centre in Asia in Singapore, slated to open in 2022.
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| David Nather / Axios: |
Survey of 2,698 US adults shows 66% of Democrats think search engine results are unbiased while only 22% of Republicans think the same — Data: SurveyMonkey online poll conducted Aug. 30 to Sept. 3, 2018 among a total sample of 2,698. Margin of error of ±2.5 percentage points; Poll methodology; Chart: Andrew Witherspoon/Axios| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Upwork, a marketplace for freelance developers, writers, and others, files for an IPO on Nasdaq and says it had $228M in revenue from June 2017-2018 — Another tech IPO is coming around the corner in what has been a strong year for startups taking the plunge and going public.
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Location marketing startup Uberall raises $25M led by HPE Growth Capital, adding to the $25M Series B raised earlier this year, and acquires competitor Navads — Berlin-based location marketing startup Uberall has raised a further $25 million in funding — adding to a $25 million Series B raised earlier …
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