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October 28, 2018, 3:00 PM

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Andrew Liptak / The Verge:
After Pittsburgh shooting, Gab has been suspended by Paypal, Stripe, and hosting provider Joyent; Microsoft has terminated Azure agreement with Gab last month  —  Stripe and cloud host Joyent have indicated that they will suspend Gab's accounts  —  Hours after Paypal confirmed …
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch:
Twitter told a user that pipe bomb suspect did not violate its rules when she reported his threats weeks ago; Twitter now says it made a mistake, apologizes  —  Taylor Hatmaker @tayhatmaker / 14 hours  —  At least two Twitter accounts linked to the man suspected of sending explosive devices …
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed News:
Online hatred, trolling, harassment, and conspiracy theories are spilling into the physical world with ever greater and more alarming frequency  —  This week, reporters dredged up the online pasts of two monsters: a Florida man who was arrested for sending pipe bombs to at least a dozen …
The Local:
Google cancels plan to open a second startup incubator in Berlin after protests by anti-gentrification groups, says it is donating the space to local nonprofits  —  Google has called off plans to open a campus in the Kreuzberg area of Berlin.  After months of anti-gentrification protests …
Frank Catalano / GeekWire:
Tony Ageh, chief digital officer of New York Public Library, talks about privacy concerns and other issues as libraries embrace digital transformation  —  If you want to see how a public library adopts technology at scale, consider heading to New York City.
Theodore Schleifer / Recode:
How Saudi government-related funds, like the country's main tech university endowment and Aramco's Wisayah, invest in US VC firms, often confidentially  —  People talk about money from “the Saudis.”  But it's not that simple.  Who exactly are “the Saudis,” anyway?
Amir Bozorgzadeh / VentureBeat:
A look at how AR has found popularity in the enterprise with industrial deployments in automotive assembly lines, quality control, training centres, and more  —  When I ran my last piece earlier this month on the not-so-surprising progressive state of the VR industry, it was intended to shake …
Nellie Bowles / New York Times:
As children of Silicon Valley's elite move away from screen-based schooling, US public schools are touting devices with screens, presaging a new digital gap  —  America's public schools are still touting devices with screens — even offering digital-only preschools.  The rich are banning screens from class altogether.

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