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NAACP returns a donation from Facebook and calls for a daylong boycott of it on Dec. 18 after Senate report detailed how FB was used to manipulate black voters — The NAACP has returned a donation from Facebook and called for a daylong boycott of the social network Tuesday following revelations …
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AT&T to launch 5G mobile service on Friday, December 21, across 12 US cities via a mobile hotspot — The 5G era has arrived. AT&T is launching 5G mobile service in a dozen U.S. cities beginning this Friday, becoming the first carrier to do so. — Why it matters: The move allows …
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Coinbase is rolling out Coinbase Convert, which enables crypto-to-crypto trading for its retail customers via its website and mobile apps, in the coming days — Coinbase users can begin trading cryptocurrencies directly with other cryptocurrencies, the exchange startup said Monday.
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Google introduces a new G Suite feature in beta that will enable non-G Suite users to collaborate on files as visitors, using PINs — Soon, people without Google accounts will be able to view, comment, suggest edits to, and directly edit Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides files.
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Cisco to buy semiconductor company Luxtera, which develops silicon photonics technology that speeds up data transfer, for $660M — - Luxtera's advanced chips will help Cisco meet business client demand for faster and high-performing network service, the company said.| Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast: |
Former far right extremists recall how they were radicalized by YouTube as teenagers because of its algorithm that keeps surfacing extremist content — Former extremists say they were sucked in by propaganda as teenagers, thanks to an algorithm's dark side.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Seismic, which helps companies create and manage their sales and marketing collateral, raises $100M Series E at a $1B valuation — Seismic has been helping companies create and manage their sales and marketing collateral since 2010. Today the company announced a $100 million Series E investment on a $1 billion valuation.
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Indian ride hailing service Ola invests $100M in scooter rental startup Vogo, which operates in Bangalore and Hyderabad — We're familiar with Uber cozying up to scooter startups — it has bought one and invested in another — but over in India, the U.S. firm's key rival is hatching …
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Sources: Google's plan for a censored search engine for China “effectively ended” after infighting, with a data analysis operation key to Dragonfly shuttering — Google has been forced to shut down a data analysis system it was using to develop a censored search engine for China …
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Google says Play Store's machine learning-based system removed millions of fake reviews and ratings and identified thousands of bad apps during a recent week — Posted by Fei Ye, Software Engineer and Kazushi Nagayama, Ninja Spamologist — Google Play ratings and reviews are extremely important … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
DoD report finds unpatched flaws and a lack of data encryption, intrusion detection, and multifactor authentication mechanisms in US ballistic missile systems — DOD report finds no antivirus, no data encryption, no multifactor authentication. — No data encryption, no antivirus programs …
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Twitter fixes flaw in support form that leaked users' phone number country codes and other info, after noticing excessive queries from Chinese and Saudi IPs — Twitter accidentally exposed the ability to pull an account's phone number country code and whether the account had been locked by Twitter.
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