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A look at Joel Kaplan's growing sway at Facebook as he pushed against News Feed changes designed to reduce polarization, promoted The Daily Caller partnership — Joel Kaplan has emerged as the social-media site's protector against allegations of political bias
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| Craig Mod / Wired: |
Although the functionality of digital books has largely remained the same for 10 years, technology has improved everything that goes into publishing a book — THE FUTURE BOOK was meant to be interactive, moving, alive. Its pages were supposed to be lush with whirling doodads, responsive, hands-on.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
HQ Trivia to launch HQ Words tonight, a Wheel of Fortune-style game that's been in closed beta for months, and reinstalls Rus Yusupov as CEO — HQ's expansion beyond trivia is emerging from beta, but the question is whether it's different and accessible enough to revive the startup's growth.
Tweets: @joshconstine and @joshconstine
| Kerry Flynn / Digiday: |
Friends and colleagues remember Colin Kroll, cofounder of Vine and HQ Trivia, as an inspiring and talented visionary who built products that made millions happy — In his childhood, Colin Kroll imagined being able to interact with all the TV shows he watched.
Tweets: @digiday, @digiday, @jaykapoornyc, @scottrogowsky, and @kerrymflynn
| Owen Williams / Charged: |
As social media becomes ever more toxic, Fortnite has become the new social network and a place to hang out where you go to talk to friends — I've played a lot of Fortnite this year, and I was struggling to understand why I liked the game so much. It's fun to play, but usually I get bored …
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| Josh Dzieza / The Verge: |
Inside the cutthroat world of Amazon's Marketplace, where sellers live in fear of getting suspended and use Amazon's rules against each other — “These schemes really require the mind of someone whose depravity knows no bounds.”
Tweets: @literallyaking, @garrytan, @glenngabe, @dcseifert, @dtunkelang, @davidgaughran, and @kevin2kelly
| Kate Kelly / New York Times: |
Profile of Epic Systems, a privately held healthcare software company based in Wisconsin that claims to hold medical records for more than 50% of US patients — The engineers at Epic Systems work on a campus full of childish whimsy but also sit in on open-heart surgery.
Tweets: @jgshull, @chrissyfarr, @katekelly, @joycenovacek, @fdmts, @nytimes, @david_t_macknet, @joycenovacek, @indievc, @farzad_md, and @stevecase
| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
How Alexa has used machine learning to get smarter over the last year, with a 25% error rate reduction, carrying over context from one query to the next, more — IT'S FAIR TO say that when Amazon introduced the first Echo speaker in the fall of 2014, most people weren't quite sure what to make of it.
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As Snap hits an all-time low, sources describe Evan Spiegel's instinctual and imperious management style that can stifle dissent and led to the redesign debacle — Snap, once seen as a viable competitor to Facebook, is struggling after the CEO ignored warnings about a redesign that proved unpopular| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Uber has offered to pay 11 cents for every mile driven for Uber to drivers who have been in individual arbitration over their employment classification — Uber is reportedly on track to go public in the first quarter next year, and in the lead up to that, it's sewing up some loose ends.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Crew, a chat app targeting businesses that employ shift workers like multi-store retailers and fast-food chains, raises $35M Series C — When it comes to shift workers communicating with each other in the workplace when they are not face-to-face, gone are the days of cork announcement boards.| Kyle Samani / Multicoin Capital: |
A look at the state of crypto at the end of 2018 and a list of questions to consider as the ecosystem evolves in 2019 and beyond — As 2018 comes to a close, we've been thinking about some of the big questions that crypto still needs to answer. — Although there is some clarity …
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