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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
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| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
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.
Tweets: @craigmod, @stevesi, @kevin2kelly, and @mijustin
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Artificial general intelligence is far from being a reality because AI systems of today do not use intrinsic knowledge about the world to predict and plan — Forecasting musical taste. Detecting metastatic tumors. Generating synthetic scans of brain cancer. Creating virtual environments from real-world videos.
Tweets: @bgurley
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
HQ Trivia launches HQ Words, 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.
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Tweets: @joshconstine and @joshconstine
| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Cloud Imperium, the developer of a yet-to-be fully launched space sim Star Citizen, raises $46M at a $460M valuation after crowdfunding $211M over six years — The story of the game Star Citizen and Cloud Imperium, the company developing it, is almost too ludicrous to believe …
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| Alastair Marsh / Bloomberg: |
Crypto efforts of banks like Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Barclays are in limbo after bitcoin's months-long fall and weak demand from institutional clients — Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and many more built it. But they didn't come. — Limbo—that's where to find Wall Street when it comes to cryptocurrencies.
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| Alex Howard / E Pluribus Unum: |
Congress passes the Open Government Data Act, which requires public information to be open to the public by default in a machine readable format — On December 21, 2018, the United States House of Representatives voted to enact H.R. 4174, the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2017 … | Justin Lynch / Fifth Domain: |
How a US shutdown affects its cybersecurity workforce: NIST among worst-hit agencies with 85% staff furloughed, DNI's analysis and operations staff cut by 60% — America's federal cybersecurity workforce will see sharp reductions if Congress fails to pass a spending bill to keep the government open …
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| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
WeChat adds a Snapchat-like Stories feature called Time Capsule that lets users upload videos of up to 15 seconds that disappear after 24 hours — WeChat, the Chinese messaging giant with over 1 billion monthly active users around the world, just added a Snap-like ephemeral video feature as part of its biggest overhaul since 2014.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Temi, a startup that plans to officially launch its telepresence robot in January, raises a $21M Series B led by Alibaba's ex-CTO, bringing total raised to $83M — Temi, a robotics startup headquartered in New York, is betting big on its eponymous Temi telepresence product — and it's taking new investors along for the ride.| 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.Sponsor Posts
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