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UK parliament's report on fake news and disinformation says “digital gangster” Facebook deliberately broke laws, calls for antitrust, data abuse investigations — A final report by a British parliamentary committee which spent months last year investigating online political disinformation makes …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Ming-Chi Kuo: a MacBook Pro with a 16"-16.5" screen and all-new design, a 31.6" “6k3k” monitor, a new upgradable Mac Pro, and a new iPad mini coming in 2019 — Reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is out with a wide-reaching new investor note this evening.
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
EU negotiators agree on regulations to curb unfair trade practices, requiring more transparency on how internet platforms list and rank products — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Google, Amazon and other tech firms will have to tell companies how they rank their own or rival products on their platforms under …
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| Kevin Kelly / Wired: |
How AR could spark the next big tech platform, the “Mirrorworld”: a 1-to-1 map of unimaginable scope, merging our physical reality with the digital universe — EVERY DECEMBER, ADAM Savage—star of the TV show MythBusters—releases a video reviewing his “favorite things” from the previous year.
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| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
On the uncanny similarities between Xerox's failure to commercialize PC GUI and Google's Waymo, as new self-driving startups with minimum viable products emerge — Larry Page drew the wrong lesson from Xerox bungling the PC revolution. — Everyone in Silicon Valley knows the story …
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| Samuel Horti / PC Gamer: |
Gaming hardware maker Razer says it will close its digital game store on February 28, less than a year after it opened — Razer Game Store offered exclusives discounts on games and Razer hardware. — Gaming hardware manufacturer Razer is shutting its digital game store later this month, less than a year after it opened.| Manish Singh / VentureBeat: |
How abrupt, disruptive policy changes due to rising nationalism and pressure from local business are making India increasingly hostile to foreign tech companies — In 2014, a year after Amazon launched its shopping site in India, CEO Jeff Bezos made a splash visit to the nation.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: the UK government has concluded that it can mitigate the risk from using Huawei equipment in 5G networks, a setback for the US-led anti-Huawei campaign — The British government has concluded that it can mitigate the risk from using Huawei equipment in 5G networks …
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| Ananya Bhattacharya / Quartz: |
In the rivalry between Uber and Ola in India, Ola is relying on global expansion and acquisitions while Uber is using innovation to solve local problems — This post has been updated. — Six years into their fierce rivalry in India, call-taxi majors Ola and Uber are still trying … | Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Study: in 2017, ~17M US content creators, up 16.6% YoY, earned ~$6.8B, up 17% YoY, on nine leading platforms including Instagram, Twitch, Tumblr, and YouTube — A year ago, we wrote about a wonderful study that showed how the internet and its various platforms were (contrary to the stories …
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| Clive Cookson / Financial Times: |
Research: machine learning techniques today are designed to find patterns and always make a prediction, making a lot of ML-based scientific research unreliable — Artificial intelligence is being applied with undue haste to analyse data in some areas of biomedical research … | Gina Loukareas / Boing Boing: |
Etsy accidentally charged a number of seller accounts for hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars on Friday, leaving users without money for the long weekend — People who sell crafts and other goods on Etsy, an e-commerce site focused on handmade and small-batch products …
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