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FTC announces a new task force to monitor competition in “technology-related sectors” and says that it will look into previous mergers — And they're going to look at previous mergers — The Federal Trade Commission will be launching a task force to monitor competition …
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Spotify launches in India with monthly premium tier starting at 119 rupees or ~$1.67, says free tier users in India can stream any song on demand on mobile — A year after Spotify publicly expressed its intention to launch in India, the music streaming company has finally delivered.| Federal Trade Commission: |
FTC settles with supplement maker in first case involving allegedly fake paid Amazon reviews to gain a five-star rating, will suspend most of $12.8M judgment — Commission also alleges weight-loss supplement claims were deceptive — The Federal Trade Commission today announced …
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Twitter has permanently suspended Jacob Wohl for creating and operating fake accounts, after he shared plans to make deceptive accounts before the 2020 election — Twitter announced that it is permanently suspending Jacob Wohl, a 21-year-old Internet hoaxer and supporter of President Donald Trump … | Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
Sources: US Cyber Command disrupted internet access for Russia's Internet Research Agency during the 2018 US midterms — The U.S. military blocked Internet access to an infamous Russian entity seeking to sow discord among Americans during the 2018 midterms, several U.S. officials said … | Eugene Wei / Remains of the Day: |
An in-depth analysis of social media platforms through the lens of social capital theory and why we should think of them as “Status as a Service” businesses — Editor's Note 1: I have no editor. — Editor's Note 2: I would like to assure new subscribers to this blog that most my posts are not as long as this one.
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Google and DeepMind are using AI to predict the power output of wind farms 36 hours ahead of actual generation, boosting economic value of wind energy by ~20% — Carbon-free technologies like renewable energy help combat climate change, but many of them have not reached their full potential.
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IBM apologizes after some US online job application forms asked for the ethnicity of applicants and used racial slurs, says the questions have been removed — Tech giants under fire? Hold my beer, says Big Blue as it spins up race slur recruitment websites
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Documents show that Peter Thiel's Founders Fund has returns that are at least 3X better than the industry average, despite significant turnover in leadership — Silicon Valley investment firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, looks to rebuild team with a high-profile hire| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Google says its AI-powered grammar checker, announced last July, will now be available on Google Docs for all G Suite users — The power of machine translation to help you improve your writing at work — Google today announced that its artificial intelligence-powered grammar checker …
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China-based AI chip designer Horizon Robotics raises a $600M round at a valuation of $3B from South Korea's SK Group, memory chip manufacturer SK Hynix, others — Chinese artificial intelligence chip designer Horizon Robotics raised US$600 million in its latest funding round …
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Facebook policy doc shows it wants up to a 30% cut of Fan Subscriptions, vs Patreon's 5%, and to reserve right to offer free trials with no creator compensation — Facebook will drive a hard bargain with influencers and artists judging by the terms of service for the social network's Patreon …
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| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Report: Microsoft and VMware are working on software to ease porting apps built on VMware's virtualization tech to Azure as part of a broader partnership — One of the biggest obstacles to the growth of cloud computing is inertia, as companies that spent tens of millions of dollars …
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Sources: Facebook has been telling news publishers that it will only renew about a third of the existing news shows that it has funded for Facebook Watch — Facebook is showing a greater willingness to ax news programming that's not working on Facebook Watch.
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