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Facebook says it removed 1.5M videos of the Christchurch attack in the first 24 hours; over 1.2M of those videos were blocked at upload — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said it removed 1.5 million videos globally of the New Zealand mosque attack in the first 24 hours after the attack.
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| Alex Koppelman / CNN: |
Social media took effective action when faced with a deluge of ISIS content years ago; big tech should take equally-large, public steps against white supremacy — New York (CNN Business)Among the many tragedies of the massacre at two New Zealand mosques on Friday is a bitter irony … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple's Heart Study, announced with Stanford in Nov. 2017, finds ~0.5% of 400K+ participants using Apple Watch up to Series 3 received irregular pulse alerts — Only 0.5 percent of participants received the notifications — Apple and the Stanford University School of Medicine each issued … | Matthew Rosenberg / New York Times: |
Aleksandr Kogan, an academic who shared Facebook user data his quiz app collected with Cambridge Analytica, sues Facebook for defamation — WASHINGTON — The academic who helped Cambridge Analytica vacuum up private information from tens of millions of Facebook profiles sued the social media giant …
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Sources: Lyft will seek to raise around $2B at a valuation of up to $23B as it starts its IPO roadshow this week — Lyft plans to peg its valuation at between $21 billion and $23 billion when the ride-hailing service kicks off the roadshow to market its initial public offering Monday, according to people familiar with the matter.
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A look at how AI is being used in science, from probing the evolution of galaxies and calculating quantum wave functions to discovering new chemical compounds — The latest AI algorithms are probing the evolution of galaxies, calculating quantum wave functions, discovering new chemical compounds and more.
Tweets: @quantamagazine, @techticee, @stevenstrogatz, and @royalsociety
| Andrew Liptak / The Verge: |
The Internet Archive and the ArchiveTeam say they are working to preserve public Google+ posts before the platform shuts down in April — Google's social network shuts down in April — Google is set to begin deleting data from its beleaguered social network, Google+ in April … | Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
A look at BNB, a coin from Binance, the world's largest digital-asset exchange by trading volume, which has more than tripled in value in the last three months — - Binance Coin has tripled in value in the past three months — Buyback renews questions of whether the token is a security
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| Amy X. Wang / Rolling Stone: |
As GarageBand turns 15, artists discuss how they have used the app as it has evolved, and Apple shows off its studio where the pre-installed sounds are made — A secret recording studio on Apple's Cupertino campus has made the beats of some of your favorite hits for the last 15 years
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| Shona Ghosh / Business Insider: |
Facebook board member Marc Andreessen denies Guardian's report about Cambridge Analytica meeting in 2016, says he never met Wylie in his life — - Andreessen Horowitz investor and Facebook board member Marc Andreessen has denied claims he met the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Chris Wylie in 2016.| Ryan Merkley / Creative Commons: |
Creative Commons says copyright can't protect photos from being used for facial recognition, like IBM did, and that public policy should address privacy issues — Yesterday, NBC News published a story about IBM's work on improving diversity in facial recognition technology and the dataset that they gathered to further this work.
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Trends in seed and early-stage funding in the US over the past decade: number of <$1M rounds are down, $1M-$5M rounds are flattening, but $10-$20M rounds are up — We've decided to step back from the breaking news for a minute to conduct a review of seed and early-stage funding trends over the last decade for U.S.-based companies.Sponsor Posts
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Zoho Sign takes a bite of Apple's latest: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS Golden Gate — It's September, and you know the drill. Apple just handed us a fresh batch of releases, and there's plenty to look forward …
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