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Apple announces new 10.5-inch iPad Air and 7.9-inch iPad mini with Apple Pencil support — 10.5-Inch iPad Air Offers High-End Features and Performance at a Breakthrough Price — 7.9-Inch iPad mini Brings Apple Pencil Support, Advanced Retina Display and the A12 Bionic Chip to a Beloved Design
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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 … | Bhanu Pratap / Reuters: |
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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| 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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| John Koblin / New York Times: |
An overview of Apple's big spending plan to challenge streaming incumbents like Netflix, ahead of its March 25 “It's show time” event — Apple is coming to Hollywood. — Delete that. — Hollywood is going to Apple. — On March 25, a delegation of producers …
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| Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing: |
Report: Myspace has lost all the photos, videos, and music its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015 due to data corruption during a server migration project — It's been a year since the music links on Myspace stopped working; at first the company insisted that they were working on it …
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Fidelity National has agreed to acquire Worldpay for ~$34B in cash and stock, in the biggest deal ever in the booming international payments sector — Fidelity National Information Services Inc. agreed to combine with Worldpay Inc. for about $43 billion including debt …
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Profile of reclusive infosec expert Fabian Wosar, who has devoted himself, at huge personal cost, to helping victims of ransomware around the world — The perilous life of the computer virus cracker making powerful enemies online — Fabian is world renowned for destroying ransomware … | Bloomberg: |
Filing: Lyft is seeking to raise as much as $2.1B at a valuation of up to $18.5B in its IPO, offering 30.8M shares at $62-$68 each — Lyft Inc. is seeking to raise as much as $2.1 billion in its initial public offering, valuing the firm at up to $18.5 billion.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
OneWeb, which recently launched its first constellation of micro-satellites to provide global internet access, raises $1.25B to begin mass producing satellites — OneWeb, a space startup that recently launched its first “constellation” of micro-satellites to deliver broadband access across the globe … | Slate: |
NIST's benchmark test for facial recognition systems uses images of immigrants, US visa applicants, abused children, and dead people, without consent — If you thought IBM using “quietly scraped” Flickr images to train facial recognition systems was bad, it gets worse.
Tweets: @rajit_h
| Andrii Degeler / Tech.eu: |
UKCloud, which provides cloud infrastructure for the public sector, raises £25M from Digital Alpha — British cloud infrastructure provider for the public sector UKCloud has landed a £25 million funding round from Digital Alpha. The company is working with the UK's health …
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