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| Mark Zuckerberg / Washington Post: |
Mark Zuckerberg calls for global regulations in four areas: policing harmful content, election integrity, a GDPR-like privacy framework, and data portability — Mark Zuckerberg is founder and chief executive of Facebook. — Technology is a major part of our lives, and companies such as Facebook have immense responsibilities.
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| Gavin De Becker / The Daily Beast: |
Jeff Bezos' security chief says his investigation concluded with high confidence that Saudi Arabia “had access to Bezos' phone, and gained private information” — The National Enquirer's lawyer tried to get me to say there was no hacking. — For 40 years, I've advised …
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| Andrew Liptak / The Verge: |
Sheryl Sandberg says Facebook is exploring restrictions on who can go Live depending on factors such as prior Community Standard violations after Christchurch — Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg outlined three steps that the company is taking
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| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb says around $13M in the EOS cryptocurrency has been stolen in a hack it suspects was an insider job — South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb has had around $13 million in the EOS cryptocurrency stolen in a hack it suspects was an insider job.
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| Anna Hensel / Digiday: |
A look at Pinterest's efforts to position itself as the platform at the top of the purchasing funnel, challenges with the “buy button”, ads, and visual search — Pinterest's imminent IPO raises new questions about how big of a role the platform will play in the future of social commerce.| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
How Instagram became the default way some connect with new friends: it's more casual than LinkedIn, while offering more info and less risk than phone numbers — The app has become the default way to connect with new friends, dates, or business contacts. — When Chris Rackliffe …
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| Alex W. Palmer / Wired: |
A behind-the-scenes account of how a member of TripAdvisor's anti-fraud team helped the FCC track down a Florida man accused of making 96M+ illegal robocalls — BRAD YOUNG, A lawyer at TripAdvisor, arrived at the company's offices in Needham, Massachusetts, on October 12, 2015 … | Craig Lloyd / iFixit: |
A theory on Apple's AirPower: its overlapping multi-coil design worked in the lab but complying with FCC's rules for safe wireless emissions was too challenging — In a surprising turn of events, Apple has cancelled its long-awaited AirPower wireless charging mat.
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| Will Oremus / Slate: |
How a 119-word local crime brief amassed more than 800K Facebook shares, nearly twice as many as any other piece of English-language content this year so far — A tale of accidental virality in the age of algorithms. — On an otherwise ordinary Sunday in late January … | Dan Bilefsky / New York Times: |
A profile of AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio, a co-recipient of the 2018 A.M. Turing Award, who says he supports regulating AI, including a ban on “killer robots” — MONTREAL — Yoshua Bengio is worried that innovations in artificial intelligence that he helped pioneer could lead to a dark future …
Tweets: @marielamensch84, @danbilefsky, @kenroth, @sebprovencher, and @tdietterich
| Kana Inagaki / Financial Times: |
Line names founder Shin Jungho as co-CEO to drive the Asian chat app's expansion from ads into payments, banking, and other fintech businesses — Mark Zuckerberg recently outlined a strategy that would see the future of Facebook in private messaging. Shin Jungho, the reclusive founder … | Liz Lee / Counterpoint Research: |
Counterpoint: global wireless “hearables” market hit 12.5M units in Q4 2018, with AirPods at 60% market share, but low and mid-tier brands gaining — Apple was the market leader with its AirPods as premium models continued to dominate the market. However, mid-tier brands started to gain market share.
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