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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Interviews with 12 former and current Facebook content moderators in Tampa, three on the record, describing appalling working conditions and, for some, PTSD — At Facebook's worst-performing content moderation site in North America, one contractor has died, and others say they fear for their lives
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| Rob Copeland / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: YouTube is considering far-reaching changes to protect kids, including moving all children's content to the YouTube Kids app and turning off autoplay — Executives consider shifting children's content to a separate app, removing auto-play feature in an effort to protect young viewers
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| Washington Post: |
Sources: after complaints about privacy practices around children's videos on YouTube, FTC is in late stages of a probe, causing YouTube to rethink its strategy — The U.S. government is in the late stages of an investigation into YouTube for its handling of children's videos …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
While Facebook's Libra plays at decentralization, it is still entrenched in Facebook, and using it means trusting Facebook, which is a hard sell in 2019 — Libra isn't as decentralized as a normal cryptocurrency — From the beginning, cryptocurrency was about trust.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Apple says its devices can now be repaired in 1,000+ Best Buy locations across the US, expanding on its current network of ~270 Apple stores — Since 2001, Apple has staked its claim across the world with its own first-party brick and mortar locations. But the U.S. is a big country …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
London-based Kano, which makes hardware to teach younger people about computing and coding, partners with Microsoft and launches a £300 11.6" touchscreen laptop — Kano, the London-based startup that builds hardware designed to teach younger people about computing and coding …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Google rolls out Private Join and Compute, a tool that lets organizations gain insights about other parties' confidential data, as an open source project — CERTAIN STUDIES REQUIRE sensitive data sets: the relationship between nutritious school lunch and student health, the effectiveness of salary equity initiatives, and so on.
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Google Online Security Blog, The Register, ZDNet, VentureBeat, GitHub, Threatpost, and PYMNTS.com
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| Jonathan Hoyland / The Cloudflare Blog: |
Cloudflare announces Ethereum Gateway, which makes it easier to interact with Ethereum's network and add interactive smart contract-powered elements to sites — Today, as part of Crypto Week 2019, we are excited to announce Cloudflare's Ethereum Gateway, where you can interact …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
NYSE says Slack's reference price for its direct listing has been set at $26 per share, which would value Slack at $15.7B, per sources — This is a developing story and will be updated shortly. — WSJ opens select articles to reader conversation to promote thoughtful dialogue.
| Pete Schroeder / Reuters: |
Senate panel says it will hold a hearing on Facebook's Libra on July 16; source: David Marcus, who leads Facebook's blockchain efforts, is expected to testify — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Banking Committee will discuss Facebook's proposed cryptocurrency at a July 16 hearing, the panel announced Wednesday.| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
New Kindle Oasis adds color temperature adjustment for night reading, goes on sale on July 24 starting at $249.99, with preorders open today — Amazon's top-tier e-reader gets a new feature — Amazon has a new version of its high-end Kindle Oasis, and it's adding the ability to change …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Shopify announces a range of new updates, including a new Plus tier for enterprise, new tools for developers, and AI-powered fulfillment centers across the US — Shopify today announced a slew of enhancements to its direct-to-consumer platform for brands. The company announced a new Shopify Plus …
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BetaKit, Enterprise Ecommerce Blog, ZDNet, and PYMNTS.com
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Quibi says it has booked more than $100M in ad sales with launch partners including Google, P&G, PepsiCo, Walmart, and Anheuser-Busch, ahead of April 2020 debut — Quibi, the ambitious short-form video venture from Jeffrey Katzenberg and CEO Meg Whitman, has sold $100 million …
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Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Deadline, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Digiday, and The Wrap. Tweets: @devindra
| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
AI and IoT are driving an industrial revolution on the factory floor by improving operational technology, lowering downtime via predictive maintenance, and more — IoT has arrived on the factory floor with the force of Kool-Aid Man exploding through walls.
Tweets: @libertyrpf
| Bloomberg: |
Tech companies like Apple, Facebook, and Google are increasingly hiring neuroscientists who study animals to help advance AI, self-driving cars, and more — Jaguar is a mouse. He lives at Harvard's Rowland Institute, where, from time to time, he plays video games on a rig that looks like it belongs in A Clockwork Orange.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Oracle reports Q4 revenue of $11.14B, rising 1% YoY and beating analyst estimates of $10.93B, as its Cloud Services division beats with revenue of $6.8B — KEY POINTS — Oracle stock went up as much as 7% on Wednesday after the company reported better-than-expected earnings for the fourth quarter … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube unveils AR Beauty Try-On, which lets viewers virtually try on makeup while watching beauty tutorials, currently in testing, coming in summer — Makeup tutorials and reviews are some of the most popular content on YouTube, as they help people learn about new products as well as how to apply them.
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Tweets: @claybavor, @aparnacd, and @glenngabe
| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Text IQ, a machine learning system that parses and understands sensitive corporate data, raises $12.6M Series A led by FirstMark Capital — Text IQ, a machine learning system that parses and understands sensitive corporate data, has raised $12.6 million in Series A funding led by FirstMark Capital …
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FinSMEs, PE Hub Blog, GlobeNewswire News Room, and VentureBeat
| Robin Wauters / Tech.eu: |
Bitrise, which helps companies build and operate mobile apps, raises $20M Series B led by Partech and says it is used by over 100,000 developers globally — Bitrise wants to change how publishers and developers build and operate their mobile applications, and it's just raised $20 million …
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FinSMEs, VentureBeat, and bitrise
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Anti-phishing startup Valimail, which develops a cloud-based platform for companies, raises $45M Series C from Insight Partners, bringing total raised to $84M — Anti-phishing startup Valimail has raised $40 million in a series C round of funding from Insight Partners.
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PR Newswire, FinSMEs, and Crunchbase News
| Christine Biederman / Wired: |
Inside federal prosecutors' legal fight with Backpage.com's founders, which could reshape Section 230 protections for online platforms — IN MICHAEL LACEY'S younger and more vulnerable years, his father gave him this advice: “Whenever someone pokes a finger in your chest, you grab that finger and you break it off at the knuckle.”
Tweets: @mistressmatisse, @_ashlake_, @enbrown, @pebonilla, and @robertwilonsky
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft launches public preview of Azure Bastion, a service for remotely accessing virtual machines more securely — Microsoft's newest Azure service, Bastion, is now in public preview and is meant to bring another level of security to remotely accessing virtual machines.
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Microsoft Azure Cloud …, IT PRO, Petri, The Register, and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @markrussinovich and @azure
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