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Susan Wojcicki talks about the crises that have engulfed YouTube recently, the power of its platform, and being a working parent of five — As the crisis-hit video site struggles to stem the flow of extreme content, the CEO talks about her role as the internet's gatekeeper
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| Mishaal Rahman / XDA Developers: |
Huawei announces its first device running Harmony OS, an Honor Vision smart TV launching on August 15 — Companies that have traditionally been known for their smartphones are venturing into the smart TV business. Xiaomi has been in this game for some time now, while OnePlus is also gearing up to launch its own smart screen product.| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
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| April Glaser / Slate: |
There is a growing sentiment among Stanford's CS students to resist working at tech companies like Palantir that they feel are unethical — Palantir is about a 15-minute walk from Stanford University. That stone's-throw convenience helped one morning in June when a group of Stanford students perched …
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Nike buys Celect, an AI startup focused on predicting what customers want, allowing better inventory management; Celect had raised over $30M from investors — Nike's market cap has swollen past $100 billion, but the shoe company still sees potential to learn more about what customers …
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China's central bank official says its digital currency, CBDC, is “ready”, and will not rely entirely on a pure blockchain architecture — Mu Changchun, Deputy Chief in the Payment and Settlement Division of the People's Bank of China (PBOC,) stated that the CBDC prototype exists … | April Glaser / Slate: |
Telegram has become a haven for white supremacists, violent men's groups, anti-PC agitators, and others who fear alleged censorship by big tech companies — The alleged shooter's manifesto was everywhere in the hours after the El Paso, Texas, Walmart shooting on Saturday.
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| Nick Heath / ZDNet: |
Interview with Python creator Guido van Rossum on Python's creation in the 1980s, its evolution, draw for developers, and future — Frustrated by programming language shortcomings, Guido van Rossum created Python. With the language now used by millions, Nick Heath talks to van Rossum about Python's past and explores what's next.
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| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Squad, an eight-month-old video chat and screen sharing app making a safe space for its 450K users, raises a $5M seed round; 70% of its users are teenage girls — Why CEO Esther Crawford is rewriting the playbook for social startups — When we go online to communicate, hang out or play … | Lynne Marek / Chicago Business: |
The fintech company TastyTrade invests $20M in its new subsidiary Dough, a Robinhood-like no fee stock trading service with a $1 per month subscription — The new Chicago fintech firm, which will be a TastyTrade subsidiary, aims to take on Robinhood in wielding the smartphone to trade stocks.
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| Blake Montgomery / The Atlantic: |
Profile of Amazon Publishing, which puts out around 1,100 titles a year and, like Prime Video, exists to reinforce Prime memberships — What does the e-commerce giant want with the notoriously fickle world of publishing? To own your every reading decision. — Have you read Victoria Helen Stone's False Step?
Tweets: @theatlantic
| Sheri Fink / New York Times: |
Interviews and documents show that One Concern, which wants to use AI to help emergency responders in disasters, dangerously exaggerated its tools' abilities — Major cities are turning to a Silicon Valley start-up to help save lives in an emergency. But some fear its promise has been dangerously exaggerated.
Tweets: @random_walker, @nytimes, @jimmyjwu, @robreich, @jswatz, @kellyhereid, @kellyhereid, and @kellyhereid
| Zubair Naeem Paracha / MENAbytes: |
Jollychic, a Chinese ecommerce platform focused on the Middle East, raises $65M Series C2; a Series C round a year ago valued the startup at $1B+ — Jollychic, a Chinese cross-border ecommerce platform focused on the Middle East has recently closed it's Series C+ (Series C-2) round … Sponsor Posts
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