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Apple announces a new repair program in the US that will expand access to genuine iPhone repair parts for independent repair businesses — New Independent Repair Provider Program Expands Genuine Parts Access to More Repair Businesses — Cupertino, California — Apple today announced a new repair program …
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Infowars' War Room relaunched its YouTube channel a day after Susan Wojcicki's letter to creators; YouTube deleted the channel after reports of its relaunch — “A commitment to openness is not easy. It sometimes means leaving up content that is outside the mainstream, controversial, or even offensive," YouTube's CEO said.
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YouTube reinstated channels belonging to a European white nationalist and a British nationalist, calling the removal of their channels a “wrong call” — The video platform said it was a “mistake” to remove the channels of Martin Sellner and another far-right personality known as …
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In the UK, YouTube says it is experimenting with an algorithm change that can reduce the views of “borderline content” from recommendations by 50% — Views via recommendations of such ‘borderline’ videos were halved in similar US trial — YouTube is experimenting …
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Apple announces an event on September 10 in Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park, where new iPhones are expected — Apple today sent out media invites for its annual iPhone-centric event that will be held on Tuesday, September 10 at 10:00 a.m. at the Steve Jobs Theater at the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California.
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| Chris Beard / The Mozilla Blog: |
Mozilla CEO Chris Beard says he will step down at the end of 2019 after five years in the position — Earlier this morning I shared the news internally that - while I've been a Mozillian for 15 years so far, and plan to be for many more years - this will be my last year as CEO.| MIT Technology Review: |
Facebook is training an AI inside Minecraft, which Facebook says is the perfect place for the AI to learn a wide variety of tasks — The popular video game provides the best environment for an AI to learn a wide range of tasks, the company's researchers say. — Sign up for The Algorithm — artificial intelligence, demystified
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Following a competition, Facebook announces AI Language Research Consortium, a community of partners it says will work on advancing NLP priority research areas — Roughly three months ago, Facebook launched calls for research proposals in three subfields of natural language processing (NLP) … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Oculus co-founder Michael Antonov has been accused of sexual assault after an Oculus event in 2016; Facebook confirms he left the company earlier this year — A co-founder of the Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus has been accused of groping a woman during a VR session years ago.| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Plex to launch an ad-supported streaming service this year, plans to begin reselling video subscription services and add transactional VOD, in H1 2020 — Get ready for yet another ad-supported video service: Media center app maker Plex is gearing up to add free movies and TV shows to its app …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google expands bug bounty program to Play apps with 100M+ installs and launches a bug bounty program for data abuses in Android apps and Chrome extensions — Google, which has already paid security researchers over $15 million since launching its bug bounty program in 2010 … | Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Disney sells its 80% stake in YES Network to Amazon, the Yankees, and Sinclair, valuing the network that airs the NY Yankees and other local sports at ~$3.5B — KEY POINTS — Disney sold its stake in the YES Network to an investor group that includes Amazon, the company announced Thursday.| Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post: |
Sources: despite an expensive PR campaign, Uber's internal metrics tracking consumer sentiment show it languishes near its #DeleteUber lows — The ride-hailing giant launched a half-billion dollar marketing campaign last year to rebuild its image. It didn't pay off. — SAN FRANCISCO — Uber has a reputation problem.
Tweets: @faizsays, @faizsays, and @paulbradleycarr
| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Binance launches Binance X, a platform for developers to build open-source blockchain projects — Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volumes, has rolled out yet another offering. This time, a platform for developers, called “Binance X,” with the ultimate goal …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook rolls out new tools for businesses on Messenger, including appointment booking and lead generation, says it will phase out Discover tab in Messenger — Facebook today is formally rolling out a new suite of tools for its 40 million active businesses on Messenger, including appointment booking …
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