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MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito resigns after a report showed he hid the extent of the fundraising role of Jeffrey Epstein, whom MIT “disqualified” as a donor — The director of M.I.T.'s prestigious Media Lab stepped down on Saturday after an outcry over his financial ties with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
What to expect from Apple on Sep. 10: 3 new iPhones, Apple Watch Series 5, new Apple TV, release info for OSes, pricing and launch date for Apple Arcade, more — iPhone 11, Apple Watch Series 5, software updates, and more — It's almost iPhone time (or, as other people call it …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple to livestream the September 10 iPhone event on YouTube, marking the first time that Apple will live stream one of its keynotes on Google's platform — Over the last several years, Apple has gradually been expanding the ways people can tune into its various keynotes.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
China Labor Watch: at the largest iPhone factory ~50% of workers were temps in August, breaking a 10% limit set by China; Apple, Foxconn admit it was an issue — - Companies confirm report on excessive use of temporary workers — China Labor Watch alleges harsh conditions before iPhone event
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft's Brad Smith about his new book and how tech sector and governments need to step up and do more to address the challenges that technology is creating — Microsoft President Brad Smith has a light-up globe, a neon blue miniature likeness of Earth, spinning on his desk inside the company's Redmond headquarters.
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
An overview of potential challenges facing Facebook, Google, and Amazon from state attorneys general, who sometimes have assistance from the federal government — The nation's state attorneys general have tangled with mortgage lenders, tobacco giants and the makers of addictive drugs.| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
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| New York Times: |
AI must account for basic concepts of how the world works, like time, space, and causality, beyond statistical pattern detection, before it can earn our trust — Computer systems need to understand time, space and causality. Right now they don't. — Dr. Marcus is cognitive psychologist and robotics entrepreneur.
Tweets: @_michaelzink, @erictopol, @timoreilly, @benlgreenberg, @dorotheabaur, and @sapinker
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Bug bounty platform HackerOne raises $36.4M Series D led by Valor Equity Partners with Benchmark, NEA, Dragoneer, EQT Ventures, others participating — The global cybersecurity market was pegged at $152 billion in 2018, and it's expected to grow to $250 billion within a few years.| Ivan Mehta / The Next Web: |
The Vivaldi browser comes to Android with swipe gestures for navigation, advanced tab management, notes, screenshots, no-tracking, dark mode, and more — Almost three years after launching its desktop version, cross-platform browser Vivaldi has finally released its mobile version today.
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| Connie Chan / Andreessen Horowitz: |
How companies across China, including travel providers, gyms, and edtech startups, are leveraging private group chats to turn conversations into commerce — One sunny afternoon this April, a Chinese teenager nicknamed Gallen was backpacking through Bali, hunting for things to do.
Tweets: @sreikanth and @simonkhalaf
| Zak Doffman / Forbes: |
Check Point: Chinese hacker group APT3 reverse engineered EternalRomance NSA exploit by setting up machines as traps to retrieve info after they were attacked — I write about security and surveillance. — When it was alleged earlier this year that secretive Chinese hacking group APT3 … | Cade Metz / New York Times: |
A study of AI programs at North American universities finds that graduates are less likely to create AI startups when their top AI professors leave for industry — SAN FRANCISCO — For years, big tech companies have used huge salaries, bonuses and stock packages to lure artificial intelligence experts out of academia.
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