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Sources: several WeWork directors, including SoftBank members, plan to push for Adam Neumann to step down as CEO — SoftBank officials are among those expected to push for Neumann ouster — A bloc of WeWork directors is planning to push Adam Neumann to step down as chief executive …
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Viral selfie app ImageNet Roulette demos biases in AI by surfacing labels applied by anonymous workers to a database of 14M photos, used to train AI for 9 years — ImageNet Roulette, a digital art project and viral selfie app, exposes how biases have crept into the artificial-intelligence technologies changing our lives.
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Der Spiegel: US dollar could make up 50% of the basket of currencies backing Libra, followed by 18% of euro, 14% yen, 11% British pound, and 7% Singapore dollar — BERLIN (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar will make up 50% of the basket of currencies backing Facebook's planned digital coin Libra … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook acquires Servicefriend, a startup that builds customer service AI chatbots for messaging apps; founders now work for Facebook's Calibra, per LinkedIn — As Facebook prepares to launch its new cryptocurrency Libra in 2020, it's putting the pieces in place to help it run.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
A look at Peloton, which may raise $1.2B in this week's IPO and sells $2.3K iPad-equipped stationary bikes and $40/mo. cycling video subscriptions to 510K+ subs — 13 reasons this bike has a cult — It makes lazy people like me work out. That's the genius of the Peloton bicycle.
Tweets: @joshconstine, @austen, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, and @joshconstine
| James V. Grimaldi / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: anti-Amazon “grass roots” non-profit FFMI, which actively lobbies and influences media op-eds, is funded by Walmart, Oracle, other Amazon competitors — Walmart, Oracle and mall owner Simon Property Group are secret funders behind a nonprofit that has been highly critical of the e-commerce giant
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| Queenie Wong / CNET: |
Facebook will sunset its group stories feature, available globally since December of last year, on September 26 — Facebook is killing a feature that allows administrators and members who're part of the social network's groups to post videos and photos that vanish within 24 hours, the company said on Friday.| Nino Tasca / The Keyword: |
Google says it doesn't retain Assistant audio recordings by default and it is increasing privacy protections for the transcription process used with a small set — Senior Product Manager, Google Assistant — We believe you should be able to easily understand how your data is used and why …
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| Todd Martens / Los Angeles Times: |
Apple Arcade may break the iOS game industry's risk-averse focus on in-app purchases, promoting games with higher quality than free-to-play games — The iPhone and its App Store changed gaming. And not always for the better. — Yet now with Apple Arcade, a game subscription service launching this week … | Steven Zeitchik / Washington Post: |
Streaming services are gambling big on old shows, like AT&T's $1B for Big Bang Theory and Netflix's $500M for Seinfeld, with no way to know their actual worth — The numbers are enough to make you think it's 1995 and George is first getting mad at Jerry for breaking their pact.
Tweets: @carnage4life, @mrinaldesai, and @bluff_capital
| William Foxley / CoinDesk: |
Korean exchange Upbit says it is delisting six “privacy coins” including Monero, Dash, and Zcash following June's FATF guidance and a similar delisting by OKEx — Another cryptocurrency exchange has delisted a slew of privacy coins following recent regulatory requirements …
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CoinGeek, PYMNTS.com, Messari Crypto, Micky, and Crowdfund Insider
Tweets: @bitentrepreneur, @coindesk, @kylesamani, and @staska
| Tracy Qu / South China Morning Post: |
AllinMD Orthopaedics Hospital, a China-based online platform to match patients with orthopaedics hospitals and doctors, raises $100M Series B — AllinMD Orthopaedics Hospital connects more than 150,000 registered doctors and 17,000 hospitals with patients The six-year-old internet hospital … Sponsor Posts
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