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Twitter bans political ads globally, will allow some “cause-based” ads with limited targeting and promotion of issue-related fact-based reporting from news orgs — - Twitter laid out the framework for its new policy on political ads, which bans certain advertisers and has stricter rules for issue ads.
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Microsoft hires former AG Eric Holder to determine if AnyVision complies with the ethical principles stipulated during the facial recognition company's Series A — According to five sources, AnyVision's technology has powered a secret military surveillance project that has monitored Palestinians in the West Bank.| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
Email: Sundar Pichai says Google is scaling back weekly all-hands “TGIF” meetings to once a month; meetings will focus only “on product and business strategy” — CEO announced changes to TGIF meeting in an email — Google's weekly town halls, internally known as …
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The Supreme Court says it will hear Google's appeal in the copyright lawsuit brought by Oracle over Java APIs — - The Supreme Court said on Friday that it will hear a dispute between tech giants Oracle and Google in a blockbuster case that could lead to billions of dollars in fines and shape copyright law in the internet era.
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Hulu to raise its Hulu + Live TV price by 22%, from $44.99/month to $54.99/month, for all subscribers starting on December 18 — Hulu is implementing its second price increase in less than a year for its Hulu With Live TV product — with the base package of 60-plus live channels increasing 22%, to $54.99 per month.
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Sources: John Legere has no plans to leave T-Mobile and take the CEO job at WeWork — - T-Mobile CEO John Legere isn't planning to take the CEO job at WeWork according to people familiar with the matter. — WeWork, which is being taken over by SoftBank, is considering a number of people for the CEO role.
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A look at how the internet deviated from its sunny, American, all-devouring vision of mass empowerment, and why today it doesn't mean the same thing to everyone — The Internet Dream Became a Nightmare. What Will Become of It Now? — “Hey, everyone!” the world's eighth-richest man said … | Tony Wan / EdSurge: |
Guild Education, which helps companies connect their employees to online higher-ed programs offered by universities, raises $157M Series D at a $1B+ valuation — The education technology industry has given birth to its newest unicorn, one that wants to connect employees at Fortune 1000 corporations … | Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Jimmy Wales' WikiTribune, which launched as a crowdfunded news site in 2017, relaunches as WT:Social, a donor-funded social networking and “news sharing” site — Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a rival to Facebook and Twitter that he hopes will combat “clickbait” and misleading headlines.
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Sources: after exploring partnerships with banks in 2018 to offer an Amazon-branded checking account, Amazon scrapped those plans in their early stages — This week, Google confirmed that it will soon offer checking accounts to its users. But one of the company's biggest rivals—Amazon …
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Let's Do This, a platform that lists ~30K races and provides personalized recommendations for participants in events like marathons, raises $15M Series A — Back in September, endurance events marketplace Let's Do This (a YC alumni) raised a $5m seed round from a number of US investors …
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Verizon releases a Stream TV device running Android TV, heavily featuring YouTube TV, with none of Verizon Media's properties promoted and Netflix app blocked — Verizon has an answer to Roku, but it's not talking much about it: The mobile carrier quietly released a new streaming device … | Christina Farr / CNBC: |
PillPack adds “Amazon Pharmacy” to its logo and says it has filed paperwork that adds “Amazon Pharmacy” to the licensed name of its pharmacy fulfillment centers — - PillPack, the Internet pharmacy it acquired last year, has updated its logo to “PillPack by Amazon Pharmacy.”
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Facebook's AI team details XLM-R, a natural language model which translates between 100 languages, but struggles with the limits of existing computing power — Facebook AI research's latest breakthrough in natural language understanding, called XLM-R, performs cross-language tasks … | Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Cybrary, a crowdsourced freemium cybersecurity training platform for enterprises that says it has 3M individual users, raises $15M Series B — Online cybersecurity career development startup Cybrary Inc. today said it has raised $15 million in new funding to accelerate the growth of the company's online workforce development platform.Sponsor Posts
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