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Twitter is funding bluesky, an independent effort to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media, with the goal of Twitter being a client of it — Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media. The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this standard. 🧵
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YouTube bans videos that “maliciously insult” people based on their race, gender, or sex, and will remove some of Steven Crowder's videos targeting Carlos Maza — The change comes after controversy around a right-wing comedian's homophobic slurs aimed at a gay Latino journalist.
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Twitter now lets users upload iOS Live Photos as GIFs, will preserve original JPEG quality for web uploads — In another update to how Twitter handles photos, the company today shared the news that users can upload Live Photos from iPhone or iPad and they will show as GIFs on the social media platform.
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A rundown of the 100 gadgets that defined the 2010s, shaped first by the smartphone wars before branching off into new categories — The 100 gadgets that made a difference and defined the 2010s — Gadgets in the 2010s were shaped first by the furious race to win the smartphone wars …
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| Bloomberg: |
Investigation details how Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook handle voice assistant transcriptions, relying heavily on contractors and downplaying user privacy — Ruthy Hope Slatis couldn't believe what she was hearing. She'd been hired by a temp agency outside Boston for a vague job …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Former PayPal COO Bill Ready, who announced he was leaving in June, will join Google as the company's president of Commerce — In June, PayPal announced its Chief Operating Officer Bill Ready would be departing the company at the end of this year. Now we know where he's ending up: Google.| Hadas Gold / CNN: |
Facebook confirms that a bug caused tens of thousands of now restored ads to disappear from its political ad library, days before UK's general election — London (CNN Business)Tens of thousands of political ads went missing from Facebook's archive this week, according to researchers …
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Sources: PE firm Francisco Partners and hedge fund Elliott Management are in advanced talks to acquire LogMeIn for over $4B and take the company private — - Firms in advanced talks, could announce deal in coming weeks — No final decision has been made and talks could fall through| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
BMW will finally add Android Auto compatibility to its cars starting in July 2020, after initially focusing on Apple's CarPlay — And it will be wireless, too — BMW is finally going to start integrating Android Auto into its cars starting in July 2020, the automaker announced Wednesday.
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| Frank Bajak / Associated Press: |
Profile of Shoshana Zuboff, a Harvard professor who coined the term “surveillance capitalism” to describe tech giants and their data practices — A year ago, Shoshana Zuboff dropped an intellectual bomb on the technology industry. She hasn't stood still since.
Tweets: @galadrielresist, @barbaraortutay, and @fbajak
| Sophia Kunthara / Crunchbase News: |
Tech-enabled fitness equipment startup iFit raises $200M led by Pamplona Capital Management and says it has 330,000 paying subs, adding 77,000 last quarter — iFit, which has tech-enabled exercise equipment for users to stream workouts with trainers, just raised $200 million in a round …
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| Vikas SN / The Economic Times: |
Sources: Netflix is testing three-month, six-month, and 12-month discounted plans for new users in India, with savings ranging from 20% to 50% — This test comes days after Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings announced that they are set to spend Rs 3,000 crore on content programming in India in 2019-2020
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| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Nielsen's SuperData Research: Oculus Quest sales are helping to boost the whole VR hardware industry, with users spending $2.1B on hardware in 2019, up 31% YoY — Virtual reality may be starting to grab people's attention. — Virtual reality's promise has always been at least a little enticing … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Tines, which helps enterprise security teams automate repetitive workflows, adds $11M to its $4.1M Series A round from six weeks ago, led by Accel — Tines, a cybersecurity startup that helps enterprise security teams automate repetitive workflows, has added a further $11 million to its series A funding round.
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Vox: |
An overview of how US law enforcement is using facial recognition tech, and where critics say there's a need for more transparency and government regulation — The future of police surveillance doesn't have to be scary. But government and citizens need to step up. — Everybody's afraid of facial recognition tech.
Tweets: @nyulaw, @ai4pete, @cendemtech, and @privacyproject
| Matt Phillips / New York Times: |
Despite strong headwinds, from a trade war to regulatory scrutiny, Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Facebook have seen their stocks soar in 2019 — Giant tech stocks have posted a remarkable year, shrugging off the trade war, bipartisan political hostility and regulatory threats.
Tweets: @stevelohr, @carnage4life, and @nytimes
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Zetwerk, an 18-month-old Indian business-to-business marketplace for manufacturing items, raises $32M Series B led by Lightspeed and Greenoaks Capital — Zetwerk, an Indian business-to-business marketplace for manufacturing items, has closed a significantly large financing round as it scales …
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