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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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| Klint Finley / Wired: |
How decentralized protocols may help solve some issues plaguing social media today; @bluesky team should consider existing projects like Mastodon — The CEO tweeted that he's hiring a team to develop open source standards for decentralized social networks. His hope: It will spawn better ways to combat hate and harassment.
Tweets: @scottthurm and @laurengoode
| Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed: |
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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| The Verge: |
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 …
Tweets: @kantrowitz, @dcseifert, @nattgarun, @mcwm, @elpadreoso, @heymaddyk, @reckless, @mslopatto, @reckless, @reckless, @tomwarren, @stevesi, @waltmossberg, @dan_rowinski, @boostedboards, @dcseifert, and @backlon
| 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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| Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: |
Google says it is changing mobile search results for news topics, adding more carousels of stories, starting in the US and rolling out later internationally — Users will now see multiple carousels of news stories. — Google is changing how it presents news stories in its search results.| 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.
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PYMNTS.com and Silicon Valley Business …
Tweets: @iambigd50, @chrismaddern, @williamready, and @mdudas
| 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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| 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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Tweets: @hadas_gold, @wiczipedia, @risj_oxford, @financialtimes, and @sandbach
| Julie Verhage / Bloomberg: |
Robinhood starts rolling out its Cash Management service, which offers 1.8% interest, debit cards, and FDIC coverage on deposits through bank partnerships — Robinhood Markets Inc. has finally launched its take on a bank account, albeit a very different version of the service it once hoped to offer.
Tweets: @robinhoodapp
| 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: @barbaraortutay, @fbajak, and @galadrielresist
| 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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press.bmwgroup.com, Ars Technica, Android Police, Neowin, SlashGear, Android Headlines, 9to5Google, Engadget, Droid Life, TechCrunch, Pocket-lint, and XDA Developers. Tweets: @jonnyzzz
| Bloomberg: |
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| 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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NDTV Gadgets 360, Reuters, Android Police, iPhone Hacks, PYMNTS.com, Neowin, Inc42 Media, Android Police, and Firstpost Tech. Thanks:@tsuvik
| Abe Othman / AngelList: |
AngelList report: seed stage investors can increase their yields by investing into every credible deal, contradicting the common wisdom of passing on most — If you miss the best-performing seed investment, you will eventually be outperformed by someone who blindly invests in every credible deal.
Tweets: @angellist, @rickwebb, @ianhathaway, @dunkhippo33, @chrisharveyesq, @pkedrosky, @andreasklinger, @emollick, and @naval
| 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, @privacyproject, and @cendemtech
| Anna Irrera / Reuters: |
Qwil, an automated lending platform for on-demand and freelancer marketplaces to advance pay to workers, raises $24.4M in equity and $200M in debt funding — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Qwil, a startup that provides financing to freelancers and small businesses, has raised $24.4 million in equity …
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Tweets: @ianrountree, @gg_allpain, and @peakspancapital
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