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| Brad Smith / The Official Microsoft Blog: |
Microsoft pledges to be carbon negative by 2030, remove all carbon it has ever emitted by 2050, and launch a $1B climate innovation fund — The scientific consensus is clear. The world confronts an urgent carbon problem. The carbon in our atmosphere has created a blanket of gas that traps heat and is changing the world's climate.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Facebook puts off its effort to build ads into WhatsApp as it focuses on B2C communications, but will sell ads in WhatsApp's Status at some point — Social-media giant scraps earlier strategy, seeks other ways to monetize messaging service used by 1.5 billion
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
NBC says Peacock will launch on July 15 and have a free tier with limited programming and two premium tiers, at $4.99/month with ads and $9.99/month with no ads — Comcast is introducing three different subscription tiers — NBCUniversal's streaming service, Peacock …
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Google announces Premium Support plan for enterprise cloud customers, starting at $12.5K per month with 15-minute response times for mission-critical situations — Keeping up its push to get more large enterprises to use its cloud, Google LLC today announced a new Premium Support plan …
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| Joe Tidy / BBC: |
Following a BBC investigation, Twitter apologizes for letting ads be micro-targeted using keywords like “transphobic”, “white supremacists”, and “anti-gay” — Twitter has apologised for allowing adverts to be micro-targeted at certain users such as neo-Nazis, homophobes and other hate groups.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
New report finds Twitch viewership dropped 9.8% in Q4 compared with Q3 after its top streamers left, YouTube Gaming Live hours watched increased 46% over 2019 — The loss of several big-name streamers is finally taking its toll on Twitch, according to a new report from StreamLabs and Newzoo out today.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Nancy Pelosi slams Facebook's “shameful” behavior, saying it doesn't “care about truth” and its execs “schmooze” Trump's admin to avoid taxes, antitrust action — - During her weekly press briefing, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi …
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| New York Times: |
Turkey lifted a two-and-a-half year ban on Wikipedia on Wednesday, restoring access after the country's top court ruled that blocking it was unconstitutional — The country's top court had ruled that the move was unconstitutional. — The Turkish government lifted a two-and-a-half-year ban …
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| Rachel Metz / CNN: |
How the increasing use of AI to vet job applications is forcing career counselors at universities to prepare students on how to impress the AI algorithms — San Francisco (CNN)College career centers used to prepare students for job interviews by helping them learn how to dress appropriately or write a standout cover letter.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says that 120 Stadia titles are coming in 2020, including 10 exclusives, and outlines new features coming soon, including increased Assistant support — Since the holidays, there's been a lull in Stadia news that's upset some early adopters. Google today kicked off the new year … | Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
WorkBoard, a SaaS startup that makes goal setting and management software, raises $30M Series C led by a16z, less than a year after a $23M Series B — WorkBoard, a SaaS startup that provides goal setting and management software to other companies, announced today that it has closed … | Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Subscription podcast startup Luminary lowers monthly US subscription prices, from $7.99 a month to $4.99, and also cuts international rates — The platform's subscription fee was an unpopular part of its troubled launch — Subscription podcast startup Luminary, which is trying to shake … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Bose to close all 119 of its retail stores in N. America, Europe, Japan, and Australia due to the shift to online shopping but will maintain stores elsewhere — The move will result in hundreds of employees being laid off — Bose plans to close its entire retail store footprint in North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia.
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| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
FBI says it will notify state officials when local election systems are hacked, after criticism that it wasn't doing enough to inform states of election threats — Bureau previously would inform victim counties but not states of hacking — WASHINGTON—The Federal Bureau of Investigation … | New York Times: |
Analysis: US-China “phase one” trade deal has wins for both sides, but areas like cybersecurity aren't covered and questions surround China's commitment — The agreement includes some wins for President Trump, but implementing and enforcing the deal could be difficult.| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Xiaomi says it resolved the issue of Google Nest Hubs connected to its security cameras showing feeds from random homes; Google integrations are now enabled — Smart security cameras can be an extremely useful tool, but they can also be a cause for concern when it comes to privacy.| Yolanda Redrup / Australian Financial Review: |
Australia-based hotel booking tech company SiteMinder raises A$100M at a valuation of A$1.1B, says it now has 35,000 hotels worldwide as clients — Hotel booking tech company SiteMinder has become the country's newest $1 billion tech unicorn, banking more than $100 million in capital … | Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
How spyware from eSurv, which was helping police hack suspects' phones in Italy, was allegedly used by its employees to hack the phones of innocent Italians — After successfully creating a health care app for doctors to view medical records, Diego Fasano, an Italian entrepreneur …
Tweets: @rj_gallagher, @rj_gallagher, @calyxinstitute, @rj_gallagher, @susanthesquark, @chadloder, and @rj_gallagher
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
FBI: nation-state hackers breached the networks of two US municipalities last year, targeting a Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability that was patched in February — The SharePoint CVE-2019-0604 vulnerability has been one of the most targeted security flaw — Nation-state hackers have breached …
Tweets: @gossithedog, @bad_packets, and @dangoodin001
| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic: |
As tech becomes the dominant force in the modern economy, Silicon Valley's culture since 1970s of nimble startups successfully challenging incumbents is fading — For decades, whole regions, nations even, have tried to model themselves on a particular ideal of innovation, the lifeblood of the modern economy.
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