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Sources: TikTok halts talks with UK government to build the HQ for its non-China business in London, with British ban on Huawei seen as a factor — Video-sharing app suspends building plans, with British ban on Huawei 5G kit seen as factor — The Chinese social media firm TikTok has pulled …
Tweets: @charlesarthur and @pelnike
| Delian Asparouhov / Operators & Delian's Ramblings: |
Despite its limitations, GPT-3, OpenAI's text-generating AI, excels at producing follow-on thoughts to input text and could thus succeed as a “writing buddy” — OpenAI, an AI research foundation started by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and a few other leaders in ML …
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| Kira Tebbe / OneZero : |
In 2019, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google were collectively granted ~27,000 H-1B visas, over 30% of total visas available to private companies — Five tech companies use nearly 30,000 H1-B visas, while over 50% of graduate STEM degrees are earned by international students
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
Retail stores, which were closing due to declining foot traffic even before the pandemic, are now increasingly being turned into online fulfillment centers — As the demand for in-person shopping diminishes, landlords, startups and retailers are converting abandoned stores into online fulfillment centers
Tweets: @mjasay, @mims, @paytonchung, @denniswygmans, @wsj, @mspllc, and @kayezad
| Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Disney has dramatically cut ad spending on Facebook and Instagram; Disney was Facebook's top US advertiser for H1 2020, per an estimate — Hundreds of advertisers have paused spending on the social network due to concerns about hate speech, divisive content
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources say plans to remake GE as a software powerhouse were scuttled by employee confusion and delusions about what it would take to reposition the company — The industrial giant hoped to remake itself as a software powerhouse. Here's what went wrong. — In early 2014 …
Tweets: @p1bc, @xecretcode, @hoofnagle, and @tgryta
| Sophia Kunthara / Crunchbase News: |
Caption Health raises $53M Series B for its AI-guided tech that lets health care providers take diagnostic-quality ultrasound scans without specialized training — Caption Health, a company that develops artificial intelligence software for health care providers, has raised $53 million in a Series B.
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MassDevice, PitchBook, Verdict Medical Devices, PR Newswire, Forbes, MobiHealthNews, and FinSMEs
| Shaun Nichols / The Register: |
Researchers say seven Hong Kong-based “no log” VPNs have left 1TB+ of user logs and personally identifiable info exposed on the internet — Maybe it was the old Lionel Hutz play: 'No-logging VPN? I meant, no! Logging VPN!' — BIO EMAIL TWITTER
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TorrentFreak and Comparitech
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| Olivia Solon / NBC News: |
Profile of Child Rescue Coalition, whose tech is used in 96 countries including the US to help police triage child porn cases, as experts raise privacy concerns — BOCA RATON, Fla. — In December 2016, law enforcement agents seized computers and hard drives from the home of Tay Christopher Cooper … | Nikkei Asian Review: |
Shanghai's year-old STAR market is now second only to Nasdaq in value of IPOs and secondary listings, attracting 17.3% of total issuance, surpassing Hong Kong — Surging debuts on ‘domestic Nasdaq’ lure investors and bolster China's strategic aims — SHANGHAI — Pan Jianwei …
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| Neil Shah / Counterpoint Research: |
Reliance Jio is laying a strong foundation to become a “Super Operator”, applying a WeChat-like “super-app” approach to its mobile telecom network in India — In the world's second largest mobile market, Reliance Jio, India's leading Communication Service Provider … | FinSMEs: |
Zeotap, a SaaS startup that helps companies with customer intelligence, raises $42M Series C, bringing its total raised to over $60M according to Crunchbase — Zeotap, a global provider of a customer intelligence platform, raised $42m in Series C funding. — Backers included Neue Capital …
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Zeotap, YourStory.com, The Economic Times, The Tech Portal, Moneycontrol, and Entrackr. Tweets: @simonjharris
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Twitter provides an overview of what it knows about Wednesday's hack so far: how it happened, what the attackers accessed, how it reacted, and the next steps — As we've been informing via the @TwitterSupport account, on Wednesday, July 15, 2020, we detected a security incident at Twitter and took immediate action.
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Tweets: @twittersupport, @twittersupport, @normative, @pinboard, @nycsouthpaw, @bzamayo, @kateconger, @twittersupport, @ruskin147, @edzitron, @malwaretechblog, @oneunderscore__, @atrupar, @briankrebs, @djlavoie, @ourielohayon, @kayvz, @staska, @scottmstedman, @firstadopter, @rmac18, @kantrowitz, @benlower, @thehill, @bbcnews, @reuters, @variety, @eamonjavers, and @donie
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Tweets: @kateconger, @elliptic, @tomwarren, @uuallan, @6102bitcoin, @amitranjan, @starfire2258, @alex_roddie, @mrcheeze_, @ericajoy, @kahjahkins, @karaswisher, @iblametom, @kateconger, @kateconger, @chuckrossdc, @firstadopter, @modestproposal1, @ericgeller, @anthony, @somebadideas, @mikefarb1, @racheltobac, @karissabe, @davidclinchnews, @histoftech, @alexstamos, @yburyug, @tomrobin, @davidjoachim, @juliacarriew, @sanjaykalra, @dave1agar, @fbihop, @quantian1, @golovashkina, @ampressman, @sdkstl, @tomwarren, @haseeb, @scottmstedman, @jacobrubashkin, @brendandburns, @spyblog, @rdrv3, @kateconger, @martinsfp, @zackwhittaker, @tomgara, @scottmelker, @eamonjavers, @ericgeller, and @ericgeller
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