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| Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Quibi decided to shut down and return $350M in capital to investors rather than trying to prolong the life of the company via another big investment — Quibi Holdings LLC is shutting itself down, according to people familiar with the matter, a crash landing for a once-highflying …
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| Medium: |
Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg confirm Quibi is shutting down: “Our failure was not for lack of trying; we've considered and exhausted every option” — We started with the idea to create the next generation of storytelling and because of you, we were able to create and deliver …
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| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
US intelligence director says Iran was behind threatening emails to FL Democratic voters demanding they vote for Trump; voter info was likely publicly available — Iranian intelligence was responsible for a recent campaign of emails sent to intimidate Florida voters, the FBI announced Wednesday night … | Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
Activists around the world are building facial recognition tools to identify police officers using off-the-shelf image recognition software — “We're now approaching the technological threshold where the little guys can do it to the big guys,” one researcher said.
Tweets: @kashhill, @evan_greer, @kashhill, @nytimes, @merbroussard, @shiraovide, and @aclu
| Mother Jones: |
Former Facebook employees describe tests of News Feed algorithm changes and their impact on left- and right-leaning news sites, with tweaks to favor the right — For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.| Nathan Grayson / Kotaku: |
Twitch sent DMCA notices to streamers on Tuesday, deleting content without allowing counterclaims; Twitch says “thousands” of music rights holders complained — It's finally happening: Twitch is taking action against copyrighted music—long a norm among streamers—in response to music industry pressure.
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| Sam Shead / CNBC: |
Facebook Dating launches in Europe, after Ireland's regulators forced a delay of its planned debut in February, claims it made 1.5B matches across 20 countries — - Facebook has expanded its “Facebook Dating” service to Europe. — Facebook claims that the platform has generated 1.5 … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it will start charging for WhatsApp for Business and adds hosting services for businesses' online assets and shopping features to the service — Facebook has been making a big play to be a go-to partner for small and medium businesses that use the internet to interface with the wider world …
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| New York Times: |
A look at the well-funded Big Tech opponents, from lawyers to academics, that have helped guide potential government regulation like Google's antitrust suit — An unlikely collection of lawyers, activists, economists and academics are fueling the tech backlash, armed with funding from billionaire sponsors.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
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| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
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| Anna Irrera / Reuters: |
PayPal will let users buy and sell cryptocurrency using its online wallets in the coming weeks and shop at merchants on its network starting in early 2021 — LONDON (Reuters) - PayPal Holdings Inc joined the cryptocurrency market on Wednesday, allowing customers to buy …
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Tweets: @novogratz, @chamath, @johnstcapital, @chrismaddern, @xrp_stuart, and @hameggsnsam
| Ryan Hoover / Product Hunt: |
Product Hunt announces founder of Mino Games and angel investor Josh Buckley as its new CEO — Today we're introducing the new CEO of Product Hunt. But first, the backstory... The last seven years have been the most challenging and rewarding of my life and career.
Tweets: @joshbuckley and @joshelman
| Manuel Vonau / Android Police: |
Google adds price insights for comparisons with typical prices and deal alerts to Google Shopping — Last month, Google Shopping added features to make local shopping easier with new information on availability and curbside pickup options. In light of the upcoming holiday season …
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| Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu: |
DANCE, an invite-only e-bike subscription service in Berlin from the founders of SoundCloud, raises €15M Series A led by HV Holtzbrinck Ventures — Less than three months since launching its pilot program, SoundCloud's e-bike subscription spin-off DANCE has secured €15 million in Series A funding.| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to authorize subpoenas for Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey to testify about their handling of NY Post story — Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to authorize subpoenas for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Palantir is helping the US government track the manufacture, distribution, and administration of COVID-19 vaccines — Data-mining company is developing a tool that health authorities plan to use to monitor the manufacture of coronavirus vaccines and determine where they should go
Tweets: @benpershing, @anthony, and @jonathanrockoff
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC's top lawyer defends its authority to interpret Section 230, saying 1996 legislation that included Section 230 amended a 1934 act that created the FCC — FCC lawyer claims authority to interpret any part of the Communications Act. — The Federal Communications Commission's top lawyer today explained …
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Tweets: @jrosenworcel, @notaaroncraig, @fcc, @kendraserra, @b_fung, and @reckless
| Reuters: |
China-based Yuanfudao, which offers online courses and homework plans to students, has raised $2.2B in two recent rounds, raising its valuation to $15.5B — BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing-based education technology startup Yuanfudao said on Thursday that it has secured $2.2 billion from major Chinese … | David Uberti / Wall Street Journal: |
Contact tracing in the US has been hampered by the lack of a single national app, with 10 states and DC creating their own and most having no app at all — The lack of a national plan on contact tracing has resulted in a state-by-state patchwork of differing technological tools| The Intercept: |
Documents show Google Cloud will be used for its AI capabilities by the CBP in conjunction with Anduril Industries' surveillance tech on the US-Mexico border — After years of backlash over controversial government work, Google technology will be used to aid the Trump administration's efforts … Sponsor Posts
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