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A look at Sugon, a Chinese company at the heart of the country's surveillance efforts, and how it uses Intel and Nvidia chips to analyze video feeds at scale — Intel and Nvidia chips power a supercomputing center that tracks people in a place where government suppresses minorities …
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Protocol. Tweets: @paulmozur, @sophiehrw, @paulmozur, @anderscorr, @muyixiao, @charlesrollet1, @paulmozur, @paulmozur, @mrbcyber, @charlesrollet1, @charlesrollet1, @jonrussell, @paulmozur, @lichtspektrum, and @sehof
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Facebook's charm offensive to repair ties with Biden's administration includes News Feed vaccine promotion and relying on Nick Clegg to mend relations — Social media giant to roll out vaccine promotion and give higher profile to Nick Clegg — Facebook is plotting a charm offensive … | Andrew Leonard / Increment: |
How the open source movement and early version control systems like CVS, Subversion, and Git paved the way for today's remote development processes — How the early open-source movement and version control paved the way for today's remote software development processes. — Remote
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A look at Covid Tracking Project, a website run mostly by volunteers, which has become one of the most trusted sources on the spread of COVID-19 in the US — At the start of 2020, Amanda French was in between academic jobs. Her mother had died about a year earlier, and she'd taken time off to help settle her affairs.
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The Verge. Tweets: @armstrongdrew, @alexismadrigal, @adriennelaf, @kissane, @rockefellerfdn, @maxcroser, @ahmed, @emmersbrown, @maiamajumder, @ebboyd, @kaythaney, @ritajking, @angie_rasmussen, @samhorwich, and @edyong209
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
GoDaddy confirms some of its staff fell for a social engineering scam, after hackers changed the email and DNS records for a number of crypto trading platforms — Fraudsters redirected email and web traffic destined for several cryptocurrency trading platforms over the past week.
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| David Pierce / Protocol: |
Inside YouTube Music's plans to compete with Spotify and others by putting the entire music business, including livestreams and tickets, onto a single platform — For the last eight months, musicians and bands haven't been able to tour, play festivals or go much of anywhere.| FinSMEs: |
Switzerland-based Kandou, a fabless semiconductor company developing USB-C hardware that supports USB4, Thunderbolt 3, and more, raises $92.3M Series C — Kandou, a Lausanne, Switzerland-based fabless semiconductor company, raised $92.3M in Series C funding.
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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Forto, a freight forwarder service that gives customers real-time data and on-time delivery, raises $50M Series C led by Inven Capital — Forto, a digital freight forwarder which has experienced a boom during the pandemic, has raised another $50 million in funding.| Peter Grant / Wall Street Journal: |
CoStar, which provides commercial real estate information and analytics, says it will buy Homesnap, an app that improves real estate agent workflows, for $250M — Purchase would mark the company's first significant step into residential data — CoStar Group, Inc., one of the world's largest providers …
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As bots plague everything from Tinder to Twitter, a look at how generative adversarial networks create images and videos of fake people, sold on many websites — There are now businesses that sell fake people. On the website Generated.Photos, you can buy a “unique, worry-free” fake person for $2.99, or 1,000 people for $1,000.
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| Will Oremus / OneZero : |
Twitter, which played a central role in Trump's presidency, is attempting to redefine itself for a post-Trump future through the launch of features like Fleets — New product features are rolling out to broaden the platform's appeal. Will they work? — It's easy to forget now … | Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Tibber, which uses AI to predict energy consumption of a house and switch to the cheapest electricity supplier, raises $65M Series B — Tibber, a “digital electricity” supplier that uses AI to switch around power for houses based on their predicted levels of consumption … Sponsor Posts
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