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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Margaret Mitchell, co-lead of Google's Ethical AI team, says she has been fired; Google says an employee conduct review confirmed multiple policy violations — Margaret Mitchell, the co-lead of Google's Ethical AI team, says that the company has fired her following an investigation into her use of corporate email.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Report: Google's AI Chief Jeff Dean apologizes in an email after Timnit Gebru's exit, saying his team should have managed the situation “with more sensitivity” — Google told employees Friday it has wrapped up its investigation into the ouster of prominent AI researcher Timnit Gebru.
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| Ian Carlos Campbell / The Verge: |
App Annie: Australian Broadcasting Corporation's news app was briefly the most downloaded app on the AU App Store after Facebook's news ban and is now second — Readers may be going directly to the source — The Australian Broadcast Company's ABC News app shot to the top of Apple's App Store charts …
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
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| Rich Stanton / PC Gamer: |
Court filings: Apple is asking Valve to provide extensive sales data for about 600 games on Steam, as part of Epic lawsuit; Valve has rejected the demand — These lawyers are getting steamed up. — A new court filing has revealed that, as part of the ongoing legal battle between Apple and Epic Games …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Sources: Coinbase was valued at $100B+ in private share sale ahead of direct listing; docs reveal $141M net income on $691M revenue for first 9 months of 2020 — Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase was valued at just over $100 billion in a recent private market share sale ahead of its upcoming public listing …
Tweets: @michaelbatnick, @ellliotttb, @danprimack, @levie, @abnormalreturns, @mayazi, and @c2prods
| Wolfie Zhao / The Block: |
Bitcoin's market capitalization passes $1T as its price surges above $56K — Bitcoin's market capitalization has crossed the $1 trillion milestone for the first time after over a decade's development as it gains increasing mainstream attention. — Bitcoin's price set new record highs …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers say Brave browser's Tor mode was sending queries for .onion domains to public internet DNS resolvers rather than Tor nodes; the bug is now fixed — DNS leak leaves footprints in DNS server logs for a Brave user's Tor traffic. — The Tor mode included with the Brave web browser allows users …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is in talks with suppliers for next-gen lidar sensors for self-driving cars, that will be considered cutting edge four to five years from now — - Vetting of laser sensor vendors is developmental milestone — iPhone maker has several years of work ahead on autonomous car
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| Dave Gershgorn / OneZero : |
AI researchers doubt the efficacy and ethics of emotion recognition tech, as studies show facial expressions match a person's emotions only 20%-30% of the time — People's facial expressions line up with their emotions less than half the time — OneZero's General Intelligence is a roundup …
Tweets: @autsciperson, @autsciperson, @ozm, @hypervisible, @tante, @martinwaxman, and @dancharvey
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is working on a magnetically attached battery pack for iPhone 12 that would wirelessly charge the handset — - Accessory has faced development issues related to software — Wireless charging unit may be popular with frequent users — Apple Inc. is working …
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Tweets: @joannastern, @stevemoser, @markgurman, @lanceulanoff, and @shiraovide
| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Sequoia Capital told its LPs their personal and financial information may have been accessed after a Sequoia employee's email was successfully phished — Sequoia Capital told its investors on Friday that some of their personal and financial information may have been accessed by a third party …
Tweets: @robaeprice
| Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: |
Kalshi, an online trading startup letting users bet on “yes/no” questions about future events, raises $30M from Sequoia and others ahead of planned March launch — Sequoia, Chuck Schwab are among those backing Kalshi, which plans to launch in March
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Banking Dive, The Week, Kalshi, Finextra, FinSMEs, Crowdfund Insider, and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @wsj, @cemgarih, @carterkev, @wsj, @apartovi, @cfcamerer, @_rainerds, @enriqueabeyta, @ycombinator, @rexsalisbury, @modeledbehavior, @tomi, @jeremylneufeld, and @robinhanson
| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Sources: LinkedIn is developing a new service called Marketplaces to let its 740M users find and book freelancers, with plans to launch as soon as September — LinkedIn is developing a new service called Marketplaces to let its 740 million users find and book freelancers …
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