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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Interviews with 12 former and current Facebook content moderators in Tampa, three on the record, describing appalling working conditions and, for some, PTSD — At Facebook's worst-performing content moderation site in North America, one contractor has died, and others say they fear for their lives
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| Washington Post: |
Sources: after complaints about privacy practices around children's videos on YouTube, FTC is in late stages of a probe, causing YouTube to rethink its strategy — The U.S. government is in the late stages of an investigation into YouTube for its handling of children's videos …
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Sources: YouTube is considering far-reaching changes to protect kids, including moving all children's content to the YouTube Kids app and turning off autoplay — Executives consider shifting children's content to a separate app, removing auto-play feature in an effort to protect young viewers
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| Pete Schroeder / Reuters: |
Senate panel says it will hold a hearing on Facebook's Libra on July 16; source: David Marcus, who leads Facebook's blockchain efforts, is expected to testify — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Banking Committee will discuss Facebook's proposed cryptocurrency at a July 16 hearing, the panel announced Wednesday.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Apple says its devices can now be repaired in 1,000+ Best Buy locations across the US, expanding on its current network of ~270 Apple stores — Since 2001, Apple has staked its claim across the world with its own first-party brick and mortar locations. But the U.S. is a big country …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Google rolls out Private Join and Compute, a tool that lets organizations gain insights about other parties' confidential data, as an open source project — CERTAIN STUDIES REQUIRE sensitive data sets: the relationship between nutritious school lunch and student health, the effectiveness of salary equity initiatives, and so on.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
London-based Kano, which makes hardware to teach younger people about computing and coding, partners with Microsoft and launches a £300 11.6" touchscreen laptop — Kano, the London-based startup that builds hardware designed to teach younger people about computing and coding …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
NYSE says Slack's reference price for its direct listing has been set at $26 per share, which would value Slack at $15.7B, per sources — This is a developing story and will be updated shortly. — WSJ opens select articles to reader conversation to promote thoughtful dialogue.
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| James Fallows / The Atlantic: |
Fresno-based Bitwise Industries, which offers training for devs, says it has raised a $27M Series A, one of the largest ever by a Latinx female-led company — Four years ago, my wife, Deb, and I wrote about an ambitious and unusual tech startup called Bitwise Industries …
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| Jonathan Hoyland / The Cloudflare Blog: |
Cloudflare announces Ethereum Gateway, which makes it easier to interact with Ethereum's network and add interactive smart contract-powered elements to sites — Today, as part of Crypto Week 2019, we are excited to announce Cloudflare's Ethereum Gateway, where you can interact …
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| Dell Cameron / Gizmodo: |
Sources: Ajit Pai's office has withheld documents from Democratic FCC commissioners on the FCC's probe into the unauthorized sale of US cellphone location data — Democratic commissioners at the FCC are still in the dark when it comes the agency's ongoing investigation into the unauthorized sale … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Shopify announces a range of new updates, including a new Plus tier for enterprise, new tools for developers, and AI-powered fulfillment centers across the US — Shopify today announced a slew of enhancements to its direct-to-consumer platform for brands. The company announced a new Shopify Plus …
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
AI and IoT are driving an industrial revolution on the factory floor by improving operational technology, lowering downtime via predictive maintenance, and more — IoT has arrived on the factory floor with the force of Kool-Aid Man exploding through walls.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Quibi says it has booked more than $100M in ad sales with launch partners including Google, P&G, PepsiCo, Walmart, and Anheuser-Busch, ahead of April 2020 debut — Quibi, the ambitious short-form video venture from Jeffrey Katzenberg and CEO Meg Whitman, has sold $100 million …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
New Kindle Oasis adds color temperature adjustment for night reading, goes on sale on July 24 starting at $249.99, with preorders open today — Amazon's top-tier e-reader gets a new feature — Amazon has a new version of its high-end Kindle Oasis, and it's adding the ability to change …
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| Sky News: |
Sources: the UK government will announce on Thursday that an upcoming age verification requirement for porn websites will be indefinitely delayed — There were fears of porn users' identities and browsing habits being tracked, creating possible blackmail and online surveillance. — Created with Sketch.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Valtix, which develops a suite of enterprise cloud security products, raises $14M Series A from Trinity Ventures and others — There's no two ways about it: The state of cloud services security is alarming. About 24% of organizations have hosts missing high-severity patches in the public cloud …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Anti-phishing startup Valimail, which develops a cloud-based platform for companies, raises $45M Series C from Insight Partners, bringing total raised to $84M — Anti-phishing startup Valimail has raised $40 million in a series C round of funding from Insight Partners.
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| Sarah Emerson / VICE:NEW |
Some Twitter users receiving notifications whenever someone unfollows them, falsely saying the user “followed them back”; Twitter says it's working on a bug fix — Twitter is telling people when someone has unfollowed them. — For several days, untold numbers of Twitter users …
Zoho:
The all-new Zoho Recruit: better processes, better sourcing, and better hires — Zoho Recruit turns 10 this year, and we are dedicating this special milestone to our huge family of happy recruiters. Being part of the recruitment industry and understanding the impact a profession like this can create, is out-of-this-world.
The all-new Zoho Recruit: better processes, better sourcing, and better hires — Zoho Recruit turns 10 this year, and we are dedicating this special milestone to our huge family of happy recruiters. Being part of the recruitment industry and understanding the impact a profession like this can create, is out-of-this-world.Sponsor Post
| Robin Wauters / Tech.eu: |
Bitrise, which helps companies build and operate mobile apps, raises $20M Series B led by Partech and says it is used by over 100,000 developers globally — Bitrise wants to change how publishers and developers build and operate their mobile applications, and it's just raised $20 million …
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Text IQ, a machine learning system that parses and understands sensitive corporate data, raises $12.6M Series A led by FirstMark Capital — Text IQ, a machine learning system that parses and understands sensitive corporate data, has raised $12.6 million in Series A funding led by FirstMark Capital …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers find that an ad agency left a database open with 150K+ personal records, including names and email and home addresses, from user-filled forms — Florida ad agency leaks the keys to its entire kingdom, including invoices, campaign metrics, and all collected data.Sponsor Posts
Smartsheet:
Three Productivity Killers Your Employees Want You to Automate — A Smartsheet automation survey turns up the three repetitive, manual tasks that employees most want off their plates, to free up their time for higher-value work.
Three Productivity Killers Your Employees Want You to Automate — A Smartsheet automation survey turns up the three repetitive, manual tasks that employees most want off their plates, to free up their time for higher-value work.
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What's the most popular recruiting tool for startups? — We dug into Brex data to settle the debate.
What's the most popular recruiting tool for startups? — We dug into Brex data to settle the debate.
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Zoho:
The all-new Zoho Recruit: better processes, better sourcing, and better hires — Zoho Recruit turns 10 this year, and we are dedicating this special milestone to our huge family of happy recruiters.
The all-new Zoho Recruit: better processes, better sourcing, and better hires — Zoho Recruit turns 10 this year, and we are dedicating this special milestone to our huge family of happy recruiters.
Microsoft Edge:
Download the latest preview builds — Try out the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge and catch a glimpse of what's next.
Download the latest preview builds — Try out the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge and catch a glimpse of what's next.
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