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| Amar Toor / The Verge: |
Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Microsoft agree to EU hate speech rules — Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and YouTube today agreed to European regulations that require them to review “the majority of” hateful online content within 24 hours of being notified — and to remove it, if necessary …
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| Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
Intel's Broadwell-E gaming CPU is a stunner, offering 10 cores for a whopping $1,723 — Meet the next flagship chip for overclocking, gaming, and transcoding. — On paper, Intel's massive new 10-core—yes, 10—Broadwell-E gaming chips top out at 3.8GHz. But buying one is like purchasing … | Bloomberg: |
Source: Uber gets $1B credit facility, basically a line of credit, in a deal led by Goldman Sachs to expand its Uber Xchange subprime auto leasing business — In its relentless pursuit for growth, Uber needs new drivers, and many of those drivers need cars.
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| Nagraj Kashyap / The Official Microsoft Blog: |
New Microsoft Ventures division to focus on early-stage investments in cloud, SaaS, security, and machine learning startups — When I came to Microsoft earlier this year, I was driven by the opportunity to establish a corporate venture group that would create an additional channel to engage the start-up ecosystem.
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| Steve Baker / Quora: |
Why motion sickness will remain a serious problem for many users of VR products and create product liability issues for the industry — • This answer won a Most Viewed Writer in — INTRODUCTION: — I've been working with helmet mounted displays in military flight simulation for several decades …
| Tom Hals / Reuters: |
Ruling from Delaware judge finds that Michael Dell, Silver Lake Partners underpriced their 2013 $24.9B buyout of Dell by 22%, may have to pay tens of millions — Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners underpriced their 2013 $24.9 billion buyout of Dell Inc [DI.UL] by about 22 percent … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
PayPal to halt service in Turkey after losing license over refusal to comply with new rules requiring IT systems be local, impacting “hundreds of thousands” — Turkey has been making moves to bring tech business in the country under more localised control, and today big U.S … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Marketing software giant Marketo taken private by private equity firm Vista Equity Partners in an all-cash deal worth $1.79B — Marketo, the marketing software giant that went public in 2013, is being taken private again: PE firm Vista Equity Partners has acquired the company for $1.79 billion in an all-cash deal.
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Periscope to let livestream viewers vote on whether flagged comments are abusive in “flash juries” of five random users — Attention livestreamers: You've been summoned for jury duty. — Attention Periscope users: You've been summoned for jury duty.
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| Bob Dormon / Ars Technica UK: |
A deep dive into internet infrastructure including submarine cable networks and landing stations, data centers, and last-mile networks in the UK — Ah, there you are. That didn't take too long, surely? Just a click or a tap and, if you've some 21st century connectivity, you landed on this page in a trice.| Nicola Twilley / New Yorker: |
Terrapattern, the first open-access, neural net-powered reverse image search tool for satellite imagery, launches in alpha — “Why don't you click on the tennis court?” Golan Levin, an associate professor of art at Carnegie Mellon University, suggested. I was looking at a satellite image … Thanks:@ravichandrans25
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
LG Watch Urbane 2nd Ed. LTE review: cellular data works well, but it's expensive, starting at $360 on contract, and bulky; many functions need phone tethering — Smartwatches that don't actually need a smartphone to function seem poised to be the next hot thing in wearables.
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