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Mark Zuckerberg responds to fake news controversy and outlines projects Facebook is working on to combat the issue — A lot of you have asked what we're doing about misinformation, so I wanted to give an update. — The bottom line is: we take misinformation seriously.
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See also Mediagazer| Jeff Jarvis / Medium: |
John Borthwick of Betaworks and Jeff Jarvis of CUNY offer ideas for tackling fake news on Facebook, Twitter, and Google — We—John Borthwick and Jeff Jarvis—want to offer constructive suggestions for what the platforms—Facebook, Twitter, Google, Instagram, Snapchat, WeChat, Apple News …
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See also Mediagazer| Aarti Shahani / NPR: |
Sources describe how Facebook's community operations team, which consists of several thousand people, rapidly judges flagged content — Audio will be available later today. … Mark Zuckerberg — one of the most insightful, adept leaders in the business world — has a problem.| Jake Smith / ZDNet: |
Symantec has agreed to acquire ID theft protection service LifeLock for $2.3B — Acquisition forms “world's largest digital safety platform for consumers and families.” — Symantec on Sunday agreed to acquire LifeLock, a consumer identity-theft protect service, for $2.3 billion to form the … | Mark Wilson / Co.Design: |
The buggy $1,495 June Intelligent Oven is all that's wrong with Silicon Valley design: automated yet distracting, boastful yet mediocre, confident yet wrong — Automated yet distracting. Boastful yet mediocre. Confident yet wrong. — I slide a piece of salmon into the June, one of the most advanced ovens ever built.
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| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Programmers share stories about being asked to write code for illegal or unethical purposes and ponder the need for self-regulation — Earlier this week, a post written by programmer and teacher Bill Sourour went viral. It's called “Code I'm Still Ashamed Of.”
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Free Code Camp and SiliconANGLE. Tweets: @mrmarkrichards, @dj_link, @counternotions, @kanokochi, @juliendorra, @shiota and @anildash
| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Eero update adds Alexa integration to devices; new “TrueMesh” technology adds dynamic rerouting, reduces connections issues, and improves LAN speeds up to 40% — Earlier this year, Eero launched a home WiFi solution that it claimed would solve all our wireless woes.
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| Andrew J / The Verge: |
nuTonomy signs agreement with Boston city officials to test its self-driving car tech on Boston streets, limited to within an industrial park — NuTonomy is coming to Boston — NuTonomy, an autonomous vehicle software startup that's been testing its technology in Singapore …
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| Tim Peterson / Marketing Land: |
Facebook is shutting down Atlas ad server and will focus on Atlas measurement tools — Facebook is shutting down the part of Atlas that didn't have a direct impact on ad sales but keeping the part that does. — Facebook's ad-tech strategy grows ever more insular.| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Chromecast Ultra review: great 4K HDR streaming, but limited 4K content selection and marginal quality improvement over 1080p make $35 Chromecast a better value — Google's first Chromecast was a cheap and ugly little stick that nonetheless served a very important purpose.
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| Reuters: |
Amazon begins selling cars online, partnering with Fiat Chrysler to sell three models in Italy — Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) said it has teamed up with U.S. internet giant Amazon to start selling cars online at prices up to a third cheaper than available elsewhere.
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Tech Times, GeekWire, Engadget, Digital Trends, Quartz, Gizmodo, The Next Web, BGR, VentureBeat, Business Insider and Consumerist. Tweets: @sub8u
| BBC: |
Facebook says it will increase UK employees by 500, or 50%, in 2017 when new London HQ opens — Facebook will expand its presence in the UK by 50% when it opens its new London headquarters in 2017, the US technology giant has announced. — It will hire 500 additional employees …
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