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Google allowed advertisers to target racist and bigoted keywords, suggested more similar keywords, and allowed campaigns using those keywords to run — Google, the world's biggest advertising platform, allows advertisers to specifically target ads to people typing racist and bigoted terms …
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| Brian Patrick Byrne / The Daily Beast: |
Twitter says it has fixed a “bug” that allowed advertisers to target users based on racist and derogatory terms like the n-word and “Nazi” — Twitter's advertising platform tells prospective customers it has 26.3 million users interested in the derogatory term …
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| AnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal: |
Equifax announces its Chief Security Officer Susan Mauldin and Chief Information Officer David Webb are retiring effective immediately — The departures of the company's chief information officer and chief security officer come in the wake of a massive data breach
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
New App Store guidelines crack down on iOS “virus scanners”, require Face ID unlock alternatives for kids under 13, allow P2P cash gifts without Apple's 30% cut — Apple has updated its developer app review guidelines for the iPhone and iPad App Store this week with new clauses addressing … | Lucia Moses / Digiday: |
Washington Post's automated Heliograf tool has written ~850 stories in one year, including 500 on 2016 election that got 500K+ clicks — It's been a year since The Washington Post started using its homegrown artificial intelligence technology, Heliograf, to spit out around 300 short reports and alerts on the Rio Olympics.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Chrome will no longer autoplay videos with sound starting from January 2018 — Google today announced Chrome is going to war with autoplay. Starting next year, Chrome will only autoplay a given piece of content when the media won't play sound or the user has indicated an interest in the media.
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| Brenda Goh / Reuters: |
Source: Beijing city regulator told bitcoin exchanges to inform users about trading halt; OkCoin, Huobi, others say they will comply and stop trading by Oct 31 — SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have ordered Beijing-based cryptocurrency exchanges to cease trading and immediately notify users …
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| Business Insider: |
Social Capital and Hedosophia raised $600M in IPO for holding company they say will invest in late-stage startups to help them avoid IPO process — - Chamath Palihapitiya, a “Midas touch” investor, has raised $600 million in the initial public offering for his new firm, Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings.
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| Mark Harris / IEEE Spectrum: |
Google has spent $1.1B on its self-driving car project since its inception in 2009 through 2015, Waymo employee's deposition in Uber trial implies — Google has never publicly shared how much it spends on its self-driving cars. At first, Project Chauffeur was hidden away in Google's ultra-secret X moonshot program.
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| Hamza Shaban / Washington Post: |
Gab.ai sues Google for removing Gab's app from Play Store, says Google violated federal antitrust laws — The alternative social media site Gab.ai is alleging that Google violated federal antitrust laws when the tech giant booted it from the Google Play Store, according to a new lawsuit filed by the company on Thursday.
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| Dylan Byers / CNNMoney: |
Source: Facebook handed over data on Russian ad buys to special counsel Mueller under search warrant, including ad copies, targeting info, and account details — What $100,000 can buy you on Facebook — Special counsel Robert Mueller and his team are now in possession of Russian-linked ads run … | Haley Britzky / Axios: |
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