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Zuckerberg says News Feed will focus on what friends share, de-emphasize content from publishers and brands as it moves to favor interactions over passive posts — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook introduced sweeping changes to the kinds of posts, videos and photos that its more than two billion members …
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| Jason Koebler / Motherboard: |
Facebook's News Feed changes are good for media industry in the long term; journalism engineered to be picked by an algorithm is not journalism, it's marketing — Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told the New York Times that the social network will revamp its news feed to emphasize …
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Intel says some data center customers using Broadwell and Haswell processors are reporting more system reboots after applying patch for Meltdown and Spectre — (Reuters) - Intel Corp on Thursday said that recently issued patches for flaws in its chips could cause computers using its older Broadwell …
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| Molly Hensley-Clancy / BuzzFeed: |
Jeff Bezos says he and his wife will give $33M in scholarship money to DACA students — A day after Trump rejected a deal to preserve DACA, Jeff Bezos said he would make a major charitable donation to support DREAMers. — Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced Friday that he would give $33 million … | Kate Conger / Gizmodo: |
Ex-Google engineer claims senior Google execs pressured him to stop discussing pro-diversity initiatives on company forums, which motivated him to quit — A memo written by a former Google engineer claims that the company's human resources department and a senior vice president pressured …
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Kraken, a popular cryptocurrency exchange, shut down for a several hours of scheduled maintenance on Wednesday; 30+ hours later it is still down — Kraken users have expressed frustration and anger on social media as a scheduled upgrade went from two hours to more than a day.| Jake Smith / ZDNet: |
IDC: PC shipments in Q4 2017 grew by 0.7% YoY to 70.6M units but declined by 0.2% to 259.5M units in full year 2017; HP and Apple saw 8.3% and 7.3% growth in Q4 — Research firm IDC said PC market most stable since 2011, led by HP. — The PC market is beginning to show some signs of stabling …
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Facebook signs licensing deals with Global Music Rights, HFA/Rumblefish, and Kobalt, allowing users post music and music videos on Facebook, Instagram, Oculus — The partnerships followed similar deals with Universal Music Group and Sony/ATV — Music continued to fill the air in Menlo Park … | Greg Stohr / Bloomberg: |
SCOTUS to review 1992 Quill decision that states can collect sales tax only if retailer has physical presence in the state; Quill is used in taxing online sales — South Dakota says 1992 ban on many tax collections is obsolete — States could have collected $13 billion more in 2017: GAO
| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Profile of Roku and its founder Anthony Wood, looking at the company's early days, how Roku plans to compete with its rivals, and more — Roku founder and CEO Anthony Wood doesn't fit the image of your typical tech mogul. In person, he comes across as quiet and introverted.| TechCrunch: |
Source: Verizon is working on a new OTT video content service based on Oath content and a connected home product to manage smart devices — Jan 12, 2018, 4:23 amJan 12, 2018, 8:39 am — At CES, the big consumer electronics show underway this week in Las Vegas (when the lights are working) …
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