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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says YouTube will add Wikipedia information to videos about popular conspiracy theories within weeks to provide alternate viewpoints — Pushing back on crazy theories — YouTube will add information from Wikipedia to videos about popular conspiracy theories …
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CEO Susan Wojcicki says YouTube has started limiting the number of hours its part-time content moderators can view disturbing videos to four hours per day — A move to protect workers' mental health among growing criticism — YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said today that the video platform … | Jillian D'Onfro / CNBC: |
Google will ban all cryptocurrency-related advertising, including ICOs, wallets, and trading advice across all of its ad platforms, starting June 2018 — - The company will no longer allow ads about cryptocurrency-related content, including initial coin offerings (ICOs), wallets, and trading advice across any of its ad platforms.
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Sources say Broadcom will formally abandon its attempt to acquire Qualcomm in an announcement on Wednesday — Broadcom Ltd. will formally abandon its attempt to acquire rival chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. after U.S. President Donald Trump blocked the deal citing national security risks, according to people familiar with its plans.
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| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Experts reveal 13 alleged flaws in AMD Ryzen and EPYC chips, just 24 hours after showing AMD, that allow malware to be installed on secure portions of the chips — Researchers say they've found 13 flaws in AMD's Ryzen and EPYC chips, which could let attackers install malware on highly guarded parts of the processor.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Google Station, a public network of free WiFi hotspots in high-traffic locations, is launching in Mexico with 60+ hotspots and 100+ planned by year's end — Google's Station WiFi is no longer reserved for the eastern hemisphere. As of today, the public hotspots are available in over 60 …
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Amazon retains top spot in annual Harris reputation poll of corporate brands, Apple drops from 5th to 29th, Google drops from 8th to 28th — (Reuters) - Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google corporate brands dropped in an annual survey while Amazon.com Inc maintained the top spot … | IMF Blog: |
IMF head Christine Lagarde outlines plan to regulate cryptocurrencies by using technology such as distributed ledger tech, biometrics, AI, and cryptography — Whether Bitcoin's value goes up or Bitcoin's value goes down, people around the world are asking the same question: What exactly is the potential of crypto-assets?
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| Kashmir Hill / Gizmodo: |
How conservative activists from Project Veritas use hoax job recruitment and seduction to catfish tech giants like Twitter; experts question legality — Mo Norai has worked in Silicon Valley for a decade. He's done stints at Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Apple, but only as a contract worker … | Antonio Regalado / MIT Technology Review: |
YC-backed Nectome aims to preserve brains of terminally ill patients through a fatal embalming process for future digitalization; Sam Altman is on its wait list — Nectome will preserve your brain, but you have to be euthanized first. — The brain of an elderly woman …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Firefox 59 arrives with faster page load times, better private browsing, and option to block sites from asking to send notifications or access device's location — Mozilla today launched Firefox 59 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The release builds on Firefox Quantum, which the company calls … | Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Let's Encrypt releases service securing HTTP connections via free “wildcard” certificates and the ACME v2 protocol to automate certificate request verification — In a victory for securing Web, anybody can now get a certificate valid for every site in a domain.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Binance announces it's developing a new blockchain called Binance Chain, which it hopes will facilitate the creation of a new decentralized exchange — Binance announced Tuesday that it is launching a public blockchain to facilitate the creation of a new decentralized exchange.
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Court filings: women at Microsoft working in US-based technical jobs filed 238 internal complaints of gender discrimination or sexual harassment from 2010-2016 — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Women at Microsoft Corp working in U.S.-based technical jobs filed 238 internal complaints … | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces WWDC 2018 will be held June 4-8 at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, opens registration — Apple has officially announced dates for its annual developer conference where it is expected to unveil iOS 12, macOS 10.14, watchOS 5, and tvOS 12.
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| David Lawder / Reuters: |
Sources: Trump admin looking to impose tariffs on $60B of Chinese goods; tariffs would target tech products and telecoms but would not be limited to those — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The administration of President Donald Trump is seeking to impose tariffs on $60 billion of Chinese imports …
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Google is rolling out voice-triggered Google Assistant routines for smart home devices including six predefined ones like “I'm home”, after announcing it in Oct — We've been hearing about Google Assistant's routines for months now. Cody first discovered them in a Google app teardown … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google removed 3.2B “bad ads” in 2017, up from 1.7B in 2016, and blocked 320K publishers, 90K sites, and 700K mobile apps for content policy violations — As the world's largest search engine and a digital advertising behemoth, Google has a lot to answer for when it comes …
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Twitch announces Free Games With Prime, offering select PC games each month free to download for users of Twitch Prime, a service included with Amazon Prime — A bit of fun news for Amazon/Twitch Prime users: you're going to get some free games each month.
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