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Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg about Facebook's hardest year, how it has changed the company's future ambitions, and his faith in its mission — “We will dig through this hole, but it will take a few years.” — It's been a tough year for Facebook. The social networking juggernaut found itself engulfed …
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| Matthew Prince / Cloudflare Blog: |
Cloudflare debuts 1.1.1.1, a free privacy-first consumer DNS service, which collects as little info as possible and wipes logs daily, retains KPMG as an auditor — Cloudflare's mission is to help build a better Internet. We're excited today to take another step toward that mission …
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Grindr is sharing the HIV status and “last tested” date of users with two other firms, according to an analysis by an outside research firm verified by BuzzFeed — A data analysis conducted by an outside research firm, and independently verified by BuzzFeed News …
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As part of HQ2 search, Amazon officials have already visited 10 of 20 finalist cities, which are providing them with data including SAT scores of local students — Finalists for the company's second home base break out bicycles to win over the internet giant — Don't get too fancy.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube debuts TrueView for reach, a shorter, skippable ad format, which lets advertisers show ads as short as 6 seconds that can be skipped after 5 — YouTube today is introducing a new way for advertisers to maximize reach from their shorter ads. The change arrives around two years … | Bloomberg: |
How Google, carriers, and startups plan to capitalize on the Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum, likely to be freed from US military control this year — A bold plan to open up spectrum could rock the wireless industry and prove a $260 billion win for consumers. Guess-who would also make out all right.
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| Tom Pendergast / Wired: |
GDPR in the EU and similar laws in other countries, along with Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal, may point to global shift in favor of personal data control — THE HEADLINES ABOUT the trade wars being touched off by President Trump's new tariffs may telegraph plenty of bombast and shots fired … | Li Dongmei / China Money Network: |
Alibaba to buy all remaining outstanding shares of Chinese food delivery service Ele.me at a $9.5B valuation — Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group has announced that it will acquire all outstanding shares that it does not already own in online food delivery company Ele.me, in a deal valuing the target company at US$9.5 billion.
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ESPN will launch its over-the-top streaming service, ESPN+, on April 12 for $4.99 per month — ESPN's new streaming service, ESPN+, was already expected to arrive this spring. Now we have the launch date: April 12, 2018. The service will cost subscribers $4.99 per month …
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How tech companies are fighting bias in facial recognition software: detecting race, diversifying training data, and disclosing recognition accuracy by group — SOFTWARE ENGINEER HENRY Gan got a surprise last summer when he tested his team's new facial recognition system on coworkers at startup Gfycat.| Shoshanna Solomon / The Times of Israel: |
Israel-based Verbit raises $11M seed round for its transcription service that uses AI along with thousands of freelancers — One-year-old Verbit combines software with human transcribers to improve quality, speed and price of service — People who have had to transcribe recorded conversations …
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Interview with Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst about growing the company's core business beyond Linux with cloud computing projects like OpenShift and OpenStack — The Red Hat Linux distribution is turning 25 years old this week. What started as one of the earliest Linux distributions … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Report: US households using only over-the-top streaming services nearly tripled since 2013 to 14.1M but still represent just 11% of all TV households — The number of U.S. households using only over-the-top streaming services to access TV programming and movies has nearly tripled over the past five years … Sponsor Posts
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