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Facebook releases first content moderation report: 583M fake accounts closed in Q1 2018, action taken on almost 1.5B accounts and 2.5M instances of hate speech — Firm's first quarterly moderation report also shows scale of spam, hate speech and violence — Facebook took moderation action …
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Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @dancow, @kantrowitz, @eff, @chris_skinner, @nitashatiku, @nitashatiku, @facebook, @facebook, and @joshconstine
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| Alistair Barr / Bloomberg: |
Tim Cook says he urged President Trump to fix the DACA immigration issue in a recent White House meeting, and told him tariffs were the wrong approach to China — - Cook urged fixing DACA immigration issue in Trump meeting — Apple ups buybacks because stock is ‘good value,’ Cook says
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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Twitter says it will use thousands of behavioral signals on accounts, not just content of individual tweets, when filtering search, replies, and recommendations — Act like a jerk, and Twitter will start limiting how often your tweets show up. — On Tuesday, Twitter announced a massive change …
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Uber will no longer require arbitration for individual claims of sexual assault or harassment by riders, drivers, staff, but class action suits still disallowed — In a surprise move, Uber said on Tuesday it is changing its long-standing policy of mandatory arbitration to exempt employees …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon makes Sumerian, its browser-based tool to build AR, VR, and 3D apps with minimal coding, generally available — Last November, AWS announced a new product called Amazon Sumerian, a toolkit and platform for developers to build “mixed reality” apps — that is, using virtual reality …
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Microsoft provides a peek at Surface Hub 2: 50.5-inch Teams-powered tablet with a 4K+ display that can rotate into a portrait mode, due in 2019 — Remember the Surface Hub? You probably don't. Unlike Microsoft's other PCs — the Surface Pro, Book, Laptop and Studio …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp refreshes Groups to let admins more easily manage their Groups and users more quickly catch up on missed messages, to better take on Telegram — Facebook just installed its VP of Internet.org as the new head of WhatsApp after its CEO Jan Koum left the company.
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Facebook launches Youth Portal, a site to educate teens on how their data is being used and guidelines on how to post — There's probably an important gap in attention being paid at internet companies to young kids that are good targets for parental controls and older ones who are having …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Tweetbot 3 for Mac arrives with a new look, a few new features like a combined Notifications view, and a tentative reprieve from Twitter's API deprecations — One of the more popular desktop clients for Twitter, Tweetbot, is today launching a completely rewritten version of its software, Tweetbot 3 for Mac.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Kaspersky Lab says it will relocate some core operations from Russia to Switzerland, after US and UK intelligence agencies expressed concern about interference — Russian antivirus-software company will set up a new data center in Zurich by late 2019 — Russian antivirus-software company …
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Business Wire, Kaspersky Lab official blog, Axios, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Tom's Guide, Gizmodo, The Register, Security Affairs, Axios, Inquirer, CNET, BetaNews, Fortune, and Reuters. Tweets: @e_kaspersky
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Responding to UK parliament's summons threat, Facebook says Zuckerberg “has no plans to meet with the committee or travel to the UK at the present time” — Facebook says that it won't send Mark Zuckerberg to the UK to appear before a Parliamentary committee that threatened …
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Online grocery delivery service Good Eggs raises $50M Series C led by Benchmark and aims to expand throughout the West Coast next year — Good Eggs, the food delivery service that promises “absurdly fresh” groceries and meal kits, has raised $50 million in new funding.
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Following Uber, Lyft won't require arbitration for sexual assault and harassment claims from riders, drivers, and employees; class actions still disallowed — After Uber's announcement early Tuesday morning that it will no longer require mandatory arbitration for sexual assault and harassment claims … | Neer Varshney / The Next Web: |
HTC announces plans for Exodus, an Android phone that will come with native support for protocols like Bitcoin and Ethereum and have an improved DApp experience — HTC is developing a new Android phone that will be powered by blockchain technology. — The phone, named Exodus …
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The Verge, CoinDesk, CNET, Android Authority, ZDNet, PCMag, Android Central, and CCN. Tweets: @ow
| Adam White / The Coinbase Blog: |
Coinbase debuts Coinbase Prime, a platform for institutional investors, Coinbase Custody, for cryptoasset safekeeping, and Coinbase Markets for better liquidity — The cryptocurrency market is maturing rapidly as more sophisticated institutional participants enter the space.
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Business Insider, Recode, Financial Times, Bloomberg, The Next Web, CoinDesk, Bitcoinist.com, Mashable, CoinSpeaker, Bitsonline, TechCrunch, CNBC, Axios, Fortune, and Bitsonline. Tweets: @aaronklein
| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
SCOTUS declines to hear “podcasting patent” case Personal Audio v. Electronic Frontier Foundation, handing win to EFF, after the patent was invalidated in 2015 — Back in 2015, Personal Audio's claimed patent was invalidated by a federal court.| Monica Nickelsburg / GeekWire: |
Amazon says it is disappointed after Seattle passes smaller “head tax” on large companies to build affordable housing, resumes work on Block 18 office building — Updated below with Amazon statement. — The Seattle City Council unanimously passed a smaller version of the controversial …
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Tweets: @recode and @byrosenberg
| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Berlin- and San Francisco-based Prisma, which is expanding on Facebook's GraphQL, raises $4.5M seed funding led by Kleiner Perkins — Prisma, a Berlin and San Francisco startup that is betting big on GraphQL — the data query language originally developed by Facebook to make it easier … Sponsor Posts
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