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A look at Option Impact, a salary database accessible to VCs and their startups, based on anonymized salary info from about 2,600 companies — WHEN STEVE, A thirtysomething engineer, launched a software company in San Francisco a few years ago, he and his cofounder faced the daunting task of hiring a team …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: alongside GV, Alphabet will invest directly in Lime, as part of the $300M round the on-demand scooter startup is raising at $1.1B post-money valuation — Alphabet is joining a $300m funding round for electric scooter start-up Lime, adding to an increasingly complex web of deals in transport and … | Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Shiva Ayyadurai, who claims to have invented email, has appealed a federal judge's decision that dismissed his libel suit against Techdirt in 2017 — Tech news site says Shiva Ayyadurai is a “fake,” he says it “disregarded” the truth. — Lawyers representing the Massachusetts man …
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
WhatsApp launches a new group setting that allows only administrators to send messages to a group — WhatsApp today announced a new control for group administrators to limit activity so that they are the only member of the group who can send messages. WhatsApp groups can include up to 256 participants.
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| Daniel Duane / Wired: |
How huge contributions from tech titans, a STEM curriculum, and gadgets everywhere failed to overhaul systemic problems in a San Francisco public middle school — Huge contributions from tech titans, a STEM-packed curriculum, gadgets everywhere: Willie Brown Middle School was supposed to set the bar.
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| Charlie Savage / New York Times: |
NSA says it is deleting all phone records acquired since 2015 under FISA because of a technical glitch that resulted in some unauthorized data collection — WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has purged hundreds of millions of records logging phone calls and texts that it had gathered …
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| Suzanne LaBarre / Co.Design: |
Blue light, prevalent in modern UIs, is aesthetically pleasing, but poses health risks; designers should switch to deep red/orange as the military did long ago — The cold blue light of modern touchscreens may be aesthetically pleasing, but it poses health problems.Thanks:@johnctownsend
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Cedar, a service that uses data analysis to help health organizations personalize the billing experience for patients, raises $36M Series B led by Kinnevik — Understanding bills should be simple and straightforward but unfortunately, that is not always the case, especially when dealing with medical bills.| Rick Merritt / EE Times: |
DARPA to invest $100M over the next four years to create the equivalent of a silicon compiler aimed at significantly lowering the barriers to design chips — Two programs aim to craft ‘silicon compiler’ — SAN JOSE, Calif. — The U.S. will pour $100 million into two research programs …
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| Ian Bogost / The Atlantic: |
Opponents wonder if WHO's bid to add gaming addiction as a disorder, while not mentioning internet or smartphone addiction, was made under political pressure — The World Health Organization has proposed a behavioral addiction pathology for excessive video-game playing.
Tweets: @theatlantic, @ibogost, and @ibogost
| Scott Porch / Fast Company: |
A look at the efforts of podcast platforms like Stitcher and Castbox to supplement their free ad supported offerings with premium content — Your favorite free podcast probably won't charge you anytime soon. But CastBox's premium-content platform is among the new ways podcasters are getting paid.| Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Alastair MacTaggart, a semi-retired real estate developer who spent $3M on the ballot measure that led to California's tough data privacy bill — After a disturbing cocktail party chat, Alastair MacTaggart bankrolled the push that led to California's landmark data-privacy bill
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