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| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Jack Dorsey tries to explain why Twitter ignored rules violations by Infowars for so long, says company waited for others to report violations before acting — Two weeks ago, Apple, Facebook, YouTube and others kicked the harassing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars site off their services.
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| Mehreen Khan / Financial Times: |
Source: EU is drafting regulations to impose fines on social media platforms if they do not remove material flagged as terrorist content within an hour — Brussels plans to force companies including Facebook, YouTube and Twitter to identify and delete online terrorist propaganda and extremist violence or face the threat of fines.
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| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
Arm unveiled its CPU IP roadmap through 2020 for chips that it hopes will successfully compete with Intel Core CPUs in laptops — Today's announcement is an oddball one for Arm as we see the first-ever public forward looking CPU IP roadmap detailing performance and power projections for the next two generations through to 2020.
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| Louis Hyman / New York Times: |
Tech did not create the gig economy, which has been growing since the 1970s; services like Uber and TaskRabbit just took advantage of and intensified the trend — The insecure nature of work is a result of decisions by corporations and policymakers. — Mr. Hyman is an economic historian.
Tweets: @nytopinion, @stevecase, @colmkear, @ankehassel, and @nytopinion
| Politico: |
Donald Trump criticizes social media companies for allegedly “discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices”, says “we won't let that happen” — President Donald Trump on Saturday took to Twitter to allege social media companies are discriminating …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Department of Housing and Urban Development files a complaint against Facebook, says company's ad targeting tools enabled Fair Housing Act violations — A new complaint filed Friday by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) accuses Facebook of helping landlords and home sellers violate the Fair Housing Act.| Danny Gold / Wired: |
How small startup Hala built Sentry, a social media warning system deployed in Syria using humans and remote sensors to predict when and where bombs may fall — The Bashar al-Assad regime's indiscriminate air strikes have terrorized civilians for years. Now a small band of activist-entrepreneurs …
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| Lawrence D. Burns / Wall Street Journal: |
How Detroit shunned overtures from Chauffeur, a secret project inside Google that eventually became Waymo, before embracing self-driving cars — America's car industry dismissed the potential of autonomous driving for years as tech companies plunged ahead. Now Detroit is racing to catch up.
Tweets: @wsj
| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
LA-based AuditBoard, a risk and compliance cloud software provider for large businesses, raises $40M Series B led by Battery Ventures — Daniel Kim and Jay Lee, the two founders of AuditBoard, a Los Angeles-based provider of a risk and compliance software service for large businesses, grew up middle school friends in Cerritos, Calif.| Shelly Banjo / Bloomberg: |
Review of 20+ IPO filings from Chinese tech companies in the past two years shows outsized influence of Alibaba and Tencent investments on companies' prospects — In their IPO filings, rising companies are warning investors that the tech giants' deals can feel like a trap.
Tweets: @shiraovide
| Richard Gao / Android Police: |
Snapchat releases Alpha version of redesigned UI for Android with primary focus on performance, can be enabled on devices with root access — Back in November of last year, Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel announced that a new Android app was being built from the ground up.
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| Jillian D'Onfro / CNBC: |
How Google is improving accessibility by developing a standardized process for new products and UI elements rather than relying on grassroots advocacy — - In the past few years, Google has shifted the way that it thinks about accessibility, moving from grassroots advocacy to codified systems.
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